You may know John Holloway as the guy behind ZingMagic (and before that Purple Software), but he actually goes back to the very beginning of the Symbian story, working at Psion. Ewan caught up with him at the Smartphone Show and covered a huge range of issues and anecdotes. Great stuff, catch it all in AAS podcast number 3.
Sony Ericsson Developer World has just announced the release of a complete package for Web Services development, enabling over-the-air access directly from Sony Ericsson mobile phones to web server based solutions using C++ or Java. As well as UIQ 3 support, there's a new development tutorial. Press release follows...
Steve takes a look at Sony Ericsson's M600i UIQ 3 phone in this video review. In the 6 minute review, shot on a Symbian OS smartphone, Steve looks at the main software and hardware features of the M600i. The review is part of our videocast series. You can find out more information in our new Media section.
The huge photo-sharing site Flickr is now properly mobile again. http://m.flickr.com/ now works from any smartphone, letting you browse photo streams without incurring huge bandwidth penalties. Well worth bookmarking from your smartphone browser. (Via SymbianOne)
Short of 'look outside', Handy Weather on UIQ 3 devices is about as good a weather forecasting system as money can buy. Steve reviews (well, ehrm, writes some words about) it and why he thinks it's one of the nicest pieces of software out there.
Hacker extraordinaire "Another Guest", over on My-Symbian, has completed a port of the PC Classic 'Duke Nukem 3D' for all UIQ 3 devices, e.g. the Sony Ericsson M600i. Hardened gamers won't want to miss this one...
Symbian has released an official (video) webcast, in both RealPlayer and Windows Media format, with CEO Nigel Clifford talking about the significant '100 million smartphones' milestone. Here's the link.
Our first two podcasts feature the lightning talks from the All About Symbian pub meet. First up was my talk about what AAS has done in the last year and some of our future plans. Second was Lars Linstrom from Sony Ericsson who talked about the M600, P990 and W950 UIQ phones. In our videocast Steve takes a hands on look at the Nokia N93 Golf Edition.
Eagle-eyed observers may have noted the changed toolbar on the site, with 'Media' added. The new Media section houses regular and semi-regular audio and video content, all of which you can listen to or watch online, in your browser, or (if you prefer) use the provided RSS feeds to subscribe in iTunes or S60 Podcasting or similar, to make sure you never miss new content.
3, the 3G mobile operator, has announced the launch of X-Series. X-Series brings 'flat fee broadband access to mobile'. 3 is partnering with other companies to create X-Series services and applications, these include Sling Player, Google, Orb, eBay, Skype, MSN and Yahoo. X-Series will launch in the UK in December with other 3 countries to follow in the new year. The handsets that will feature X-Series include the Sony Ericsson W950 (UIQ 3) and the Nokia N73 (S60).
The folks over at PDA247 have seen a mountain of traditional PDAs in the last five years. On the editorial team, Philippa has been trying to get used to the Sony Ericsson P990i. Here are her thoughts so far. Summary: low RAM (echoes from our own review) and poor battery life are the main problems.
Admittedly it's not a huge list, but I've at least made a decent start at compiling a UIQ 3 version of my 3-Lib No Nags tables of freeware. If you can add to the list (not too much generic Java stuff, please) of software for the Sony Ericsson P990i et al, get in touch.
