I had a quick post-3GS look at the Flickr Camera stats and the results are telling. The iPhone beats every other device hands down. Even YouTube has taken notice of the iPhone since it got video recording. I get real tired of all the Nokia apologists saying that the iPhone is just a hyped fashion phone and that developers should actually target Nokia devices in order to reach the greatest number of users. I will willingly oblige when I see the metrics that support this view but until then our focus is on the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android.

29th June

13th May

A bumper addition. This is probably the most new devices (42) to hit our provisioning platform in a 7 day period since we launched in Summer 2007. The Palm Pre makes a welcome appearance and once again Samsung devices make up over 20% of the total. I'm constantly amazed at how many devices Samsung produce each with their own hardware and software configuration. Their production processes must be incredibly efficient and agile to support that much differentiation. They clearly deserve their 2nd place position behind Nokia.

Google have put all the I/O Session videos online. I learnt a huge amount about Android from last years videos so this year should be equally interesting.

Turbo-charge your UI: How to Make your Android UI Fast and Efficient

Pixel Perfect Code: How to Marry Interaction and Visual Design the Android Way

Supporting Multiple Devices with One Binary

Android Lightning Talks

Debugging Arts of the Ninja Masters

Coding for Life -- Battery Life, That Is

Writing Real-Time Games for Android

Looking Beyond the Screen: Text-To-Speech and Eyes-Free Interaction on Android

Mastering the Android Media Framework

How Do I Code Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

A General-purpose Caching Architecture for Offline-capable Web Applications with HTML 5 Databases or Gears

Update: Fixed links.

Today's a big day for us: it's the first day in our new office; Chirag, who's been working for us part time for the last 6 months, joins us full time and will be working along side Steve and myself on a daily basis; and we turn 3 years old.

In the last year we've been very fortunate to have worked on some really interesting projects. Building mobile applications is still our core service and in the last year we have added both the Android and iPhone platforms to our existing repertoire of Java ME and BlackBerry. We've also built a handful of mobile web sites for some big brands, a bespoke SMS messaging solution for mobile application provisioning and the core transaction engine for an NFC mobile payment system. Not bad for a small company. :-)

Our thanks to all our clients, colleagues and friends without whose support these last three years wouldn't have been possible.

New devices to hit our provisioning platform in the last 7 days. Notables are the Samsung Android device, the BlackBerry 9630 aka Niagara and the first sightings on a Nokia S40 6th edition running the WebKit browser.

I'm really getting into this Android widget thing. I now have 5 in total.

More information can be found at this blog post by Jeff Sharkey (winner of the Android Developer Challenge and now Google employee) and by browsing the source code of the default Calendar widget.

The Flickr Camera Finder section is always a good place to see what camera phones are popular. I'm always amazed at how much more popular the iPhone is than the Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones. One of the very few things I miss about my Nokia N95 is the camera but a good camera does not necessarily imply regular usage it seems. I would love to know what makes iPhone users such prolific image uploaders. Camera software, user experience, data packages, demographics, image quality etc. I was also surprised to see the BlackBerry Storm feature so prominently.

I was playing around with the Android Widget API over the weekend and so far I am quite impressed. It's easy to use and very powerful. I already have tons of ideas for things I would like to build. There's a relatively easy tutorial on the Android Developers blog but I preferred learning by browsing the source code of their 'Word of the Day' demo.

As an example I built a simple widget addition to my weather application which shows the current London temperate in Celsius on my home screen.

I do have some concerns though. When waking the phone up from a long period of inactivity and then changing the screen orientation a few times the Home screen hung on me and I had to reboot to resolve the issue. This may be bad 3rd party code but it's definitely a problem.

Also, be sure to check out Enrique's blog post about Android widgets; the video is great.