There's no camera, no wi-fi, yet Nokia are confident they've got everything right about the 9300 Smartphone. Announced yesterday, Ewan interviewed Mark Squires, from Nokia, to find out about how it was designed, what's going to be included, and why we'll all love their 9300?
The All About Symbian Pub Meet is delighted to announce that Nokia will be coming along to demonstrate and field questions on the new 9500 Communicator and 9300 Smartphone. Details on the pub meet are here, and don't forget we've also got the Prize Raffle, Meet the AAS Team, and a whole bundle of people who came over for the Symbian Exposium who'd rather be at the pub than set up their stall.
Nokia has announced it is to acquire Metrowerks' Symbian orientated development tools and license Metrowerks's key development tool technology (The Code Warrior IDE). Nokia intends to invest in the platform-specific technologies, and also add new features and support to the newly acquired tools. Metrowerk will act as a reseller of the tools for Nokia and continue to develop the core technology and CodeTEST(TM) Software Analysis Tools. Metrowerks' software is one of the leading developer tools for Series 60, Series 80, Series 90 and UIQ.
Nokia's Lifeblog tool is going to be linked with one of the most notable names in the Blogging Sphere, SixApart, with the announcement today that the TypePad system will allow direct uploading of Lifeblog content to a users TypePad blog. Looks like basing Lifeblog on the Open ATOM standard is finally paying off for Nokia. Currently only available for the 7610, Lifeblog will shortly be available for selected Series 60 phones (AAS suspects phones with the MultiMedia Framework, ie Series 60 v2 only).
To go with the news of the Nokia 9300, Rafe, Ewan and the AAS Team are proud to launch a new sister site, All About Series 80. AAS80 (for short) is a dedicated site purely for Communicator owners. It will carry all the Series 80 content from All About Symbian in its pages, so you won't miss any news about your Super-Smartphone - in much the same way as All About N-Gage is dedicated to Nokia's Gaming Machine. Don't worry about loosing Communiciator content from AAS though, as we'll still carry every bit of news on the 'Mother' site.
Lonely Cat Games, of Smart Move and UltraMP3 fame have released ProfiMail a powerful and feature rich e-mail client for Series 60. Some of the features include support for HTML e-mail (with images and hyperlinks), automatic synchronization of messages with mail server, attachement support with built in file manager / viewer, rules ands filters (for selective message downloading), and built in zip, image and text (txt, Word and HTML files) viewers.
Nokia today have announced the Nokia 9300 Communicator, the 'smartest' Smartphone. It's effectivly a consumer version of the 9500, and lacks the Wi-Fi connectivity and Digital Camera. It's still an impressive package, featuring Tri Band Support (900/1800/1900 for European customers, and 850/1800/1900 for Americans), compatible with GSM, GPRS and EDGE. While lacking Wi-Fi, it still carries Ir and Bluetooth, and runs Series 80, on Symbian OS 7.0. All About Symbian will be carrying more updates and articles throughout the day, so keep coming back for news on the 9300. Availability is Q1 2005. Full Specifications Now Available.
The voting is now open in the N-Gage Awards. You can now vote in three categories Best N-Gage Game, Best Java Game, and Best N-Gage Fan Site (which All About N-Gage is sponsoring). Voting and any feedback recieved will be sent to Nokia as well as publically announced on the site so here's a good chance to let your opinion be heard.
The London Jubilee Walkway Guide from VisualIT (the makes of the popular Tube series of programs) is a guide to the central part of London as visted by the Jubilee walkway. Its an electronic guide book to most of London's key tourist attractions. Using maps, pictures and text it guides you round the city. Ideal for people visiting London who aren't familiar with the city!
Following on from Power Dart is MGS Treasure Mind. The new game from Noumena is a puzzle game with minesweeper like gameplay where you aim to uncover jewels. You can play in single player mode or two player mode over Bluetooth. The game also promises two way Bluetooth voice chat for the future - a first for any game we've seen.
Neil Wooding, the International Man of Mystery who runs Cascata Games, a North London based gaming company making in-roads over all the main portable computing / PDA platforms. Starting Cascata in 2002, Neil has had a long history in the mobile computing world beforehand, even to the point of interviewing a very young Ewan Spence for a job (needless to say, I didn't get it). So, it's time to turn the tables in another All About Symbian Interview.
The latest addition to the Magic Game Station engine is here. Power Darts allows you to play darts on your phone. You can play in the 01 tournament games, in short matches against the AI or against friends over Bluetooth. There are four different set of rules to choose from and the level of difficulty can be varied.
Nokia have announced that the Nokia 9500 will be able to connect Research in Motion's Blackberry Services, which includes support for the Enterprise and Internet Service. This will enable push-based email, better viewing of attachments, and access to your calendar information on the server. Support for Microsoft Exchnage and Lotus Domino is ready, and Novell Groupwise will follow later.
