Sony Ericsson have launched a new develop website. Previsouly information was available on Ericsson's Mobility World (mophun, Java, Symbian). This will now be available on Sony Ericsson Developer World. There are several levels of memberships (including a free one). Pay for levels have the option to buy phones at discounted prices in an early access program.
In a press release today, Pointsec Mobile technologies has announced it is to release Pointsec, it's high security, cross platform system, onto the Symbian platform. They say "Using on-the fly, user-transparent encryption, Pointsec for Symbian OS automatically encrypts all files before they are stored on a device and automatically decrypts the files again when they are opened, without any need for user intervention". The actual releases will be coming in December; first to the Nokia 9200 series and Sony Ericsson's Symbian based smartphones.
Handango and Sony Ericsson have teamed up to create a software shop from which applications can be downloaded (and purchased) over the air to a P800 or a P900. This represents the first complete Handango catalog to be available OTA.
fastmobile announced this week that its fastchat service is now available on the Nokia N-Gage. As well as connecting you to various IM services (and allowing you to send photos from your phone), fastchat supports VOIP chat (aka push to talk).
In this Reuters article Nokia say they have sold 400,000 N-Gage in the first two weeks. However other reports have suggested low sales in the UK (though these didn't track sales in phone shops).
Well its turning out to be quite a week for Symbian. Sendo have announced their Series 60 device the Sendo X. It seems like a very promising device it even has a camera with flash. Full press release and details in comments.
View, Edit, Create, Word and Excel files, anytime, anywhere, Quickoffice Premier makes it possible by putting full access to "mission critical" MS Office files on any Symbian UIQ smartphone! With Quickoffice Premier, you can read native Microsoft® Word and Excel files in memory on cards, as well as receive them as e-mail attachments or MMS messages. Opened documents are complete with most original formatting including color, varying font sizes, bolding, & italics.
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The Pad is the fastest way to write and draw on a P800 / P900, no need to open a file, save a file or select an input method, just pickup your phone and start writing immediately using the full screen.
SMan is a simple utility that manages processes running on your P800. While the idea is not new (qFileMan, Switcher), SMan's improves upon the existing utilities by providing a friendlier user interface and a number of additional features
mBrainSoftware well know for their Pdf viewers for the Symbian platform have released Fonts for the 9200 series. It enables easy installation, removal and management of fonts on the devices.
A beta of GapiDraw, a graphics engine for Smartphones and PDA's which is intended for developers has been released for Symbian. Series 60 and UIQ devices are currently supported.
A developer known on Handango as 'Private' has released an OPL based application called CellTrack; software that does for the 9210 something similar to Psiloc's own pioneering Series60 title, MiniGPS. This application comes in Lite and Pro versions, the difference being that under pro, you can configure Profile changes for different 'cells'. The Pro costs only $9.99 and can be downloaded from here.
Album is an easy-to-use image browser for Symbian/ Series 60 camera phones. Album Features: - Full screen image viewing - Easy to use and browse - Organizes the images chronologically - Images can be send via MMS, e-mail, Infrared and Bluetooth - Cost effective You can DOWNLOAD Album to your PC and then copy it to your phone either via IR (Infrared) or Bluetooth. Album is at its best when used with other Open Bit imaging product Photographer and Studio
