Many mobile companies start out thinking they will sell their product or service to a network operator or handset OEM. I have seen many great mobile ideas implemented well, only to never reach consumers. Why? Even though the companies hire the best sales and marketing people, they don’t gain any traction with the handset OEMs […]

I have previously posted some technical requirements that tend to get missed on mobile projects. However, it’s usually the business side rather than the technical that causes a project to fail.
I have worked on so many mobile projects that I am starting to see patterns in successful and unsuccessful projects. Over the next few weeks […]

When I first heard about Android in 2007, I was sceptical. Yes, handset OEMs might create phones and mobile developers mights create applications but what would be in it for the network operators? Why should they promote Android phones, especially where the phone’s applications would most likely be tied to Google’s services rather than their […]

While Judging the Sony Ericsson Content Awards over the last few days, I became aware of the trend for applications to do a lot more than their main purpose.
I have also seen this need on the Android market. When authors produce applications, there are sometimes lots of people suggesting things like ‘why not add […]

A recurring theme in many feasibility studies I do is what devices to support. This depends on factors such as what geographic region(s) you wish to distribute, the technical requirements of your application and the currently popular devices.
The latter, the current device market, can be difficult to quantify. Here are some free sources I tend […]

Need some exposure for your S60 application? Symbian are offering developers the opportunity to showcase their mobile phone applications on the Symbian Foundation stand at Mobile World Congress (Barcelona 16-19 Feb). To take part, the application should be compelling, and built with S60 5.x.
Successful applicants will also be given two free exhibitor passes worth €599 […]

Browsing through the various reviews of the Nokia 5800, I came across the following on the UK’s Telegraph web site…
"Both Apple’s iPhone and Google’s G1 give users the ability to download extra software and useful applications onto the device, something that’s largely missing from Nokia’s offering."If journalists don’t know Nokia’s 5800 can download extra software […]