Using WordPress to run manage your own blog? If so, you definitely need to bookmark the WordPress Wiki (table of contents).
You may also want to read the ongoing dev blog (click for RSS feed), support forums, and hacks page (currently points to the Plugins and Hacks forum).
Forbes.com has a Reuters article on “Global camera phone sales in 2003” that’s worth a look.
The obvious stats are the five fold increase in sales in 2003 versus 2002 and the predicted tripling in 2004 versus 2003.
More interestingly, notice how the various vendors stack up in camera phone sales. NEC and Matsushita are far higher in the camera phone rankings than their overall mobile phone market share positions because of the larger penetration of cellcams into their home market of Japan. Meanwhile, Motorola and Siemens both languished with far fewer camera phone sales than you might expect from their overall market penetration. Some of Motorola’s problems may be because of widely reported component shortfalls and manufacturing issues, but one also has to wonder if they and Siemens have simply been slow bringing camera enabled models to market.
My prediction for 2004: Those with the best cellcams win!
Froogle is one of my favorite Google services. Now its svelte younger sibling, Wireless Froogle, has escaped from the labs and is available on your mobile.
Ask questions and learn more about it from the Froogle Wireless forum. Ready to give it a try? Access the service from your phone’s browser via: http://wml.froogle.com/
Comparison shop like there’s no tomorrow!
A solid overview of the latest in mobile games, music, movies, and more: Forbes.com’s: “New Cell Phones Multitask To The Max“.
I find articles like these especially useful to explain just what it is I do to non-techie family members. 😉
Continuing my ongoing saga of learning more about PHP: Research turned up an interesting article on “Creating and Consuming Web Services With PHP“.
Over-the-Air (OTA) installation of MIDlets to PalmOS devices now automagically translates the bits to Palm’s PRC format.
I’ve posted the slides for my “Migrating Wireless Applications to MIDP 2.0, WMA, and MMA” webcast presentation. Click here to access the slides (PDF).
Abstract:
This presentation provides a technical overview of recent updates to the J2ME Platform including MIDP 2.0, MMA, and WMA. Attendees will learn how to use the J2ME Wireless Toolkit and Sun Java Studio to take advantage of next generation J2ME features including MIDlet signing, testing MIDlet deployment Over The Air (OTA), MIDlets sending and receiving SMS messages, MIDlets with multimedia functionality, etc.
Please use the Comments link at the bottom right of this blog entry to discuss the presentation, ask questions, or make suggestions on improving the presentation.
And the new handsets should keep on coming: “Nokia Plans 40 New Handsets in 2004, Same as 2003“. Read more from Nokia’s press release and watch Nokia’s press site for the full text of CEO Jorma Ollila’s speech from which this was excerpted.
Both Motorola and Nokia have announced some interesting new devices at CTIA this week.
A small sample from the cellcam category alone:
- Motorola A845 (fact sheet), a 3G/UMTS phone with video and still camera support, Bluetooth, an MP3 player, and 64MB of memory built-in, to be deployed by AT&T Wireless in H2 2004.
- Nokia 6255 (Forum Nokia data sheet), a CDMA2000 1X clamshell handset with dual color screens, a VGA camera with flash (imagine that, a flash!), MP3/AAC and stereo FM radio support, GPS support for E911, Bluetooth, and J2ME MIDP 2.0. All in all, Nokia’s most advanced and feature rich CDMA handset, available Q4 2004.
Is the US finally starting to catch up with the rest of the wireless world’s handset options?
Also, Nokia made some Series 60 news including the reiteration of the availability of Series60.com, a one stop shop for Series 60 device and development information from all licensees, and the announcement that LG Electronics has licensed Series 60 for use in upcoming LG Symbian based smart phones.
XML.com article on “Googling for XML” (and applications thereof including RSS, RDF, FOAF, etc.).
BillDay.com 