Nokia has released (to the global open source software community) the source code for S60 WebKit, the engine for its next-gen Web Browser for S60, as featured in all 3rd Edition smartphones. Press release below the break...
TomTom, developers of the MOBILE 5 satellite navigation software for all Symbian platforms, havs brought out a special Plus! pack aimed at football fans travelling into Germany for the World Cup, with POIs, voices and map themes. I think it's all fully MOBILE 5 compatible - anyone care to try it and report back?
The onslaught of major S60 titles ported over to Symbian OS 9 and S60 3rd Edition seems to have started in earnest. With v3.20, the much-recommended SmartMovie is now fully 3rd Edition-compatible, as well as fixing rebooting problems on Series 80 and 90 communicators.
At long last, the respected mobile musings found in the Carnival of the Mobilists have found a home. Here you'll find links each week to the Carnival, plus archives and FAQs for anyone wanting to write for (or host) the Carnival. Good stuff.
Forgive another pointer to my 'Calculate your perfect smartphone' Grid, but a Javascript error was spotted, meaning that neither 3rd party software not Cost was being included in the final scores. You might want to try the grid again when you've got 5 minutes to spare...
..."Stop this, it's getting silly!" The normally reliable Darla reports that there's a 'new Symbian virus on the loose', quoting that 'Symantec announced today the presence of a new trojan attacking Symbian devices'. This is self-serving FUD gone mad. Read on...
NTT DoCoMo recently announced 8 new phones for its 902 range. Five of these phones are Symbian powered MOAP phones. The D902iS (Mitsubishi), F902iS (Fujitsu), SH902iS (Sharp), SO902iWP+ (Sony Ericsson), and DOLCE SL [SH902iSL] (Sharp) are top of the range handsets for the Japanese market. Read on for more.
70 million phones. That's the number that's going round Symbian today (see press release below) as the private company releases sales figures for Q1 2006. The headline numbers of 10 licencees, over 120 phone models (66 in the market with a further 56 known to be under development) and a 56% year on year increase of revenue compared to Q1 2005, show Symbian to be in a very healthy financial state.
Just received a press release from WizMySite, attached. Essentially it's a web-hosted info, audio and video gallery whose main point is that, in addition to giving others standard web access to your stuff, it also automatically provides an XHTML version for viewing on smartphones.
Interesting article here on a new classification for electronic devices (thanks to the Carnival for the link), though I don't think either 'Communications and control devices' or PCD will catch on. (Nor will Nokia's 'Multimedia Computer', come to that) As in my previous editorial, I think 'phone' will remain the popular term, with the term encompassing all current feature phones, smartphones and connected PDAs.
Nokia's PC Suite's come a long way from its humble PsiWin and EPOC Connect ancestry. But come on, installing connectivity software's supposed to be really, really tricky, isn't it? Surely half the fun of PDAs and smartphones is spending hours despairing with your head in your hands?
Symbian has formally welcomed BT into its Platinum Program. A useful alliance, no doubt, the full press release follows, with quotes from both parties.
So I've been fiddling with the scores in my (now rather huge) Grid, plus I've added the Nokia E61. Which is the perfect mobile solution for you? For me, it came up with the Nokia N70, with i-Mate K-JAM as runner up. Interesting stuff, hopefully!
