Archive for the ‘Platforms: Symbian’ Category

Smaato: Symbian is still Dominating – UPDATED

January 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile, Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to research from Smaato, Symbian is still the leading platform in their advertising network (Based on CTR). Their conclusion is in line with a report from Canalys over the third quarter of 2009.

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SE’s WebSDK Bridges Symbian and Android Development

November 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

SonyEricsson has revealed their new WebSDK. With the SDK, developers can now create apps and games based on HTML, CSS and JS that will run on both the Satio and Xperia X10.

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N-Gage Fails Again…

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Many where sceptical when Nokia launched N-Gage for the second time around, but after months and months of rumours, Nokia finally admitted defeat last Friday.

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Symbian Launches Ideas Site

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The Symbian Foundation has launched another initiative today called Ideas.Symbian.Org. The website will allow developers to take a look at what people would like to see available.

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DeviceAnywhere and Symbian Team Up

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

DeviceAnywhere, a company renting out real devices on different networks and different parts of the world via a browser client, has teamed up with the Symbian Foundation to promote their services.

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Samsung and Handmark Announce Gaming Innovation Fund

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

In order to drive more traffic to their Samsung Applications Store, Samsung and Handmark have announced a new fund to target innovators in mobile game development.

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Ovi Testing Re-Download Service

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The guys at AllAboutSymbian have uncovered that Nokia is field testing a re-download service for Nokia's Ovi store. This means apps and games will be tied to a person and not a set device.

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Nokia Launches MyDailyApp.com

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Nokia has launched yet another initiative to drive traffic to their OVI Store. With MyDailyApp.com, the company will review one app or game every day and provide a deeplink to it.

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HeroCraft Dumps Old Symbian Games

September 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

HeroCraft has chosen to make it's back catalogue of Symbian titles freely available to consumers that visit their website. The games are not ad-funded, but do hold an option to purchase more recent titles.