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Category: Windows Mobile

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 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...

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...

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...

Silicon Valley doesn't respect Nokia

In response to the article I found on Forbes.com , Nokia Software Problem , let me collect my remarks on the statements in a single post. The list of statements below simply follows the same order as they appeared in the original article. " Nokia sells close to half of all smart...

Brief status report about smartphone market, mid-2008

Having followed the news of mobile industry in the past week, I thought it would be worth collecting some articles in a single post to see things from a bird's view, thus having a better overview on what's been going on lately on smartphone market. RIM has been getting stronger in US...

Collection of great materials on Symbian going open-source

My regular readers may wonder why I've been silent on the great news of the mobile industry: Symbian is going open-source . The reason is simple: I was so shocked to hear it in the news that I just sat back watching the flood of new blogs and comments trying to digest this new information....

Browser as an application platform

I've read the following analysis from ARCchart with great interest. I'm already familiar with the idea of writing applications for mobile browsers and that it can be considered as a real alternative for mobile software development. WidSets and Widgets are all around us, not to mention...

Symbian and Windows on the same device - what the hell?

I've just finished knitting the brows after reading it in the news that IBM launches an initiative that has something to do with the mobile world. "It seems", I thought, "that there's so much money in mobile business that even the Big Blue could not resist". ...

True emulation for Symbian development - when?

Though I've already heard that Windows Mobile SDK offers true phone emulation , however, only now have I got to the point that I ask for your opinion: why cannot we do the same during Symbian software development? Note that you might have also heard that iPhone developers can also rely...