Finanz is a finanical calculator from the software house Kylom, producer of several well known 9210 programs and JoyCalc for the 7650. Finanz calculates all of those complicated financial calculations for you.
According to this article on EWeek Symbian are concentrating on the OS rather than the UI. Aside from this having been known before (the Series 60 is a Nokia UI and the UIQ has become a SE thing) it does make the decision clearer. The article also mention 4 new UI's will be arriving soon mainly in the Asian market. Read the full story for analysis.
A new version of the P800 white paper has appeared on the Mobility World of the Ericsson site. The white paper is called P800_wp_oct.pdf. Additionally it is now possible to see a preliminary userguide for the P800 on the FCC website. It is available in PDF format in two parts, part 1 here and part 2 here. The full news story includes details and screenshots on some of what is new. Games, PC customisation of the phone, PC MMS ediot and more. The P800 looks set to become the superphone.
WildPalm have announced a new version of Doom for the Nokia 765o / Series 60. New in version 1.1 in correctly working nightmare mode, strafe enabled, and better stability.
See Ximplify SeleQ in action at the ongoing Systems 2002 International Trade Fair for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media in Munich, Germany.
Opera have announced the forthcoming avialability of their browser for Smartphone, but with a difference. It has technology that takes into consideration the size of the screen and fits it to it. The best news is that we'll be seeing this first on the P800 and Series 60 quite possibly as a user install, but more likely as an OEM option.
FreEPOC, Ewan Spence and Martin Guthrie have finished the first update to Clock6, for the Nokia Communicators. Included in this release is a bugfix for earlier versions of the Communicator firmware, some colour support for the LCD Display, the day and date are now shown, and some more formatting options have been added.
Part 1 of Ewan Spence's (FreEPOC) OPL tutorials is now available. In part 1 you are introduced to the language of OPL, given an idea of what variables and procedures are, how procedures call other procedures, and introduced to the versatile DO... UNTIL... loop structure and the essential IF...ELSE... ENDIF'. A guide to SDK and OPL development options is also available.
Users of Ximplify's SeleQ will be pleased to see yet another free upgrade, an upgrade which provides at least one function that many will see as a deciding factor in whether or not it's worthwhile...
Ximplify have released version 1.0 of ClockIt! for the Nokia 92x0. Its a multi function time utility (among other things) program and is to the usual Ximplify high standard.
Jari Laaksonen has made availabl a demo of what looks to be an excellent Currency Converter for the Nokia 7650. Feedback on the new software would be appreciated by the author.
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