The Nokia-sponsored Word Of Mouth (WOM) blog has launched a dedicated N93 blog, with lots of links I'd never seen before, including official news that the new Phone Software Update system will carry N93 firmware (and presumably that for other 3rd Edition devices) as from September 1st, only a week or so away.
Symbian has released Q2 2006 sales figures, showing the usual robust growth. Highlights include 23 new Symbian OS-powered models introduced in Q2, ownership of 92% of the worldwide 3G market, 12 million smartphones shipped in Q2, bringing cumulative total to 83 million worldwide. Full press release follows...
In an innovative push, top developer SmartphoneWare has made available a special 'extranet' for local mobile phone store owners to be able to sell on third party software at the point of sale of the hardware. More details here.
Just a quick note to say that I've been adding new Tips pages to 3-Lib for some of the S60 3rd Edition smartphones. Here are the Nokia N93, E70 and E61 pages. Hope you find them helpful!
Very welcome though perhaps early days, Nokia has released a S60 Phone Software Update utility/service, letting users update their own firmware. For more on this huge story, read on...
Just spotted this interesting blog entry over at Forum Nokia. In advance of this week's second and final Nokia N93 review article, Hartti talks about and photos the N93 as a super S60/multimedia presentation tool.
S60.com continue to put out licensed games as free 'exclusives', this month featuring shoot-em-up Galaxy Fighter. Curiously, their exclusives are for only older S60 2nd Edition smartphones though, which is a bit of a shame...
Python for S60 , the opensource port of the Python scripting language for S60 phones, now has an official Wiki. The Wiki features a list of Python applications, instructions for installing Python for S60, Python for S60 documentation and links to resources of interest and note.
This week the Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Abrio Mobile News. Despite reaching middle age with its 40 outing the CotM remains as vibrant as ever including the best writing from across the web. New to the Carnival this week is AAS favourite Matt Miller from ZDNet's Mobile Gadgeteer.
Symbian's David Wood has published his latest Insight article. Number 11 develops a theme that's close to Rafe's heart: the killer app in the smartphone world is choice. I'm not too sure about the 'Generation S' pronouncement though...
In a light-hearted promotional push, Nokia have put up a Flash-based site for their Eseries trio of E60, E61 and E70 smartphones, complete with drag and drop 'Convince-o-matic', to help you build the case for your boss to buy you one...
It's Grid time again - I've recently had in for review the HTC TyTN, the major new player on the communicator scene, and have added it to the Grid, along with numerous other score tweaks. Can Windows Mobile swing it for you or will a Symbian OS device still come out tops?
A tip we've alluded to several times, but which is spelt out clearly and sensibly by our friends at the See into S60 blog: installing applications can leave behind original SIS files which do nothing but waste space on your 'C' disk. Go tidy!
The BBC take a look at the current fight to try and find the perfect user interface for a mobile device. Be it iPod, mobile phone or walkman, there doesn't seem to be a one size fits all solution, but that doesn't stop a number of companies attempting their own ideas to achieve this holy grail.
