Random thoughts about mobile (enterprise) application development.
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Simple solutions, huge benefits
All too often developers try to solve problems with the latest and coolest technologies. You probably can recognise the “next feature pack will include THE missed feature” disease and its close relative “this feature is now available in only one terminal model, but wait until it...
Operator view on NFC environment
GSM Association has recently published a Technical Guideline document about mobile NFC technologies. This paper is an interesting one for two reasons: it gives you an idea how major operators (MNO's involved in this NFC initiative represent 45% of the global GSM market) see the technical future...
Browser and enterprise applications
For all these years that I have been in mobile industry one question has remained the same. Typically at some stage of enterprise project customer poses the big question: " But why we just can't use the browser of the terminal, instead of making this client application? " First the...
Prompt user at uninstall, ok or not?
We have successfully got an application Symbian Signed and we had to to make a minor change to the application (add one setting field, to be exact). OK, no problem. We change the application, prepare it for Symbian Signing, get the quotations and select the test house. Because application was...
Where is my home network?
Some time ago I changed my mobile network operator to get a cheaper data plan. After the change I quickly started to feel that something isn't quite right, but wasn't sure what it was... Then I understood that my phone thinks it is not registered to home network, i.e. it is roaming all the time....
Where are new RFID terminals?
Last year I was asked about the possibility to use RFID-tags with Nokia terminals. I did some research and found out that there were two devices in the market that supported separate accessory RFID-shells. The problem with those shells was that you were locked in to Nokia's NFC server solution;...
E or N-Series; what's the diffrence?
Some days ago Gabor Torok wrote in his blog about his intentions to buy an E-series terminal but buying an N-series device instead. After reading about his experiences I began to wonder what are the "hidden" differences between E and N series devices. So I took E60 and N93 and started...
Synchronizing data between S60 devices
Today when I was browsing the Internet for the latest news on mobile ecosystem, I clicked some link and was thrown to s60.com . It had been quite a while since I last time visited that site and I must admit that there has been a major facelift for the site. My previous experience was that...
I've heard there is a new firmware available...
It was one morning last week when we got a report about new firmware version for Communicator devices. That's always a serious situation, because we have learned that new firmware versions sometimes cause interoperability problems. A typical customer installation can contain applications from...
How to become a Phone Sniper?
I assume anybody who has released an application for mobile devices will agree – testing every aspect of the application is a nightmare. Testing as such is a difficult and time-consuming task, but testing mobile devices adds extra difficulty: the variety of devices and different firmware...
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