I have been following Carbide.c++ since it was in alpha. The free Express version was OK but lacked good support for importing existing Symbian projects. 
In response to feedback from users, this area was improved considerably with the latest (paid-for) Developer/Professional edition.
What’s more significant is that the latest import changes have now been included in the free […]

Telephia have new research on Smartphone penetration in Western Europe and the US.
"A smartphone is a class of handsets with a mobile operating system such as Symbian, Microsoft OS, RIM or Palm. "

 
 
 
 
The USA trails at only 3.8% and Italy has a staggering 19.2% of users - interesting if you are about to launch a new […]

The Register quotes Steve Dietch, the chief marketing officer of HP’s OpenCall group as saying…
"Compared to Japan and Korea, operators in the US and Europe have taken a disproportionate share of the revenue - as high as 70 percent - then they’re surprised that they’re not getting good content developed, or that developers are going […]

Yesterday evening’s MoMo was themed ‘Mobile Social Networking’.
Martin Monteiro from Hutchinson 3G UK described the ‘See Me’ service that’s based on user generated video clips. Unfortunately due to privacy and corporate responsibility concerns, everything is moderated and only accessible to over 18’s. Furthermore, it’s currently limited to 3 subscribers. Contrastingly, Sean Kane from Intercasting […]

Virpi Roto at the Nokia Research Centre has a new dissertation on ‘Web Browsing on Mobile Phones - Characteristics of User Experience’.
From the dissertation…
"I think the key to user experience evaluation is to analyse whether the product met the expectations that the user had before starting to use it."
The big question for me is whether […]

Sun and Orange have recently published a set of guidelines to help reduce the "400 or more different executables needed for a given title".
Most J2ME developers will have used these techniques. What’s much more difficult is knowing the differences between devices. This can can only be determined by trial and error (and past experience).
Related Articles:Open Source JAVA MEFragmentationMOMO […]

If, like me, you didn’t attend Nokia World, there are some online presentations you can view. Unfortunately, it seems the higher up in a large company you get, the less you seem to have to really say.
One presentation I did make the end of was by Geoffrey Moore of TCG Advisors. His presentation on innovation gave lots of brain […]