Roman Keller has released his first OPL application for the Nokia 9500. Lightplus is a simple utility that extends the time your 9500 or 9300 backlight will stay on from a few minutes to up to one hour.
I don't know, you wait forever to get your OPL Runtime, and suddenly the programmers start appearing out of the woodwork. Word reaches us from RMR Software that the ever popular RMRBank, along with RMRFuel, RMRExpenses, RMRHome, RMRInvest, RMRCar, RMRNotes and my personal favourite RMRTask (read the review here), are now all available for the Nokia 9500. Find them on the Nokia 9500 Home Page at RMR.
It may be an overused phrase on certain sites, but with Preminet, another small string for the Finns is starting to emerge (speculates The Register). With Preminet attempting to replicate the success of the Brew system, can Nokia use their custom store-front to do the same in the J2ME market? And will they get the leverage of the developers they need?
3-Lib has pronounced Mapper/GB (its Geographical Information System), TimeLog (project/client time logging) and Fairway (golf game!) applications all now available for the Nokia 9300 and Nokia 9500. See 3-Lib for more... All are fully working, unrestricted shareware.
Chroistopher turns his attentions to the Clancey'esque sounding Operation Shadow. Will Torus' second N-Game game impress him as much as Ashen? Find out in his review.
While the All About Symbian Pub Meet is a distant memory, Herbert went along to a meeting organised by PDATotaal over in Amsterdam and got his hands on a Nokia 7710 for most of the meeting. Here's how he got on...
Swedish 'Mobil' magazine might have well just said that this was Symbian's year. Their awards ceremony was a good night for Symbian (reports UIQ.com). Symbian were "The Company of the Year," the P910 was awarded "Smartphone of the Year" and Opera won the plaudits in the "Application of the Year."
The two reported Trojan programs for Series 60 (Cabir - which tries to send itself via Bluetooth to another Series 60 phone) and Skulls (which replace all the Desktop Icons with Skulls) have been programmed together. Skulls-B uses the Cabir Bluetooth transfer to send the Skulls payload. Some simple hints to avoid this - don't leave your phone's Bluetooth set to discoverable, and confirm any file you recieve over Bluetooth. And if you see an Icon called "Caribe" on your phone, don't run it.
A little while ago David Keppler reviewed the Nokia 6260 and said it was the best Series 60 Smartphone available at the time. Well Nokia have released a whole batch of phones powered by the Symbian Series 60 operating system, which has to put that claim into doubt, so he thought he would take a look at the newcomer to see if the new kid on the block has anything in it's arsenal to worry the older hands.
Word from inside Nokia reaches us that the push to make sure Pathway to Glory and Pocket Kingdom would be out for the Christmas has caused Snakes to be delayed till January. All round it's a good decision for the N-Gage Family because sales this Christmas are going to be important.
SymbianWare just released PowerSafe for the Nokia 9500 Communicator. PowerSafe is designed to keep all your credit card numbers, passwords, registration codes, clothes sizes etc. secure and encrypted with industry standard algorithms.
Just like Nobel prizes, AAS Mega Game awards are both rare and sometimes retrospective. The early bug in Pool 2 (reported in our first review) seems to have been sorted out and we've been hooked on this now for the last month. It's a superb implementation on the Symbian platform and we have no hesitation in edging it firmly into Mega Game territory. Read the review here
Many years ago, Nokia was famous for putting Snake on their phones. N-Gage owners are already looking forward to Snakes, an updated, 3D bluetooth multiplayer extravaganza of a game. We caught up with Producer Dan Scott in a Vancouver Coffee Shop to interview him and find out All About Snakes - and to ask if it realy will be a free download.
Symbian has announced that Sony Ericsson and Sharp will be using the Symbian OS in their phones developed for the NTT DoCoMo FOMA network. Symbian OS is also used in Fujitsu existing FOMA phones, the Vodafone 702NK (6630 variant) and the first Motorola phone for the network is also announced as using Symbian OS. With this announcement Symbian tightens their hold on the lucrative Japanese high end market.
