Android, when being released promised a new platform. A platform where Java has failed in fragmentation and too much “porting”. ... Read full article

This is one of the most sensitive mobile topics for me - my own cellphone manufacturer. Mobile phones are very personal devices, especially for me who is making money in this industry through mobile phones and their knowledge. I am a Nokia fan, and I was always extremelly proud of it. Read my article, send it to others. Maybe Nokia could wake up… But their latest N97 was the biggest disaster in Nokia’s history.... Read full article

Very recently, Nokia has annoucned it’s new netbook, and with Nokia describing it as the “natural evolution” from mobile phones. This means that if we now look at all areas Nokia is trying to cover, then we get quite a huge area, acquisitions, and a lot of companies. Now of course, that’s great on one hand, but on the other hand, what is their main focus going to be?... Read full article

Mobile companies around the world are trying to show us, that their AppStores are the best AppStores. Apple, Google, Nokia, Palm, Microsoft, and many other firms joined the AppStore hunt, and even mobile operators seem to be catching up slowly with preparations on similar launches. Now the question is, is this the future?... Read full article

So seriously, can manufacturers handle their AppStores? Lets look at the situation right now at the three main AppStores: Nokia OVI Store, Apple AppStore, and Android Market.... Read full article

What if Google bought Nokia? Thats the question that I asked myself in the hypothetical “WHAT IF” series on Blog HungryMobile. The two largest companies - one in the internet space, and one in the mobile space.... Read full article

It’s time that someone in Nokia really woke up and started doing something with these phone UI’s. I had a chance to view the lovely Nokia N97 in the last week. The phone has a genius construction, it’s practically unbreakable, the designs finally looks nice, fully functional keyboard is awsome. But: The phone UI was just simply horrible. I just hope I was holding the pre-release alfa or so.... Read full article

Apple limits its freedom for iPhone developers and application makers. Can it get any worse? To people that think iPhone was such an open garden, this might just show how Apple means it with it’s openness, showing it’s much more walled than many operators are. If I would compare this with mobile operators, this would mean mobile operators would, by terms and conditions, block any developers to sell on 3rd party portals, which is, in my opinion, insane.... Read full article

One of my most read articles, to my suprise, was the article - How do blind people use mobile phones?. If you haven’t read it, I definitely suggest on reading it. In the article, I focus on vision-impaired people, who don’t have the ability to see, or have such limited seeing abilities that they have to use a talking mobile phone.... Read full article

Mobile phones have had lousy batteries for quite some time and you could say that it is actually getting worse and worse. If you look at the phone timeline, the first phones started off with a few hours of talk time, and say a day of non-active mode, then came stronger monochrome devices, with up to a week of charge time, or even two weeks in extreme cases, even though you used the phone and called a lot.... Read full article