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Ovi Developer Day

Rafe reports back from the recent (September 2009) Ovi Developer Day in London.

Posted by Rafe Blandford at 13:19 UTC, September 30th

WRT – Another arrow or killer weapon?

Web development standards — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — are a front runner in the quest to provide an accessible development environment for Symbian. However, Web Runtime (WRT) has its limitations and, across the industry as a whole, is rather fragmented. So, how is Symbian working to make WRT a viable choice for developers?

Posted by Richard Bloor at 8:21 UTC, September 16th || 1 Comment

Sony Ericsson – Getting Back To Symbian

Sony Ericsson has been a long term supporter of the Symbian OS. After something of a hiatus in Symbian phones, Sony Ericsson will soon be back with the Satio, its first S60 platform phone. So how is Sony Ericsson gearing up to support Symbian developers? I talked to Christopher David, Head of Developer and Partner Engagement at Sony Ericsson.

Posted by Richard Bloor at 8:20 UTC, September 3rd || 6 Comments

Members matter: A discussion with Lauren Sarno, Member Programs at Symbian Foundation

Any open source project lives or dies by its members, whether those members are active contributors to the code base or provide support in other ways. The Symbian Foundation is no different. The responsibility for building and maintaining membership of the Symbian Foundation falls on the shoulders of Lauren Sarno.

Posted by Richard Bloor at 22:39 UTC, August 20th || 0 Comments

Creating a shortcut TouchWiz widget for the Samsung i8910

Rafe explains how you can create your own shortcut widget for the TouchWiz-powered idle screen of the Samsung i8910.

Posted by Rafe Blandford at 10:04 UTC, July 27th || 10 Comments

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Fri 20th November, 2009

22:11 GSMA Announces Winners of Asia Mobile Awards 2009 SymbianOne
Winners of GSMA's Mobile Innovation Grand Prix - Asia Tournament also announced in Hong Kong
18:38 When Robots ruled the app stores All About Symbian
Remember all the fun developers had (still have) with certification and Symbian Signed to get an application through testing? Lots of automatic tests as well as a human eye checking for compatibility and compliance in the name creating dependable applications? It's going to be inte...
16:04 OS Branding Mobile Phone Development
There’s a thought provoking article at Datamation on Why Android Could Fail. One of the arguments is that there’s no one brand. The ‘Android’ brand won’t be recognisable to consumers and phones will be sold under phone OEM or operator branding. I am ...
00:38 Watch this Space: Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition Launched SymbianOne
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today announced the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition, an entertainment hub that combines mobile broadcast TV (DVB-H), social networking, music and gaming in one compact 3G device. With mobile broadcast TV consumption on the rise - by 2012 there will be over 300 millio...

Thu 19th November, 2009

19:40 Save The Date! The Consumer Telematics Show (CTS),January 6,... SymbianOne
The Consumer Telematics Show (CTS),January 6, 2010, Las Vegas, NV (strategically placed 1 day prior to the International CES) is the most hotly anticipated and innovative conference for the consumer electronics and telematics industry!
18:50 Starting with GuaranaUI WRT Framework Forum Nokia Blogs
This posts describes how to start the development using GuaranaUI Framework.
16:50 Let's Start.. Forum Nokia Blogs
Hi All,My name is Allan Bezerra. Since 2003 I am SW Engineer working on Nokia tecnologies in INDT, Nokia Technology Institute in Brazil. I have been working in Nokia Open Source Projects like: Linux Kernel SMAPS, Linux Compressed Cache for Maemo, Metatracker for Maem...
16:50 Guarana UI online Components Browser Forum Nokia Blogs
Yesterday, the Guarana UI framework has been launched, with a complete set of ready-to-use components that will definitely be useful to all Web Runtime developers.   It's now available a Guarana UI online Components Browser, that allows developers to quickly preview and u...
15:29 Piracy is not the problem, piracy is the catalyst All About Symbian
Pinch Media, who provide analytic software for developers on Apple's phones, are estimating that piracy rates are as high as 60% on the iPhone (reports Pocket Gamer). You can be sure that this number is matched on Symbian, Windows Mobile other mobile platforms. The level of piracy ...
14:59 Nokia Ovi Store Stats: Almost half a billion downloads? Into Mobile
Bill Perry, Senior Services Marketing Manager for Forum Nokia (NYSE: NOK), posted some statistics from the Ovi Store which has now been open for 5 months. The Ovi Store is available on over 100 devices, with users from over 180 different countries, and developers from 65 countries....
12:50 Web Runtime: BetaLabsWidget Example Forum Nokia: Series 60
This web widget application demonstrates a thin client that connects to Nokia Beta Labs using its HTTP API and Guarana UI library components.
08:50 Web Run-Time: BetaLabsWidget Example Forum Nokia: Series 60
This web widget application demonstrates a thin client that connects to Nokia Beta Labs using its HTTP API and Guarana UI library components.
04:19 A Computer in Your Pocket - The Nokia N900 is Here! SymbianOne
The Nokia N900 is Now Available to US Consumers - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today announced that the highly anticipated Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers who jumped on the opportunity to be among the first to pre-order the Maemo-powered mobile computer.
01:50 Carbide 2.3 and QT tip Forum Nokia Blogs
I have recently started investigating using QT since its the new Nokia hot topic! After installing carbide.c++ 2.3 beta I imported a QT project I had written for the desktop and got this error when opening anything to do with QT "org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Class ID no...

Wed 18th November, 2009

21:50 Selectively Disabling Downloaded-File Warnings in Leopard (and... Symbian in Motion
Selectively Disabling Downloaded-File Warnings in Leopard (and Snow Leopard): Note: Make sure you save your plist file with ?Western (Mac OS Roman)? encoding in 10.5.6+
21:24 Sony Ericsson Launches WebSDK for Android and Symbian Into Mobile
In preparation for the incoming X10, Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) has opened up a new tool for developers called WebSDK. As you might imagine, it allows developers to write mobile apps in web languages like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, not unlike Palm’s webOS or BlackBerry’s ...
20:50 Nokia 5800 XpressMusic firmware 40.0.001 on its way?! Forum Nokia Blogs
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic firmware 40.0.001 is almost here according to these pictures on Smartphone Area         Both pictures are from Smartphone Area   Alessandro
20:50 Guarana UI: a jQuery-Based UI Library for Nokia WRT available Forum Nokia Blogs
A Nokia WRT UI framework has been posted in Forum Nokia Wiki page. This will accelerate current WRT widget developers to create innovative applications. Up until now a version of WRTKit UI framework has been shipped with our WRT Plug-in tools for Aptana, Dreamweaver, and MS Visual...
18:17 Apps don't make devices MoDaCo
Microsoft?s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie has said: ?All the apps that count will be ported to every one of them,? he said. ?It?s a completely different situation from the PC market, where software?s built to run on a Windows or a Mac? he said. ?Mobile apps require very li...
18:17 Apps don't make devices MoDaCo
Microsoft?s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie has said: ?All the apps that count will be ported to every one of them,? he said. ?It?s a completely different situation from the PC market, where software?s built to run on a Windows or a Mac? he said. ?Mobile apps require very li...
16:36 Symbian Future Mobile Phone Development
With headlines like ‘Nokia to cull Symbian in 2012′ and ‘Nokia says it will replace Symbian with its Maemo Linux by 2012′ The Register could have us believe it’s the start of the end of Symbian. Reading deeper, it’s only the N-Series that is ...
13:50 Why would you need PowerMgmt or TrustedUI capabilities? Forum Nokia Blogs
I know two reasons: Because you did not want to check the set of capabilities your application actually needs you selected all 13 that you can get through Express Signed. AND you have a DLL which you load to a system process so your applications needs All-TCB (all except TCB ...
12:00 Web Developers ? Create Mobile Apps easily with Sony Ericsson... Sony Ericsson Dev News
The Sony Ericsson WebSDK, launched at the Web 2.0 EXPO, makes it possible for web and mobile developers to publish content on to mobile platforms and maximise their market access.
01:50 Forum Nokia Podcasts: Episode 023 - Developer 2 Developer With... Forum Nokia Blogs
In this episode, Forum Nokia’s Bill Volpe speaks with Aung Kaw Moe, from 2C2P based in Singapore.  Aung discusses his most recent application development projects such as the Mobile Credit Card Reader and also provides some advice for users who are new to mobile softwar...
00:08 HTC HD2 Sense Calendar Bug MoDaCo
A bug has been identified related to the HD2 calendar. When using the Calendar tab of HTC Sense and selecting Week view, you are not able go past the week of 26th October - 1st November 2009.This means there is no way of using Week view for looking at this week's appointments (15th...
00:08 HTC HD2 Sense Calendar Bug MoDaCo
A bug has been identified related to the HD2 calendar. When using the Calendar tab of HTC Sense and selecting Week view, you are not able go past the week of 26th October - 1st November 2009.This means there is no way of using Week view for looking at this week's appointments (15th...

Tue 17th November, 2009

18:49 Tip - Win a Nokia N97 from Qik SymbianOne
Here's an opportunity for you to win a cool N97 smartphone from the cool people at Qik!
18:48 NAVTEQ LocationPoint Advertising Selected by Loopt SymbianOne
Leading social-mapping service able to reach consumers with coupons from local merchants
18:37 Orange?s Developer Community Platform Mobile Phone Development
If you are a mobile developer you might like to take a look at Orange’s new Developer Community Platform. It allows you to share your thoughts and ideas about mobile applications. You don’t have to be a member of Orange Partner to take part because it’s open to a...
14:14 ARM Intros Solution Center for Android Devs Phone Scoop
Today ARM announced the opening of a new resource for developers of the Android platform. Android was built to run on the ARM architecture, and the Solutions Center for Android from ARM aims to give developers access to all ...(follow link to read)
10:50 Newer, shinier Design Gallery Forum Nokia Blogs
So we've put the new Design Gallery online and I really hope you like it.  A few of the things that we've added to the showcase are the ability to sort applications via platform, alphabetically, region or time period, so if you're looking for good design examples along spe...
09:13 iBiquity brings HD radio to the iPhone/iPod Touch Into Mobile
The developer of digital HD Radio Technology iBiquity Digital Corporation is bringing HD radio FM broadcasts to all the iPhone and iPod Touch users. The trick is in the hardware-software combo – Gigaware Navigation Control HD Radio Receiver and Gigaware HD Radio application. ...
07:00 Keep Embarrassing Music For Yourself With For Your Ears Only Symbian Guru
The developer with alias Bergamot, behind the synchronization application Swim has released a prototype of a new application for multimedia purposes. Based on the headphone daemon for Maemo and how Android works, For Your Ears Only is a small application that is both simple to use...
01:01 O2 Litmus targets over 1 million O2 Customers Into Mobile
O2 (NYSE: TEF) Litmus (which is the mobile and web application development community from O2) is ready to spread it’s wings – and they’ve decided the best way is a targeted marketing campaign for 1 million O2 UK customers. For developers this is a bit of a boon, s...

Mon 16th November, 2009

23:50 Flash Lite Packager has been off-lined Forum Nokia Blogs
Just read Akessandro's post of Flash Lite...The Forum Nokia online Flash Lite Packager has been off-lined due to technical difficulty. There will be a version of the online packager coming online soon. The outage of the packager does not reflect any change to our current suppo...
22:27 Google?s Android 2.0 Eclair source code now available to all! Into Mobile
Following on HTC’s release of the HTC Hero kernel to developers, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has gone all open-source with their latest Android 2.0 operating system. Android 2.0 OS went live not too long ago with the launch of Verizon’s Motorola Droid, but we have yet to see an...
21:50 New iPhone Game: Call of Duty: World at War: ZOMBIES MobileTechReview
Activision and developer Treyarch announced today the availability of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch app: Call of Duty: World at War: ZOMBIES. This mobile version of the hit gameplay mode from Treyarch's blockbuster title Call of Duty: World ...
20:27 Nokia E72 in stores now SymbianOne
Espoo, Finland - The highly-anticipated Nokia E72, a device tailor-made for business and personal messaging is now available in stores.
20:23 Skyhook Wireless Releases Maps Booster for Ovi SymbianOne
Skyhook Wireless, operator of the world's most advanced location system, today released Maps Booster in the Ovi Store. This app will dramatically improve the speed and accuracy of location results on any S60 Nokia handset.
19:00 Want Marketplace On your 6.0 and 6.1 Devices? Go for it! Smartphone Thoughts
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/wi...-0-and-6-1.aspx"After last week's news, I'm pleased to tell you that Windows Marketplace for Mobile has today reached another major milestone by adding support for Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1 devices. This is an especially proud day for Microsoft because it marks our fulfillment of the Marketplace vision that we put forth only 9 months ago at Mobile World Congress. Last week we expanded the Marketplace experience to the PC and updated the developer portal to include stronger anti-piracy protection features for developers. Today, Marketplace is delivering some great free new features that enhance and expand the Marketplace experience to even more Windows Mobile customers."Windows Mobile Marketplace is now available for pre-6.5 phones as a download. While I suppose you could have gotten it on your phone prior to now... the release today is suited for older phones and official!
19:00 Want Marketplace On your 6.0 and 6.1 Devices? Go for it! Pocket PC Thoughts
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/wi...-0-and-6-1.aspx"After last week's news, I'm pleased to tell you that Windows Marketplace for Mobile has today reached another major milestone by adding support for Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1 devices. This is an especially proud day for Microsoft because it marks our fulfillment of the Marketplace vision that we put forth only 9 months ago at Mobile World Congress. Last week we expanded the Marketplace experience to the PC and updated the developer portal to include stronger anti-piracy protection features for developers. Today, Marketplace is delivering some great free new features that enhance and expand the Marketplace experience to even more Windows Mobile customers."Windows Mobile Marketplace is now available for pre-6.5 phones as a download. While I suppose you could have gotten it on your phone prior to now... the release today is suited for older phones and official!
19:00 Want Marketplace On your 6.0 and 6.1 Devices? Go for it! Smartphone Thoughts
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/wi...-0-and-6-1.aspx"After last week's news, I'm pleased to tell you that Windows Marketplace for Mobile has today reached another major milestone by adding support for Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1 devices. This is an especially proud day for Microsoft because it marks our fulfillment of the Marketplace vision that we put forth only 9 months ago at Mobile World Congress. Last week we expanded the Marketplace experience to the PC and updated the developer portal to include stronger anti-piracy protection features for developers. Today, Marketplace is delivering some great free new features that enhance and expand the Marketplace experience to even more Windows Mobile customers."Windows Mobile Marketplace is now available for pre-6.5 phones as a download. While I suppose you could have gotten it on your phone prior to now... the release today is suited for older phones and official!
16:58 Flash Lite Future Mobile Phone Development
With news today that Adobe have dropped the Flash Lite redistributable, it has made me question whether it’s the start of the end for Flash Lite. Recent Adobe redundancies and a new focus of running full flash on mobile also tend to suggest Flash Lite might eventually be a c...
09:15 Apple looking to start making their own iPhone games? Into Mobile
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is looking to hire a “Game/Media Software Engineer” with “3-4 years of video game development experience” that has “shipped at least one AAA title” according to a job listing discovered by AppleInsider. Is this a sign that Apple is looking at becoming a first party developer? Maybe, maybe not. In all likelihood [...]
08:50 Adobe Flash Lite Distributable dropped Forum Nokia Blogs
Just came back from a relaxing weekend, with a totally unrelaxing news: as reported, among others, by Leonardo, Alessandro and Mariam, Adobe just dropped the Flash Lite Distributable Player, to entirely focus on Flash 10.1 (for the mobile browser), Air Mobile (for standalone) an...

Sun 15th November, 2009

21:30 Marketplace Updates MoDaCo
The promised second wave in November has arrived, with some new and exciting additions! Firstly, you can now purchase and browse apps from a desktop PC. From the Windows Mobile Developer Blog: QUOTEStarting today, Windows phone customers can browse, buy and download applications ...
21:30 Marketplace Updates MoDaCo
The promised second wave in November has arrived, with some new and exciting additions! Firstly, you can now purchase and browse apps from a desktop PC. From the Windows Mobile Developer Blog: QUOTEStarting today, Windows phone customers can browse, buy and download applications ...
21:30 Marketplace Updates - Updated! MoDaCo
The promised second wave in November has arrived, with some new and exciting additions! Firstly, you can now purchase and browse apps from a desktop PC. From the Windows Mobile Developer Blog: QUOTEStarting today, Windows phone customers can browse, buy and download applications ...
21:30 Marketplace Updates - Updated! MoDaCo
The promised second wave in November has arrived, with some new and exciting additions! Firstly, you can now purchase and browse apps from a desktop PC. From the Windows Mobile Developer Blog: QUOTEStarting today, Windows phone customers can browse, buy and download applications ...
08:22 Mojo SDK 1.3.1 Available Now PalmInfoStation
What good is a shiny new OS update without a shiny new SDK to go along with it? Answer: why, it's not very good at all! Thus, you might be pleased to learn that Palm has announced the availability of version 1.3.1 of the Mojo SDK, which is bringing a slew of tasty treats to the tab...
08:20 Mark/Space Releases GoGagdet for webOS PalmInfoStation
Finding USB drag 'n' drop a bit of a... well, drag? The solution may be at hand: Mark/Space this weekend released the Mac version (and a Windows beta) of their new webOS desktop media sync software, cutely entitled GoGadget. The application works to simplify the process of getting your desktop-bound multimedia files onto your webOS device - be it Pre or Pixi - by providing a one-stop shop for syncing iTunes & Windows Media Player music playlists, converting & copying video files and ringtones, importing and exporting photos, and keeping a document folder(s) in sync. Unfortunately, it still requires tethering your handset to your PC via the USB cable. (First developer to give your correspondent a way to sync files over Wi-Fi gets a free plug on PIC!) But it still looks to be a reasonably simple media sync solution for the not-quite-tech-savvy. The application costs USD $19.95, and a free 7-day trial of the Mac version is available (as is a 14-day trial of the Windows beta, which unfortunately didn't work for me). You can check out Mark/Space's site for more details.

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Rafe's SEE 2009 walkabout (part 2)

SEE 2009 (Symbian Exchange and Exposium) is Symbian's annual big show. In part 2 of my walkabout video you can join me on a amble around the show floor at SEE 2009. I share my impressions and analysis in an unscripted, one-take, walk and talk. Part 2 covers the remaining stands and concludes with some general thoughts on SEE 2009.

Posted by Rafe Blandford at 14:20 UTC, November 12th || 1 Comment

AAS Insight 94 - Google Mobile Search, Opera 10, Symbian UI

In All About Symbian Insight 94 (AAS Podcast 158), we round up a few loose items from SEE 2009 - the Nokia 6788 and the open sourcing of the EKA2 kernel. Then there's discussion of the official enabling of Ovi Store downloads, live tests of Google voice recognition in its Mobile Search product, thoughts on Opera 10 Mobile for Symbian from Ewan, news of a Symbian UI concept video from Rafe and details of the new version of BBC iPlayer from Steve. You can listen to AAS Insight 94 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.

Posted by Rafe Blandford at 7:50 UTC, November 11th || 3 Comments

Live from Nokia's The Way We Live Next 3.0

Over the next two day I'm at Nokia's The Way We Live Next event, which 'features presentations and demonstrations from Nokia and our ecosystem partners, showing how Nokia are connecting and building the communities of the future'. You can follow along via our live coverage below or via @aas.

Posted by Rafe Blandford at 8:37 UTC, November 10th || 1 Comment

AAS Insight 93 - SEE 2009, Q3 Canalys, N-Gage

In All About Symbian Insight 93 (AAS Podcast 157) we discuss the Q3 smartphone figures from Canalys and Rafe explains that Fujitsu and Quic have joined the board of the Symbian Foundation. We move on to a retrospective of SEE 2009 with discussion of the media reaction (which send Rafe into rant mode). We finish with thoughts on N97 PR 2.0 and the closure of N-Gage (sniff). You can listen to AAS Insight 93 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.

Posted by Rafe Blandford at 18:13 UTC, November 7th || 12 Comments

Rafe's SEE 2009 walkabout (part 1)

SEE 2009 (Symbian Exchange and Exposium) is Symbian's annual big show. In the video below you can join me on a walkabout around the show floor at SEE 2009. I share my impressions and analysis in an unscripted, one-take, walk and talk. As well as covering many of the Symbian related consultancy and developer tool companies there's also a quick look at the Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung stands.

Posted by Rafe Blandford at 13:37 UTC, November 6th || 5 Comments


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