Or, to put the apocalypse in another slightly less quotable form, your phone is about to be infected by the biggest Computer Virus outbreak since the last one.
Minimo is a project ot port the Mozilla Browser, and it has been confirmed that this open source project has now recieved some finance from Nokia. Two questions... Are all you Firefox fans rejoicing at the idea of a mobile version yet? And have Nokia and Opera agreed to disagree over something? (News.com)
Technolgy Photo Contest vote is open. You now have 2 photos from which to pick you favourite(s). *View Photos & Vote by Clicking Here* Poll closes on 27th June 2004! & Good Luck to all who entered.
Good and bad news from Nokia: Strong Series 60 moves. Two new Series 60 devices, 6260 with flip, due Q3 2004; 6630 (Charlie) WCDMA, EDGE, or old-school GSM/GRPRS, due Q4 2004; Bluetooth keyboard only works with latest devices (7610, 6630, 6260); Significant Series 60 improvements - more resolutions, QWERTY keyboard, WCDMA, CDMA, IP-SEC and VPN support, 3D and SVG graphics. Bad news, very muted on 7700 which appear to have slipped to being a technology demonstrator, and the 9500 appears to be drifting into the enterprise wilderness.
Nokia is due to announce several new phones at it's Nokia Connection event this Monday. Rumoured phones include one or more Series 60 devices and a slimmed down Communicator (Series 80). We will keep you updated as the day progresses.
The Symbian GCC Improvement Team from the University of Szeged have modified the official Symbian build of GCC so that it will produce code compatible with and better than the official Symbian build.Krste has just tried a version of GoBoy compiled with the improved GCC build and there were visible improvements.Thanks to Akos Kiss for great work on GCC and to Snobile for their build of Goboy.Lets hope the developers will take advantage of the improved GCC tools.
They make some of the best games and apps for Symbian OS, but how much do we really know about Wild Palm? Ewan decided to find out. Here's his Interview with Wild Palm's Nigel Grange.
Peroon R&D and Symbian have announced the extension of it's Porting Technology to allow Series 60 C++ Source Code to be compiled and run nativly on Series 80 and Series 90 devices. IT already allows S60 porting to UIQ. This will NOT allow Series 60 apps to run on new devices, but it will make the authors job of porting the code a lot easier.
DoCoMo and Fujitsu have announced their fourth Symbian powered phone developed by Fujitsu for DoCoMo's FOMA network in Japan. Features on the phone include a megapixel camera, miniSD card support, Bluetooth support and dual screens (the main one is a touch screen).
Mako Analysis have decided the openness of the Symbian OS is a 'bad thing' for operator revenue (The Register reports). The fact that users can bypass the offerings of the Networks and go for their own installed products, apps, ringtones and themes will potentially deprive the network of revenue.. God forbid that a User can make an informed choice instead of having to rely on T-Zones or Vodafone Live...
It was just 4 months ago, that Symbian Themes launched, for 6600 users to share their Themes. Today, the site has expanded, and now offers a service so that wallpapers can be shared between Series60 users. The same upload/download system used with Themes applies, so uploading your own wallpaper is fast, free and easy. Check Them Out Now!
Sourceforge is hosting yet another interesting project. The Symbian OS Unit provides a unit testing framework based around CxxUnit, in the style of JUnit. Visit the Sourcefore Project Page for more details, binaries and source code.
The monthly Symbian Newsletter is now available online from the Symbian website. This month they look at the new Signing System, Exposium 04, the anniversary of OPL, along with the usual library, tools and tech tips talk. You can read SCN 27 online at Symbian, and register for subsequent issues by email.
Ever wondered how much impact the 'fun' cameras in mobile phones have on the rest of Digital Photgraphy? There could be over 169 million camera phones sold this year, reports Business Week (roughly one in four cameras). With Sony deciding the low end market for Digital Cameras is now an area for mobile phones, and Eastman Kodak no longer the number one seller of cameras in the world (it's Nokia now), the world of pictures is changing so fast you phone users never noticed... Did you?
