The 27 people in the world with Nokia 7700's will be delighted to hear that Virgin Radio has joined Kiss FM Finland in providing Visual Radio services to the Series 90 prototype (reports Silicon.com). Virgin reckon that the service will deepen its relations with its listeners with items like "Most Wanted" songs, competitions and purchase concert tickets from the handset. The question is what device the public will listen on? The 7700 is probably never going to see the commercial light of day - so is this yet another "confirmation rumour" that the 7710 is almost ready? Let's hope so.
Game Rankings, the site that collects news and reviews from all around the internet into one central location, has signed up All About N-Gage to be carried in it's N-Gage section. Thanks, guys!
In this CBR Online article the future of email and calendar components are discussed. At the recent Nokia Enterprise summit Andrew Moran, outlined some of the future plans which include built in support for both push and browser based email, better groupware functions and better support for vCard and vCalendar and support for iCalendar and iTip. The article concludes with an interesting discussion of Symbian's relationship with developers.
AAS's own Steve Litchfield has updated his big page of N-Gage power tips, including details of how to get Quickoffice Premier installed, how to take over ten hours of CD quality music with you, how to enter text at 60wpm and how to use the N-Gage as a normal domestic radio.
The Cool City Hotel Guide for UIQ is a guide to 400 hotels in 54 countries around the world. Each hotel comes with information and a picture. You can add extra hotels and countries to the database. Also available from the same company are a series of language and dictionary guides. This program require the free Appforge Booster.
messageVIP is a program which allows you to hide the meaning of SMS. You set it up so that letters are substituted for others, thus giving a basic form of encryption. The program works with both outgoing and incoming messages.
doHeadlines is an RSS viewer for UIQ. The program supports RSS 0.9, 1.0 and 2.0. It uses data compression to reduce the amount of data downloaded saving time and money. Full articles can be viewed in your browser and scheduling means you can set articles to download automatically.You can get many RSS feeds for AAS (reviews, software, news, articles) here.
Time to look in depth at the Symbian Exposium - all this week we'll be giving you a guided pre-tour of the Expo. Today, it's time to look round the seminars that are being put on, along with some recommendations on seminars that shouldn't be missed.
Here's a few more shots of what is being tentatively labelled the Nokia 7710. We're making an educated guess that this is the "evolution" of the 7700 Media Phone that Nokia were showing off earlier this year. It's clearly running the Series 90 interface, but we also hear that there's no on board microphone or speaker - it's headsets only for making phone calls. No sign of a keyboard either. What do you think?
11 applications, all open source, are all vying for first place in NewLC's Open Summer Developers Contest. All About Symbian are on the judging panel, and we've got a strong selection of apps to choose from. Try them all out yourself, and watch out for the winners.
The Nokia Wireless GPS Module LD-1W helps you get where you're going. It connects wirelessly to a compatible phone, PC, or PDA using Bluetooth wireless technology, and works with a number of different applications.
September 23, Helsinki - Nokia today announced a wireless home monitoring solution with an integrated motion detector, the Nokia Remote Camera. With the ability to capture megapixel-quality images and video clips with sound, even in low-light and outdoor conditions, the Nokia Remote Camera brings a new twist to remote monitoring. The device is expected to become available in the fourth quarter of 2004 in Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific, with the expected retail price of 450 EUR.
Nokia today announed a new Series 60 phone aimed at business users. The Nokia 6670 has a one mega pixel camera. The business focus is apparent in the software which inlcudes F-Secure Anti-Virus and Nokia VPN software as well as support for Nokia's recently announced Bluetooth keyboard and a Nokia Bluetooth GPS (announced today). The phones deisng is very similar to the 7610, although the keypad is a more standard grid configutaion and the finishing is similar to the Nokia 6630. There are two variants, both tri-band, one for the Europe, Middle East and Asia and one for the Americas.
The day after the AAS Pub Meet sees this years Symbian Exposium. We take a look at what you can expect to find there if you go down to London's Docklands.
