In AAS audio podcast 38, Ewan Spence gets round a Smartphone Show table with mobile trends expert Robert Harmsen and developer Sander van der Wal. 25 minutes of interesting chat!
Thanks to the people that emailed in about the new firmware 7.38.0.2 (with A-GPS) for the Nokia E90, but it seems that this might be an interim release in a few markets, it certainly doesn't appear on NSU in the UK. Also, my sources tell me that the official new firmware will be 7.40.0.2 - all intriguing, watch this space!
Nokia today published its results for Q3 2007 (July to September). Based on this time last year, they show an 85% rise in net profits, a 28% rise in net sales and a rise in global market share from 36% to 39%. Nokia sold over 111 million devices during the quarter of which 16 million were converged devices (smartphones running S60).
Although we don't normally comment on vapourware, there are many old Palm OS fans who feel they can't move over to a modern smartphone because they have one or more specific Palm applications they can't live without. Enter StyleTap's CrossPlatform product - they're promising it'll see a full release on S60 and UIQ in early 2008.
It's here, it's Black and it's very, very 'Bad'. And it's a production Nokia N95 8GB, not a prototype - this is the real deal. Read on for loads of close-up photos, plus screenshots and observations of this new, blisteringly fast stunner (Updated)
An important note to all who were interested in my feature on file and folder syncing from earlier in the week. Please don't entrust your master files to this PC Suite feature as it's horribly, horribly buggy. My apologies, read on for more.
Also on Symbian's stand at the Smartphone Show was this video demo of the new Demand Paging feature in Symbian OS 9.3 and above. Among other things shown was a dramatic reduction in RAM requirements for most apps and well over 30MB free RAM on the testbed vanilla Nokia N95. See below for the embedded video.
Symbian has announced two key technologies for the next generation of Symbian OS-powered smartphones, ensuring that superfast mobile broadband and complex interface, video and gaming requirements won't be a problem for the smartphones of 2008 and beyond. Read on for the full press release about the new ScreenPlay and FreeWay and for official reaction from Symbian licensees. And we'll have a video podcast up shortly with a full interview.
Also officially launched at the Smartphone Show was Epocware's Handy Calendar. This replaces the built-in S60 Calendar and adds many new functions. The press release is below. Comments on sync compatibility and functionality are welcomed!
The publishing arm of Symbian, Symbian Press, has announced two new titles for developers; Mobile Python, by Jurgen Scheible; and Developing Software for Symbian OS, Second Edition, by Steve Babin.
During their keynote today at the Symbian Smartphone Show, Samsung Electronics announced two new phones (the GPS enabled i550 and i560), to sit alongside three other phones. All five S60 3rd Edition phones will be available before the end of the year.
It's here, it's Black and it's very, very 'Bad'. And it's a production Nokia N95 8GB, not a prototype - this is the real deal. Read on for loads of close-up photos, plus screenshots and observations of this new, blisteringly fast stunner (Updated)
Walking around this year's Smartphone Show in London, one thought suddenly struck Steve - where were the 'anti-virus' vendors? Is it possible, Steve dares to hope, that the virus hype from developers has finally, finally gone away? Has this part of the Symbian OS world finally grown up?