UIQ users of Route 66 might be interested in our voice-guided navigation program for UIQ (and Series 60) smartphones. See how easy it is to navigate your first route and learn how to use Route 66 efficiently.
Analysts In-Stat only heap ridicule upon themselves with this piece of research. The "big winners will be Microsoft and Linux, at the expense of RIM and Palm OS"? Er... what about Nokia (and Symbian OS) with its 60% worldwide share of the smartphone market?
Nokia has officially teamed up with (get this list) Intel, Motorola, Modeo and Texas Instruments, to form a new organisation devoted to seeing DVB-H established as the worldwide mobile digital TV standard. Pretty cool, especially as the announcement was made in the USA, home of competing proprietary digital TV systems.
The Smartphones Show programme 3 is now online. The 20 minute videocast features a preview of the Nokia 9300i and has a real world run through of TomTom MOBILE 5 in action on a Series 60 smartphone, plus other features.
Opera Mini, the java midlet based version of the popular mobile browser, is now officially and freely available worldwide from the Opera Mini website. We've previously reviewed the free browser and gave it the thumbs up. Full Press Release Follows
Rafe Blandford looks into his crystal ball and looks ahead to the world of Symbian in 2006. He also takes a wistful look back at how his predictions for 2005 fared. Also, a sneak preview of the cover of the December 2006 issue of 'Symbian Magazine'!
Microsoft are catching up is the summary of Russell Beattie as he looks at the strides the HTC devices and Windows Mobile has made in the smartphone space. His final thoguht echos a lot of enterprise users: "...the N80 and its generation will be one of Nokia’s last chances to get it right when it comes to smart phones, and their integration with PCs. If it doesn’t sync, and doesn’t work seamlessly with my network, then the next rev of Microsoft’s phones - including the Treos - are going to start to make a dent in Nokia’s smart phone lead."
Looking to expand it's install base, and improve the product, Dallas based Quickoffice have taken on some venture captial funding from Mayfield Fund, Shepherd Ventures and Advantage Capital Partners. Full press release follows.
If you're the sort of person who installs software from strange Internet sites and random people bluetoothing applications, then you need to be aware of Symantec's updated list of Symbian OS trojans. If you never trust unknown programs though, you can rest a little bit easier.
Fancy running an Apache Server on your S60 device so anyone in the world could log onto a site hosted inside your phone? Well Nokia Research have made it possible, with their Apache powered Mobile Web Server Software. The code itself is still internal to Nokia, but if you want to let Forum Nokia know you'd like it, I'm sure they'd appreciate your opinion (via Butt Ugly). There's a number of other projects at the Research Centre, including Python, NNTP newsreaders and a mobile games server.
World Tracker, a new service from a UK company lets you track the whereabouts of any new phone or smartphone, PocketLint (via Engadget). Once authorised, this might be useful in tracking a stolen smartphone or in locating your partner or children?
The publishers of PDA Essentials magazine, the most Symbian-friendly of the newstand titles, have gone bankrupt and have started having their titles and assets snapped up. The future of PDAE is apparently in the hands of something called "Brush Colour". Anyone able to fill in more details of this story?
Steve's been running in depth tests on the multimedia performance of the Nokia N70 and N90, in comparison to the Windows Mobile-powered competition. Here's the group review.
