Orange have made further details of thier upcoming Code Camp in Opio available. Developers will have a chance to get up to speed on the latest developments with sessions on Series 60 3rd Edition, UIQ 3 and the new Symbian security model is Symbian OS v9. With Symbian, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and UIQ are gold sponsors there will be plenty on offer for the Symbian developer. It is also a chance to talk to Orange about the Operator route to market, and met feelow developers.
Andrew Orlowski over at The Register reports in on their long term test of the Nokia 9300, and seems to find it in good favour. Check it out over at El Reg.
Nokia's PC Suite has been updated to version 6.6.18 (from 6.6.16). New features include PC text messaging for the Nokia 3230, improved Internet connections and better connectivity stability. For those having problems with syncing this is a recommended upgrade.
With the sneaky URL name of www.1001111-1001110-1000101.org, Nokai have launched the website for their 3D Beat-em-up, One. Worth checking out because whoever designed the site must have seriously been on the hard stuff with the interface they've come up with. One is due out before Christmas.
According to the latest Canalys report EMEA smartphone sales have increased by 170% in the last year and now accounts for 7.5% of all mobiles sales. Series 60 dominates with just under 80% of the market share with Series 80 taking another 13%. UIQ has 4% with Palm, Blackberry and Microsoft taking 5% between them.
F-Secure are reporting, via their weblog, that they have discovered a new Trojan targeting Series 60 phones. The Tojan deletes key system files (which will prevent some phone restarting) and write a random password to the MMC (so you can not access data on the MMC). The Trojan pretends to be a pirated copy application (InstantSIS). As F-Secure state: 'Cardblock.A is not a threat to people who don't use pirate copied software'.
Two events co-incided this week which are relevant to anyone interested in Symbian gaming, or gaming in general. The first was Gerard Wiener (head of Nokia's Games division including N-Gage) having a meeting with Japanese games publishing giant Square Enix at the CTIA mobile entertainment trade fair in San Francisco. The second was an interview with Yoichi Wada, the President of Square Enix. During the interview, Wada stated that the future of gaming lay with online games both on PCs and on mobile phones. He said they wanted to get away from the current console-controlled games market and go to a model where software was king. He explained Square Enix's plans to expand into the mobile phone online world. Even more tantalisingly, their mobile phone Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games, already released on Japanese FOMA Symbian phones, would be released in North America and Europe towards the end of 2006. That would of course be just in time for the Nokia Next Gen MoGaSo's first Christmas.
Audible, provider of electronic audio books and other audio content, will soon make a solution available for Series 60 phones. The AudibleAir service for Series 60 is being demoed at CITA. AudibleAir will allow you to download Audible content over the air.
One of the more popular applications on both the online stores and bundled with the device is Quickoffice. Craig Senick has been with the product for many years, and All About Symbian sat down with him to find out more about the Office Suite.
India based Consign Technology has released a $199 Royalty free 'Lite' edition of its GoDB development system for Symbian 60 Phone series. GoDB Lite Edition is targeted at developers looking to developing simple applications, utilities and 2D Games.
Back in Feb 2004, Newswireless confirmed the existence of the Windows Mobile powered Palm Treo. This week such a beast was announced. Now the site is reporting that "Palm engineers have built a Symbian based Treo, and samples have now been seen in the hands of phone company executives." What's stopping them? Surprisingly Nokia laying claim to some "core Symbian code, which Nokia says belongs to Nokia." Ouch.
Who needs all the glamour and expense of European racing when you have American Racing 3D from MH Soft bringing you the whole Stock Car experience, from road courses to monster ovals. 7 tracks, 11 opponents and 6 cars to choose from should be enough to keep anyone going round in circles.
Devlex have released some very nice bluetooth connectivity applications for Series 60; PhoneFile accesses your smartphone's memory from a command line prompt; Remote Commander lets you control a Powerpoint presentation; and Remote Tunes gives you a remote control for Apple's iTunes.
