Symbian Developer Network has a great new booklet on ‘Getting To Market‘. Even if you don’t develop for Symbian there are plenty of hints and tips on how to go about releasing your application.
One thing I am curious about is why Symbian included the following chart…
 
The placement of the chart not only seems out of […]

In February, I commented on Michael Mace’s observation that Mobile Applications were dead.
I explained how mobile applications have changed. It’s no longer about selling an application - which I would say is in retirement rather than dead. It’s more about providing an application free of charge to either promote a brand, tie in with a […]

There’s an interesting press release at Gartner on Q1/08 global smartphone sales…

Of particular interest…

Smartphone sales grew by 29% year on year
Nokia lost market share to RIM and Apple
Nokia still has over 45% of the global market

There’s further commentary at Bloomberg.
It’s also interesting what isn’t mentioned in the press release: Windows Mobile. I think this […]

I have recently rationalised my various web sites and have moved the ones I am keeping to one dedicated server. I previously had shared and dedicated Linux/Windows hosting all over the place. It was getting unnecessarily complicated and costing more than it should for my limited number of sites.
The upside is that www.mobilephonedevelopment is now […]

I have been following the iPhone news from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2008.
I commented in March on the inability to have iPhone long running applications and how this would limit development. Well, today Apple have said that the #1 request has been for background support.
They stick by their decision that the wrong solution is to […]

Last week, when commenting on Symbian Signed, I mentioned that I release often. What does this mean? How do I release an incomplete application?
When planning development, I split the tasks into small related groups of functionality that take about a week. I then release what I have done so far every week. This allows my […]

PDFs from the recent JavaOne Java ME sessions are now available online. As well as the previously mentioned LWUIT, there are other interesting sessions such as ‘How to Port phoneME Advanced Software to Google Android, iPhone, OpenMoko, LiMO, and More’.
phoneME is sun’s attempt to extend the reach of Java ME to new platforms. There’s an […]