DataViz have announced the availability of the first beta of version 3 of RoadSync for S60 3rd Edition devices which includes support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. Based on the Exchange Server ActiveSync® protocol licensed directly from Microsoft, RoadSync provides secure, wireless and direct push synchronization of corporate e-mail, attachments, calendar and contacts.
Nokia today announced the winner of its S60 3rd Edition Challenge competition. The grand prize winners were QuickOffice, Foeca, InfoTalk and Augmentra. The global developer compeition was designed to encourage innovative development on the S60 platform.
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.
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.
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....
A demo of Nokia's upcoming next gen game System Rush Evolution is now available for download from the N93 software support page. It will install and run on other S60 3rd Edition phones, not just the N93. Unfortunately it's unplayably slow on the E61 I tested it on, presumably because the E61 doesn't have the N93's 3D graphics accelerator chip. If that's the case, then we can probably expect a slew of new 3D-accelerated S60 models to appear early next year in time for the launch of Nokia's Next Gen games.
In the first of a series of UIQ 3 application reviews, Steve gives the top-down racer Dreamway a run for its money. Worth a look for all smartphone owners, actually, as it's also available for all S60 and previous UIQ devices.
Orange and Nokia today announced that they would be working together to customise S60 for Orange signature devices. S60 is one of Orange's preferred software platforms. The Orange signature device program includes those devices which express or enhance the Orange brand and lifestyle with an emphasis on high end devices.
