The popularity of mobile, particularly the iPhone, has resulted in many individuals and companies approaching me with ideas for mobile development. Many people aren’t from the mobile ecosystem or even from a software development background. These people often ask how they can go about developing a mobile idea. More specifically, they want to know how […]

I previously talked about industrial mobiles, asked where are the industrial Symbian phones and commented that open source might stimulate greater device variety.
I am pleased to see SDG’s Bluebird Pidion now supports Android. Up to now, almost all rugged wireless connected devices have been Palm or Windows Mobile-based. It’s great to see Android on a […]

With all the hype over smartphones, iPhone and Android, mobile developers might be interested to know that I still get many leads for Java ME. Why? Well, I think this is mainly because it’s still the platform that will give the largest reach. Looking at the projects coming in, companies are considering Java ME for […]

There’s a great article at MobiForge on how to set up iPhone Push Notification services.
This is Apple’s solution to the problem of not being able to run background applications. Unfortunately, it’s not a viable alternative for applications that need to monitor the phone state, for example, GPS. The push is from a server so for […]

I have been watching the Engadget Interview with Erick Tseng, Senior Product Manager of Android. Erick says that purchasing devices via Google is a new sales channel for ‘all’. It will be possible for carriers and handset manufacturers to also sell phones and plans (tariffs) via this channel.
What Erik describes as […]

If you are a mobile developer or anyone involved in mobile then you should take a look at Morgan Stanley’s free latest Mobile Internet Report.

As well as the full report (40Mb pdf), there’s also a 92 page summary presentation (pdf) as well as a full 659 slide Key Themes presentation (pdf).
Whatever way you look at […]

Why is it with mobile applications and services that often more goes into creating the application than goes into the marketing? There are so many applications that are similar. People seem to think that just ‘being there’ will get them a share of customers. They are usually wrong. Even […]