Yes we've had a bit of down time with the server. Thankfully it's all sorted now, so sorry if you all missed your Monday morning fix... so do the team here as well!
According to the latest Canalys report EMEA smartphone sales have increased by 170% in the last year and now accounts for 7.5% of all mobiles sales. Series 60 dominates with just under 80% of the market share with Series 80 taking another 13%. UIQ has 4% with Palm, Blackberry and Microsoft taking 5% between them.
One of the more popular applications on both the online stores and bundled with the device is Quickoffice. Craig Senick has been with the product for many years, and All About Symbian sat down with him to find out more about the Office Suite.
Back in Feb 2004, Newswireless confirmed the existence of the Windows Mobile powered Palm Treo. This week such a beast was announced. Now the site is reporting that "Palm engineers have built a Symbian based Treo, and samples have now been seen in the hands of phone company executives." What's stopping them? Surprisingly Nokia laying claim to some "core Symbian code, which Nokia says belongs to Nokia." Ouch.
There’s a huge change in Symbian OS with OS 9.1 coming out. While the directors and Marketing Managers will be prowling the floor of The Smartphone Show for the latest edge available to them, the people who do all the work, the little programmers, will all have the chance to learn about the new OS, API calls, and the low level magic they can use from the people who programmed it. Ewan previews the Developer Training options available at The Smartphone Show.
Why are Smartphones the way forward? Who better to ask than David Wood of Symbian. He's just launched the first of a semi-regular series of articles. In his first Insight, Wood looks at just how useful the smartphone is, and why he believes they are the future. And of course, they'll be Symbian powered, naturally.
F-Secure previously documented a mobile phone virus that will infect the MMC card with a Windows PC virus that would infect if it was ever put in an MMC Card reader... and then quietly noting that while it appeared to be a proof of concept, it was the first serious malware. Now a Sophos senior tech consultant has a view on this announcement (reports Silicon.com), "...For the vendor to say that this is the first example of a serious mobile malware threat is plain bonkers."
Yes, it's magazine week here on AAS, with another plug for a paper publication of interest! This month's ('November'!) PC Pro has a feature looking at TV on the mobile phone, with a heavy emphasis on Nokia/Symbian handsets.
More confirmation of the successor to Sony Ericsson's UIQ-powered flagship P910i, here by the folks at Engadget, who collared SE yesterday at Apple Expo.
Issue 42 of mainstream magazine PDA Essentials, out today, has a 7-page Symbian review roundup pitting the Sony Ericsson P910i, the Nokia 6680, the Nokia 9500 and the Nokia 7710 against each other. No prizes for guessing the author, by the way!
