Symbian will be exhibiting at CTIA in Las Vegas from April 5th to 7th. EMCC, Visto, Zi and UIQ will be among those helping out. CTIA Wireless is the leading trade show for mobile and wireless for the Americas market.
More FOMA smartphones, built on Symbian OS, have been launched into the market the last few days in Japan. Press releases here and here and here for those interested. The phones concerned are the SO902i (Sony Ericsson), the NM850Gi (Nokia), and the D702i (Mitsubishi). Read one for basic specifications and pictures.
MobHappy has the best reading today - You'll have seen PayPal Mobile's launch plastered all over the net. But is it relevant to the likes of you and me? Carlo has a good analysis. Plus Russell Buckley makes the excellent point that one day your smartphone may be your ONLY computer.
More bold talk from Nokia, now the world's biggest camera maker, with 100 million cameraphones sold in the last year alone, and with Konica and others withdrawing from the standalone market. Next in Nokia's sights, unsurprisingly, are music players and camcorders.
Nokia's Tommi, over on his S60.com blog, has penned a neat showcase for the steps Nokia have taken to help both new users and those upgrading from older devices.
Here's the week's Carnival of the Mobilists (a.k.a. all sorts of interesting articles about mobile computing), hosted by C Enrique Ortiz. Have a good weekend!
Add the programmer of a new Rapid Application Development system to some sample content from myself, plus a free weekend and you get a full working S60 application. No, really. Guest writer Francesco Aliverti-Piuri takes up the story, as part of demoing how his SoProMach system works.
In an interesting (but niche) development, Nokia has licensed content from the Discovery Channel for demoing on its forthcoming N92 TV handset. Darla's got the details...
SmartMovie, always a competent (though quirky) video conversion system for Symbian-based devices, has recently embraced the terrific CoreMP4 codec and boasts much better performance. Steve Litchfield reviews the result, tested in this case on the Nokia 9500 and N70.
You may remember that PDA Essentials magazine, the only UK newsstand publication to feature smartphones, disappeared at the end of 2005 with the bankruptcy of its publisher, Highbury? Just a heads-up that it's back, under Imagine Publishing, and here's the web site to prove it. OK, so it's little more than a placeholder, but still worth bookmarking for the future.
Symbian's main web site has just gotten itself a face lift! Well worth a browse. First impressions? Lots of curves and better organised menus/sections.
The Nokia N series includes smartphones that have the potential to replace yet another home gadget - the camcorder. Steve Litchfield muses on the current abilities and where the technology will undoubtedly go.
Nokia has published the results of its pan-European mobile TV trials. These were all done on the Series 90-based 7710, although no doubt Nokia has the Series 60-based N92 firmly in mind when mobile TV starts tracking out for real...
Perhaps stung by criticism of the slow frame rate of previous versions, Lonely Cat Games has released a whole new generation of SmartMovie for all Symbian-based devices, with a new MPEG-4 codec and claims of far better performance, up to 25 frames per second in some cases.
Smartphones Show 6 is now live, although from a Symbian point of view, the content's more limited than normal, as all the really interesting hardware has been on Nokia and Sony Ericsson's 3GSM and CeBIT stands! Still, hopefully interesting watching; quite a bit of the CeBIT hardware should make it into Show 7...
