With all the talk of wikis, blogs, podcasts and other Web 2.0 buzzwords it is probably time for you all make sure that pretty much everyone involved in a public role in your company has read "The Cluetrain Manifesto". Originally published in 1999, it studies the impact of the internet on markets and organisations, and pretty much acts as a blueprint for responisbile companies in this '2.0' landscape. The text is now available freely online. Go forth and learn.
Michael Mace is worried about all the 'Smartphone Will Kill The PC' noises coming out of the recent Smartphone Show, and points out that Symbian "...sound disturbingly like some of the most enthusiastic PDA enthusiasts did in 2000. I cringed then, and I cringe now." Read on as he deconstructs the viewpoint.
Nokia has been issuing its Q3 results, the full press release follows. Unsurprising stats from the release are that multimedia (Nseries) smartphone sales are up 45% year on year, and that enterprise (now mainly Eseries) communicator sales are up by 27%.
Office suites were heavily represented at the Show, with Quickoffice previewing their all-new version 4 and Mobile Systems talking about a big Office Suite update in a few week's time. We're putting them head-to-head when the updates are available, but if you can't wait then check out Richard Hodge's comparison of the existing versions, together with the E61 built-in suite.
Thanks to the people who emailed in about the Nokia Software Update web page, with the long awaited firmware upgrade for the Nokia N93 now actually online - I just updated one of the editorial N93s to v11.0.034. There's up to five Megabytes more free RAM and a faster camera, among other changes listed in the comments below.
Yes, it's the latest Carnival of the Mobilists! CotM carries a selection of links to the week's best writing on the world of mobile devices, and this time topics include mobile home pages, text messaging in politics and marketing, suggestions for improving the E61, mobile phones as musical instruments, and much more. (It's called a carnival because it moves from one site to another, but you can always keep track of it on the main site.)
Tom Coats has a wonderful guide on setting up his S60 phone to geo-tag pictures on Flickr with a BT GPS and Yahoo's Zonetag. Now Tom is an employee of Yahoo, but if the service is available to you, this is probably the best how-to I've seen in a long time.
It's autumn, it's time for the Symbian Smartphone Show, which means it must be time to wheel Symbian Signed back out in the open! Developer Sampo Suvisaari has been writing about why Symbian Signed means less choice for end users and proposes a simple and brilliant change to the system.
Shooting professional-looking video on the Nokia N93 isn't as simple as it looks. Over on 3-Lib, Steve Litchfield has prepared the definitive guide on what to do and what not to do in shooting your mini-masterpieces.
For anyone that likes to read about life on the cutting edge, here's this week's Carnival of the Mobilists, always interesting. Especially Alfie's rant at the end - spot on!
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.
Video podcast The Smartphones Show 16 has just gone live, with a hands-on review of the Sony Ericsson P990i, a brief promo of the Nokia N95 and a preview of upcoming Windows Mobile 5 rivals. The podcast is playable on any PC, Mac, Symbian OS 9 smartphone, iPod or PSP.
