John Forsyth, over on his Symbian blog, does a good, reasoned job at defending (or at least wisely discussing) Nigel Clifford's vision of the smartphone taking over from the PC. Smartphones probably won't be able to fulfil every role, but they might do more than the PC in your home in a few years time.
The very latest EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) sales figures for smart mobile devices are out. Highlights include Symbian OS's share now up to 78% of the market, with Nokia at a whopping 75%, although Sony Ericsson's UIQ 3 sales have started in earnest, with 3% and rising.
Google Co-Op, a recently announced service, allows you to create custom search engines. Here is a custom search engine for Symbian related sites, which can also be accessed via SymbianSearch.com. The search includes many of the largest Symbian sites, but if you think you know of another site that should be included you can edit the list of included websites.
In his video guide to the Symbian Smartphone Show 2006 Steve offers a few video highlights, recorded using his Nokia N93, including a quick look at the new S60 phones, the LG JoY and Samsung i520, and video interviews with CoPilot, F-Secure, Sling Media, among others.
I know Rafe's a modest chap, and he refrained from mentioning all but the briefest stat at his 'State of the Union' pub meet talk, but just to emphasise how AllAboutSymbian has grown in status, read on.....
Kudos to the people at Symbian for better communications with the media than ever during this year's Show. Included in the press pack was a bound book with some very clear illustrations of just how far Symbian has come. Read on for links and comment.
An apparently genuine Nokia document contains some interesting details about their Next Gen gaming platform, which is due to launch across a range of Nokia smartphones in the first half of 2007. In the document is a list of publishers which it claims are working on content for the platform, and which surprisingly includes Sony. The document also gives some details about the distribution channels and development kits. (To find out more, click here...)
Taking the stage at The 2006 Smartphone Show, Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford illustrated the broad canvas of Symbian OS, both in the short and long term - the challenges, the victories, and where the OS can fit in. Ewan takes a look at what was said .
Weekly round of 'The Carnival of Mobilists' of which All About Symbian is a part has decided to find out a little bit more about the readers and potential audience of the round robin posts. If you have a few mintues, why not help out and take the survey here.
Ahead of their annual Smartphone Show, Symbian has released a number of in-depth podcasts, with interviews with many of the leading managers in the smartphone industry. All are in MP3 format, you can download them here.
According to the latest research from Gartner, MobHappy reports via ITPro, smartphone sales are up 75% from 2005 worldwide, with Nokia accounting for 42% of the entire mobile device market, or over half of all converged devices.
The BAFTA Video Game Awards 2006 took place last night and were sponsored by Nokia N-Gage. As well as sponsoring the overall event, N-Gage sponsored the Gameplay Award and The Gamers' Award (which was voted for by members of the public). There's a list of the winners here, and photos from the event here.
