The Dutch PDA and Smartphone-club, PDATotaal.info, has a “Time2Meet” at the 14th of May, from 11 AM until 5 PM. A lot of companies will be attending, a complete list will follow.
Steve's free Trivopaedia is now available in a new version 2.0 for all handheld platforms. An encyclopaedia of everything you'll ever need to win that pub quiz! See the Trivopaedia home page.
First Quarter figures for Nokia (see here on Nokia.com) show sales on the rise, mainly in Asia and the Pacific Region. The overall market share is down to 32% though, namely as American carriers refuse to stock Nokia in the numbers that the Finns would like to see. What stands out in the CEO comments is that Nokia doesn't really have any flagship success stories to shout about - it's just more of the same.
Having seen the demo at 3GSM, it's nice to see Vodafone pick up Visto's Push Email Client. Devices such as the RIM Blackberry have made themselves popular through their always connected push email system. Visto's solution integrates very nicely into Symbian OS. We interviewed Visto recently, so you can find more about them there.
Voice Over IP (or how to get round long distance phone charges using your broadband connection) means one name nowadays, and that is Skype. While Pocket PC handsets have had a Skype client for some time, other platforms have been left waiting. Skype's CEO Niklas Zennstrom yesterday announced that versions for Embedded Linux Devices, Symbian and Windows Mobile are planned for later this year (reports MobileMag). Of course politically for a carrier to put Skype directly on Wi-Fi handset means they'd better be ready to loose a lot of call revenue as users switch to Hot Spots...
Excuse Me, but where were you at Midday? This Photo Contest wants you to take a Photo on your Symbian Phone when the Sun is Overhead, and upload to the Photo Contest 23 page. Vote will start on 1st May 2005 to pick a winner. Winners Photo is displayed on Main Gallery page and can select next category.
In case some of you are wondering who the best is they've all bee nominated in the Handango 2005 Champion Awards. The finalists, decided by a popular vote on the Handango web site, now go forward to the judging panel (All About Symbian will be one of the judges) to find out the eventual winner in theBest Work, Play, Life, Industry and New application for Symbian OS. You can check out the list of finalists at Handango.
So I admit it, I'm a fan of Symbian OS. But how would I objectively score every facet of the main Symbian OS contenders against other PDA/connected solutions, past and present? Find out over at 3-Lib.
It's the real thing, too. Well, H2G2, anyway. Kind of Wikipedia, but smaller. And with a bit more humour. And it's all online here, optimised for mobile devices. Whatever next, a Symbian electronic thumb?
Michele Sciabarrà has set up a Symbian C++ Programming Blog, where he'll be giving valuable hints and tutorials for those of you with knowledge of C++ looking to learn all about Symbian programming.
Steve Litchfield enthuses over his Nokia 9500 Communicator and looks back at its Psion roots. The best of the old and the best of the new, all in one box? Almost.
While everything is nice and happy in the partnership in Symbian, there's alway rumblings about Nokia's influence. It's not as if they would ever leave... But Ewan has taken at look at some of the coding mantra inside Symbian OS, and speculates that Symbian could well have coded a trap door for any partners looking to bale out. Read on...
Rapid Mobile Enterprise Development for Symbian OS (An Introduction to OPL Application Design and Programming) is the descriptive but slightly lengthy title of what author Ewan Spence has been calling "The OPL Book". As reviewer Steve Litchfield discovers this book is the best introduction to OPL yet, covering the development from scratch of two example applications, and featuring an extensive refererence section including the full OPL command reference. For those yet to take the plunge into Symbian development, OPL's RAD approach provides an ideal way to start writing Series 60, UIQ, and Series 80 applications. This book appears to be the perfect companion for that journey of discovery.
