Following up on the Nokia Mobile Store in Russia, the Finns have come to an agreeement with CompUSA to brand certain in-store sections of branches of the popular American Retailer as "Nokia Experience @ CompUSA" (Mobile Burn). They'll be using this to demo units such as the 770 Tablet, N90 and 6682.
That was the year that was (reports SymbianOne), as they look back at Q1 and 2 of 2005 to see what in the Symbian world was changing. It's a nice historical round up of a busy year for Symbian, but of course most of the hardware announcements were of phones that just arrived at the tail end of the year, or are due out Q1 Q2 2006.
Mobiforms (www.mobiforms.com) dropped us a quick email to let us know about two user led changes in the updated version of their drag and drop, forms based IDE. Inking on the screen now allows quick sketches or (more usefully) signature capturing, as well as using ASCII files instead of databases if required.
Nice piece over on The Register about Symbian's new OS kernel (EKA2) and the 'smartphone on a chip'. Thanks to Richard D for the heads-up. I've got a copy of the book being talked about and it's awesome(ly thick and technical). Microsoft have got a job on their hands trying to catch Symbian in real time performance...
Steve Litchfield is surprised by the speed and efficiency of Roadmap of Great Britain for the Nokia Communicator (9210/9300/9500). An alternative to the voice-guided navigator that's distinctly handy to keep on your MMC. Steve also looks at the London street map sister product (for both the Communicator and S60). Here's the review.
Just spotted this, released over Christmas. Emil Tchekov has produced OPeLo, a freeware Windows OPL editor, with color syntax highlighting, pop-up command lists and more. Your code can be translated by using the official OPLTRAN tool. Nice idea!
Darla's spotted yet another outbreak of buck-chasing virus paranoia, this time from AhnLab. Read on for some priceless marketing quotes. And if you're worried about the threat of mobile malware then don't be. Read on...
To celebrate the Christmas holiday period, Symbian Themes has removed their 20 file per day limit, giving unlimited downloads of all their content for the 25th and 26th December. Happy holidays from the Symbian Themes team!
Rafe, Ewan and Steve each pick out their top 5 Series 60 games in this special Christmas selection. Whether you agree or not with their favourites, we're sure you'll pick up an idea or two to keep you entertained over the Holidays.
Ewan Spence is seriously impressed by his prototype of the upcoming Nokia E70 'gull winged' business smartphone. A full fold-over keyboard, high-res screen and Wi-Fi are going to make the E70 much anticipated.
Providing a massive feature set (including filtering, multi-list views, contact merging, and both public and private notes), DreamConnect looks to be great add-on utility for UIQ users. Lots of UI work in how the thumb wheel can be used to do more than just scroll is one point that caught my eye.
An official S60 blog has revealed that S60 version 3 devices will be totally plug and play, in terms of connection through USB. No special drivers needed, meaning that you can connect up to any PC anywhere in the world without having to worry about PC Suite. About time!
Symbian's David Wood enthuses over free software and the community spirit in the latest of his excellent series of 'Insight' articles. A good introduction to freeware, though don't forget Rafe's and my freeware guides.
Who remembers Nebulus, a game rightly hailed as brilliant when first released in 1987? Well it's back, thanks to Telcogames. Coded in C++ for S60 and Symbian OS, the original gameplay, animation and bonuses are all present. And congrats also to Telcogmaes for releasing this into the retail channel as well as to the networks. We don't all want to wait for our portal to decide if Nebulus is for us. Hardcore Gamers already know...
