If you are interested in graphics on Android then take a look at some presentation slides on Devoxx entitled ‘Filthy Rich Android Clients’. They have been produced by Romain Guy who works on the Android UI toolkit at Google.
There’s basic information such as how to draw and redraw as well as more complex examples on […]

When the Kogan Agora Android phone was announced last year with a hardware/software design and manufacture measuring only a few months I was sceptical.
First of all, current phones from today’s top OEMs take much longer than this to develop. The testing phase itself for some phones can be several months. Even when you have the […]

Nokia’s current strategy is to try to make services as important, if not more important, than the devices themselves. This can already be seen with Ovi, the (expensive) purchasing of Navteq and Comes With Music.
However, early indications are that Nokia is having difficulty attracting Comes with Music customers. Mobile reports that…
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If, like me, you are interested in how the Android Market is evolving you might like to take a look at AndroidStats. It tracks the rankings and movements of applications and games within the market place. One caveat is that it only lists those applications listed in the US. Applications solely for the UK such […]

Nokia (with the S60 web runtime) and Google (with their Gears on Mobile) are not the only companies working on runtimes that allow mobile web sites to access phone features. I came across Mobisy last week, who are developing an ‘on-device web run time’ for mobile handsets called Mobitop.
Mobitop exposes mobile device data such as […]

Interested in creating some mobile games to run on phones having a Java VM? Can’t code in Java ME? Need a solution to solve fragmentation? Need a distribution channel?
Enter Mo’Minis that allows you to solve all of these problems. You use an application called Mo’Minis Studio on the PC to define the game logic, graphics […]

When Windows Mobile 1.0 was first released in 1996, Microsoft was saying it had ambitions to not just have the OS in mobile devices but also in anything from phones to cars to petrol pumps. Microsoft tried hard and there was even an automotive version of the OS at one time. In fact, I still […]