Symbian in Motion is reporting that the Nokia E90's Active Notes application, letting you insert images and other objects into HTML-based text notes, is now available for all S60 3rd Edition devices. [updated] SiM provides a download link but you may also find Active Notes in your Nokia smartphone's Download! directory. See also my Active Notes mini-tutorial.
Nokia today published its results for Q3 2007 (July to September). Based on this time last year, they show an 85% rise in net profits, a 28% rise in net sales and a rise in global market share from 36% to 39%. Nokia sold over 111 million devices during the quarter of which 16 million were converged devices (smartphones running S60).
Although we don't normally comment on vapourware, there are many old Palm OS fans who feel they can't move over to a modern smartphone because they have one or more specific Palm applications they can't live without. Enter StyleTap's CrossPlatform product - they're promising it'll see a full release on S60 and UIQ in early 2008.
Also officially launched at the Smartphone Show was Epocware's Handy Calendar. This replaces the built-in S60 Calendar and adds many new functions. The press release is below. Comments on sync compatibility and functionality are welcomed!
The slightly predictable mess that's Microsoft's altering of their Office file formats (to XML) has left smartphone owners in the lurch. But at least there's light at the end of the tunnel with today's Smartphone Show announcements: Dataviz has announced Documents To Go Premium Edition version 4.0 for UIQ 3 smartphones and Quickoffice has announced Quickoffice Premier 5.0 for S60 3rd Edition, both offering full Office 2007 editing. In other news, Quickoffice has announced a partnership with SoonR, dubbed Quickaccess.
You'll have spotted our own Flickr 'live' photostream from the London Smartphone Show (above) - as the action starts tonight and rolls on through to Wednesday, we'll keep it stocked with interesting snaps. One tradition of Symbian's own show coverage is a 'quirky', sideways look at the show from two of its employees, Freddie and William - here's theirphoto blog.
What more timely moment for a Carnival of the Mobilists than right before the annual Smartphone Show? And, just to confuse people, my Smartphones (i.e. plural) Show is the Carnival host this week. Lots of good reading in Carnival 95, if (as the editor) I do say so myself...
UIQ Technology, now owned by Sony Ericsson of course, is ramping up its profile ahead of next week's show, announcing new partnerships with EMCC, Epocware, Visto, SysOpen Digia and others. SymbianOne has a good article describing the changes and some of the thinking behind it here.
Jukka Silvennoinen, creator the very popular YBrowser, a free file manager for S60, has gone one step further and released much of the core code in Open Source form, together with examples of how to plug-in your own code. All details and downloads here.
Nokia's marketing teams do seem to be very good at this sort of thing. "Non-stop living" is a multimedia extravaganza showing off their range of Bluetooth headsets. So, forget everything Ewan and I said a few days ago about how A2DP doesn't really work and immerse yourself in the Non-stop living site. (via Adverblog and IM)
Jaiku, the activity streaming and presence service (also referred to as micro blogging), has been acquired by Google. The terms of the acquisition has not been disclosed. While Jaiku is often used via the web it also has strong mobile features (including a native S60 client) and the idea of presence is a very important part of the Jaiku message.
