ConConUK is for everyone who didn't quite make Ewan's OPL talk at O'Reillys Emerging Technology Conference. With five minute lightning presentations from many of the seminars, this should be a fun way to spend this Monday night. It's being held at AAS' Favourtie Meeting Spot, The Dover Castle, from 6.30 pm.
Psion have dissolved any relationship with Symbian by selling its stake to Nokia. This gives Nokia a 63% share of the company and puts then firmly in control. Wheather this is a good thing for Symbain and the smartphone market as a whole is sure to be hotly debated. More details con be found in this Reuters article.
The 5th Photo Contest has now come to the Voting stage. The category was People. You now have 15 photos with which to pick you favourite. Good Luck to all who entered. *View Photos Here**Vote by Clicking Here*
The F900i was officially available from today. As previously reported this is a phone for DoCoMo FOMA network. Key features include a 1.28 Megapixel camera for photos and video calling, a finger print scanner for security, and a Macromedia Flash player.
Anyone interested in meeting other Symbian users and general PDA owners might like to check out http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/meetings.htm. The meeting is at the end of the month, in Reading, Berks, UK.
This Infosync World article suggests that palmOne may be considering alternative operating systems other than PalmOS for its future devices. It even says that the European palmOne head Vesey Crichton has a fascination for Nokia's operating system and user interface (presumably Symbian & Series 60?). Anyway, smoke or fire? Draw your own conclusions.
The 4th Photo Contest has now come to the Voting stage. The category was Animals and was chosen by forum member Gadget17 (Me) (Who Won 3nd Contest (I promise I was no cheating was invovled). You now have 25 photos with which to pick you favourite. Good Luck to all who entered. *View Photos Here**Vote by Clicking Here*
According to the latest Canalys report over 2 million Symbian devices shipped in Q4 2003. Nokia is still in the number one spot with 77.9% of smartphone sales and 50.2% of the combined market with handhelds. It was also a good quarter for HP who took 32.9% of the handheld market 11.7% of the combined, well up on Q4 2003. The main looser was Palm who suffered a fall in sales. Sony Ericsson and Motorola also showed good growth.
MobileClipper is a new service that was announced this week. It allows you to create personalised web clips of web pages and then view them on your phone.
Appforge have announced the shipment of their Crossfire development product. Crossfire enables Symbian (and other) development with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (VB.NET with C# to follow later this year). MobileVB (the runtime) is contained within the Crossfire license and download.
The March 2004 edition of PC Pro magazine (in the UK) comes with a review supplement 'The Complete Guide to Smartphones'. Interesting reading, with the P900 especially coming out very well indeed ('The Mr Big of smartphones') and winning a 'Recommended' award.
The 3rd Photo Contest has now come to the Voting stage. The category was Architecture and was chosen by forum member Bassey (Who Won 2nd Contest). You now have 6 photos with which to pick you favourite. Good Luck to all who entered. *View Photos Here**Vote by Clicking Here*
