Nokia PUSH is a new Nokia initiative…
"to give designers, hackers, modders, creatives and artists the chance to get their hands on, and heads inside, the new Nokia N900 & the Maemo platform"
The brief is…
"tell us how you would hack and mod the N900 & Maemo to connect the N900 to something you love"
While it’s not […]

iSmashPhone has put together an interesting graphic depicting publicly accessible statistics regarding iPhone and Android application downloads.

If you are a mobile web developer you might be interested in quirksmode’s mobile browser compatibility tables. There’s a great table of browser features vs compatibility with Opera, Opera Mini, S60 Webkit, Netfront, BlackBerry, Internet Explorer mobile and Skyfire.
My initial thoughts are that this table doesn’t cover everything yet there are still significant differences. Also, […]

There’s an interesting article on telecoms.com on network APIs.
While I agree with most of the article, I question the following…
"Individual developers are flocking to mobile operator developer communities and starting to create applications that use network APIs."
It’s my experience that developers (or in my case my customers) are avoiding operator APIs. Why? Well, in many […]

Yesterday, I was invited to the Sony Ericsson Create Now Tour in London.
Unfortunately, I can’t say much because it was all under NDA. While it was a great event and Sony Ericsson were open about their plans, I do wonder how much of it they could have revealed without an NDA. Talking to […]

You may remember October last year when there was an opportunity to write an Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) book. Well, Biswajit Sarkar took up the challenge and the book has just been published. PACKT publishing have sent me the book for review.
If you don’t know what LWUIT is, it’s a free Java ME […]

In November 2007, I mentioned UK 3’s affordable £5 Pay As You Go data tariff.  If you are mobile developer in the UK, this provides a very cheap way to test connected mobile applications. It also provides an easy and inexpensive way for visitors to the UK to obtain access to a data tariff.
On most […]