In an effort to entice more developers in creating mobile apps for Nokia mobile phones, Nokia has published statistics about its OVI online app store. Nokia is the global market leader in terms of mobile phone sales. Over the past several years Nokia has been pushing to concentrate more on online services for its users. Mobile apps is a key ingredient to maintaining market leadership in the burgeoning smartphone market and in order to get apps it needs the help of mobile developers.

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Google may have stopped selling the Nexus One but today Google has announced that the once super phone is now for available to Android developers as an unlocked developer phone.

The Nexus One is available at a price of $529. To see the details or order a phone, you need to sign in to your Android developer account and click on the “Development Phones” link.

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It looks like Google is laying out more preparations prior to it’s planned carrier billing payment option. Protecting Android apps from unauthorized use has always been a major concern for developers. Today, Google has just introduced a new Licensing service for apps in the Android Market which aims to help developers get better monitoring for authorized app use.

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Today is the start of the 5-day Apple 2010 Worldwide Developer Conference in Moscone West San Francisco. This year there are several announcements from Steve Jobs that most people in the tech world have been waiting for. I am particularly interested because I believe that the news coming out of the conference will have a very important impact in the mobile industry.

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A few days after the launch of the Google Nexus One mobile phone, the Android team has released version 2.1 of the Android SDK which is named “Flan”. The updated SDK is currently found only one the Google N1 superphone. But it should soon find its way into the other Android phones on the market via online updates. This includes Motorola’s popular Milestone Android mobile phone currently available in the US as the Motorola Droid under Verizon.

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Palm has just opened up its developer program to the public. The developer program which started as a private beta to select developers. Since then, Palm has shipped a couple of WebOS devices around the globe (Palm Pre and Palm Pixi). To give mobile developers a little incentive, Palm is also running a developer contest that offers a total of 1 million USD to contest winners.

Palm’s unique WebOS incorporates familiar web technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS. These technologies become the building blocks of mobile applications that runs on Palm’s WebOS. They have also setup their own mobile applications store which they call the App Catalog that currently lists more or less 1,000 mobile apps from different mobile developers.

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The Nokia N900 already starting to ship and Mozilla is in on its way to the release of the mobile version of Firefox that runs on the Maemo open mobile platform of the N900. What else can be better that to start it off with a mobile Firefox add-on challenge to stir things up a bit. Mozilla has started an add-on development contest that will end on December 7, 2009. The price? What else a brand new shiny Nokia N900 to the winner. You can check out the contest rules here. The judgess will select ten (10) mobile add-ons that best represent user experience and innovation on Firefox for mobile devices. The 10 winners will each receive a Nokia N900. Cool!

Developing software for mobile phones is such a challenge! Not only do you have to deal with the wide variety of hardware, you’d also have to deal with the different platforms available. Imagine trying to make your mobile application or game available on the Symbian, Java, Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone OS, Blackberry, Danger platforms! Continue reading …

Motorola has gone a long way since I first read about the news that it’s hiring some 300 Android developers. It has heavily invested in the Android open mobile platform that Google has initiated. Recently it has opened up it’s web site for Android development in preparation for its upcoming mobile phones based on Android. It has even started beta on its new MotoDev Studio for the Android platform.

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After several months from the release of the Palm Pre, Palm has finally opened the WebOS SDK to everyone. WebOS is the operating system that drives Palm’s new Palm Pre device. The Palm developer site is now accepting registrations to the developer program that is currently under beta. Registration is required and free. Upon approval you will gain access to download the SDK and documentation and start developing for the Palm Pre. You will also gain access to the Palm developer forum once membership is approved.

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