I have been reading the rumours about Nokia’s Maemo Harmattan. Assuming this for real…
"Maemo was indeed headed for at least one Nokia phone. In fact, they say the eventual plan is to use Maemo to phase out S60 all together"
I have been a fan of Nokia Tablets ever since I purchased the 770. I always […]

I recently posted on iPhone Runtimes and Interpreters. The situation has progressed over the last two weeks with many PhoneGap developers having had their applications rejected and a few people having been specifically rejected for using PhoneGap.
Mike Nachbaur, one of the PhoneGap authors, has sent an open letter to Apple to discuss and resolve the […]

On Twitter, Jason Delport of Paxmodept (who I happen to have met a few times) gave the following observation…
"Android Market is over 6 months old and we have yet to see any disasters from self certification. The network operators were wrong again!"
If Jason is correct, this really brings into question Symbian Signed and Java signing. […]

There’s a thought provoking article at FierceMobileContent on what they are calling Freemium content. That is, applications that are free but gain revenue another way, either via subscriptions, ad-funding or some other source.
With the downward pressure on applications to become cheaper and cheaper, at some stage it becomes more attractive to try and gain revenue […]

Intel and Nokia have announced ofono, "a place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications". The web site says it’s a high-level D-Bus API providing a low-level plug-in API for integrating with open source as well as third party telephony stacks, cellular modems and storage back-ends.
So what does […]

Mobile developers often talk about the difficulties caused by phone fragmentation. However, most projects I work on start quite simple and end up more complex due to ‘real world’ issues. Many of these issues are the same as those experienced by people creating applications for the PC or server. The ‘real world’ needs to cater […]

There’s an entertaining piece at Music Industry Newswire. In summary, there’s a new organisation that aims to collect royalties for media sent via MMS.
Aside from the fact that carriers are never going to go with this, the fee paid to a carrier is the cost of running the MMS service, not some royalty fee. […]