There is plenty written about Android 3.0 which is Google’s OS for Tablets. I won’t get into all the great things that come with Honeycomb, but I’ve seen little written about the downsides and feel its important to put that out there too. In terms of my hands-on time with Honeycomb, I played with it [...]

If you’ve read this blog in the past you’ll know I’ve had a long standing relationship with Research In Motion (BlackBerry) as a development partner since 2002. I came to know the company, mostly the Canadian partner team at a tough time for partners when RIM were transitioning from a C++ based SDK to todays [...]

As a short intro to give some context, I’ve been developing BlackBerry apps since 2002 when I co-founded Europe’s first BlackBerry applications company called Galty Technologies in Ireland (We’ve since sold and moved on, career wise and geographically in my case to Belgium). Back in the early days we pretended to be a Canadian company [...]

Fred Wilson, famed New York based venture capitalist wrote this post just a while ago, covering his experience with apps on BlackBerry and how he lives his mobile lifestyle with BlackBerry and presumably the Nexus One living side-by-side. I complete agree with Fred on the shock-and-awe that is a missing App World on new devices. [...]

With iPhone OS 4 released in preview form to developers yesterday and the inclusion of Apples first attempt at background processing it seems timely to compare with BlackBerry and how it stacks up. Some folks believe the real reason for Apple disabling full background processes has more to do with device memory than performance & [...]

That is the question Kyle over at BlackBerryCool discusses in his blog today. Its something that I’ve wondered about in the past and can’t understand why developers would build such an app, for the very same reasons Kyle points out. Do a reset of the device and it cleans the memory out and you start [...]

There is a good post over at the Creately Blog today which outlines the strategy they use to drive traffic to their website. Even though its very web centric I believe the same applies to mobile applications, even more so as mobile apps are not yet as mature as web apps resulting in less noise [...]

I agree with a lot of what Josh Sookman says in his recent post on the BlackBerry experience, certainly as a developer there are several challenges for RIM to work on: creating a better blackberry experience UPDATE: To clear up any misunderstandings, Josh contacted me to rightly point out that his blog post linked above [...]

So I wakes up this morning, and feeling good I tries out the new Seesmic for BlackBerry app. App World has it available now so after a quick download I was ready to fire her up.. until it throws a dialog asking me to review the permissions changes for Seesmic – if you read Fred [...]

As developers focused on the how, we don’t always put user experience at the forefront of our thinking – however I’d like to think we’re improving as a community, especially mobile developers. With that said, WHY oh WHY do platform vendors *SCREW* developers and users with a poor experience when it comes to apps. To [...]