Symbian today announced its latest set of figures. In Q3 2007 20.4 million Symbian OS handsets were shipped representing 56% year on year growth (13 million in Q3 2006). The total number of Symbian OS handset shipped has now reached 165 million. The average royalty per handset is now $4.80 (down from $5.20 last year following license fee reductions).
You'll have spotted some of Krisse's recent game reviews for AAS - now there are video 'walkthrough' reviews as well, hosted on the NeonCherry site. Here are the links for the video reviews of CrazySoft's The Final Battle, Croker and the freeware classic S-Tris 2.
A group of companies, led by Google, today announced the formation of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) and the development of Android, a Linux based software platform for mobile devices. Other companies involved include T-Mobile, Qualcomm, HTC, Samsung and Motorola and the first phones based on Android are scheduled to be available in the second half of 2008. Read on for more.
Both Ewan and I caught up with David Quin from ALK at the recent Smartphone Show, to find out about the new CoPilot Live 7, becoming available for both S60 and UIQ. My video podcast was something of a lighting disaster and has been scrapped, but fear not for Ewan has a complete interview with David in AAS audio podcast 44.
From Jukka Silvennoinen, author of the famous Y-Browser, come two new utilities, both free and both hosted on his MOSH account. There's an N95 'Inclinometer' (no, really, it uses the accelerometer!) and a dedicated AllAboutSymbian RSS-based newsreader, for the real AAS addicts among you(!)
Forum Nokia recently announced the launch of it device loaner program. For €30 and a variable guarantee fee developers can borrow a device for three weeks. Devices currently available include the N95, N75, E65 and the 5700. A number of plug-ins for the S60 SDK, which enable access to Eseries specific features (such as the notification LED), have also been added to the Forum Nokia website.
So, by happy chance, a couple of Nokia N81s have hit All About Symbian - in the next week you'll have music-angled and gaming-angled reviews from Ewan and Krisse, but first - Steve's first impressions. Others round the net have either slammed the N81 or praised it - read on for Steve's opinion.
Also part of a whole new Google Mail (on the Web) application, there's a new Google Contacts manager now out. What's now needed, guys, is a SyncML server so that we can sync S60 (and UIQ) smartphone contacts and calendar entries directly to Google's PIM data. At which point, who needs Microsoft Outlook? At all?
The developers of the recently reviewed Final Battle adventure game have come up with a special offer exclusively for AAS readers: enter the promotional code aascrazysoft when buying the Final Battle for S60 3rd or the Final Battle for UIQ3 and you'll get $3 off the usual price. (Please note that this only works when buying through the AAS software store, and the offer is available until the 16th of November.)
Nokia Multimedia Transfer 1.2 Beta for Mac just got Leopard-compatible! It also adds an improved Nokia Device Browser with folder view and the ability to customise the transcoding of files in iTunes and iPhoto transfers.
