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Category: Symbian

On Google's move in navigation

It's been announced a couple of days ago that turn-by-turn GPS navigation would be supported soon on devices based on Android 2.0 platform. Free of charge. The new Google Maps Navigation offers free turn-by-turn navigation garnished with Google's core business (search by...

Smartphone OS market share - 2012

Yes, you read it right: it's 2012. Gartner published a report (link: Computerworld ) in which they forecast the following smartphone OS market share for 2012: We could all see the trend which players remain, disappear or gain strong foothold for a while by now. Nokia has always...

Fate of Symbian C++

Historically, Symbian OS has evolved from EPOC, a mobile operating system written originally by Psion. The foundations were laid down in the 80's and a lot of work had been done to it while it became EPOC32 in the late 90's, the direct predecessor of Symbian OS. Also for historical reasons, the...

The $1 business model

There are two kinds of developers: those who want to sell their programs and those who write software for fun and/or for fame. The latter type is happy with writing freeware, most probably open source software. This article is about the former. Of course, most developers want to get paid for...

Smartphone statistics, 2008

Gartner released their statistics about worldwide smartphone sales, which contains useful information not only the previous quarter (Q4 2008), but the whole past year. I'd like to share the following two figures with you: Comments: Nokia is still #1, but...

Mobile advertising - An experience

Background I decided to give a try to a Reversi-like game found on the Internet just the other day. There was a link to an installation package, which I downloaded and manually installed on my Nokia N95. Even though there was nothing mentioned about that the application is ad-supported, I...

Mobile Monday Budapest - Great success!

We held the second Mobile Monday Budapest event yesterday evening. As I already wrote , the topic was mobile software development : Android and Symbian in particular. My colleague gave a great presentation on Android and I talked about Symbian....

Mobile worm, Yxes.A - an analysis

F-Secure and FortiGruard both reported that a new worm, Yxes.A , is spreading on Nokia smartphones based on S60 3rd Edition platform (and probably higher, too). According to FortiGuard : "It gathers phone numbers from the infected device's file system, and...

Mobile Monday Budapest - Mobile Software Development

It's time for the 2 nd Mobile Monday Budapest event! This time the topic is mobile software development and we selected the three hottest platforms: iPhone, Android and Symbian . I wrote 'we', because I'm among the organizers as well as one of the presenters: my presentation will...

Thoughts on Palm Pre

Of course, I've seen Palm's keynote from CES 2009 . I've also read quite a few blogs, comments on the topic and now would like to share my impressions about it. First of all, I liked the device ! It looks great, the addition of a QWERTY-keyboard makes it even more...

Predictions for 2009

I'm only a little bit more experienced in predicting future trends than I was last year , still I'd like to continue what I started a year ago. Who knows, maybe I'll be at least as right as I was last year? Let's start with reviewing what I wrote previously and what really...

The diversity of Symbian development

When talking about mobile software development lots of people forget about the fact that it's not only the native programming language that can be used on a given platform. I've read a lot of comparisons between Symbian/C++, Win32/MFC/.NET of Windows Mobile, Objective-C on...

Random thoughts on recent news

Hi, So many things have happened in mobile world recently that I can hardly cope with their sheer volume. This time I would just add my quick thoughts to some of them, one-line comments that I would like you to comment, too. Let's start with VirusGuard Coming to Android Market...

Transforming mobile industry

I read the following quote from Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia CEO, in InformationWeek : "The industry as whole is in the middle of a transformation, and it's a very exciting time," said Kallasvuo. "It's moving from a device industry to an experience industry, and we're...

Samsung Mobile Innovator - Yet another Symbian developer site

You might have heard of that Samsung has just kicked-off their new portal for mobile application developers. It's advertised as a great entry point for Symbian developers wishing to develop for Samsung devices based on this operating system. I'm not sure if other platforms will be...