All About Symbian - Feature Articles - Series 60

Features - Series 60 - Interviews

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 in Interviews, Develop at 22:39 UTC, Aug 20th || 0 Comments

App Stores: A Handmark perspective

With all the coverage of recently launched manufacturer’s application stores it’s easy to forget that there have been several companies working in the application store space for a number of years. AAS talks to Eric Pfeifer, Content Acquisition Director at Handmark to find out what an independent aggregator has to offer.

# Posted by Richard in Interviews, Develop at 21:42 UTC, Jul 12th || 1 Comment

Nokia 5800 Sauna Edition Preview

After a successful launch of the 5800 XpressMusic, All About Symbian can exclusively reveal Nokia's future plans for the big-selling handset.

# Posted by Tzer2 in Interviews, Comment, Previews, Hardware at 23:04 UTC, Mar 31st

Ovi Store – A discussion with Eric John

Ovi store is expected to launch in a few weeks, ahead of the release of the Nokia N97, and become available on millions of existing S60 and Series 40 devices from Nokia. I caught up with Eric John, Director of Media Product Marketing for Nokia Services, to discuss the developer proposition offered by Ovi store.

# Posted by Richard in Interviews, Develop at 8:22 UTC, Mar 31st || 20 Comments

N91.WordontheBlog.com - Joining the Discussion

Rafe looks at a innovative marketing idea from Nokia that joins the social media discussion on the web to help promote the N91.

# Posted by Rafe in Interviews, Comment at 10:51 UTC, Jul 21st

Are You Listening To Audible?

As Audible bring their talking books and magazines to Symbian with their Series 60 client, Ewan Spence caught up with Chia-Lin Simmons at the recent Portable Media Expo to find out more...

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews at 14:13 UTC, Nov 21st

Craig Senick (Quickoffice) Interview

One of the more popular applications on both the online stores and bundled with the device is Quickoffice. Craig Senick has been with the product for many years, and All About Symbian sat down with him to find out more about the Office Suite.

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews, Profiles, Develop at 9:32 UTC, Sep 29th

System Rush Interview: The Business of Games

Every wondered about the business behind a game? Ewan takes time out from playing System Rush to ask Rob Hendry, of Ideaworks 3D, some of the nitty gritty details of working with Nokia's flagship gaming platform.

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews, Profiles at 10:00 UTC, Jun 16th

Rifts: All About N-Gage Sit Down With the Creator, Designer and Producer of this eagerly awaited RPG

Rifts… It’s not just another Role-Playing Game. While the majority of N-Gage Users looked on the announcement of Kevin Siembeida’s RPG system coming to a Finnish phone near you as just another title, the dedicated Rifts fans were dancing in the streets with the news that it was finally becoming a computer game after twenty years. And the industry quietly wondered just what Psionic skills Nokia had employed to get the franchise. I sat down with Kevin Siembeida, along with Creative Director Trent Ward from Backbone, and Shane Neville from Nokia, the Producer of Rifts.

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews, Profiles at 10:47 UTC, May 12th

Charles Weir (Penrillian) Interview

Penrillian specialize in Symbian OS application development and porting and are experts at helping clients to imagine, to specify, to build and to launch software running on Symbian OS. Ewan cuaght up with Charles Weir to find out just what this UK company are up to in the Symbian OS world.

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews, Profiles at 12:56 UTC, May 3rd

Infocube Interview

There are menus, there are 3d menus, and there are great big spinning cubes that scream 'usability' at you. Infocube is one of the latter, and Gordon Ross, the Founder of Infocube, is a tireless attendee at trade shows. And he's very English about it. Ewan caught up with him to ask him why the future of menus is cubed...

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews, Software at 10:38 UTC, Apr 12th

Take a Picture, Post It On The Web. MoblogUK Interview

So if you've got a camera phone, where do you show off your pictures? One option is over on MoblogUK. Ewan caught up with Alfie Dennen, one of the brains behind the site to find out what Moblogging is all about.

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews, Software at 23:19 UTC, Mar 16th

Visto Interview - An OTA Sync That Works?

Never trust Symbian to sync your info correctly? Well, Visto have managed to crack it, and not only that, they do it over GPRS for a few megabytes a month. Ewan caught up with Steve Maynard to find out more...

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews, Profiles at 3:00 UTC, Mar 14th

Nokia's Preminet - Ewan Interviews Steen Thygesen

Back in October, Nokia announced a new area for the Finnish company. Preminet would be a software store retailer, that would work with the carriers and developers, providing over the air download services for handset owners. With strong online competition from Handango and Symbian Gear, All About Symbian were interested in what Nokia could bring to the table. We sat down with Steen Thygesen, from Forum Nokia, to talk about this new venture.

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews, Develop at 22:51 UTC, Dec 8th

Author of 'The Book' - An Interview with Richard Harrison

Every OS has its programming books, and Symbian OS is no exception. Ewan caught up with the auther of "The C++ Book" for Symbian OS, Richard Harrison, to find out more about the man who helped write the text that everyone else uses to program our smartphones.

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews, Develop at 11:30 UTC, Nov 18th

Dave Anderson (Activision) Interview

Tony Hawk, Spiderman, Wolverine. All on your N-Gage thanks to the work of Activision. Ewan has spent some time talking with Dave Anderson, one of the Senior Director at Activision, and found out what they thought of the wireless gaming device that thinks it's a phone.

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews at 13:16 UTC, Sep 28th