Like many of you, I've been watching coverage of Steve Jobs Macworld keynote (just finished, it had been going two hours as I write this) - he's just formally announced the iPhone (smartphone), running Mac OS X, only one hardware button and with a fingers-only touch interface. A competitor to Symbian OS/S60/UIQ? Not due in Europe for almost a year... Battery life claimed at 5 hours talk time. My initial impressions are that it's a bit of a premium device, with that large and fragile touch screen (which will be hard to read in sunlight etc.)
Here are some pictures I captured at Day One of CES in Las Vegas including a look inside the Nokia Multimedia (Nseries) Tent and some pictures with brief comments from Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo keynote address this morning. More detailed commentary will be coming in due course.
AAS chief Rafe Blandford weighs in with his official predictions and challenges for 2007, along with an assessment of what he got right and wrong from last year's predictions piece. Essential reading for anyone in the industry or who is interested in where the Symbian OS world is going. Plus, a bonus preview of the front cover of Symbian magazine, Dec 2007...
Just a note of congratulations to AAS friend Darla, the Mobile Diva, who has just completed 1000 posts on her mobile/smartphone blog. Here's to the next 1000!
I've a feeling I could be spending quite a bit of time on S60.com's latest official blog, Mobile Security, by Neil Barclay. Welcome to the blogosphere, Neil! And, on the subject of the S60 blogs, the latest Voice of S60 is now up, featuring AAS favourite Tommi Vilkamo.
In audio podcast no.8, Ewan Spence interviews PsiLoc and Bitween, two long time developers working in the Symbian OS world. Applications featured include Remote Control, Wireless Presenter and Mobile Fax.
First Symbian start up the Smartphone Radio audio podcasts (though no updates since the launch, I note), and now we have an official video too, also probably a one-off, a three minute, whistle-stop tour of the Smartphone Show itself. Bang in the middle is a glimpse of AAS's own Ewan Spence. And note that this is nothing to do with my Smartphones Show... Confusing, isn't it?
Well, that's saved you an air-fare and taxi/hotel. All the presentations from the whole of the Nokia World event are now online in PDF form. Some very interesting stuff here and you get to view content from all the streams, not just one. Here are the PDFs for day one and day two.
After years of saying 'No', top handheld games producer Astraware has finally admitted that Symbian OS is on its radar, planning to produce at least a handful of titles for S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3 in 2007. Let's hope it's earlier rather than later.
The 56th Carnival of the Mobilists is now available to view, so head on over! CotM is a collection of the week's best writing on mobile devices, and is hosted on a new site every issue hence the "carnival" name. This week it's being hosted by mopocket, a blog about wireless issues.
