Rafe talks to Daniel Rubio, Chief Architect of the Symbian Foundation, about his role (Daniel also heads up the Symbian Foundation Architecture Council) and the importance of SHAI (Symbian Hardware Abstraction Interface)
Rafe talks to Lee Williams, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation. Topics include current status, app arena, open governance, SEE, universal web runtime and much more.
The Nokia N97 is Nokia's 2009 summer flagship. It combines the key trends of touchscreen and QWERTY in an all rounder device. It has an intrgarted GPS (with compass), 5 megapixel camera and 32 GB of internal memory. It includes the key Ovi services and a customisable, widget based, interactive homescreen.
The Nokia N86 8MP is Nokia's first 8MP camera device. Camera features include wide angle Carl Zeiss lens and optics, variable aperture, mechanical shutter and motion-blur reduction. There's 8GB on on board memory, integrated GPS and the Ovi suite of services and software. the N86 8MP was announced at MWC 2009.
In this AAS Insight we cover a variety of topics including Symbian latest SMP demo, Google's new Mobile App for S60, comment on the shipping on the 5640 and answer some listener questions.
In this special edition of the All About Symbian Insight podcast we offer an audio unboxing (you'll see!) of the Nokia N97. We recorded this podcast in Regents Park (London) a few hours after receiving the full retail version of the N97. While Rafe has seen the N97 at various events, but this was Steve's first hands on with Nokia's summer flagship.
Sony Ericsson's Satio phone (formely known as Idou) runs S60 5th Edition and has a 12 megapixel camera. It uses the latest OMAP 3 prcoessors and will be one of the most technically sophisticated phones on the market when it comes out in Q4 2009. These photos show some of it features and were taken at the London launch event in May.