As noted by severalbloggers and originally discovered by Kevin Tofel on jkOnTheRun a viral marketing website has appeared hinting at a mobile phone / media player product announcement on the 29th August. The smart money is that this may be previewing the much rumoured Nokia N81.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group, the more than 8,000-member strong trade association responsible for advancing Bluetooth wireless technology, today announced the adoption of Core Specification Version 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), with advances in security, simplified pairing, power consumption and Near Field Communications. The full press release is shown below...
Nokia has released in Q2 financial results today. The overall results are positive with increased second quarter earnings driven by strong sales and an increase in market share. Notable numbers for S60 devices include sales of 2 million Eseries devices and 9 million Nseries devices in the second quarter. Individual device highlights includes sales of 1 million E65's and 1.5 million N95's in the same period.
Yeah, they're Java games, but EA have been adding to the Nokia Nseries Download! selection in the last week. See below for a sample catalog screenshot, but the games now include "Fight Night Round 3", "Dakar 2007", "Need for Speed Carbon", "FIFA Street 2", "The Sims 2 Pets", "Scrabble", "Orcs and Elves" and "Medal of Honour".
The Nokia N95 (just like the N93/N93i) has a TV Out ability which lets you plug the device into any television set. If you add a full-size Bluetooth keyboard, you get something resembling a desktop computer, both in appearance and function. In the first of a series of articles, Krisse looks at whether the N95, or indeed any smartphone, can replace the PC.
I think I've worked out why the missing keypress bug in the v12 firmware occurs and how to avoid it. But I need some more data points from AAS readers. Read on for more.
Sony Ericsson promised to offer a new P990 firmware in August. It seems it's available already. From SEUS, there's a new firmware, labelled as R6E28. If you have the guts to update your P990 firmware, go ahead and hit the update button. Unfortunately, there's no information about what has been corrected or any new bugs. Stay tuned for my report in the near future.
CoolGorilla, whose free Java talking phrasebooks we reported a month ago, have now managed to shoehorn the same audio/text functions into a mobile-focussed web version, ostensibly aimed at the iPhone but which works perfectly in all recent S60 smartphones, for example. Type www.coolgorilla.com/iphone into your smartphone's web browser.
The W3C Mobile’s Web Initiative is here – the standards body are hoping to put together an Open Mobile Web Test Suite, which will be used to measure how effective the support for certain technologies is in various mobile web browsers. It’s an open call for submissions on their website .
Proving that Flash Lite is being used by at least some developers for real world projects, mobiExplore Croatia is new freeware for all versions of S60. Don't worry, the application itself is apparently all in English!
Rafe Blandford exercises his editorial overview privileges and provides the back story and possible future for the Moto Z8, the kick-slide smartphone that he reviewed in detail recently (links below). Did you know that the Z8 was developed in secrecy in Birmingham?
Just in case anyone reading this doesn't already own several Bluetooth GPS accessories, news has filtered through that the FCC has passed the 'Nokia LD-4W', a TomTom lookalike...
Olive Tree have updated their free Bible reading software for S60 3rd Edition to v3.67. New features include extra search options, two smaller font sizes, a new menu structure, a 5-way verse chooser and combined storage card and main memory locations into one library. Here's the Bible Reader download page and here's the most popular free modern Bible.
Great reading over at Carnival of the Mobilists, number 84, and I'm not just saying that because the compilers liked one of my AllAboutSymbian features.... Recommended, as always.
Rafe Blandford exercises his editorial overview privileges and provides the back story and possible future for the Moto Z8, the kick-slide smartphone that he reviewed in detail recently (links below). Did you know that the Z8 was developed in secrecy in Birmingham?
