While mobile developers tell us all the time about their challenges creating rich native applications for dizzying array of smartphone operating systems out there today, the phenomenon seems remarkably underreported in the wider information technology press.
Refurbished iPhones are now available for under $100. With the iPhone at $199, the Google G1 at $179 and various Windows Mobile devices such as the Blackjack II available for less, you assume that its just a matter of months before the standard is under $100. We would guess that this means yet another acceleration [...]
InfoWorld’s Neil McAllister comments on the recent trend of Rich Internet Application platforms such as Adobe Air and JavaFX making the operating system irrelevant. This is certainly happening for desktop applications. It hasn’t quite happened yet for mobile device operating systems, yet with five major mobile device operating systems the need is so much greater. [...]
Was very pleased to Nokia releases final Mobile Web Server Beta. This is effectively a final release of currently planned features – i.e. they are “done” for now. Great stuff. Of course the “local mobile web server” is the approach that Rhodes takes, but of course we offer it on all smartphone platforms. Its a [...]
As reported by Clint Boulton in eWeek, Forrester Research published a report recent that says that iPhone penetration will reach 10% in Small to Medium Businesses. This contradicts some pundits who dismiss the iPhone as a business tool. If you’re a developer of enterprise apps, its hard to still keep ignoring the iPhone.
As reported by IntoMobile, Consumer Reports just released their top rated smartphones: 1. Samsung Blackjack II (AT&T) – score: 69 (out of 100) 2. T-Mobile Wing – score: 66 3. Motorola Q 9c (Verizon) – score: 65 4. T-Mobile Shadow – score: 65 5. Pantech Duo (AT&T) – score: 63 6. AT&T Tilt – score: [...]
There’s a recent article/interview on Linux.com with Funambol’s CEO about the desirability of AGPL for software that may be used by a service. For clarification the Affero Gnu Public License (AGPLv3) closes the infamous “ASP loophole” and says that just having your software embedded in a service accessed only over the Internet (e.g. embedded in [...]
Palm is expected to take the wraps off their new OS, codenamed Nova, at the CES show this week. Its not news of course that Palm is building a new OS. What IS news is that details are going to be presented so soon. As mentioned, mobile operating systems continue to diversify at a dizzying [...]
Venture Beat had an interesting article asking where all Android apps are? I think its not such a mystery and its not a huge indictment of Android. There are five major smartphone operating systems with a future: iPhone, RIM, Windows Mobile, Android and Symbian (notice I didn’t mention Palm or LiMo). For anyone who does [...]
At Rhomobile we love device diversity (what others call “fragmentation”). So we’re rooting for Android. It was a big disappointment to me that the G1 is pretty much an inferior product (at least from the perspective of hardware and specs) to other devices with similar form factors, such as the AT&T HTC Fuze, running Windows [...]
