3, the 3G mobile operator, has announced the launch of X-Series. X-Series brings 'flat fee broadband access to mobile'. 3 is partnering with other companies to create X-Series services and applications, these include Sling Player, Google, Orb, eBay, Skype, MSN and Yahoo. X-Series will launch in the UK in December with other 3 countries to follow in the new year. The handsets that will feature X-Series include the Sony Ericsson W950 (UIQ 3) and the Nokia N73 (S60).
Steve's been busy digging around the Symbian Platform Security issues to come up with a plain english guide to the scary world of application installation, signing and security (PlatSec). If phrases like self-signed, malware and Symbian Signed bring you out in a rash, this could be the best place to start.
In his video guide to the Symbian Smartphone Show 2006 Steve offers a few video highlights, recorded using his Nokia N93, including a quick look at the new S60 phones, the LG JoY and Samsung i520, and video interviews with CoPilot, F-Secure, Sling Media, among others.
krisse explores the wonderful world of emulators, running on your S60 smartphone and allowing you to run up classic old games and applications designed for previous generations of computer and games console....
Maybe it's because I still feel S60 3rd Edition device owners are starved of good games that I've gotten excited over the release of the freeware S-Tris 2 by Elements Interactive. It plays well, doesn't use up huge amounts of RAM and is available for every other mobile device under the sun...
In support of the international 'talk like a pirate day' (no, really), AAS's own krisse explores the world of ScummVM, the emulator that makes classic games like Monkey Island possible on any Symbian OS device, and reviews a couple of the most legal games.
It's along time since I've laughed out loud when reading editorial about the mobile world, but Michael Mace has managed that this Friday morning, with a lovely piece entitled "Good Luck Naming Your Phones, Nokia." If you've always wondered about the byzantine naming structure of companies such as Nokia, then here's your answer. And keep reading to the very end, it's worth it.
The team behind ShoZu , the photo uploading toll for those with cameraphones and accounts on services such as Flickr, have let us know their server will be down for up to 24 hours from 4am GMT on September 5th. Check your watches when you post!
Opera recently announced that more than one billion pages have been viewed with its JME browser (i.e. 'runs on anything') Opera Mini. To celebrate, Ewan reviews Opera Mini 2 and concludes that, for his usage, it is the perfect mobile browser.
Austin based Super Happy Fun Fun talk about how competitive the mobile gaming market is (reports the Austin Statesman ), while UK reporter Chris Jarvis offers his Top Ten hints on making good mobile games over at Business Week. It's a long way from the days when Steve I put out shareware - it was a smaller market, but it seemed to provide a better return for programmers. What do you think of the current market for leisure applications?
Or, more to the point, dare you consider a Flash Lite game that sees you exploring The Castle to disprove the theory that ghosts exist> Join me as I continue to explore some of the Flash Lite titles available for Symbian.
AAS friend Antony Pranata has been looking at using Mobipocket Reader to gather news offline (i.e. through your desktop) for later reading on your smartphone. Here's his report.
