Symbian's Oren Tversky's interviewed about music on mobiles here, although he misses several important points. Firstly, bandwidth IS still an issue for many people. And secondly, what about syncing music over from your desktop's hard disk, who says it all has to come over the air?
The Carnival of the Mobilists #14 is online here, with the usual round-up of interesting mobile/smartphone articles from round the Web. Happy reading! Meanwhile, as a tease, there's something brand new on AAS - announcement tomorrow...!
The key to mobile serices to many companies is how to get to "Step 3: Profit" as fast as possible. Up till now the only effective route is using reverse SMS services via the operator, but budding entrepeneurs may be interested to read that Paypal is setting up a start-up, tentatively called PayPal Mobile. More at Finextra and MocoNews.
The Nokia N91, the music focused phone with a hard disk, and the E70, the enterprise focused phone with a gulwing form factor, have been approved by the FCC. The documentsavailable include internal pictures (where the N91's hard disk is visible) and the user manuals. The N91 user manual reveals the N91 will innclude UPnP support and includes details on the Music Shop application which will allow users to download music over the air to their phones and the PC Music Sync (which uses Windows Media Player 11). Read on for more.
Up today on Forum Nokia is an exhaustive PDF document, detailing every technical and UI feature of the upcoming next-gen browser from Nokia. Scroll past the geeky bits and you'll find lots of screenshots and interesting stuff nearer the end...
Seem to be something of a buzz around the mobile world this week about location-based marketing. Not a smartphone-specific thing, let alone Symbian, but MobHappy have a good example of how it might appear to the end user.
In his latest tutorial, Steve describes how to give your S60 smartphone a music-crunching, iPod-styling, byte-efficient makeover. And no prizes for guessing which S60 music player he's skinning here...
Yes it's another Sudoku applciation, but the ability to go head-to-head in a League Table format is worthy of mention. It looks like a Java based application, from The Guardian newspaper. One for the puzzlers in you to get excited about.
American readers (and those following news in the country) might want to bookmark their just launched WAP site (http://wap.usatoday.com/). It's a good site, and in conjunction with my perennial favourite (the low bandwidth BBC News website news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm) it's possible to keep up to speed with current affairs in your mobile web browser.
As it's a slow news day(!), here's a link to a new German version of my TimeLog utility for Nokia 9210/9300/9500. Yes, I know most Germans speak great English, but now they've got the option of the program in their own language(!)
Ewan's had the newest in the Nokia communicator line, the 9300i, for a while now. Here's his real-world-tested full review. Summary? Solid and stable, but slow in places and the less said about the joystick the better...
Symbian Themes, the leading website for customisation elements (including themes, wallpapers and operator logos) for your S60 phone has been relaunched. The site is now part of a wider Mobile Themes brand, has a new design, and new features such as automatic screenshot creation of uploaded themes and device compatibility information with more, such as an online theme creation tools, scheduled for the near future.
Free over on The Register is this interesting PDF report on mobile security in companies. If you've been thinking about the way security is handled on mobile devices in your outfit, this makes some good points.
The Sendo Smartphones web site has a short but interesting piece speculating on the possible merging of Sendo X2 development work and Motorola's latest announced UIQ smartphone.
