This week Symbian Foundation announced the availability of new application development tools allowing web developers to create Symbian applications. I thought I’d take a deeper look.
The new tools were announced as part of the Symbian^3 and Nokia N8 launch…
"ANYONE WHO CAN CREATE A WEBPAGE CAN NOW CREATE AN APP FOR SYMBIAN^3"
“Now anyone can create fantastic […]

If you develop for the mobile web then you should take a look at Tera-WURFL.
For those who don’t know, Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL) is a database of phone capabilities. It can be used to do things like redirecting mobile visitors to the mobile version of your site, detecting the type of streaming video that […]

I am always cautious about inferring anything from Admob Metrics because as Admob itself says they "should be interpreted with the methodology and context in mind".
In other words, the numbers only represent sites or apps that have happened to include Admob adverts and these can be skewed if, for example, one platform happens to have […]

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is up at mobiEnthusiast.mobi. A post that caught my eye is ‘Evidence against the iPhone Mobsession’ at Mobsessed.
The question is how can you "justify spending a vast amount of your marketing budget on an app that might reach only 4% (in the UK) of your target audience"
As I […]

If you need to design new apps or create graphics for promotion you should take a look as SpeckyBoy’s list of 40 detailed and high quality mobile phone .psd source files. 
Having said this, whether it’s for development or promotion, it’s often easier to use old fashioned paper and pencil to start with, to quickly […]

I have just updated my listing of Mobile Market Research to bring it up to date. Some of the older links from as far back as 2004 no longer work. However, I have kept them because the titles hold some information and it’s often possible to use the WayBackMachine to find the original article. (Right […]

Canalys have an interesting press release on their research into social networking phones.
Their survey showed that…
"Music, instant messaging and web browsing are a must for the youth segment" "90% of those aged 16 to 25 access social networking services (SNSs)." "31% of this group do so via both mobile phones […]