Archive for May, 2007

How to Pull Your Phone Apart

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Need to pull your phone apart or would you just like to look inside?
Inside Sony Ericsson M600i
Take a look at Repair4MobilePhone.org that has links to hundreds of instructions, images and videos showing how to get inside your phone.

Apple iPhone Experience Superior?

Monday, May 28th, 2007

There’s a survey at Strategy Analytics that claims…
 "90 Percent of Handset Owners Rate Apple iPhone Experience Superior".
My first thought was how did they do this survey when the iPhone hasn’t shipped yet? Well, I read on and found at the end of the article…
"Strategy Analytics captured consumer responses to video presentations of iPhone features developed by […]

Extend Flash Lite on S60

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

One of the problems with Flash Lite is that you can’t access many of the phone’s features. Recently, I came across Flyer that extends Flash Lite 2.1 to allow you to use Python on S60. This allows you to…

Take photos with device camera from Flash Lite

Take device screenshots from Flash Lite

Send files over a bluetooth […]

UIQ Getting Started - Releasing an Application

Friday, May 25th, 2007

My fifth tutorial in the ‘UIQ Getting Started’ series has just been published on Sony Ericsson Developer World. This tutorial covers releasing an application. It explains how to customise the installation for your particular application and how to publish an unsigned or signed application.
Look out for the final tutorial in a month or so entitled ‘Routes to Market’. […]

Mobile Hustling

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Doug Richard one of the panel of business gurus on the BBC show Dragons’ Den has just started a new mobile venture and has some pertinent comments in the Independent …
"Starting a business is no more or less than the notion of waking up, thinking of something and doing it."
"It’s not about inventions, it is about exploiting […]

MEX 2007

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

I have recently completed some MindMaps for MEX 2007 that are available as part of the full report of the conference proceedings and the speaker presentations package.
I found the session on the Retail User Experience the most interesting as this was the area in which I have least experience… (click on the image for a full size map)

Buying a […]

Mobile Business Models

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

ScreenDigest are reporting that …
"A conflict between French mobile operators and broadcasters led to a major delay in the launch of DVB-H services in France. The business model to adopt is at the centre of the argument."
Many of the large and small projects I have worked on have seemed to hit problems when it has […]