..."Stop this, it's getting silly!" The normally reliable Darla reports that there's a 'new Symbian virus on the loose', quoting that 'Symantec announced today the presence of a new trojan attacking Symbian devices'. This is self-serving FUD gone mad. Read on...
According to Nokia's E50 webcast yesterday, the E70 is now shipping and its support pages are up. Thought you'd like to know that. Anyone seen one in the wild yet?
Sony Ericsson today announced the M608c a 2.5G variant of their M600 smartphone for the Chinese market. The M608c is a tri-band GSM phone (900/1800/1900) runs UIQ 3.0 on top of Symbian OS 9.1 and features 80MB of internal memory, a 2.6 inch QVGA touchscreen, support for multiple push email systems, a MP3 and video player, the Opera web browser, a RSS feed reader, Chinese and English handwriting recognition and a Memory Stick Micro slot.
Nokia today announced a new S60 3rd Edition Eseries smartphone - the E50, a small (70cc) quad-band phone with (optionally) a 1.3 megapixel camera, a music player, up to 6 hours of talk time, business applications, support for remote device management and integration into existing enterprise PBXs and all major push email solutions.
While we all wait for the latest N or Eseries super phone, Steve looks back wistfully at his 7710, and discovers a handheld that's been quietly improving itself. It's still a great choice of device, with the latest firmware upgrade making it competitive with anything else on the market.
You've got to admire these Russians, even if this 'review' of the Nokia N93 (which doesn't even get released for another three or four months) does give away some of their secrets, showing them hands-on at a press event. Still, they weave brief hands-on experience together with hard facts and opinions pretty well, albeit in the usual slightly broken English.
Researching the DVB-H pilots, I spotted that there's now a flash video of the upcoming N92 in action on Nokia's main Mobile TV web site. Lots of other interesting articles to peruse too, if you're interested in how all this is actually going to work.
NTT DoCoMo recently announced 8 new phones for its 902 range. Five of these phones are Symbian powered MOAP phones. The D902iS (Mitsubishi), F902iS (Fujitsu), SH902iS (Sharp), SO902iWP+ (Sony Ericsson), and DOLCE SL [SH902iSL] (Sharp) are top of the range handsets for the Japanese market. Read on for more.
70 million phones. That's the number that's going round Symbian today (see press release below) as the private company releases sales figures for Q1 2006. The headline numbers of 10 licencees, over 120 phone models (66 in the market with a further 56 known to be under development) and a 56% year on year increase of revenue compared to Q1 2005, show Symbian to be in a very healthy financial state.
The software to enable Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync on Eseries devices (E60, E61 and E70) is now available via Nokia's Business site. The software is available as a free download and adds the ability to connect to a Microsoft Exchange server and sync contacts, calendar entries, and mail.
Suddenly a lot of things that we've been watching over the last year or two have fallen into place in regards to Nokia's mobile gaming strategy. Why did Nokia persist with N-Gage for so long? Why did they spend so much money on their E3 stand? Ewan analyses their strategy and comes up with a compelling argument for N-Gage-compatible smartphones outselling PSPs and the like in the next 12 months.
Darla's got the scoop on the relaunch of S60.com, the main Series 60/S60 platform site. Actual content in most of the two new prime areas, 'In your life' and 'Doing business' seems very light at the moment, it's very much aimed at S60 beginners, although there's a big push towards selling third party applications from the NSM. What do you think of the new site?
If you're into gory pictures of the insides of smartphones, there are loads here of the newly FCC-approved Nokia N93 (the one with 'DVD-quality' video recording). There's also the obligatory (and more useful) user manual. Thanks to My-Symbian for the heads-up.
Rafe's had his hands on the Nokia 5500, the latest S60 phone from Finland. Targetted as a feature phone (as opposed to a smartphone), the 5500 has the angle of being a great sports companion phone, with lap times, clocks, pedometers and a robust construction. Read on for a phone that will take S60 into a whole new market.
