Back in October, Nokia announced a new area for the Finnish company. Preminet would be a software store retailer, that would work with the carriers and developers, providing over the air download services for handset owners. With strong online competition from Handango and Symbian Gear, All About Symbian were interested in what Nokia could bring to the table. We sat down with Steen Thygesen, from Forum Nokia, to talk about this new venture.
As of today SPMark™04 is available for end users. SPmark will do a set of comprehensive OpenGL tests to measure your phone's graphics performance and it features a detailed system information module that reveals technical data about your device. It supports handsets with Symbian 6 and 7 operating systems and Series60 or UIQ user interface so that includes most of the major if not all handset manufacturers out there. The best bit is that SPMark is FREE! Get it here
In this Photo Contest, we want your Best photos featuring Shadows (taken on a Symbian Phone). Please upload your photos to the Photo Contest 18 page. Vote will start on 5th December 2004 to pick a winner. Winners Photo is displayed on Main Gallery page and can select next category.
PDAtotaal (formerly Symbian.info) are holding a meet and greet for users of Symbian phones (and others PDAs) in Amsterdam on November 27th. PDAtotaal is a usergroup for the Benelux countries. At the meet and greet there will be a chance to meet like minded people, talk to the people behind PDAtotall and enter a raffle to win prizes (including phones, software and services). We hear it will be like the AAS pub meeting so it is sure to be worth attending if you can.
Phonescoop recently attended an event run by Samsung where they were showing their latest products. One of these was the Samsung D710 which we can expect to see in the market in the New Year. The report mentions some of Series 60 customisations as well as the tweaks in the design and styling that the phone has had.
Mobitopia has been around for a while, but it's previous life as a Blog for views on the mobile world is no more. Thanks its large IRC Community (which includes All About Symbian) it's the perfect home for a Link Log. Russ explains why.
With the title of Independent, Non-Executive Chairman, Sir Peter Gershon joins the board of Symbian, taking up the space if not the exact title, of David Potter (Psion) who resigned when Psion sold its stake in Symbian. Sir Gershon is no stranger to large organisations with different objectives; he led the review of Whitehall and local UK Government efficiency in the past. So helping Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic and all the other partners to agree on future direction shouldn't be a problem.
Well, Avant-Go asked it's readers what must have features should be in a mobile device, and here's the top 3. Calendar and Contacts list... Easy Sync to PC.... Great Battery Life. How well does your device measure up? 9 more items are behind the link.
And theymake good reading. They've hit all their targets... 19.2 million Symbian OS handsets in the world, over 3,200 applications available, 38 products in development ...and while they acknowledge it's still not a significant percentage of the worlds mobile phone sales, they are working to get the OS into the mid-tier high volume phones to push those numbers higher.
Today the Bluetooth SIG introduced version 2.0 of Bluetooth. This version will include multiple connections at the same time, higher bandwith and lower power consumption!
Every OS has its programming books, and Symbian OS is no exception. Ewan caught up with the auther of "The C++ Book" for Symbian OS, Richard Harrison, to find out more about the man who helped write the text that everyone else uses to program our smartphones. Read all about it in his interview.
Fresh from the new version of Crossfire (released November 1st), Appforge will provide Developers and Users with access to Intellisync's Data Sync software (part of Intellisync's Mobility Platform). This will allow for remote data sync, transfer and querying on the mobile device using the Crossfire runtime.
Symbian have started looking for some new employees. If you've got a relevant BSc Degreem and fancy working on ' the global open industry standard operating system for advanced data-enabled mobile phones' (and can remember that phrase for your interview) then the full details on applying can be found on the Symbian website.
Long time friend of All About Symbian Russell Beattie has managed to get his thoughts about where mobile information may go in the future. He dubs it Communicontent, and it's worth looking at over a coffee.
