One interesting fact that has come out of MWC 2009 is that HTC devices constitute about 80% of all Windows Mobile sales.
This statistic is slightly ambiguous because HTC also supply other Windows Mobile OEMs (e.g. Sony Ericsson and Palm) and network operators (e.g. O2 and T-Mobile).
Despite Windows Mobile being a platform, I have found that […]

One area where I have seen too many mobile companies fail is that of being unable to secure later round venture capital funding. It may have been that the companies were doomed to failure anyway but I can’t help but question whether, in some cases, using venture capital itself became a failure factor.
The first problem […]

Now that it’s possible for UK and US mobile developers to sell applications on the Android Market, some developers are complaining that the terms and conditions are being overly harsh on applications under $10.
In addition to a 48 hour refund period, billing disputes will be handles as follows…
"…billing disputes received by Payment Processor for Products […]

I have been approached on several occasions where a 3rd party has created something for a company and it just doesn’t work. It usually goes along the lines of the company asking "Could you spend a few days fixing it?". More often than not, it’s something only a rewrite will fix
I have also been […]

Handango has just released their Yardstick for 2008. I track the Handango statistics to gain a feel for the devices adding software (minus iPhone of course).Some observations…

Blackberry is doing very well by revenue and units sold
Windows Mobile continues to sell well via Handango
Symbian isn’t doing very well with only one device (N95) being represented in […]

Since I mentioned the GSMA’s 3rd Party Access Project last July, the project has been renamed ‘OneAPI’ and has just announced that the OneAPI Reference Implementation is now available.
OneAPI is an initiative to define a commonly supported API to allow network operators to expose useful network information and capabilities to web and mobile application developers.
It’s […]

Java FX Mobile was launched today. Although there is lots of media coverage, very few news sites say exactly what it is.
Digging deeper, you might like to look at the article "Three Reasons Why Your Next Java ME Mobile Application Should Include JavaFX Mobile" and the official Java FX overview.
Java FX seems to be a […]