Ronan has a nice article on how SVG is perfect for Mobile. He thinks that it is well suited because:

• It is a compact way of representing vector graphics
• SVG graphics (in keeping with the name) can be scaled to arbitrary sizes, removing some of issues with screen dimension proliferation on mobile devices
• It is an open standard
• Device support is better than you might think (more on this later)
• Because SVG is based on XML, many existing XML tools can be used to generate content.

The article moves on from the “why” and gets into the “how”. He discusses the device support, when you should use it, and finally shares his testbed application.

SVG-T is a very useful tool in the mobile web designers toolbox. Device support is already quite widespread and getting better. While many older devices don’t currently support SVG, the types of device that deliver a good enough mobile web experience that people actually use them are the very devices that do support SVG. So, with some exceptions (Opera Mini and the iPhone) the pioneers, taste-makers and early adopters are reasonably well covered. So go forth and experiment.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2008 was released today, optimized for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and featuring a slew of new controls and features:

Bratislava, Slovakia — December 10, 2007 — Resco, a leading provider of advanced developer components and tools for mobile devices, has today released Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2008 optimized for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Compact Framework 3.5.

See the company’s press release for more info.

Nokia issued a press release unveiling the new device management features of its Intellisync Mobile Suite:

Nokia Intellisync Device Management delivers single service-optimized device management platform that seamlessly combines OMA DM and Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite device management technologies

New York, NY - Nokia unveils today the newest device management features of Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite. The next generation release offers single platform to manage both OMA DM compatible mobile devices as well as devices running Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite client. This technology approach provides flexibility to support a wide variety of mobile devices and operating systems with advanced device management functionalities such as device configuration, application management, asset collection, help desk, theft-loss protection and recovery…

Mobility Site has the skinny.

Erica Sadun posted about the implementation of the AFP protocol (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) for the iPhone/Touch which gives you another way to access your device as a full read/write volume:

The AFP server is brand new, so it is not yet available in Installer.app. To install by hand, use sftp to copy the tar file into /opt/iphone. Extract the archive on your iPhone or touch–the tar archive program is part of the BSD program; use tar xvf name-of-archive.tar–and run /opt/iphone/afp/startserver.sh &. The ampersand lets the program run in the background. (You will need to restart it after reboots.)

Once installed and running, go to Finder. Choose Go > Connect To Server, and enter the afp address for your iPhone, in my case afp://192.168.0.111. Just use the afp:// prefix with the local IP address of your iPhone. Enter your user id (root) and password (alpine) and your iPhone or iPod appears in the sources list for your Finder windows.

Once your iPhone learns how to add itself as a disk, you’ll start wondering how you ever lived without this. To add new applications, just drop them into the Applications folder. To back-up your personal data, just copy /var/root/Library. This is just an awesome accomplishment. Thank you Core!