Today the Bluetooth SIG introduced version 2.0 of Bluetooth. This version will include multiple connections at the same time, higher bandwith and lower power consumption!
Every OS has its programming books, and Symbian OS is no exception. Ewan caught up with the auther of "The C++ Book" for Symbian OS, Richard Harrison, to find out more about the man who helped write the text that everyone else uses to program our smartphones. Read all about it in his interview.
To go along with the release of Gameloft's Asphalt: Urban GT for the N-Gage, Nokia are offering a free playable demo of Asphalt available over the internet. The huge reaction to the Pathway to Glory demo must have struck Nokia as amazing (and the rest of the gaming world as obvious), but congratulations are in order for Nokia for continuing to offer this. Our review of the full version of Ashpalt will be up by the end of the week, but until then, you can check it out yourself on Nokia's Asphalt Mini Site.
Fresh from the new version of Crossfire (released November 1st), Appforge will provide Developers and Users with access to Intellisync's Data Sync software (part of Intellisync's Mobility Platform). This will allow for remote data sync, transfer and querying on the mobile device using the Crossfire runtime.
Symbian have started looking for some new employees. If you've got a relevant BSc Degreem and fancy working on ' the global open industry standard operating system for advanced data-enabled mobile phones' (and can remember that phrase for your interview) then the full details on applying can be found on the Symbian website.
Long time friend of All About Symbian Russell Beattie has managed to get his thoughts about where mobile information may go in the future. He dubs it Communicontent, and it's worth looking at over a coffee.
Vodafone in the UK is ready to launch their 3G Content Service this Christmas (reports The Sunday Times). Now the handsets are here (see our preview of the 6630) the Vodafone portal promises Video Clips, music through deals with Sony and Warner, and a wide range of mobile Java Midp games. And the gamble? A £20 billion investment in the technology. Every other network is watching with a keen financial interest...
New to the All About Symbian writing team, David Keppler has reviewed the Nokia 6260 Flip Phone. If you don't want to read it, David thinks it's the best Series 60 phone out there. Why? Well for that you'll have to read it!
Over a year after the launch of the original N-Gage, and some 7 months since the QD shipped with one, Nokia have released the 'Arena Launcher' for the original N-Gage. Effectivly a customised browser for the Arena Services, you can browse the Arena Forums, check out the latest news, and message other users. or you could just go to All About N-Gage Mobile instead.
Orange have confirmed the Nokia 6630 as one of their Signature phones for their 3G services launching in the UK and France before the end of 2004. See Ewan's preview of the 6630 for more details about the phone. Orange have also selected Motorola as a WCDMA phone supplier, but neglect to mention the phone model(s), we can but hope they've chosen the A1000.
For me one of the nicer items of news from the Symbian Expo was the announcement that Vodafone would sell the Sendo X in the UK. Priced from £70 on low cost tariffs, £30 (Anytime 200) and free on higher tariffs. The dummy phones I've seen in the shops look nastier than the real thing, so get a hands-on demo if you can.
Slipstream, in a double header news release, announced not only that it's powering a Download Accelerator for Opera's next major release, but has also signed up to join the Symbian Platinum Partner to promote its data compression and acceleration technology to the Symbian OS Platform. Opera already have a nice market for their proxy based acceleration service, and we'd expect v7.6 of the browser to build on this with Slipstreams help.
