An important deal clinched by Real Networks with Vodafone has potentially kept mobile multimedia available for the masses after Real Networks had to fight off competition from none other than Microsoft. Imagine a world where all media was controlled by Microsoft and only able to be played on Microsoft smartphones. This would have been a dream come true for The Beast.......
Symbian Diaries has been testing various applications for posting and editing your Symbian Diary from your phone. We can now recommmend Azure. Details on setting it up (and how to apply for your own Diary) can be found at here.
Mobile Innovation has announced the release of TRY, which is a developer tool for testing applications. TRY is a highly customisable, script based software tool that facilitates the automatic testing of Symbian OS applications.
The FT has a lovely article with some commments from Juha Christensen (ex Symbian, now Microsoft), illustrating why Microsoft will win the Mobile Phone OS Wars. Highlights include [we] would like to work with Helsinki-based Nokia and Expect at least one major manufacturer to announce its support for Microsoft's Smartphone before the end of this year.
There's an interesting article on the Wireless Development Netowk web site which discusses the future of the Mobile Phone OS. What makes it interesting is that it says that the future really belongs to the system that reaches the ordinary man and woman in the street. Well, I believe that Symbian has already done that......
An article featured on BBC News Online shows how doctors in South Wales are using Symbian smartphones to speed up treatment for patients. It'as good to see real everyday use of a technology that works - and this article gives details of how it is making a difference for the people surrounding the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant. Questions may arise over the quality of an image taken in 640x480, but they say that tests have been carried out and the results are positive. Needing a reliable platform on which to base this service, one that won't crash or take half an hour to load an application - means that the natural choice is Symbian.
It's been a while since SwitchBlade posted a comment here, mostly as they've been appearing in Your Symbian *subscribe now*. So it was felt that the time was right for another. With all the recent goings on with releases of the Matrix and Terminator 3 coming soon, it is time for a look at A.I.
In this press release Infowave announced that Symmetry Express now supports both Symbian 6.1 and Symbian 7.0 devices and provides the ability to instantly deliver new e-mail messages without any user intervention. Available through Infowave’s mobile operator partners such as T-Mobile International, Symmetry Express is one of the first wireless e-mail solutions in the marketplace to support Symbian OS. Full details below...
In this press release Borland announced the launch of Borland® Mobile Studio, Borland® Enterprise Studio for Mobile and Borland® JBuilder® 9 Mobile Edition. Hence bringing their C++ and Java development environments to Symbian. Full details follow...
Issue 8 of Your Symbian hit the email boxes of the world this morning, with articles covering Sendo and Microsoft, DRM problems, the continuing A to Z of the Symbian world, and much more. Didn't get it? That's becuase you haven't subscribed. Pop along to the YS Website!
You may or may not have spotted that in the middle of the night, we had our 100,000 post! Was it in depth? Exciting? Death Defying? It's the top entry here.
Sendo are suing Orange over a circuit board design in the Orange SPV which they allege infringes a patent granted to Sendo. This follows on from Sendo legal action against Microsoft as a result of the failed partnership.
Palm Computing and Handspring (the two main Palm OS companies) are to merge. It's being portrayed as a merger, but reading between the lines, it looks like Palm is doing its level best to make sure Handspring (founded by the two people who originally set up what was to become Palm) doesn't go bust before it can be brought back into the family.
