Apple have released the latest version of their Mac synchronisation software iSync 1.1. As previously speculated this now supports Nokia series 60 devices and the P800. However at the moment this is limited to Contact details only. Calender and To Do support are listed as coming soon.
There is an article on Silicon.com which states that Microsoft is moving into Ericsson and Nokia's backyard, despite the plans that Microsoft had to expand its European presence suffering terrible setbacks...
With content covering Symbian OS, Palm OS and MS Pocket PC, Palmtop User covers the breadth of the PDA world in 128 colour pages. Issue Four is now being sent out to subscribers. You can find more information on their website.
Infosync are reporting on work done by Texas Instruments and Symbian to increase the 3D Graphics capabilities of Symbian OS devices. It sounds like an implementation based around Open GL should be with us in the near future. Good news for gaming fans!
Well according to this Inquirer article Sagem are dropping its Pocket PC based wireless PDA. However they will be releasing a Smartphone this summer and strongly hint that it will be Symbian based.
Alasdair Bailey has given Your Symbian a big plug in his Symbian Expert section of Computer Shopper (a UK magazine) this month. Your Symbian is of course our fortnightly newletter with news and views of the Symbian world in a light hearted vein. The next issue of YS is out on Monday, so sign up now!
According to this Think Secret article the next version of Apple Mac's synchronisation software iSync 1.1 will support the SE P800, Nokia's 7650 and 3650 phones. Apparently this should be available early next month.
We’re going to be covering the Symbian Exposium in lots of detail in the next few weeks. We’ve already posted the time critical announcements, but we’ll be posting features and interviews on interesting technology and software we saw or heard about. This story is intended to give you a brief overview of how we will report the Exposium.
Symbian announced a new version of its OS today. Version 7.0s was formalled announced at Exposium '03. The new version has already been delivered to liscensees. New features include new networking capabilities including multiple PDP (allow several network connections at once), MIDP 2.0 (more standard J2ME hopefully!), and Greek and Hebrew language support.
Handango have joined the Symbian Platinum Partner Program. This puts their relationship on a more formla footing and hopefully we will see Handnago fully support Symbian. Handnago recently released statistics showing that Symbian smartphone owners spend more on software than any others.
Symbian have launched an affiliate partner program. The new program is targeted at a wide range of third parties, particularly small and medium-sized companies, working with Symbian OS. Symbian is, with his move, fostering the ecosystem. This is a really great move, as it encourages development and helps developers in their co-operation with Symbian and the device manufacturers... So thats another exposium announcement then.. (AEA).
This is a quick report on the AAS pub meet that took place tonight. I'm not likely to have internet access for long posts for the next 2 days and so here is a quick story to keep you going. If you were at the meet and took some photos, leave a comment and let us know about them.
As of a press release at Symbian at 1pm today (GMT), OPL has now been released under the LGPL license as an open source project. The project's homepage can be found here at sourceforge.net. In a similar manner, Ewan and myself have worked on a project at http://www.symbiandiaries.com/opl/ so that you may be brought the latest OPL news in a style best suited to the layman or beginner.
Tonight (Monday 28th April) is the first AAS Pub Meeting. Starting at 7pm (although the AAS Team will be there from mid aternoon in all probability), you can look forward to a talk from Siemens, Prize Draws, members of the Symbian Community, lots of chat, and the occasional drink. Full details (including some of the prizes available) are on the Pub Meet page. See you there - unless you decide to hide in a pub round the corner and make us feel like failures...
