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Mobile Stats, Android and Fragmentation

The theme today seems to be mobile stats and different ways to view them. First take a look at Gartner’s Q1/2012 stats released today. The interesting part for mobile developers is the breakdown by operating system…   Android...

The Enterprise and Mobile Platform Security

Dimensional Research has a recent free report on The Impact of Mobile Devices on Information Security (pdf) that highlights some of the issues related to enterprise device security. The report is based on a survey of 768 respondents responsible for securing...

Graphics Download for Mobile

One of the areas I commonly see startups underestimate is the download of non-photographic graphics. In its simplest form, download via http is trivial on all mobile platforms. However, the complexity manifests itself when you start to consider that different...

Qt at Mobile World Congress – The popular new Nokia 808 PureView and more

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia is promoting a new Qt opportunity. The flagship for developers in Nokia Qt powered device portfolio will soon be the new Nokia 808 PureView that was announced today. With the launch of this high-tech camera smart...

Nokia 808

The news today is buzzing with the Mobile World Congress announcement of Nokia’s ‘PureView’ 808 smartphone using a 41 megapixel sensor. The strange thing is that it’s a Symbian rather than Windows Phone device. I would have expected...

Gartner Q4 2011 Stats

Gartner have just released their worldwide smartphone stats for Q4 2012. Total smartphone sales in 2011 reached 472 million units and accounted for 31 percent of all mobile devices sales, up 58 percent from 2010. Of interest to developers is the table showing...

Canalys 2011 Full Year Stats

Canalys released their full year 2011 smartphone global sales stats last Friday. An amazing 488 million smartphone were shipped in 2011. While sales by individual companies are interesting, the table most useful for mobile developers is the split by platform…   Android...

Qt SDK 1.2 Released

We are happy to announce that a new important update for Qt SDK is published. This Qt SDK 1.2 update sets a new baseline for the developers for a longer perspective. Some of the features have already been available as online updates, but Qt SDK 1.2 now integrates...

New guides for those who are learning Qt Quick or Qt Quick Components on Symbian and N9

A post about new developer guides has been on the on the Qt Blog for a few weeks. We’ve made a small, but interesting update and we thought we should drop some lines about it. Just a few weeks ago we published two new developer guides. They are targeted...

New Qt SDK release with significant Nokia N9 Harmattan and Symbian improvements. Nokia store now at 10M+ a day downloads.

The momentum from Qt Developer Days in Munich continues. The dust has barely settled and we are at another major Qt milestone. In addition, I expect Qt 4.8 in time for Qt Developer Days in San Francisco combined with further improvements in the Qt IDE: Qt Creator....