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June 2005

Thursday 30 June

  • Quake? On My Phone? (20:42) - And no, I don't mean the vibrate feature. This game was extremely good for it's time. And if it's as good on my phone then I'll have to play it. Not sure if it'll be as spooky in the dark... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Tutorial Blog for Symbian Development (12:28) - This site is a great programming resource in a blog format. It's got posts that dive into the code, giving examples of what is being discussed. It's focussed on C++ development for the Series 60 platform, keeping it very narrow... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Symbian Programming: Tips, Tricks, Examples, and More (08:25) - Mike Raento has a web site with dozens of useful items for Symbian development. He talks about problems and solutions faced while developing the Context project. In mobile and ubiquitous applications and systems, reacting to user context is a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Miyow Launches Next-Generation Singing Nametones For Mobile Phones (08:00) - Miyow Pty Ltd, the world's leading personalised music company, has launched an innovative and unique range of personalised ringtones for mobile phones. These Singing, Love and Caller Nametones are available with the top 2000 English names - 95% of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 29 June

  • Port Your BREW Apps to J2ME (23:00) - Well, the tables keep turning. Now Sony Ericsson is creating documents on how to port BREW apps to J2ME! I think this really shows that BREW is often the first targetted platform now and once the game assets are created... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
  • Have fun finding BREW Operators (22:30) - The flash app above the list of operators goes to a nice world view of every operator. This is nice in case you've forgotten where some of the countries are. ;) Check it out with the link below. The number... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • 3D Mobile Devices Becoming Prevalent (22:00) - Handsets with full 3D support are becoming very common. Motorola has a PDF here about Mobile 3D development and the JSR 184 J2ME API. SonyEricsson just announced 5 new 3D enabled J2ME handsets. It won't be long before the market... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Portrait Isn't the Only Game Orientation (21:30) - SonyEricsson gives us some tips on creating games for a landscape resolution rather than the more normal portrait displays of cell phones. They are talking about holding the phone sideways and not landscape screens that we see all the time.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • J2ME Unit Test Toolkit: More SourceForge Goodness (21:00) - Yes, once again it's something from SourceForge. However, this particular project would be good for both learning J2ME as well as to use in a project. J2MEUnit is a Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) library containing a unit testing framework... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • The Mobile World (20:19) - Sun has an overview over at, well, their website of the mobile development world. In fact, it's more like a list of links that can help one get started in J2ME development. In fact (again?), this site here that they... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Creating Small Graphics for Small Devices (16:37) - Developing software for mobile phones and other resource constrained devices has a variety of critical differences as compared to developing for a desktop or server. However, creating graphics for these devices has a number of key difference, too. You can't... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Mobile Development with J2ME (13:57) - Colin gives a nice overview of development with J2ME. It's a bit dated, but includes some good information especially for someone getting started. It's not always bad to see older information; it can be used to put current processes or... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • J2ME and Open Source: More Goodness (09:46) - The kObjects project over at SourceForge provides a great resource for very small (k for kilobyte) objects for such things as mail, network, XML, and other file format readers. This could be a great resource for rapidly building quick,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 28 June

  • Geotagging Data (21:15) - All data collection applications should geotag the data that is entered or captured. Why? It's a useful bit of information that can enable may new and exciting applications -- even ones that you may not think of yourself. Don't know... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Open Source Symbian: Also a Great Learning Tool (20:30) - Frozen Bubbgle for Series 60 is a SourceForge project of a game apparently made popular on Linux. In this case we also have a complete game, but since it's on SourceForge all required files should be available. This could... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Python consoletools for Series 60 (19:49) - Got an urge to hack on your phone? Need a console? Need tools like ftp and such? Well, all of the above can be done with the Python consoletools found here. Naturally, with a tool like this on your standard... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Symbian Development on OSX (14:56) - So you want to program for the millions of symbian cell phones using C , but you just can't stand Windows. Or you don't want to shell out the $$$ for codewarrior. Or you feel more comfortable programming in a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • HTTP and MIDP: Debugging Tips and Tools (11:39) - Sun brings us a helpful technical article that gives some ideas and tools on how to debug a HTTP on MIDP. One of the tools is a Java servlet that logs requests so you can see what's going on in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • NEXTEL Leading in LBS Applications (08:48) - In documenting application areas evolving in the wireless location space over the last two years, I've tallied over 75 commercial applications across the business horizontal and consumer markets in North America alone. About 50 of these applications run on NEXTEL... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Mobile Internet even more accessible (06:00) - Press release 28th if June 27, 2005 Mobile Internet even more accessible The 8th of June OP3 took the first step in making mobile Internet easy accessible by launching www.shotCode.com. It’s time for step two! OP3 today offers automatic optimization... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 27 June

  • Automatically Generate Symbian Code (23:38) - Well, it's not completely automatic, of course. But it looks like it will help speed up the generation of an application specific code framework to which you can add your own custom logic. Does it work? I have no idea.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • CDC, Series 60 Moves On Up To CDC (22:51) - Announced at the 2005 JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Nokia's vision for the next generation of the Java Platform in the mobile space will build the Connected Device Configuration (CDC) into Series 60 based smartphones. CDC provides a more flexible... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • BREW Platform enables Blackberry Competition (13:15) - M7 Networks Inc. (http://www.m7networks.com), a leading trusted partner and enabler of advanced wireless services, announced today that Intellisync, a leading provider of e-mail products to mobile operators, is using the company's Application "Wake-Up" Solution to power Eudora2go, a multi-faceted mobile... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 26 June

  • Open Source J2ME: A Great Learning Tool (22:00) - One great way to learn to code on a new platform is to see a fully working product. These other blogs link to a couple of games by Digiment that have been made available. Are you interested in online learning?... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Symbian Handset Sales Increasing Dramatically (21:00) - In Q1 2005, shipments of phones based on Symbian OS totalled 6.75M, compared to 2.40M for the same quarter in 2004, a year on year growth of more than 180%. Compare this to 6.7 million sales in all of 2003... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Latest QUALCOMM BREW Numbers for June 2005 (20:00) - QUALCOMM has changed the numbers they are publishing. The last time they published numbers, they had reduced the stats to only downloads, carriers, manufacterers, and countries. Now, instead of downloads they are listing the amount of money distrubuted to developers... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • J2ME Handset Performance Comparison (16:00) - Want to know how fast your handset is? Have an application that will push the limits of the J2ME platform and you need the fastest phone possible? Want to know if there is a faster phone than the one you... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • After the BREW Conference (15:29) - Miss the BREW conference? It happened while we were hibernating, too. Well, you can still do everything but eat, drink, party, mingle, and check out the booths. What's left, you ask? Watching the presentations, of course! You can get them... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Nokia Updates Technical Library (15:12) - It's also available in other formats, but this is the link to the .CHM format. Resource information: Forum Nokia Technical Library v1.10 Nokia regularly updates the technical library.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 21 June

  • Moderati’s Ringtone Application Tops with Industry and Consumers Alike (06:00) - Mobile Developer’s Modtones DJ wins best ringtone application at The Brew 2005 developer awards, also cited as top music seller on Verizon deck Mobile entertainment company Moderati snagged a BREW 2005 Developer Award for Best Ringtone Application for its Modtones... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 8 June

  • OP3 makes mCommerce a reality to everyone (06:00) - OP3’s launch of www.shotcode.com is a breakthrough for mobile commerce. “Thanks to our webshop we’re making mCommerce out of eCommerce”, Dennis Hettema, founder and C.E.O. of OP3 says. Experts have been talking about mCommerce for a long time, but the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Nikita and MegaFon announce commercial deployment of a new mobile entertaining MMO service (06:00) - 8 June 2005 – Moscow – Nikita and MegaFon announce the commercial deployment of the CITY title. The users’ number of the Russian mobile entertainment industry project is on the rise. The new MMO service for mobile users, based on... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments