Continuing from part one last week, Ewan's interview with Cory Doctorow continues. In Part Two, Cory and Ewan talk about mobile phone networks, charging, ad-hoc GSM/WiFi networks and what Cory thinks of his P900.
Straight from CTIA in San Francisco, Nokia have announced Preminet, a storefront geared towards Operators, that will provide software, themes, ringtones and other mobile paraphernalia. Nokia will control a central catalogue, and Operators who sign up can choose which items appear in their portfolio. Brand-able client software for the user to download from the Operator. This will provide the ability to get demos of applications, and provide a payment route to be billed. But what does it all mean?
Steve Litchfield rants and raves about the continuing failure of Symbian software developers to provide faultless synchronisation. Read his diatribe here...
Trying our best to sidestep 'The Syndication Wars,' here's a quick look at the way to read All About Symbian without visiting the site. Using RSS, you can pull out just the headlines, articles and reviews you want in a dedicated program. Here's The Guide To All About Symbian's RSS Feeds.
They're a busy lot today, are Symbianware. Next up is an update to Power Navigation and the editing tool Map Editor. Both have had numerous small updates and the UIQ and Series 60 versions have had a small bump in the version number to go with this.
Symbianware's Desktop FileMan promises a Windows Explorer Like view of the drives on our Symbian OS powered smartphones. It certainly looks like the sort of thing the power user needs, now that the file systems are being hidden under more and prettier graphics! Desktop FileMan connects to all Series 60 and UIQ powered devices.
Mobile Application and Content delivery is one of the top issues facing the mobile world today (reports America's Network). Building communitys, porting applications, device limitations, bandwidth and network connections are all familiar problems to Symbian OS developers. Here's a fresh look at it.
CEO of Macromedia, Robert Burges, talks about the future, and his company's view that the new markets of mobile phones and PDA's hold the key to success. The experience of Flash on DoCoMo powered phones is a good example. Read more in the interview on Knowledge Wharton.
Just a quick one here. Nokia has completed the acquisition process to obtain the Metrowerks Development Tools and the licencing of the core development tool technologies (reports Nokia). It still remains to be seen if UIQ (and Symbian) will remain focussed on Metrowerks or look for alternative solutions. After all, you don't want to concentrate too much power in one company.
EFF Outreach Co-ordinator. Published Author. eBook Pioneer. Cory Doctorow is all of those things and more. Ewan cathces up with him and in the first part of his interview, he talks about eBooks, publishing online, and how this new market for authors is developing.
Looking at their financial report, Nokia really need a decent high volume, low cost phone (suggests The Inquirer). One way forward... How about the acknowledge design classic of the 2110, with some modern guts inside it?
Nokia's Q3 2004 report shows a drop in Mobile Phones sales of 13% from the same period last year. Generally, the trend is upwards in Europe, down in the Americas, and stable in China. Net sales over the whole company are up by 1%. They're looking to the mid and high tier phones (such as the Nokia 9300) to do well in the next few months. Compared to Sony Ericsson, Nokia's figures point more to problems within the company, rather than a slowdown in the market
With 10.7 million units sold in Q3, Sony Ericsson is making a tidy profit (reports SonyEricsson themselves). Of course that includes the low and mid tier devices like the T610, and there's no indication on the numbers of Symbian OS powered phones (such as the P900), but they're showing growth, and not loosing money. Which is good.
