Free over on The Register is this interesting PDF report on mobile security in companies. If you've been thinking about the way security is handled on mobile devices in your outfit, this makes some good points.
The Sendo Smartphones web site has a short but interesting piece speculating on the possible merging of Sendo X2 development work and Motorola's latest announced UIQ smartphone.
Steve's been trying to stay platform-impartial, as part of reviewing smartphones for his TV show, but it's just... so... hard.... It's not just in sales that Nokia's S60-based smartphones are ahead of the Windows Mobile competition. Read on...
If you fancy a little wider reading for the weekend, try the weekly Carnival of the Mobilists, latest roundup here. There's always something interesting and thought-provoking included.
Interesting interview with Symbian's Jorgen Behrens, over on Builder UK yesterday. Some good sound bites, including Microsoft being 'a mobile upstart', backed up by the familiar 10-to-1 sales ratio. Thanks to MobHappy for the heads-up.
Ewan's been doing some hard thinking about the issue facing music on your smartphone, and, in summary, he's having a few doubts about the whole concept. Read the article (and the second opinion) and then let us have your thoughts in the comments thread.
The story pretty much speaks for itself. American Network Operator Cingular has applied for a patent to "[allow] a user of a mobile phone (or other device) to select a displayable icon, such as an emoticon, that indicates the mood or emotion of the user or conveys other information independent of text." To which I say :-(
A couple of news goodies from Forum Nokia: there's now a complete (C++) SDK for Series 60 3rd Edition; and the source code to Python for Series 60 is going to (at last) be made available as Open Source.
According to this thread on Nokia's own forums, Orange plans to make display of their 'love it or hate it' Home screen optional on future branded S60 smartphones. They don't seem to be able to 'fix' existing devices though. Still, at least they've been listening to their customers....
Analysts In-Stat only heap ridicule upon themselves with this piece of research. The "big winners will be Microsoft and Linux, at the expense of RIM and Palm OS"? Er... what about Nokia (and Symbian OS) with its 60% worldwide share of the smartphone market?
Nokia has officially teamed up with (get this list) Intel, Motorola, Modeo and Texas Instruments, to form a new organisation devoted to seeing DVB-H established as the worldwide mobile digital TV standard. Pretty cool, especially as the announcement was made in the USA, home of competing proprietary digital TV systems.
The Smartphones Show programme 3 is now online. The 20 minute videocast features a preview of the Nokia 9300i and has a real world run through of TomTom MOBILE 5 in action on a Series 60 smartphone, plus other features.
Opera Mini, the java midlet based version of the popular mobile browser, is now officially and freely available worldwide from the Opera Mini website. We've previously reviewed the free browser and gave it the thumbs up. Full Press Release Follows
Rafe Blandford looks into his crystal ball and looks ahead to the world of Symbian in 2006. He also takes a wistful look back at how his predictions for 2005 fared. Also, a sneak preview of the cover of the December 2006 issue of 'Symbian Magazine'!
Microsoft are catching up is the summary of Russell Beattie as he looks at the strides the HTC devices and Windows Mobile has made in the smartphone space. His final thoguht echos a lot of enterprise users: "...the N80 and its generation will be one of Nokia’s last chances to get it right when it comes to smart phones, and their integration with PCs. If it doesn’t sync, and doesn’t work seamlessly with my network, then the next rev of Microsoft’s phones - including the Treos - are going to start to make a dent in Nokia’s smart phone lead."
