The Wi-Fi Alliance has been granted IEEE 802-11b and WPA certification (announced today by Nokia). What all that means is the 9500 Communicator confirms to all the compatibility requirements by the Wi-Fi Alliance, so any connection problems you may have are entirely your own fault, because the phone is fine.
Worried about what happens if your Series 60 phone is lost or stolen? Then you need PhoneSecure from Wild Palm. Allowing you to lock your phone via an SMS, retrieve the IMEI, or even set off a Warnign Siren by SMS when you can't find the handset or suspect it's stolen, PhoneSecure is great for those of you who get concerned.
Nokia and Smartner announced today that the push e-mail service Smartner duality is also coming to series 80 devices. This in addition to Blackberry which will come to series 80 early next year as well.
Electronics Boutique will be hosting in store 'download stations' (reports CNN and others). Powered by Wideray's Bluettoth station, it's just a simple matter of waking into Bluetooth range of a store to access the products available to buy.
3-Lib has ported over the old Psion favourite Mapper/GB to the Nokia 9210/9500 Communicators. With over 1000 towns, 1000 road segments and 8,000 overlay items, plus numerous mapping and GIS functions, you'll be surprised to learn that it's only 300K in size. Version 7.2 beta is at http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/mapper.htm
Benq's P30 has now been officially launched by Benq (Press Release here). There's no word yet on carriers taking it, or when it'll be in the shops, but obviously progress is being made.
Ewan's been busy thinking about some of the easier ways to program your smartphone and make them do things that you need them to do. In this first article, he looks at using a spreadsheet to help you, the basics of spreadsheets, and your first 'application' on a Communicator, Series 60 or UIQ device.
Infosyncworld reports that Nokia and Sony Ericsson have joined the SD Card association! Reports about Nokia joining had emerged earlier already, but now SE has joined too. This is a remarkable move by SE, since they always were dedicated to Sony's Memory Stick Duo.
OK, we are sailing away with this photo contest! We want you best Boat photos (taken on a Symbian Phone). Please upload your photos to the Photo Contest 17 page. Vote will start on 7th November 2004 to pick a winner. Winners Photo is displayed on Main Gallery page and can select next category.
Appforge, the company behind the technology that allows users to program their Sybmian Smartphones (and Palm OS and MS powered phones) using MS Visual C# or Visual Basic, has updated the Crossfire Runtime and Programming Suite. It now includes support for the Motorola A1000. Crossfire 5.5 will be available to purchase on Nov 1st, for $1,000.
Borland are offering a free download of its C++ BuilderX 1.5 Mobile Edition, which features timesaving tools, wizards, and GUI form and menu designers. It's available for UIQ and Series 60 after filling in a short survey on the Borland site.
Spectrian, from White Cloud Software, emulates the best 8-bit home computer ever available, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. All the popular tape formats are supported, alon with portrait and landscape orientation, soft ZX keyboard, and joystick emulation via the touch screen.
Non-commercial applications can use the just released Semacode SDK to let their applciations read in and process barcodes. More details available from the Semacode website.
