For all the funky form factors in the E-Series devices, the one that's been missing - the slider phone - has finally arrived. Announced today in Barcelona, the E65 comes with a QVGA 240x320 portrait screen, the aforementioned slider for the keypad, around 70MB of usable internal storage and microSD if you need more. Wifi is supported, and there is a large dollop of VOIP capability as well. Nokia reports it is already available in 'selected markets'.
DVB-H mobile TV just got smaller and more affordable, with Nokia's candy bar N77, announced today at 3GSM. See below for the full press release and photos. There's a dedicated TV key on the handset, many TV-related services and utilities, plus the usual Nseries goodness.
Motorola are back in the Symbian/UIQ fold after a short absence, launching the MOTORIZR Z8, based on UIQ 3 on Symbian OS and developed by the Sendo design team inherited a couple of years ago. A sliding design, the Z8 also comes with a 2mp camera and tie-ins with mobile data-based TV. The press release follows.
The ease of mobile data could be the big talking point from Barcelona, so the announcement of Opera 9 Mobile is very timely. Promising widgets, multiple views of web pages (full screen, smart rendering, or intelligent zoom on a selected area), Java and Ajax support, the Norwegian company will be hoping that their browser is considered by all the major manufacturers. No release date has been given.
If you want to follow the Nokia launches this morning live, here's the web address to visit at around 9.50am GMT. We'll be putting up news and analysis during the morning, of course.
What a busy time (but perhaps an appropriate one) to divulge a mass of stats from the smartphone world. Canalys' latest report shows that 64 million smartphones shipped worldwide in 2006. Symbian's world market share was up to 67%, of which Nokia accounted for 50% and Sony Ericsson 5%.
If you're heading over to 3GSM, perhaps it's not too late to add Symbian's new free utility AmiGO to your S60 smartphone (a UIQ 3 version is 'coming soon' - let's hope it arrives in the next couple of days!). AmiGO offers a map-based guide to bars, clubs, restaurants, plus handy Spanish phrases in audio format, a friend-finder functionality for other AmiGO users, plus news and a prize draw.
And with energy levels rising round the blogosphere we come to 3GSM 2007 at last. So many things we've not been allowed to talk about but which will be announced at 10am GMT on Monday... Watch this space for analysis, photos from the launch events and more... Rafe's in the thick of things in Barcelona - wish him good health and plenty of bandwidth!
Ewan's been chatting to Daniel Doulton of SpinVox about his company's voice-to-blog/message/memo service. Here's the phone interview, as AllAboutSymbian podcast number 12.
In this special feature Steve looks more closely at specific criticisms of the S60 UI and application set. He argues that some of these are answered in S60 3rd Edition's Feature Packs, some are down to user education, but there is still work to be done
NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson today announced that they plan to jointly develop a next-generation mobile phone platform based on the SH-Mobile G3, a single-chip system solution for mobile devices. The platform will include software for basic operations and an advanced OS (such as Symbian). In addition to the Japanese market Renesas also plans to make the platform available to the worldwide WCDMA market.
Telefonica Moviles Espana and Symbian today announced a collaboration that sees the two companies working to reinforce the role of Symbian OS devices (both S60 and UIQ) in Telefónica's mobile device portfolio. The deal is aimed at reducing development costs and time to market for new devices.
Nokia and T-Mobile have announced that they are working together to help bring T-Mobile's core services to the market on S60 devices and to improve the ability for S60 licensees to create devices for T-Mobile. T-Mobile is the third such operator collaboration for S60 following on from Vodafone and Orange last year.
The most-leaked device in recent Nokia history finally sees the light of day. The E90 Communicator has been announced. In this illustrated article, I look at its ancestry, its specifications and who it's aimed at. See below for snippets from the press release and extra photos, some from the 3GSM show floor...
For all the funky form factors in the E-Series devices, the one that's been missing - the slider phone - has finally arrived. Announced today in Barcelona, the E65 comes with a QVGA 240x320 portrait screen, the aforementioned slider for the keypad, around 70MB of usable internal storage and microSD if you need more. Wifi is supported, and there is a large dollop of VOIP capability as well. Nokia reports it is already available in 'selected markets'.
DVB-H mobile TV just got smaller and more affordable, with Nokia's candy bar N77, announced today at 3GSM. See below for the full press release and photos. There's a dedicated TV key on the handset, many TV-related services and utilities, plus the usual Nseries goodness.
Motorola are back in the Symbian/UIQ fold after a short absence, launching the MOTORIZR Z8, based on UIQ 3 on Symbian OS and developed by the Sendo design team inherited a couple of years ago. A sliding design, the Z8 also comes with a 2mp camera and tie-ins with mobile data-based TV. The press release follows.
