If you follow my blog you will know I was disappointed with S60 5th Touch. Nokia has always stated that S60 5th was never intended to compete with the iPhone. I can see why because touch bolted onto S60 was never going to be elegant.
Nevertheless, the price point for the 5800 has […]

Novarra have a ‘Mobile Internet Experience Update’ (PDF) available today.
Here are some key points…

Mobile internet, first marketed a decade ago, is truly becoming mainstream.
Young adults with disposable income and multitasking parents make up 66% of the mobile browing population.
A user doesn’t need to have a smartphone to be a high volume mobile internet user.
There’s a […]

Today, Google announced their beta Adsense for Mobile Applications. This allows developers to embed advertisements within Android and iPhone applications. In order to be accepted for the beta you will need to be able to provide a minimum of 100K daily page views, have a free application, able to implement now with a view to […]

There’s an interesting post by the author of BlackBerry PodTrapper. While it relates the author’s experiences developing an application for Blackberry, most of the issues and learnings are equally as applicable to other mobile platforms. For example…

On older platforms, deciding on an SDK version is often a compromise and balance between features and device compatibility
The […]

The newly released Ericsson Labs offers mobile developers some useful resources. At the moment they provide mapping, Java Comms and Mobile Java push APIs for mobile developers.
Ericsson Labs specifically contacted me about their Java Mobile Push because this relates to my previous post on mobile push. It’s a combination of SMS and HTTP […]

If you are interested in developing femtocell-based mobile applications there’s a free evening event organised by the Femto Forum on June 23rd at the Radisson Edwardian Heathrow…
"The event will feature a series of live demonstrations of new mobile applications that take advantage of femtocell technology. Examples include; when a consumer enters the home their phone […]

Idel Fuschini has created Apache Mobile Filter that allows you to access WURFL from any programming language, not just Java and php that is traditionally used for dynamic mobile web sites.
The module detects the mobile device and passes the WURFL capabilities on to the other web application as environment variables. It can also be used […]