Mobile Innovation, a leading technology consultant and integrator for the Symbian OS, has been acquired by Macromedia. Mobile Innovation have been directly or indirectly involved with many of the Series 60, Series 90 and UIQ smartphones currently on the market.
Nokia China have announced the N6708 - a UIQ touchscreen phone. The phone features a 1.3 MP camera, a mini SD expansion card slot, a Chinese localised Office application, and runs Symbian 7 and UIQ 2.1. This phone is expected to be only available in the Chinese market where data input is eased by the use of handwriting reognition. The N6708 is an ODM (rebranded) version of the BenQ P31. The specifications are the same as the BenQ 31, but there have been several software tweaks. There are some pictures of the device here from Zol.com.
Over on Forum Nokia (PDF link), there's a useful overview of how the new security system in Symbian OS 9 will work. Interesting reading for those with a technical bent.
Documents To Go for the Nokia 9300 and 9500, announced recently, is now actually available for download on the DataViz web site and from our Software Shop. Documents To Go consists of Word to Go and Sheet to Go which can open, read and write their Microsoft Office equivalent without losing any formatting or content information.
Yes, our second 'version 3' item of the day. This time, though, it's for developers and geeks only. EMCC have done a PDF format guide to the innards of Series 60 v3 on their web site.
Steve Litchfield gets to grips with UIQ 3, the user interface behind the upcoming Sony Ericsson P990. What's new, what's different and what's been fixed?
Ewan gives his impressions after 30 minutes poring over the upcoming Sony Ericsson P990 at the Smartphone Show. Summary: a genuine flagship smartphone.
Flush from the lightning talk at the AAS Pub Meet, Zingmagic have a number of Series 80 based card games avaialble. The bundle of Hearts, Spades and Euchre are probably the best bet value wise, but don't forget Homerun, which has graced pretty much every Symbian powered device since the early ninenties.
Chris Heathcote describes it as "The Future of Mobile Gaming," and who are we to argue? Series 60 Conkers has to be one of the greatest game ideas yet, and turns any device (in Chris case a 6630) into the gaming platform for the season... "the next generation of tangible physical locative mobile play" is here. And when all the conkers are finished, the extreme mode kicks in. Nice one Chris, but I need to check my insurance first for the latter.
Sneaking out at The Smartphone Show was Visto's Mobile Secure Voice solution. Already championing their secure push-email solution to netowrks, their Voice application is a highly targetted solution that allows end-users to reply to email with voice messages. It's a targetted solution, which should appeal to the business professional who is on the road. Integrated into their ConstantSync push architecture, more information is at www.visto.com.
High Seize, the pirate based strategy adventure has set sail from Finalnd and should be in retail stores early this week. Can you find the treasure, save the girl and rescue your father? And what will you do as you travel between islands? Well you could nudge your memories with Asteroids, Battlezone, Black Widow, Millipede, Missile Command, Red Baron, Lunar Lander and Super Breakout. They're all part of Atari Masterpieces (vol 1) - both titles should now be available for purchase in your local N-Gage Emporium. If not, make them walk the plank.
N-Gage users in Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the UK can take advantage of Nokia's new online N-Gage Store to purchase the accessories announced at E3. The range includes the N-Gage QD Dual Sim pack, Bluetooth handsfree unit and the Snap-on Speaker. We'll review the accessories in the near future.
Chris Heathcote describes it as "The Future of Mobile Gaming," and who are we to argue? Series 60 Conkers has to be one of the greatest game ideas yet, and turns any device (in Chris case a 6630) into the gaming platform for the season... "the next generation of tangible physical locative mobile play" is here. And when all the conkers are finished, the extreme mode kicks in. Nice one Chris, but I need to check my insurance first for the latter.
