A couple mobile phone business and development links. One came from TechRepublic, speculating about who might buy (the newly revived) Palm.

Podcast: Will the $99 smartphone trigger a price war? [Guess not. It seems to be a price war at the $199 price point.]

Correcting BREW and J2ME - a 2008 article that gives background about the competing BREW and J2ME markets, and the then-emergent iPhone business model.

Links to misc app stores (mobile or not): Linspire CNR, GetJar, Boost Mobile, ATT MediaMall, Sprint Software Store, Handmark, Ovi (Nokia), Android Market, T-Mobile T-Zones, Motorola Solutions.

A bunch of development links after the jump.

A Random List of Stuff

Maemo from Nokia

Palm Pre

(Google) Android

Apple iPhone

Java ME

Blackberry

(Quakcomm) BREW

Symbian OS

Windows Mobile

Qt

Access NetFront

Geos (defunct OS)

Also, there are some higher-level application platforms.

Yahoo Blueprint

Plusmo

Motorola WebUI - one of a few different WebKit based solutions out there.

WebKit, Apple's browser engine, which is getting a lot of application features added.

Ansca Corona, an iPhone SDK that uses the Lua language.

GetJar mobile phone market stats: summary is, 75% goes to MIDP2, CLDC1.1. The rest is mostly Symbian. So Java still dominates, but, iPhone is the emergent platform that is leading innovation.