In a very recent interview, an analyst from Gartner said that, in 2012, they…
"…expect smartphone unit sales to reach over 700 million of the total 1.8 billion handset market; that’s 65%, or $200 billion-worth, of the total $312 billion mobile phone market at that time."
To put this into some perspective, global smartphone sales currently represent […]

Janus Symbian Engine has just gone open source. Janus allows S60 Flash Lite applications to access phone features that aren’t part of Flash Lite. It does this by setting up a local http server which, in turn, accesses the OS.
Open sourcing will make this technique more attractive to companies who previously might not have wanted […]

When specifying and communicating with people regarding different options/ways of implementing application UIs, I often take screenshots from existing applications and super-impose proposed data (using Photoshop) so everyone can get a feel for things prior to implementation.
 
Teehan+lax also use this approach and have produced an iPhone specific set of images that allow you to mockup […]

At the July MoMo London, Google told us about the new Gears Geolocation API. Well, today they released the first incarnation for Windows Mobile (5 and higher). The Google Mobile Help Center  lists the compatible devices.
The API allows web apps run in the mobile version of Internet Explorer to access location information based on the […]

dotMobi has been compiling a DeviceAtlas for some time now. Up until today, when I received a press release on dotMobi’s inclusion of Mobizoft video content adaptation data, I hadn’t taken a look at it because I saw it as mainly applicable for web developers.
However, taking a look at, for example, the data on the […]

With the demise of OPL, developers, especially hobbyists will be pleased to know that NS Basic Corporation have announced the availability of NS Basic for Symbian OS.
NS Basic can now be used to develop both UIQ and S60 applications. It’s easy to use. There’s no need for C++, Carbide.c++ or even Nokia/UIQ SDKs. It […]

Now that a significant number of third party applications are running on iPhones, it’s inevitable that the iPhone has become less stable. Phone lockups can occur and reboots are required. I have also heard from several developers that they are getting ‘low memory’ messages in their applications when the phone should, in fact, have lots […]