I'm currently in Seattle attending the Mobius event. This is run for by Microsoft and aims to bring together webmasters of mobile device sites and other mobile writers. The event is invite only and Microsoft pays for travel and accomodation expenses. I'll be posting some thoughts on my personal blog.
The latest version of Apple's iSync software 1.2.1 has improved support for Nokia series 60 devices and SE P800's. It now syncs Addresses, Address Pictures, Calender and To Do's. More details and download here.
Handy Book software for Sony Ericsson P800 uses the most popular "Palm DOC" format of electronic books. This format allows reading ebooks in compressed form to save memory space on your phone. You can also read common Plain text files or even Plain text files inside Zip archives.
Pocketop have released an UIQ/P800 version of the drivers for their IR keyboard.You can download them here.Note that the drivers are still in beta stage.
Electronics Arts and Nokia have announced that EA will be producing titles for the Nokia N-Gage. This is an important step for industry acceptance of the N-Gage. EA is one of the big games publishers and their production of N-Gage titles will encourage others.
The N-Gage advertising bandwagon has started. You've probably already seen it in your local press, but in the week leading up to launch day you are going to see even more of it according to this N-Gage press release.
On the N-gage site there is an interview with the designers of the N-Gage. It touches on some of the design problems that have been raised (such as the infamous battery / MMC issue). Its an interesting look at the philosophy behind the design.
Splash Data have released a port of their popular image viewer for the P800. SplashPhoto is an image viewer and photo catalog. With the desktop companion software photos can also be synced between your P800 and PC.
The upcoming BenQ P30 will have Picsel's software embedded into into it. As The Register reports it enables fluid file viewing. Picsel themselves describe the technology as a universal multimedia content engine.
There's been speculation for some time and now it's official, Psion has finally put Windows onto the Psion Netbook. Is this suicide? Is Psion desperate to take it's own hardware and posess it with the Demon of Blue Screen Hell? While some respectable technology news sites give an open picture, others say that this is a nail in Symbian's coffin and confirmation that Symbian is dead. Is it?
According to this Inquirer article Sendo has won two victories in its case against Microsoft. OK they're minor the first was to refuse to dismiss that case. The second was to keep the trial in Texas rather than move it to Delaware as Microsoft wanted.
Fonix have joined the Symbian Platinum Program in support of Symbian OS. Symbian will now have access to Fonix's award-winning text-to-speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) solutions.
