Canalys have just released their smartphone statistics for Q2 2008.

38% of smartphones shipping in EMEA have GPS integrated
Smartphone growth is slowing compared to the previous 18 months
58% of phones ship with WiFi
Nokia has 71.2% of the market, declining from 79.7%
Devices with touch screens represented 13% of the smartphone market

At first sight the Canalys statistics seem […]

I read the title of an article on The Register this morning ‘Sun opens Java tools in mobile fight back‘. What? I thought. All Java tools? Can’t be. The article starts…
"Sun Microsystems has open sourced its Java toolkit for building mobile applications just as the role Java plays on handsets comes into question."
It turns out […]

Following on from my post yesterday on operator slowness to market, there’s news that T-Mobile are, in fact, creating an application store that will allow third party applications to be easily provisioned.
The strange bit is…
"the exact details of the revenue share depend on the intensity of the app’s data consumption. The more bits an app […]

There’s an interesting story at Valista regarding the time taken for operators to implement new products and services…
"A survey commissioned by Valista and conducted at the Building Blocks 2008 conference held last week found that over 86 percent of the industry insiders interviewed believe that it should take less than a month to launch new […]

There’s an interesting article at the Wall Street Journal…
"Apple sold an average of $1 million a day in applications for a total of about $30 million in sales over the month, Mr. Jobs said."
"Mr. Jobs said developers’ share of iPhone application sales in the first month was about $21 million, of which the top 10 […]

There’s an interesting article at MobileInternetTrends reporting on Arun Sarin’s challenge to the mobile industry to whittle down the number of operating systems currently supported for mobile phones.
"We have 30 or 40 operating systems right now, if we had three or five operating systems, then that would be a good thing."
While I can see […]

Early last June, I commented that I release often against a pre-defined plan. The plan can change at each iteration in the light of changes. Nevertheless, I like to have some kind of plan so everyone knows what to expect, when and I can charge my time against pre-declared tasks. What tools do I […]