Symbian and Cingular haved announced that they have teamed up to help support developers. Cingular Deluxe developers will receive complimentary Symbian Affiliate status and Cingular have become a Symbian Platinum Partner. Cingular have also added a new Symbian Zone to their devCentral developer portal.
Announced exclusivly at the All About Symbian Pub Meet this evening is Chris Davies' minimalist but useful Web 2.0 utility, Why The Frak Won't My Sis File Install? Although Rafe would like to point out that if you work for Symbian it might be NSFW...
Just in time for the Smartphone Show Symbian has announced Symbian blogs. The blog's tag line is 'Symbian insights into smartphone products, industry news, and our culture' which describes what the blog aims to cover. Symbian Bloggers include Nigel Clifford (CEO), Thomas Chambers (CFO), David Wood (EVP), Haruhiko Hisa (President, Symbian Japan) and more.
Yes, it's the latest Carnival of the Mobilists! CotM carries a selection of links to the week's best writing on the world of mobile devices, and this time topics include mobile home pages, text messaging in politics and marketing, suggestions for improving the E61, mobile phones as musical instruments, and much more. (It's called a carnival because it moves from one site to another, but you can always keep track of it on the main site.)
Weekly round of 'The Carnival of Mobilists' of which All About Symbian is a part has decided to find out a little bit more about the readers and potential audience of the round robin posts. If you have a few mintues, why not help out and take the survey here.
NTT DoCoMo recently announced its new 903i range of 3G FOMA phones. Seven out eleven run on Symbian OS, the D703i, F903i, SH903i, SO903i, D903iTV, SH903iTV and F903iX. New to the 903i series is out of the box support for the WMA format for music (inlcuding DRM), support for DoCoMo's DCMX™ mobile credit card and IC cards with triple the storage of conventional cards. Some of the handsets support the new Keitai-Osagashi Service (GPS) service which adds an additional range of location based services.
Fifteen reasons why you just have to pop along to the Crosse Keys on Monday night.... [stop press: now a Nokia E61 to give away as well as the N93!!!!]
Symbian's developer website, Symbian Developer Network, has been relaunched to coincide with next week's Symbian Smartphone Show. The revamped site now includes web based discussion forums, a wiki, reorganised content and a clearer navigation system.
Tom Coats has a wonderful guide on setting up his S60 phone to geo-tag pictures on Flickr with a BT GPS and Yahoo's Zonetag. Now Tom is an employee of Yahoo, but if the service is available to you, this is probably the best how-to I've seen in a long time.
Yes there may be a lot of video news, but you can't beat a good book, or some classy British Sci-Fi. So thank the makers that the BBC have brought the two together for the 21st Century. A number of the BBC Novels of Doctor Who are now available to read online or download as eBooks (Mobireader compatible). New fans should start with The Well Mannered War , while Lungbarrow resolves the Cartmell Masterplan. Which means something to a few people...
It's autumn, it's time for the Symbian Smartphone Show, which means it must be time to wheel Symbian Signed back out in the open! Developer Sampo Suvisaari has been writing about why Symbian Signed means less choice for end users and proposes a simple and brilliant change to the system.
Orange are holding their annual European Partner Camp in 10 days time. With speakers from Orange, Symbian, UIQ and S60 the event offers broad coverage of the Symbian World. There is also a developer centre and plenty of on-hand advisors to help you make the most of your time. We've got one free pass (worth €595) to give away - read on for more details.
krisse explores the wonderful world of emulators, running on your S60 smartphone and allowing you to run up classic old games and applications designed for previous generations of computer and games console....
