Forum Nokia has announced the first few members of its Forum Nokia Champion reward program. The Forum Nokia Champion reward program is an invitation-only program that honors Forum Nokia members for their activities and contributions to Forum Nokia and the mobile industry. Benefits include rights to the title, showcasing their achievements in Forum Nokia channels and twice yearly meetings.
Nokia today announced that the Bluetooth SIM Access Profile would be a standard part of S60 3rd Edition. This means that certain car phone kits (for example, the Nokia 616) can access ID data stored on the SIM card of phones such as the Nokia N91, N92, N80, N71, E60, E61, E70 and 3250. This resolves the need for a second sim card and eases switching in dual sim card situations.
Is Python a replacement for OPL on Series 60? Is Nokia on the right track by backing it? Is it easy to get started? And can you produce full standalone applications using Python? Steve Litchfield answers these questions and produces an application as concrete proof.
Steve's been using TimeTrack for Series 60 for months now - here's his short review. Summary: super-small and super-cheap, although perhaps too limited for power users.
It's not often that Symbian OS and Nokia's Series 60 makes an impression on the hacks over on US sites like Engadget, but here's a tips roundup with some nicely positive comments and suggestions.
Programme 4 of the Smartphones Show is now live. A free TV programme all about smartphones, available online, programme 4 features AAS's very own Thomas Boys reviewing the Nokia N90, while I do a batch of Treo and Series 60 tips and look at the i-Mate SP5.
Merkitys is an open source upload tool for Series 60 Flickr users. It allows you to add custom tags that are automatically added to the photo, and currently allows GPS, GSM Cell, Country and City location information, Calendar information, or any user generated tags and descriptions. And why the name Merkitys? It's Finnish for "Meaning."
Neatly transplanted from 3-Lib and enhanced significantly, AllAboutSymbian is proud to present its new Support Knowledgebase (click the link or use the menu tab above).
Symbian's Oren Tversky's interviewed about music on mobiles here, although he misses several important points. Firstly, bandwidth IS still an issue for many people. And secondly, what about syncing music over from your desktop's hard disk, who says it all has to come over the air?
The Nokia N91, the music focused phone with a hard disk, and the E70, the enterprise focused phone with a gulwing form factor, have been approved by the FCC. The documentsavailable include internal pictures (where the N91's hard disk is visible) and the user manuals. The N91 user manual reveals the N91 will innclude UPnP support and includes details on the Music Shop application which will allow users to download music over the air to their phones and the PC Music Sync (which uses Windows Media Player 11). Read on for more.
Up today on Forum Nokia is an exhaustive PDF document, detailing every technical and UI feature of the upcoming next-gen browser from Nokia. Scroll past the geeky bits and you'll find lots of screenshots and interesting stuff nearer the end...
In his latest tutorial, Steve describes how to give your S60 smartphone a music-crunching, iPod-styling, byte-efficient makeover. And no prizes for guessing which S60 music player he's skinning here...
Yes it's another Sudoku applciation, but the ability to go head-to-head in a League Table format is worthy of mention. It looks like a Java based application, from The Guardian newspaper. One for the puzzlers in you to get excited about.
