Symbianware have released Power Day, a customised version of Tracker, for people who intensivly use the Today feature as thier PIM manager. It can be used with Tracker, or as a standalone application.
Mobile Application and Content delivery is one of the top issues facing the mobile world today (reports America's Network). Building communitys, porting applications, device limitations, bandwidth and network connections are all familiar problems to Symbian OS developers. Here's a fresh look at it.
The little phone that goes really fast. That's what's most striking for Ewan in his preview of the Nokia 6630. With 3G starting to get some coverage from the major networks, it's time to see what Nokia can offer them in a Series 60 handset.
Meatloaf once sang 'Two out of Three Ain't Bad,' which sums up Steve's review of QuickOffice Premier on UIQ quite nicely. While the Word Processor and Spreadsheet apps are enough to get it a 'Recommended' award, the Powerpoint Viewer needs a bit more work.
Fancy showing your love for your favourite N-Gage Game? Well now you can with the N-Gage Fan Packs. Grab some wallpapers, ringtones and sounds from The Sims, Crash Nitro, Pathway to Glory and Ashen. They're not full themes (like the Nokia 6600) but they're the best a regualr N-Gage can manage. Mind you, didn't we suggest this idea almost a year ago?
CEO of Macromedia, Robert Burges, talks about the future, and his company's view that the new markets of mobile phones and PDA's hold the key to success. The experience of Flash on DoCoMo powered phones is a good example. Read more in the interview on Knowledge Wharton.
FeedBurner MFR 2 is an RSS and ATOM feed reader for Series 60. Features include smart 'if modified since' content retrieval to minimise the amount of downloads and the ability to open links in your favourite browser.
Psiloc have announced the availability of Psicloc Voice Reminder. The program allows you to record voice memo, and then (optionally) associate them with a particular time and have them played back at that time (an alarm like function). Alternatively you can listen to all recorded notes.
Nokia's N-Gage unit is one of three game units available to a Helsinki based team of gamers attempting to break the world record for continuous playing of computer games (reports N-Gage.com and Nokia). Passers by can grab another unit and join in with bluetooth gameplay of Fifa 2005. Given the other units are going to be a PC and a Playstation 2, All About N-Gage can only assume the N-Gage is in the mix so they can go to the toilet without jeporadising the record attempt.
Just a quick one here. Nokia has completed the acquisition process to obtain the Metrowerks Development Tools and the licencing of the core development tool technologies (reports Nokia). It still remains to be seen if UIQ (and Symbian) will remain focussed on Metrowerks or look for alternative solutions. After all, you don't want to concentrate too much power in one company.
EFF Outreach Co-ordinator. Published Author. eBook Pioneer. Cory Doctorow is all of those things and more. Ewan cathces up with him and in the first part of his interview, he talks about eBooks, publishing online, and how this new market for authors is developing.
Looking at their financial report, Nokia really need a decent high volume, low cost phone (suggests The Inquirer). One way forward... How about the acknowledge design classic of the 2110, with some modern guts inside it?
Syntrax is a music package for UIQ. It allows you to create music on the move. The software includes a sequencer, sound synthesis and sample editor. There is a free PC version available so you can use your master pieces, created on your phone, on your PC. The demo is fully functional with the exception of the save function.
Yew Marquee allows you to put a scrolling marquee on your standy screen. Feature inlcude choosing fonts, size, colours and position. You can use it to show reminders and any other text.
