The popular web page compression proxy has just had a big update, with better page size reduction, a cleaner interface and a new mobile directory. See http://www.skweezer.net/ if you want to try Skweezer out in your Symbian OS browser.
BenQ has announced that it is to take over Siemens mobile. This includes Siemens 8.4% stake in Symbian subject to approval. The takeover is due to be completed by the end of September.
No official word yet from Symbian, but this year's Symbian Expo, provisionally entitled "The Smartphone Show" is listed by ExCeL London as happening on October 11th and 12th. Don't go buying those airline tickets just yet, but the dates match up with previous years... and yes, All About Symbian will be there. Somehow.
Eirik Solheim has put together a nice guide to listening to Podcasting on your mobile phone, using an MMC card, Card Reader and Windows Media. Worth a look, if only to keep up with Rafe and Ewan's Mobiles Podcast.
Yes we all know that Psion ruled Europe, but over in America, The First PDA War was fought out as Apple vs Palm. Palm being the eventual winner, and the Apple Newton doomed to $5 ebay transactions. But the Newton did have goals and aspirations, check out this Historyof the Apple Newton as a ncie Friday diversion.
Wired Magazine Online looks at Nokia's hope of becoming a big player in this festive season's MP3 market with the Nokia N91. Worth a quick read to see where they are going, but having 40 million smartphones that can play MP3 files does not equal 40 million MP3 players - form, quality and if the person actually listens to music all contribute as well.
Steve's been taking the very latest Nokia 6680 smartphone for a spin this week and he's been very impressed, with only a few disappointments along the way. Read the full review here.
For those, really impressed by TomTom's recent Symbian OS efforts and wanting to invest, they went public today on the stock exchange. See here for details.
Nokia today announced the Nokia 770 - a Linux powerd Internet Tablet device. The device which does not include a phone or an PIM software runs on a platfrom called maemo and is based on Debian 2.8 and the user interface is derived from the GNOME UI. The device has a 4.1 inch 800 x 480 touch screen with connectivity supplied via 80211.b/g and Bluetooth 1.2. Clearly this device would be ideal for mobile use when coupled with a Symbian Bluetooth enabled phone. Expected availability is Q3 and the cost will be around $350.
Things got dotty on Friday May 13th, when the Tonight Show with Jay Leno featured a message sending/receiving contest between a mobile phone text messaging team and a morse code team. Click Here for video.
Nokia's 7710 (running Symbian OS) is the smartphone of choice for this mobile TV trial in Australia. Visual radio? Mobile TV? Yet more convergence and the way of the future...
Controversial, probably, but I've updated my Grid of 'real world mobile computing solutions', which now includes the new Nokia 7710 and the fairly new Nokia 6630. All comments welcome!
OK, so it's not directly Symbian-related, and our own Ewan is out there in the first place to promote AllAboutPalm instead, but if you're interested in following what he gets up to and his take on life in the big US of A, make sure you check Ewan's blog this week.
Now don't go panicing, we're not leaving you all high and dry, but we've just launched All About Palm. AAP will be providing the same community news and views service that you're all used to on All About Symbian, only for the Palm OS community. The full press release is here.
