A fascinating article on the BBC Website looks at whether fathers are struggling to keep up with their kids' technological gadgetry. I remember when I was a kid, my dad was well into his stuff; he had a reel-to-reel tape recorder, he enjoyed playing with my Commodore 16 as much as I did and was the first to be able to program our first ever family VCR.
In this typically vague Symbian press release it announces that Mobility Electronics becomes the first office software company to join Symbian Affiliate Partner Program. They already have readers for Word and Powerpoint for series 60. Hopefully this release means it will be the full Quickoffice suite with editing, as it quotes "With the 2003 launch of Quickoffice for Symbian OS, Mobility Electronics continues to define the benchmark for mobile office suites, adding significant value to professionals on the move with their Symbian OS-based phones". Although its well hidden in the release so make up your own mind. Full details follow...
RotoView by Innoventions Inc has already begun shipping its tilt-screen development system for RotoView-enabled devices. This allows the user to navigate simply by tilting the machine.
Today (at 6.30pm) see's the next AAS/Mobitopia Pub Meet in Central London. With top prizes, conversation, and lots of the people you know from online, it promises to be a fun evening. See you there!
Who said OPL was a dead language? This press release from Syscan International shows OPL being used in a new custom application for Bell Canada Mobile Communications.
NTK (Need to Know) have woken up to OPL. Previously, they asked for info on any IDE's for Smartphones. So the AAS Crew swung into action to remind them OPL was Alive and Kicking (tm). And what did they think? We'd hoped to scare off the Symbianites by unfairly disparaging their newly open-sourced OPL, but unfortunately we misspelt it as "OML", so they got a look in. Close, I guess. Thanks for the oxygen of publicity Danny.
1 million Symbian OS phones were shipped in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) far outstripping its nearest competitor according to this canalys report.
More prizes now available in the raffle, so thanks to Cibenix, Xen Games, Mobimate, Electric Pocket, 3Lib and Izzyhack for this. Next week sees AAS and Mobitopia occupythe Dover Castle on Tuesday August 12th. Around 6.30pm will see us wondering if anyone will turn up for another of our successful Pub Meetings. We're planning a raffle, guest speakers. More details can be found here. Why not post a comment to let us know you're coming?
The last few weeks have seen the staff of All About Symbian and Mobitopia work on a joint chatroom. It's now finished testing, and you can visit the chatroom and join in with lively discussion throughout the day. It's free, it's fast, and it's fun.
According to this Symbian press release Fujitsu have released their latest Symbian mobile videophone, the F2102V for NTT DoCoMo, Inc.'s FOMA 3G service. Its an improvement on their earlier model the F2051 and has better battery life and video facilities. It sounds great, its just a shame that its only available in Japan. More details can be found here on the DoCoMo site. Press release attached...
According to this Digitimes article it is rumoured that the Taiwanese handset maker Quanta is to produce a Symbain smartphone. As usual with these rumours no more details are available and Quanta is making no comments. If they do produce one its possible that it could be for a different manufacturer as they currently produce devices for Siemens and Panasonic Mobile Communications.
New UK law comes into effect at the end of the year regarding the use of mobile phones in cars. This seems a step too far from the anti-mobile lobby. SwitchBlade has a bee in his bonnet again...
John Romero, in this article on IBM Developer works, talks about the n-Gage, why it shows so much promise, and lets us know that the port of Red Faction has pretty much everything the PC version has! Read on...
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According to this Symbian press release. Peroon launches S2S the world’s first porting technology enabling a single Symbian OS C++ code line to simultaneously support Series 60 and UIQ. Almost of more interest is E2W that allows for porting between Pocket PC and Symbian. So will we start to see existing Pocket PC applications being ported? Full press release attached...
