Ovi Store 101 for Developers (longer version)

Time to learn, meet old friends and new people!

In a couple of weeks I will be in Europe attending the first ever Nokia Developer Summit, then in a month it will be time to go to California again for the JavaOne Conference...busy days! :-D



Please drop me a note if you are also getting ready to attend these events so we can meet!

Nokia N96 Bruce Lee clip

Happy birthday Symbian - 10 years old!

It is still very new but it is the market leader!

http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2008/pr200810017.html

Mobile phone evolution...

How Nokia Users Drive Innovation

An interesting article by BusinessWeek, note the really strange form factors (click View Slide Show on the left).

Beautiful to use...

Nokia 6600 (slide and fold) and Nokia 3600 slide.

Bossa Conference's photostream

I attended the BOSSA Conference in Brazil back in March, a cool mobile Linux event. Here is the Flickr photostream.

S60 RC Truck controlled by PyS60!

S60 RC truck catching eyes at the Web 2.0 Expo

LG and Samsung increasing market share, Nokia leading...

Market leader Nokia continued at a slow and steady growth pace, increasing its market share from 40.6 per cent to 40.9 per cent. While Mawston said that 2008 is shaping up to be the year of the Koreans, with improved handset portfolios enabling LG to grow at almost four times the annual industry average, while Samsung is growing over two times faster.

Apple, Moto, Sony Ericsson losing handset market share

S60Online - YouTube

Some interesting S60 videos - http://www.youtube.com/s60online

Nokia N81 8GB Ad - Cool!

2008 JavaOne Developer Conference - Opening Video

I will not comment, the video is enough :)

Nokia announces new NFC device - 6212

This new Series 40 5th Edition FP1 device seems to be really nice, here are the specs - Nokia 6212 classic

Also in the news - Nokia NFC handset touches down.

Android gets its mobile web server

While there are no Android devices hitting the market yet, this interesting article talks about porting the well-known Jetty Java Web Container and HTTP Server to Android.

While I am not a fan of Android mainly due to the fact that its Java is not standard and not based on standard Java ME, it is cool to see a real Java Web Container running in a mobile device.

You know, the S60 platform has a similar solution called MWS (Mobile Web Server) developed by the Nokia Research Center but it is LAMP oriented as far as I know.

Overall the cool thing is to see that it is really possible to host a server inside a mobile device :)

eSWT Article

Aleksi Uotila from Java for S60 has posted a cool article about eSWT for S60 3rd Edition FP2 devices.

Get it if interested, it was originally published in S60 News magazine.

Taking S60 Java Platform user interface capabilities to the next level

Project Management Podcast

Besides being a Lead Architect and Developer, currently I also play the role of Technical Manager and then I am using the PMBOK practices and guide to perform some of my tasks as well.

So, as PMBOK is one major I am interested, I would like to point you to an interesting site and podcast that is maintained by Ricardo Vargas, one of the best PMBOK mentors in Brazil.

His site is called MacroSolutions and it is full of resources and of course, the fantastic podcast. Unfortunately it is in my native language, Brazilian Portuguese. Worth the visit!

Macrosolutions

Mobile Games Innovation Challenge by Nokia

Nokia has started a new competition named Mobile Games Innovation Challenge, it is offering 70K Euros for winners.

Interested? You can find more information here - www.developer.n-gage.com/innovation

Applications for E-Series devices

The Nokia for Business site is full of options regarding business and productivity applications for E-Series devices. Worth checking if you are using one of those business gadgets.

Nokia for Business - Find Software

New firmware update - N95 and N82 get Flash Lite 3 and WRT

Now, besides the N95 8GB (my current device), N95 and N82 users can get Flash Lite 3 and WRT (Widgets) update. Here it goes - http://europe.nokia.com/A4577225