Futuremark have announced the forthcoming availability of bench marking software for Symbian phones. It will measure the performance and power efficiency of Symbian based smartphones and will include OpenGL ES API 3D game scenes, image processing as well as native Symbian applications such as address book and calendar.
Rafe gazes into his crystal ball to see what he can see. 2004 looks set to be an exciting year for the Symbian community. WiFi in phones, 20 new Symbian devices? With the normal guesswork and dodgy intuition of articles of this type Rafe gives us his opinion...
Before Christmas DoCoMo unveiled the 900 series of FOMA handsets. What wasn't clear is the fact one of these phones (from Fujitsu) runs the Symbian OS. This follows on from the F2102V and F2051.
The 2nd Photo Contest has now come to the Voting stage. The category is Colour and was chosen by forum member Pasa. You now have 14 photos with which to pick you favourite. Good Luck to all who entered.*View Photos Here**Vote by Clicking Here*
Just a quick note to say that the journal Palmtop User, issue 6, is now out and on doorsteps. Main features are on MMS, spreadsheets, upgrading and RepliGo, with reviews of the Sony Ericsson P900 plus Tungsten T3, Sony UX50 and Treo 600. More info at the usual http://www.palmtop.co.uk/
For no discernable reason, Friday is Wi-Fi day over at Mobitopia - they've got a bundle of articles on Wi-Fi throughout the day, so kep that bookmark handy.
Rumours floating around are suggesting that LG may release a Symbian version of their SC8000 (Pocket PC) device next summer in Europe. The source of this information is this CBR article. Some information and pictures of the SC800 is available here. Its likely that the device would run the UIQ UI which is becoming increasingly popular in the Far East. Thanks to The Feature for the heads up.
Last Friday, as you all hopefully saw, was another in the highly informative AAS Pub Meetings. A big thanks go out to Sendo for bringing down some early Sendox's, and for taking the time to answer all the questions that got thrown at him (Photos Here). Read on...
The AAS Team are really excited about this one. Just two days after Sendo announce the Sendo-X to the world, they'll be giving an exclusive demo and talk at Fridays AAS Pub Meeting! As well as the Sendo-X, we've the Mystery Star Prize Bag top prize in our Raffle (so thanks to Nokia, Epocware, Mobimate, Xen Games, Izzyhack Software and [Your Symbian for donating the prizes. You've Missed it, but see the Photos Here! (more details here).
Bobbee Tec,a company specialized in high perforamce 3D gaming for handheld has announced that their DRG 3D game engine is complete.Its a full-featured 3D game engine for handhelds and mobiles and it's also the only technology available that can take games designed for the Quake or Quake 2 engines and actually run them on GameBoy Advance (or any other DRG 3D platform!).Read more
Appforge has announced the beta test of Appforge Crossfire. This is the system that allows .NET development across multiple platforms. AppForge Crossfire will enable mobile development with Visual Studio .NET. You can apply for the beta program here.
