BBC's Newsnight programme at 10.30pm last night (Wed) celebrated the 15th anniversary of GSM with a special focus on the future of mobile, including some coverage of Symbian's labs and footage of David Wood and Nigel Clifford, with the P990i video calling and the N93 comparing a golf swing. You can watch the programme online - available for 24 hours after broadcast.
The team behind ShoZu , the photo uploading toll for those with cameraphones and accounts on services such as Flickr, have let us know their server will be down for up to 24 hours from 4am GMT on September 5th. Check your watches when you post!
Moconews has a lovely summary up on the compromises that filming special 'mobile friendly' TV episodes can place on a production team. It talks about the recent 60 second preview clips for the recent season of BBC TV's Doctor Who.
Greenpeace have released the Green Electronics Guide , a look at how enviromentally friendly companies are with their electronic products. Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola all feature in the report, which is based on global policies, the volumes of harmful chemicals in the product and how well the companies handle discarded units at the end of their consumer life.
No, I haven't 'defected', but I do believe in giving credit where credit's due. My Smartphones Show 14 video podcast is now out and has a review of the impressive Windows Mobile-powered HTC TyTN; on the Symbian front, I look forward to the Smartphone Show next month.
Symbian has released Q2 2006 sales figures, showing the usual robust growth. Highlights include 23 new Symbian OS-powered models introduced in Q2, ownership of 92% of the worldwide 3G market, 12 million smartphones shipped in Q2, bringing cumulative total to 83 million worldwide. Full press release follows...
In an innovative push, top developer SmartphoneWare has made available a special 'extranet' for local mobile phone store owners to be able to sell on third party software at the point of sale of the hardware. More details here.
Just spotted this interesting blog entry over at Forum Nokia. In advance of this week's second and final Nokia N93 review article, Hartti talks about and photos the N93 as a super S60/multimedia presentation tool.
Simon Judge is reporting on his blog that some operators (Vodafone Japan) are locking down S60 3rd Edition handsets so that only Symbian Signed applications can be installed. This means that self-signed applications can not be installed.
This week the Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Abrio Mobile News. Despite reaching middle age with its 40 outing the CotM remains as vibrant as ever including the best writing from across the web. New to the Carnival this week is AAS favourite Matt Miller from ZDNet's Mobile Gadgeteer.
One week on, mid-August, and we've found plenty to keep you interested and challenged. Here's the AllAboutSymbian Week in Review, if you're in a hurry to catch up...
Symbian's David Wood has published his latest Insight article. Number 11 develops a theme that's close to Rafe's heart: the killer app in the smartphone world is choice. I'm not too sure about the 'Generation S' pronouncement though...
It's Grid time again - I've recently had in for review the HTC TyTN, the major new player on the communicator scene, and have added it to the Grid, along with numerous other score tweaks. Can Windows Mobile swing it for you or will a Symbian OS device still come out tops?
