Symbian and Cingular haved announced that they have teamed up to help support developers. Cingular Deluxe developers will receive complimentary Symbian Affiliate status and Cingular have become a Symbian Platinum Partner. Cingular have also added a new Symbian Zone to their devCentral developer portal.
Announced exclusivly at the All About Symbian Pub Meet this evening is Chris Davies' minimalist but useful Web 2.0 utility, Why The Frak Won't My Sis File Install? Although Rafe would like to point out that if you work for Symbian it might be NSFW...
Just in time for the Smartphone Show Symbian has announced Symbian blogs. The blog's tag line is 'Symbian insights into smartphone products, industry news, and our culture' which describes what the blog aims to cover. Symbian Bloggers include Nigel Clifford (CEO), Thomas Chambers (CFO), David Wood (EVP), Haruhiko Hisa (President, Symbian Japan) and more.
Yes, it's the latest Carnival of the Mobilists! CotM carries a selection of links to the week's best writing on the world of mobile devices, and this time topics include mobile home pages, text messaging in politics and marketing, suggestions for improving the E61, mobile phones as musical instruments, and much more. (It's called a carnival because it moves from one site to another, but you can always keep track of it on the main site.)
Nokia today announced the winner of its S60 3rd Edition Challenge competition. The grand prize winners were QuickOffice, Foeca, InfoTalk and Augmentra. The global developer compeition was designed to encourage innovative development on the S60 platform.
According to Digital Chosunilbo, Samsung will tomorrow launch the SGH-i520 S60 smartphone. The phone runs on Symbian 9.2 and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1. The phone has a QVGA screen, supports HSDPA connectivity and comes in a slim slide form factor. Pics after the break, and more information as we get it.
Weekly round of 'The Carnival of Mobilists' of which All About Symbian is a part has decided to find out a little bit more about the readers and potential audience of the round robin posts. If you have a few mintues, why not help out and take the survey here.
NTT DoCoMo recently announced its new 903i range of 3G FOMA phones. Seven out eleven run on Symbian OS, the D703i, F903i, SH903i, SO903i, D903iTV, SH903iTV and F903iX. New to the 903i series is out of the box support for the WMA format for music (inlcuding DRM), support for DoCoMo's DCMX™ mobile credit card and IC cards with triple the storage of conventional cards. Some of the handsets support the new Keitai-Osagashi Service (GPS) service which adds an additional range of location based services.
Fifteen reasons why you just have to pop along to the Crosse Keys on Monday night.... [stop press: now a Nokia E61 to give away as well as the N93!!!!]
Symbian's developer website, Symbian Developer Network, has been relaunched to coincide with next week's Symbian Smartphone Show. The revamped site now includes web based discussion forums, a wiki, reorganised content and a clearer navigation system.
UIQ has announced the launch of the UIQ Developer Advisory Board which is aimed at helping various companies that target UIQ developers coordinate their activities. The advisory board will meet on a regular basis to discuss the best way that the industry can use its resources to help support developers. The board will actively seek feedback and input from developers over which issues should be addressed.
Nokia and Orb Networks announced on Tuesday that the Orb MyCasting service would be integrated in the Nokia N80 Internet Edition out of the box (starting in the US market). Orb allows you to view images and other multimedia stored on your home computer from your mobile anywhere in the world.
As with many Symbian OS 9 devices, the Sony Ericsson P990i suffers from a chronic lack of RAM, but Swiss Manager Pro claims to be able to help by providing manual and automatic RAM management tools. Steve Litchfield puts it to the test.
