The long dormant Develop section of All About ER6 has opened with a bang. The FreEPOC - All About ER6 OPL Project is here. Coincidingwith the launch of the Event Core from FreEPOC the project aims to encourage OPL development. Tutorials, articles, support and a competition - what more could you ask for?!
Its not official or anything, but tomorrow at 6PM BST (5PM GMT) I will be over at epocchat.com which is a long running weekly chat for Symbian and Psion users. It would be great to see some of the site members there... so if you're free why not pop along.
Nokia have announced the 6650, this is their first 3G phone for the public sector and looks to be running the Symbian Series 60 UI (admin edit: it's not it is Series 40, but it is still a nice phone). Includes a camera to take photos and make movies, a nice looking bit of kit.
Symbian has joined with India's Sasken Communication Technologies to drive inovation in the production of next generation handsets and PDAs. Sasken is looking to Symbian to enrich their devices with wireless multimedia solutions.
Bitwen must have been very busy recently as details have appeared on their website of some of the games that they plan to release for Symbian devices over the coming months.
According to this ZDnet article Nokia and Ericsson have made progress with "Wideband code division multiple access (w-CDMA) " 3G networks. It says that Nokia will make a statement saying that the w-CDMA cell phones that they have been using for testing have met the required 3G standards.
In order to spare your connection costs, we have tried to bundle the information on AllAboutEr6 Mobile in smaller usefull pages. You can now view the news of the last 2 days, instead of all of it at once + you can see the latest posts on the forum.
Whether you're still looking to be convinced, or you're just curious, this article (by Richard Bloor) on the Wireless Development Network will prove interesting as it takes a little closer look at the UI behind the 7650, the 3650 and possibly others also...
A major leak of Motorola's plans for forthcoming mobile phones has shown that 2003 will see at least 2 Symbian based phones. With a Symbian phone also due any month now Motorola is suddenly looking much stronger in the Symbian department.
Yes, he may be all over the net and a sign of the electronic age, but the first smiley posting has been lost... until now. The report (surprisingly by Microsoft staff finally doing something worthwhile) is here. And what's even better is that his 20th birthday is only a few days away on the 19th Sept!
Well, maybe not Napster and maybe not an ideal solution, but this article on the BBC Online website suggests otherwise thanks to a solution to be offered by the French company, Apeera, a solution to provide a peer-to-peer file sharing client for the advanced functionality found in phones that run mobile Operating Systems such as those provided by Symbian, Palm and (to a lesser extent) the bloated and unstable Microsoft smartphone.
Yes I'm back with the men in white coats at my heels, but I've stopped by long enough to post a rant on the state of software and developers in the EPOC scene. We all want software.... but where is it?
Orange have announced that they are no longer going to create new Talk Plans to try and capture the exact needs of a group of consumers, but wil now allow you to make your own, with your own amount of free minutes, texts, line rental, etc. Now, canwe get a good rate on 0870 Data Calls? More at The Register
According to ZDNet Nokia are to announce 'Several New Phones' on Friday. This is meant to include an new youth phone 3650 a picture of which can be found on this Swedish site.
