BiTween have just released Remote Control 2 for the Nokia 9300 and 9500 Communicator. Remote Control allows you to access and work on your PC on-the-fly from any location connected to the Internet or through your VPN connection. Get convenient access to email, files, control the status of your Web server, programs and network resources from home or the road.
BiTween have just released MailXChange for UIQ powered smartphones. MailXchange (MXC) is an advanced messaging application including support of wireless data synchronization with Microsoft Outlook Express and message rules.
Earth Explorer lets you look anywhere in the world. Pop over to Wildpalm's Earth Explorer page. Grab the avi video, download the app, and decide where you want to throw down your imaginary Hot Hail...
...and you can download a free demo version of Worms World Party for your N-Gage from the N-Gage Arena. Looks like the releasing demo versions meme is working for N-Gage sales. Good.
It's now time for you to pick your favourite Bicycle photos from the 9 displayed * here *. This poll will close on 20th February 2005 & Good Luck to all taking part.
Ever wondered how Steve Litchfield knows where he's going? Well now the secret is out. He's been reviewing Route 66's Mobile Britian, the GPS included navigation software for Series 60. Could it be as good as an Army Officer with a Map? Or is it genuinly useful?
Launching UK, German and French stores, Handango is pushing localised contnet and services to users (reports Symbian's Press Office). You can read more on Handango with our interview, or visit the Handango Powered All About Symbian store to help support this site.
Ilkka Raiskinen, until now head of Nokia's Games division, has been promoted to head the entire Nokia Multimedia division (which Games is a part of). Replacing Raiskinen as head of Games is Gerard Wiener, a games industry veteran who joined Nokia as part of a deal with Sega last year which included the purchase of Sega's Online divison, the SNAP network and Pocket Kingdom (which runs on SNAP). In an interview at GameSpot after the reshuffle Wiener sounded particularly rugged and upbeat, contrasting the strong support Nokia is providing the N-gage with the lack of support Sega gave the ill-fated Dreamcast: "The N-Gage will be here for as long as it takes. I remember the sickening feeling I got during the Dreamcast era when I was at Sega, and this situation isn't the same. Every time we get hit, we learn more, and it just makes us stronger."
Symbian have announced their own Developer environment for Symbian OS, based around the popular Eclipse environment. Available for Symbian OS 9.0, also announced today, the Eclipse Tools will be available later in 2005. A new version of Code Warrior will also be available to support the updated OS. The compiler tools have also been updated. Symbian used ARM’s RealView Compilation Tools (RVCT version 2) to build OS 9 (previously GCC 2.98 was used). In Symbian OS 9 GCC support is continued with GCC 3.4.
Symbian today announced the launch of the next version of it's OS - Symbian OS version 9. The new version is aimed at lowering development costs, accelerating time to market and enabling more capable phones. New features and enhancement include support for Bluetooth Stereo headsets, USB mass storage, enhanced 3D graphics and acceleration, device management (allowing operators and enterprises to manage phones in the field), enhanced IMAP support, enhanced sync (group sync and meeting invitations), enhanced security (more permissions), enhanced performance and power consumption (by using latest ARM processors), and improved developer tools.
Will Symbian become established into the high volume, low unit cost market? They hope so, as Symbian OS v9.0 is announced. There's no direct impact on end-users at the moment, with 9.0 phones not expected to late 2005, but comments in the Press Release regarding the DRM capabilities, locking out certain functions to applications, further promotion of the Symbian Signed certification and allowing "network operators... to access a user’s phone over the air to deploy new network services, capabilities or applications, or to diagnose a problem, as well as to audit applications installed on a phone" lead us to wonder just what route Symbian OS will take. Is the focus on givng the end-user a fully functioning computer, or to give more control of a handset to the Networks and the content sellers? These are all things to ask Symbian at 3GSM I suspect.
