The Wi-Fi Alliance has been granted IEEE 802-11b and WPA certification (announced today by Nokia). What all that means is the 9500 Communicator confirms to all the compatibility requirements by the Wi-Fi Alliance, so any connection problems you may have are entirely your own fault, because the phone is fine.
Nokia and Smartner announced today that the push e-mail service Smartner duality is also coming to series 80 devices. This in addition to Blackberry which will come to series 80 early next year as well.
3-Lib has ported over the old Psion favourite Mapper/GB to the Nokia 9210/9500 Communicators. With over 1000 towns, 1000 road segments and 8,000 overlay items, plus numerous mapping and GIS functions, you'll be surprised to learn that it's only 300K in size. Version 7.2 beta is at http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/mapper.htm
SoundCheater is an application for the Nokia 9200 which will play a sound (in a loop) when you answer a call. Thus you can pretend to be somewhere you are not by adding some background sound.
There's no camera, no wi-fi, yet Nokia are confident they've got everything right about the 9300 Smartphone. Announced yesterday, Ewan interviewed Mark Squires, from Nokia, to find out about how it was designed, what's going to be included, and why we'll all love their 9300?
Nokia today have announced the Nokia 9300 Communicator, the 'smartest' Smartphone. It's effectivly a consumer version of the 9500, and lacks the Wi-Fi connectivity and Digital Camera. It's still an impressive package, featuring Tri Band Support (900/1800/1900 for European customers, and 850/1800/1900 for Americans), compatible with GSM, GPRS and EDGE. While lacking Wi-Fi, it still carries Ir and Bluetooth, and runs Series 80, on Symbian OS 7.0. All About Symbian will be carrying more updates and articles throughout the day, so keep coming back for news on the 9300. Availability is Q1 2005. Full Specifications Now Available.
Nokia have announced that the Nokia 9500 will be able to connect Research in Motion's Blackberry Services, which includes support for the Enterprise and Internet Service. This will enable push-based email, better viewing of attachments, and access to your calendar information on the server. Support for Microsoft Exchnage and Lotus Domino is ready, and Novell Groupwise will follow later.
Psiloc today have made available their suite of 9500 apps before the launch of the phone - perhaps they're hoping all the journalists getting review copies will look at their apps as well and mention them to their readers. Anyway, pop on over to get copies of World Traveller, IrRemote, HotSpot Finder, Data Guard, Secure Storage and Task Manager. They also have localisation packages for Arabic and Hebrew being prepared.
GoDB (from Consigntech is a forms based Developement Tool that can be run on a GoDB Virtual Machine for almost all the handheld platforms (including the Nokia Communicator series) with the available Virtual Machines. NewLC is carrying a guide to a GoDB Hello World application, and GoDB itself is available for a 30 day trial. Full purchase cost is $999.
Psiloc have pre announced several programs they will be publishing for the Nokia 9500 communicator as the availability date for the 9500 approaches. These include localistion programs, a hotspot (wifi) finder, a data guard (store sensitive information) program, a version of their recently announced world traveller, a task manager and a port of the popular irRemote program.
Ewan's been up to visit Nokia and have a look at the latest version of the Nokia 9500 Commuicator. What does the new SuperSmartphone hold for it's Q4 launch? There's a lot of people waiting for this phone, hoping it can be everything it promises. Read our preview of the 9500 to find out what Ewan thinks of the replacement for the 9210.
Based on an article in the Swedish newspaper "Svenska Dagbladet", Nokia will launch in two weeks (launch event on September 8th in New York) a new communicator, 9300.
3 weeks ago, Arjen took his Communicator onto a "Here Be Dragons" RPG Quest in Redshift's Legacy. Now, he has returned, with treasure and a review in hand. Join us he sits down and sings of gold.
Quad is a freeware game programmed in OPL by Ewan Spence for Series 80 (Nokia 9210 / 9290). It is a logic puzzle game with similarities to four-in-a-row. Arjen gives us a run down and his opinion of the game in this review.
