An introduction to smartphone industry

For those interested in smartphone production cycle it is worth to read "Symbian for Software Leaders" by David Wood, co-founder of Symbian. I've bought the book at Symbian Smartphone Show 2005, and the first time I've read it I didn't appreciate how it leverages on fundamental aspects of production cycle which now, being in Freescale, have become clear. The perspective is software oriented so little space is given to hardware design and development which takes as well a huge effort because of its extremely early placement in timeline.

Even it's targeted for software leaders, developers will appreciate too.

The key points for me are :

• top quality communications inside and among teams. Emails and unclassified docs are poor means for a hundreds people team. Forum and mailing list makes knowledge widespread and learning curve for newcomers (as I am) less steep.
• learn on your own mistake and to not reinvent the wheel! It's hard to achieve a top quality product at first attempt but time spent on design and development must be reused otherwise team members become frustrated to see their efforts be vain.

Two principles easy to say not so easy to apply in daily life.

technorati tags:symbian, smartphone

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Moved in Toulouse....time to blog again

It's a while since I've blogged for the last time.....well, summer vacation turned me into laziness and then something more happened: I've changed job, city,...and country actually. All these changes caused hard time not only to me but also to my girl, Marilena, who's still in Rome. Now I'm in Toulouse and I work for FreeScale Semiconductor, Motorola's spin off.

My job always concerns mobile phones and Symbian OS but from a different perspective, before was application level now is OS level and even lower. I can say I'm jumped into the internals of a mobile phone, when a phone looks like more a Pc motherboard than a stilish object of cult. It's amazing that close to my bureau there's the microchip fab with its "white rooms"....a huge amount of work and technology to "mobilize" the world.

Without going toward chip building the process to develop, integrate, test and validate software for a mobile phone is so cumbersome that I'm less prone to blame on bugs of my phone!

During this period I've always been a blog reader and I would thank my favourite bloggers, Martin, Michael, Tommi, Fabrizio - he isn't in my favourites because we share the same name and the same nationality:-) - to breed me with seeds of mobility culture. I think that most of you already know them...if not, it 's time to update your rss reader with new entries.

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