Zenomorph one of the longest announced 7650 programs is now available to purchase on Handango (affiliate link). Zenomorph allows you to morph your photos. You can find out more by reading our review of Zenomorph by J2theIzzo here.
TomTom has started to make its CityMaps Navigation software available on a city by city basis (in a modular fashion). In addition TomTom has also made available its route planning software on an area by area basis. There's too many combinations to list but examples are City Maps for Rome or Paris and Route Planner for Germany or the UK. They are all available for ESD via Handango (affiliate link).
Jari Laaksonen has announced the availability of TodayView via his website. TodayView shows calendar events in a list. A demo is available that shows a single days events. The full version can be purchased via Handango (affiliate link) for $10.
Cibenix have released an update to Active Mail for Nokia 7650. Further to our announcement last Friday, Version 1.10 has now been released. This supports phones with Nokia firmware 4.xx.
The next part in our OPL tutorial is now available. In part 4 the graphics used in Master are introduced as is MBM Whizard a GUI for bmpconv which is used to make the graphics into an MBM file. Part four is available here.
Cibenix have just discovered that Active Mail for Nokia 7650 can cause serious system problems with firmware 4.xx. We strongly advise users not to use Active Mail on a Nokia 7650 with firmware 4.xx. Cibenix are actively working to solve this problem, and will release an update as soon as possible. A news item will be posted on this site when an update is released.
To put it simply, nobody is still able to comment with 100% accuracy why Sendo decided to dump the MS-Stinger powered Z-100 as it was about to be launched, but The Register (as usual) has looked at history and come up with some conclusions that are as close as we're going to get in the near future. And to keep things balanced, why not have a look at the Microsoft supporters point of view over at Pocket PC Thoughts. Silicon Investor also have their own take on this as well, covering both the Sendo article and the longer term implications to Microsoft.
A solution for playing Flash files (.swf) on the Nokia 7650 is now available. You author/obtain clip files in the SWF file format, and run them through an encoder, which outputs Mobiclip files. The .mo clips can then be viewed on the target platform with a freeware player.
In somewhat suprising news (at least to me) long time Microsoft stalwart Sendo has liscensed the Series 60 from Nokia. Yes Sendo, long time friend of Microsoft and maker of the Z100 (the first announced MS Smartphone) will be using Series 60. Update: Sendo are dropping the Z100 and stopping all work on MS Smartphones. It is a full scale defection.
Enlarge the memory capacity of your smartphone! SmartCompress is all you need to have more drive space or memory on your SmartPhone and to be able to install twice or three times more applications on your device and work with them fast and easily. SmartCompress can be bought via Handango.
In a recent press release Nokia said it was looking to ship 50-100 million colour devices next year and that Series 60 devices would represent 10 million of these. This represents massive sales of Symbian OS, and would outstrip with ease the entire PDA market (both Palm and MS combined).
Create PDF files on your Nokia 9200 and your Psion PDA. mBrain Software has released PdfPrinter 1.00, for both the Nokia 9200 Series Communicator and for Psion and compatible PDA's.
Nokia announced today the availability of the Nokia N-Gage which Nokia describes as a game optimized device within its mobile game deck category. The new device looks interesting and is due to be released in February 2003. Four games for the device will be published by Sega. More information and picture in the full story.
This just in the the rumoured new Communicator has not appeared the device that generated the rumours is probably the 6800. An interesting looking device. But as far as is know at present not a Symbian device.
