Random thoughts about mobile (enterprise) application development.
Category: General
Some time ago I wrote a list of questions to ask before a mobile project. I just posted another list of questions for developers who decided to create an installable application. This time list looks like this Does installation package include configuration? Can you manage the...
I made a small list of questions that I feel are important to ask from a project team before diving deeper to any mobile project. List goes like this: Is solution needed regularly or does it contain information that changes frequently? Do technical requirements match with...
For myself mobile solutions are interesting on the technical side but very interesting they become when put to the broader context: what kind of impact new solutions will have to everyday life what kinds of solutions new enablers will allow us to create which solutions I feel are still...
This summer I was able to take a wonderful two-week trip abroad with my family. One day during the trip I realized that I had a dangerous (=expensive) setup in my terminal:
lots of applications doing automatic network operations
every application has roaming check turned off...
Like bloggers here, there and everywhere have already reported, Nokia has released a new version of the mobile web server solution. Unlike Raccoon, the previous version of the solution, this version is targeted more to end-users and I must admit that installation, setup and usage was...
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...
Last weekend I had a small vacation, took cheap flight and visited a new city. While enjoying the sights of Riga I made a field test with my N93, trying to use it in as "converged" fashion as I could. So I packed my device with
Fring to call home
Smart2Go to...
After working some time with Symbian application signing, I have small suggestions how to make developer's life a little bit easier: Publish test criteria in structured format Now the test criteria can be downloaded as a pdf-file only. Why not publish the test criteria also in some structured...
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....
Some new performance benchmark data about current mobile phones was yesterday published here (previous test is here ), showing significant differences in graphics performance between the terminal platforms. The benchmark tests 2D and 3D graphics performance on Java platform, so the result...
Finally I found the piece of news I have been waiting for so long: Skype is coming to Symbian devices. I didn't find anything about this from Skype's website, but last week 3 (operator) launched a new service called " X-Series " that has an amazing collection of mobile services and one...
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...