A developer's-eye view of smartphone platforms

Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009 A developer's-eye view of smartphone platforms Posted January 21, 06:41 a.m. Pacific Time Smartphone programming is booming. The little leash that lets your boss reach out and ruin your time off is turning into a platform of seemingly infinite possibilities. It's more than just iPhone applications that simulate a glass of beer that drains as the accelerometer measures the amount of tilt. The new smartphones can act as a wallet, a personal shopper, a personal trainer, and a source of endless amusement.   >> The cross-platform option: Web apps for smartphones Posted January 21, 06:41 a.m. Pacific Time Fred Grott, a programmer who specializes in smartphone applications, has two models for his business: He can write specialized applications in native code that take advantage of all of the features of a specific smartphone, or he can write a Web application that works in the Web browsers of all of the top devices.   >> Palm request for app store advice opens floodgate Posted January 15, 09:47 a.m. Pacific Time Andrew Shebanow didn't imagine that asking for feedback about how Palm's app store should work would open up a flood of input. He also didn't expect the move would change his job description. But now both have happened.   >> Even netbooks won't save PC market this year Posted January 15, 04:40 a.m. Pacific Time Netbook shipments will see tremendous growth this year but won't be enough to boost overall worldwide PC shipments, which will sink due to the global economic downturn, according to surveys from IDC and Gartner released on Wednesday.   >> Kogan postpones its Android phone Posted January 20, 04:50 a.m. Pacific Time Just days before it was due to ship its highly anticipated Android-based Agora and Agora Pro, Kogan has postponed the release indefinitely. Citing a need to upgrade the low-res screen, Kogan founder Ruslan Kogan blogged the bad news on the Australian company's Web site after meeting with Google. Ruslan said that "it seems developers will be creating applications that are a higher resolution than the Agora is currently capable of handling." Oops. [ How does the first Android phone, T-Mobile's G1, stack up? ...  >> Mobile patches, fixes, and vulnerabilities Posted January 14, 15:42 p.m. Pacific Time LG Incite users are still experiencing trouble with the SMS bug that I mentioned last week. There is good news and bad news for Incite folks: The good news is that AT&T has determined the problem's roots. The bad news is that the fix won't be available until February. Apparently the trouble stems from the fact that the Incite sends SMS over GPRS, while AT&T sends SMS using either 3G networks or the more common GSM (but not EDGE). So ...  >>
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