We don't normally link to outrageous rumours, but in this case there are too many to ignore, all in the one post, over on Esato. Specifically, possible successors to the UIQ 3 W950, P990 and M600..... Mind you, they're only rumours, folks!
These crazy Russians. One chap has decided to put the Nokia 5500's ruggedised pretensions to the test by vacuuming it up, washing it, soaking it in milk, dropping it from a great height and then running over it in a car. And er.... it still worked. Not bad, Nokia!
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.
Nokia has now put up its official N95 product page on the Nseries site, with animations, spotlights and full technical specifications. And the good news is that it's still scheduled to arrive within the next 3 months.
OPL, if you remember, was the 'edit and run it on the device' programming system for old Psions and UIQ/Series 80 smartphones, but OPL never made it past Symbian OS 7. With the steadily increasing maturity of Python (there's a new version 1.3.14 out now), I've been playing with my Musician mini-app again. Read on for thoughts and the download...
Nokia's Jaakko Kaidesoja gave a very interesting interview to Pocket Gamer at the Nokia World event. Apparently, there will be between five and seven S60 3rd Edition smartphones which will support Nokia's Next Gen gaming platform when it launches next year, presumably with that number expanding after the launch as even newer models appear. Here's the interesting bit though: "Some of (the smartphones) are already being sold today ... if you have one of those devices, you'll just have to go to our website, download the application to your phone." Frustratingly however, he declines to say which models these are. (Thanks to Symbian Freak for pointing this story out!)
I was resisting posting about this because I think they're in danger of complicating the application, but Opera Mini is now up to v3.0, with photo publishing (to an Opera photo server), RSS (news/blogs) and HTTPS (secure site) support, plus various usability improvements. It's still the best way to keep your GPRS bill down though....
It's that time again, to round up the world of mobile technology in the Carnival of The Mobilists overview. It's held this week at Fierce Developers, and I definitely agree with this week's favourite post regarding Walled Gardens of content crumbling.
Nokia have quietly (soft) launched a blog of their own for the upcoming Nokia World (Wednesday and Thursday this week). The blog brings together both internal (Nokia) and external bloggers to share their views, thoughts and comments on the themes of the Nokia World event. I will also be at the event covering it for All About Symbian. If you have questions or want to say hello please send me an email.
