Symbian has finalised its agenda and show layout for its annual Smartphone Show in London, on 16-17th October at the ExCeL centre. Listed below are some of the last minute speaker sign ups and some thumbnails, plus links. The show is free to attend, as is the AAS pub meet on the evening of the 15th, details to be announced, but the prize list is pretty impressive....(!) Oh, and keep the evening of the 16th free as well - watch this space.
It's here folks. The much anticipated CorePlayer Mobile for Symbian is just released a few minutes ago for S60, S60 3rd Edition, UIQ and UIQ 3. It supports the latest Audio and Video formats such as MP3, AAC, MKA, WMA, WAV, OGG and also H.264 (AVC), MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, etc. Full press release after the break!
Symbian today announced that 18.7 million Symbian OS handsets shipped in Q2 2007, a year on year increase of 52%. There are now 122 Symbian models in the market (up from 86 this time last year) with a further 62 in development (55 last year). Cumulatively 145 million Symbian OS phones have been shipped.
Frozen Bubble, a very popular and addictive freeware game formerly available for S60 and S60 3rd Edition has just been ported to UIQ 3 by AnotherGuest. The game is simple, shoot the balls and try to hit other balls so to create groups of 3 or more bubbles of the same color. Read on for screens and a link.
iSkoot, which allows you to make and receive Skype calls and instant messages on your phone, is now available as a native application for all UIQ 3 phones (P1i, P990, M600 and W950). iSkoot works by using a normal phone call to reach a special iSkoot number before passing the call on to Skype over the Internet.
According to this post in the CoreCodec Forums the highly anticipated CorePlayer Mobile for Symbian OS will be launched next Wednesday. CorePlayer is a multimedia player that supports a large number of formats including WMA, OGG, FLAC, DivX and XviD. The player will be available for S60 2nd Edition, S60 3rd Edition, UIQ 2 and UIQ 3 devices. Read on.
Roids, a clone of the 80's arcade game, is a new example application on the Symbian Developer website. The SIS file and source code (S60 or UIQ 3) are available from the Symbian website along with a PDF paper that gives some additional information about the project's background and methodology.
In the second part of our Sony Ericsson P1i review Rafe looks at the software elements of the phone. What difference does the P1i's extra RAM make? With a mix of enterprise tools and a well rounded multimedia package how does the P1i's software suite measure up?
Symbian and Sony Ericsson are offering inducements of the hardware kind in order to get developers to contribute to their respective wikis. If you have the appropriate technical knowledge there's a chance to win multiple phones and feel good about contributing to the community at the same time! Read on.
Fring the mobile VoIP software that also aggregates instant messaging services is now available for the Sony Ericsson P1i. Fring have also added support for ICQ instant messaging and voice chat in addition to the existing Sykpe, MSN, Google Talk and Twitter support.
Epocware has announced that they've completed the conversion of their SlovoEd multilingual dictionaries and ‘Handy’ line of utilities to both the wide-screened Nokia E90 and the UIQ 3-powered Motorola Z8. Example screenshots on the E90 and the full press release after the break.
The UIQ 3 powered P1i is Sony Ericsson's top of the range smartphone. With 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, a QVGA touchscreen, a 3.2 megapixel camera and a full QWERTY keyboard it mixes multimedia and enterprise capabilities in equal measure. How does this latest P series phone measure up? Rafe starts looking for the answer in the first part of our Sony Ericsson P1i review which examines the hardware features and overall design.