Category: Symbian
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Choosing Mobile Development Platform
There’s been a lot of heated discussions in the blogosphere in the past month about mobile platforms from independent developer perspective. Which platform to choose, if you want to develop cool applications, reach a lot of users and maximize your revenues? I previously wrote on this subject a year ago, when Android was announced, and…
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Google Android vs. Nokia Series 60 – what would it take to build a better mobile phone?
The long awaited Google phone turned out to be just an OS. What does it mean for us, mobile software developers? Personally, I think this is great news. An open mobile platform is something that was long due to stir up the world of RIM-Windows-Symbian. Android managed to get many things right from the very…
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Symbian Platform Security – hacked?
(Via: Gábor Török and Antony Pranata) Well, hacked – sort of. Apparenlty it is possible to obtain AllFiles capability for your applications by changing a few lines in Nokia Software Update files and flashing your phone, as described here. For developers that means that with certain amount of effort they will be able to make…
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Symbian OS Platform Security – good or evil?
In the past couple of months I’ve been doing internal trainings, and on pretty much every one of them I was getting questions regarding Symbian platform security. And to be honest, platform security is something that made me loose my sleep a few times over the past couple of years. But I don’t want this…