As just about every other mobiles site in the world seems to be cranking up the hype about Nokia's new Nseries devices being released on Tuesday, we thought we'd at least give the event a name check. Try Darla's site, for example. Rest assured, as soon as any devices are officially announced, you'll find full details here.
News here of a fixed version of the Shoutcast Internet Radio system for S60 3rd edition smartphones and also a quick version for existing S60 2nd edition devices. Cool, but watch your GPRS bills!
Ooh, ooh, there's a whole new PC Suite release on the loose, v6.8, with an upgraded Nokia Music Manager, various multimedia related improvements and a simplified interface. Thanks to the S60 Multimedia blog for the heads-up.
SEPT-Solution has released new versions (2.6) of its Mobile Search utility for Series 80 v2 devices and for all Series 60 devices. Improvements are faster Calendar search, searching of Calendar entry notes and locations, plus searching in iDesk notes on the 9300/9500.
In an attempt to flesh out my dismissal of the need for a separate third party firewall utility for Symbian OS, I thought a little testing was in order. I grabbed the nearest S60 phone (a Nokia 6630) at random, pointed at the Internet's leading port tester/prober and sat back and watched. How did Symbian OS do? Updated: also tested Nokia 9500 over W-LAN.
Nokia's full Q1 2006 report is now out (warning, long and lots that isn't relevant here). Of note is that the Nokia N70 is estimated to be the world's top selling 3G phone and is Nokia's highest revenue-generating device, and that sales in the USA have doubled, year on year.
Stuart Mudie has discovered who bought all the N-Gage gaming phones from Nokia. Turns out the TGV Train Service allows you to hire an N-Gage for the duration of your journey. Now, I wonder which games they have, and if there's a SIM card...
Forum Nokia are examining the Javascript extension, Ajax, used in many 'active' webpages to create desktop-like applications, for use in the S60 v3 browser (reports The Register). Two years ago, Nokia looked at using Python in S60. Four years before that they were part of the decision to open source OPL for S60 and S80.
Steve Litchfield adds a playable piano to Musician, a Python project of his for Series 60, and casts an objective eye over the state of this newest S60 development language. How easy is it really to get to grips with and what does the future hold?
Nokia UK has announced the Finnish giant's first online shop, for purchase of SIM-free hardware and accessories. The URL is www.nokia.co.uk/shop. This should set the cat among the pigeons among mobile phone retailers in the UK and is perhaps long overdue.
CTIA and The Smartphone Summit, held at the start of April in Las Vegas, was one of the flagship mobile phone events in America. Rafe was there, from All About Symbian, to find out how the North American continent is viewing smartphones in 2006. His full report is online now.
Darla reports on F-Secure anti-virus software being made available for S60 3rd edition, Symbian OS 9 smartphones. Hang on. Er.... but with Platform Security in OS 9, there's absolutely no way for malware to install and propagate. Which means that noone will ever be able to infect anyone else. So... what's the point in anti-virus software? Its existence was tenuous at best under Symbian OS 7 and 8. Under Symbian OS 9.... Comments welcome.
