Symbian's developer website, Symbian Developer Network, has been relaunched to coincide with next week's Symbian Smartphone Show. The revamped site now includes web based discussion forums, a wiki, reorganised content and a clearer navigation system.
Nokia and Orb Networks announced on Tuesday that the Orb MyCasting service would be integrated in the Nokia N80 Internet Edition out of the box (starting in the US market). Orb allows you to view images and other multimedia stored on your home computer from your mobile anywhere in the world.
As predicted in AAS's review of the 5500, Nokia has announced a music edition of the phone. It's got a copper/black/orange colour scheme and is exactly the same hardware and sales package as the 5500 (headphone adapter with music controls, headphones, clip-on phone holder) but it includes a 512mb microSD memory card (which seems rather small, the 5500 can officially use up to 1gb and unofficially up to 2gb) and a bicycle phone holder. You can see official pictures of it here.
It's autumn, it's time for the Symbian Smartphone Show, which means it must be time to wheel Symbian Signed back out in the open! Developer Sampo Suvisaari has been writing about why Symbian Signed means less choice for end users and proposes a simple and brilliant change to the system.
Podcasting impresario Ewan Spence leads us all gently through our first steps in setting up a Wi-Fi-enabled S60 smartphone to gather podcasts - and where better to start than TPN Rock?
Quickoffice today announced the release of the new versionof its office suite for Symbian phone - Quickoffice 3.1. The new version now supports all S60 3rd Edition devices such as the E61, N73, N80 and N91. The viewer component of the program is provided for free. The major new feature is the addition of the Quickmanager component which allows the download and purchase, in application, of program updates and new mobile applications.
Steve takes a listen to ALON MP3 Dictaphone, to find how the addition of a record function benefits the end user and wannabe podcaster, in this audio application. Rough around the edges it may be, but it is a workable solution to recording better audio on your smartphone.
Nokia have announced an updated version of Python for S60. New in version 1.3.11 are keycapture and topwindow modules, support for SVG images (3rd Edition only) and support for both S60 2nd Edition and S60 3rd Edition in one release.
Shooting professional-looking video on the Nokia N93 isn't as simple as it looks. Over on 3-Lib, Steve Litchfield has prepared the definitive guide on what to do and what not to do in shooting your mini-masterpieces.
Today at 4pm BST (but also archived for later playback) Symbian are running a developer webcast focusing on the Accredited Symbian Developer (ASD) program /exam. ASD is an accredited exam program designed to test the skill / knowledge base of developers. After the exam has been taken a report is provided that allows you to quantify and individual or group's underrstanding of Symbian fundamentals.
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....
It's now official (and rather ironic, considering my editorial of today), but all those who find the S60 3rd Edition Calendar restricting can now use a more fully-featured third party alternative. Enter Papyrus 1.2 (ignore the version no. and compatibility list, that's just Handango being slow). Ewan's already onto it, with a review in progress....
