Archive for September, 2008

Phone Screen Streaming

Monday, September 29th, 2008

mobileways.de are looking for beta testers for their new service that allows you to control a S60 phone from anywhere on the Web and share the screen with an audience on the Web.
The screen of the mobile phone is streamed to a central server in real-time by using Remote Professional’s high performance screen compressing algorithms. […]

Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile and Android

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

There’s an interesting piece on vnunet.com regarding Sony Ericsson’s mobile strategy. In particular, as expected, Sony Ericsson’s use of Windows Mobile in the Xperia is to try to "crack the US market".Furthermore, it’s surprising to hear that Sony Ericsson sees Android as…
"If you want to give every service away to Google, then Android is the […]

LWUIT Event Recording

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

There are some interesting things happening to LWUIT. LWUIT provides a graphically rich UI replacement for the standard Java ME controls. In implementing the UI itself, it’s possible for LWUIT to include code that records events to a file. Events can also be played back.
As I see it, this creates some interesting possibilities…

Creating of self […]

Symbian University Research Relations

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Another thing that came out of my visit to Symbian last week was information on Symbian’s new University Research Relations.
Having worked for Symbian partners I know how difficult it has previously been for them (irrespective of their size or status) to partner and gain access to source code to allow adaptation of the OS. […]

Symbian Visit

Friday, September 19th, 2008

I was invited to a Symbian Developer Pub Night run by Symbian Developer Product Marketing last night. It turned out to be populated by tech journalists rather than developers. The idea was to give an insight into how Symbian works and give some demonstrations of new technologies. I learnt a few new things even though […]

Older Devices

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

One thing that constantly surprises me is how many companies want to develop for older phones. Take Nokia S60 for example. Despite the fact that S60 3rd devices have been available for over a year now, some network operators, especially those in developing countries, are still selling many S60 2nd Edition phones.
This translates […]

Handango Yardstick H1 2008

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Handango have just released their Yardstick for the first half of 2008.
The Handango press release says…
"Palm OS has not released any new devices in 2008 and therefore, Palm OS devices have fallen out of the top 10 list of smartphones adding content."
and… […]