Released today is Smartphones Show 18, with the main Symbian OS interest being my latest ratings of the 'top 10 smartphones', with the N93 coming in at number 1, plus video tips for the same device, in case you missed the YouTube link for this a week or so ago. The Smartphones Show can be viewed on any PC, Mac, PSP, iPod or Symbian OS 9 smartphone.
Sony Ericsson is to purchase UIQ Technology from Symbian. UIQ Technology is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Symbian. UIQ Technology will continue to operate under its current management as a seperate business subsidiary of Sony Ericsson. This reverses the purchase on the Ericsson Mobile Application lab by Symbian in 1999. More on this throughout the day. For now, the full press release follows.
It is time for the 52nd Carnival of the Mobilists (CotM) and as it enters its second year it continues to swing. This week we have the usual round up of writing on mobile issues from around the web. CotM aims to raise awareness of writing on mobile issues outside a site or blog's regular readership and subject areas.
Thanks to those who emailed in about GooSync, a free service that uses SyncML to synchronise your S60 or UIQ Calendar with your Google Calendar. Looks pretty simple to use, too.
Steve's been busy digging around the Symbian Platform Security issues to come up with a plain english guide to the scary world of application installation, signing and security (PlatSec). If phrases like self-signed, malware and Symbian Signed bring you out in a rash, this could be the best place to start.
Good to see that Symbian are proud of their past, see these twophotos snapped at the Smartphone Show in London this month. The tags indicate footage for Newsnight - has this been aired yet?
Carnival Of The Mobilists 51 has appeared, so go and read it! CotM is a roundup of the week's best writing on mobile device topics, which moves from site to site with each new edition (hence the "Carnival" name). The next installment will be hosted right here on AAS.
Steve compares the (Symbian OS, S60-powered) Nokia E61 and the (Windows Mobile 5-powered) Palm Treo 750v, both with qwerty keyboards and a full office and online application set. Is the 750v a cut above the rest of the Windows Mobile competition? Find out in his latest head to head.
Shame on Symbian Freak for even giving column inches to Kaspersky Lab's latest 'report' on Mobile Malware, though at least S-F has the sense to add a one-line rider in the form of an image caption. 'Highlights' of the report include the mesmerizingly misinformed "Data shows that the number and scale of mobile worm outbreaks is rapidly increasing" and "Today's mobile viruses can do very much the same things as (desktop) computer viruses". Eh? The same? Worms? Utter madness. What about all S60's Platform Security measures? Just say no.
