There are lots of articles on the Net saying the new Kindle Fire is a threat to phone OEM tablets and/or the iPad. I am not so convinced. 
In terms of Android it’s a variant of 2.3 which means it’s not using the tablet version of Android which means it acts more like a smartphone than […]

Last May I wrote about deeper apps and how developers that used to prototype on Nokia S60 have now moved to Android as the prototyping platform of choice. I have seen this trend deepen and now, noone asks for a S60 proof of concept. The innovator’s choice of platform is important because it’s where the […]

I have been researching connecting Android to external hardware. While I knew about Arduino, a low cost open-source electronics prototyping platform that allows you to interface with the outside world, I didn’t know about Amarino.
There are actually two ways to connect Android to Arduino. The first is via USB and the Android Open Accessory Development […]

Barely a day goes by without me receiving a press release on yet another mobile app generator or framework. The frameworks tend to be more interesting for me as they allow developers to do more. Today I came across a useful mobile framework comparison chart. Although it currently only maps platforms to frameworks, it’s already getting […]

While developing RADDroid I was reminded of the need to resist feature creep. Specifying, designing and implementing my own project made it even easier to add new features just because I could. However, I strictly kept to my original specification so as to prevent an excessively delayed release.
I have seen feature creep on many mobile […]

About a year ago, I concluded Twitter was a poor use of my time compared to writing on my blog. I still use Twitter but it’s mainly for adding pointers to my blog posts and only occasionally other items that aren’t worthy of a blog post. In conversations at conferences I have sometimes referred to […]

NPD Group’s ConnectedIntelligence unit has new research that shows ‘Android On Top For Now But Consumers Also Eyeing Windows Phone 7 for the Future‘.

However, the part that interested me was…
 "Among the 50 percent of consumers who plan to purchase a smartphone in the next six months, but who are not interested in Windows Phone 7, […]