Here's the official All About Symbian review of Symbian's "How Smartphones Work" book. Warning: the title's accurate, but it's not quite about what you think it's about...
The Carnival of the Mobilists rolls on. As ever, plenty of interesting weekend reading while you... err.... cower inside away from the rain. OK, so that's just the UK....
In an open letter to developers, Steve Litchfield muses on the unique requirements of software on the smartphone (compared to the limited restrictions when run on a standalone PDA). Nobody ever said this would be easy, but hard work will reap rewards.
Nokia's still-unavailable N91 and Sony Ericsson's recent W950i have a new smartphone competitor in the WinMob-powered Samsung i310, just announced, with (wait for it) a 8GB hard disk. The world's gone mad....
Steve Litchfield whips out the photographic proof from his multimedia smartphone round-up from a month or so ago, including direct comparison of the output from the Nokia N90 and N70, plus two top smartphones from the WinMob world...
After much, er.... discussion, SymbianWare (now rebranding itself as Rock Your Mobile) SmartphoneWare have sorted themselves out and divided up the portfolio of former SymbianWare products. See here for the full list of products and support details.
Some quick links for weekend surfers. AAS's Ewan Spence is off on a mad three week trip around the USA, podcasting as he goes on all matters techy. Follow his progress on his blog. Also, several more new entries on my definitive S60 freeware directory, happy downloading. Finally, there's a new Carnival of the Mobilists, to get you thinking...
Interesting story over on ZDnet about the death of the PDA and the continuing emergence of smartphones. But then Symbian was created out of this very foresight in 1998, almost eight years ago...
Microsoft has joined the group of industry leaders (including Nokia, Intel, Motorola and TI) in formally backing DVB-H, the already-favourite digital TV standard for smartphones, reports Engadget. You may remember Nokia has been a champion of DVB-H for ages, including trials on their 7710 smartphone in the UK, and with the N92 to come this summer.
There's another Google beta on the streets for all smartphones. Google News Mobile brings together all the mobile-friendly news sources from the main Google News desktop site, but in your smartphone's browser.
Vodafone's partnership with Google announced at 3GSM gets more fleshing out in this article. It's more than just the search box in the browser - it's there for the Vodafone Live! service, but not as the default option in the browser's handset... think more along the lines of AdSense mobile, content delivery, and highly personalises searching (and marketing).
