UIQ have announced the launch of its new Developer Program to co-incide with the launch of the public SDK for UIQ 3 and the launch of the Sony Ericsson P990. The web portal (to be launched at the Smartphone Show) will allow free registration and enable access to content and services aimed at helping the UIQ developer. UIQ note that 'the web portal will offer all the information and services expected to support a developer community, such as news, development kits and tools downloads, documentation, references, tutorials and guides, knowledge base, Frequently Asked Questions, code samples, technical articles, tips, community events information, and, at a later stage, more advanced services such as development, marketing and business support'. We'll be talking to UIQ at the Smartphone Show to bring you more on this.
UIQ has announced the availability of the first public software development kit (SDK) for UIQ 3. This announcement conincides with Sony Ericsson's announcement of the P990 (which will be the first UIQ 3 phone to the market). A public download will be available on October 26th, but the first 500 people to sign up for UIQ's new development program, at UIQ booth at the Smartpone Show, will obtain a preview copy.
Sony Ericsson today unveiled the P990, the follow up to the sucessful P910. The P990, running on Symbian OS 9 and UIQ 3 features a QVGA (240 x 320 pixels with 262k colours) touchscreen, flip down keyboard, a 2 Megapixel camera (with auto-focus and camera light) on the back and a front VGA camera for video calling, FM Radio, 80 MB internal memory, Memory Stick Pro Duo expansion slot, and triband GSM, UTMS (3G), USB (for charging and PC connectivity) Bluetooth and Wifi (80.211b) connectivity. It weighs in at 155g and it's dimenisons are 114 x 57 x 25.
Steve takes Route 66 Mobile Britain 2006 for UIQ (P910i and A1000 only, though) out for a spin around Berkshire and finds the experience err... illuminating. Read the review here.
Orange have made further details of thier upcoming Code Camp in Opio available. Developers will have a chance to get up to speed on the latest developments with sessions on Series 60 3rd Edition, UIQ 3 and the new Symbian security model is Symbian OS v9. With Symbian, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and UIQ are gold sponsors there will be plenty on offer for the Symbian developer. It is also a chance to talk to Orange about the Operator route to market, and met feelow developers.
One of the more popular applications on both the online stores and bundled with the device is Quickoffice. Craig Senick has been with the product for many years, and All About Symbian sat down with him to find out more about the Office Suite.
Tom Cooper's SmartMobile has another stunning looking UIQ game released today. It's Girders, and the premise is one of the most unusual in a mobile game I've seen in a long time. You have to build bridges, strong enough to take a train over ever widening gaps. Sounds crazy, but it works.
Our resident techno-mage Ewan gazes into his electronic crystal ball and, with the help of a number of announcements over the last year, joins the dots to pluck the previously unthinkable out of the ether. Palm signs up with Symbian...
HandyCalc for UIQ pops up in the AAS Store today from Megasoft2000. It's a multi-screen scientific calculator with a host of features for modern calculations. Given I'm really afraid of calculus this app scares the living daylights out of me, so it at least looks the part.
Up to 200 websites specially vetted by mobile provider 3 could be availabel to handset users (reports The Register). While still a walled garden approach (because thats what the customers want, remember), at least now you'll be able to waste an entire lunch hour browsing, as opposed to the five minutes of footie highlights.
Wildpalm have updated their RSS reader to version 1.2. It now includes support for compressed news feeds, http proxies and the NNTP protocol, alowing you to access Usenet newsgroups. Headline UIQ and Headline Series 60 are available in the AAS Software Store.
Jewelrumble, from Crystaix has had it gold edition release. With a number of gaming moves, mix of puzzle and arcade genres looks like it could be worth some of your time. With three game modes, a variety of special pieces, and an internet high score table, it's well priced at $6.
