AllAboutSymbian has an article entitled ‘Download! - absolutely no excuse’ where Steve Litchfield concludes that "Nokia, you blew this one".
I agree. In fact, I wrote about this last November when I posted some ideas on how the Download! client could be improved.

The theme for last night’s Mobile Monday London was ‘Enabling Location in Applications’. The presenters included Ted Morgan, CEO of Skyhook Wireless, Ben Ward from Yahoo! Fire Eagle, Charles Wiles from Google (Gears), Andrew Scott from Rummble, Justin Davis from Buddy Ping, Mark White from Locatrix and Matt Womer from W3C.
Here’s what I took away […]

Shai, of LWUIT (Java UI) fame has a post on how people want to access the mobile Internet now and not when browsers have matured.
There is currently lots of talk about widgets, Javascript and web functionality that might rely on functionality deeper in the phone. However, for now, only a small percentage of the […]

I was lucky enough to grab an O2 3G iPhone online last Monday when they were briefly offering pre-ordering online. Here are my first impressions together with a few development implications. I’ll concentrate on the new features.
I am surprised the iPhone App store is so populated. OK, there are lots of e-books but there are […]

The GSMA 3rd Party Access Project aims to simplify access to network operators’ proprietary APIs. At the moment such APIs are either not available, only available to large companies who can negotiate access or where available are different for each operator.
The goal of the GSMA Access API project is for operators to present a common, […]

Symbian created a new partner program this week, the Symbian Partner Network (SPN). This will replace the existing Symbian Platinum Partner Program. Why have Symbian done this and what does it mean for developers?
The SPN will…
"make use of a range of technical, marketing and business development tools and resources, including the Symbian OS Binary Access […]

These last few weeks I have been porting a Windows Mobile application from Pocket PC Phone (touch based UI) to Smartphone (button based UI). These are called Windows Mobile Professional and Standard respectively, as of Windows Mobile 6.
To be honest, I previously didn’t like the Windows Mobile Smartphone software variant. I worked on it when […]