Symbian luminary David Wood has published his latest official 'Insight' article, taking the theme of security. This one's a little technical but especially worth printing and/or bookmarking, as it strongly echoes what we've said all along about the innate security of Symbian OS. This Insight piece should reassure smartphone users everywhere and provide some concrete rebuttal material for virus-hype-addicted journalists.
Not that this will come as much of a surprise to regular AAS readers, but Nokia has commissioned research into mobile phone use and found that almost half the respondents/interviewees already use their mobile as their main camera and over two thirds want their mobile to be their music player as well. Full press release below...
There's a fascinating half hour podcast from the Voice of S60, with an interview with Charlie Schick, who helped create and shape Series 60 from the days of the 7650 until recently. Lots of insights and anecdotes and a must-listen.
We were supposed to be going on a Links Of Interest diet, but how could I pass over this week's Carnival of the Mobilists, when it's hosted by Darla and when we're hosting it ourselves next week?
Having seen Nokia's Series 90 interface get subsumed into S60, and with Series 80 seemingly well on the way, I've been busy over at 3-Lib and present my thoughts on what the Nokia Communicator of 2007 will look like. Comments welcome on whether I'm on the ball or way off the mark!
The clever folks at the Internet Radio for S60 project have now finished a version for all S60 2nd Edition smartphones. Details and links courtesy of the S60 Multimedia blog. The usual disclaimers over GPRS bandwidth apply, of course!
The well known 24/7 sites, which focus on Windows Mobile and Palm PDA/smartphones recently published an initial look at the Nokia E61 inthreeparts. Shaun found himself pleasantly suprised by the E61 and declares that the E61 is the 'best Smart Phone I have ever used. From its build quaility, through to the operating system and finally its flexibility it stands head and shoulders above the rest'.
There's a new S60.com blog on the scene, only this time it's a podcast as well. AAS's Rafe Blandford is the main subject of the second show, available now. Listen especially to the middle section of his interview, as it sets out exactly where S60 needs to go. Very, very interesting. Show 1 features Darla Mack and is also worth a listen (persevere past the 'diva/pink' intro section and through the awkward transatlantic phone pauses).
This week's edition of the ever popular Carnival of the Mobilists is here, including a rant by one blogger about the Sony Ericsson M600i. Lots of good reading, as always.
OK, so we missed the original announcement of Theme Studio 3.0 a few weeks ago, but not to worry because it's been tweaked again (though still calling itself '3.0'). The new release of Theme Studio has bug fixes for installing to 3rd Edition smartphones, plus support for morphing themes and animated highlights. Here's the download page.
More from those Mobile Review Russians, seemingly on business in Paris, in this latest exciting installment of their Nokia N93 review. This one includes plenty of sample photos and video from the N93's absolutely cutting edge optics. Interesting difference in quality over the N80, too.
PC Suite has been tweaked again, for all Nokia smartphones. It's now at 6.8.22 and the changes include security and installation fixes. Bullet point changes below the break... There's also a cool and user-friendly set of Flash animations, most of which are here, to get across its purpose.
Staying with the video theme, Nokia's Nseries Studio site has been heavily updated with video footage shot on (and sometimes featuring) the upcoming 'DVD-quality' N93. Look for all the Tribeca Film Festival 'Storyteller' videos and the RSS-ready 'Open your eyes' video podcast where new directors put up short films each week.
It can only be 'The Blair Witch Project'... No, no, actually it's amateur videos of upcoming cutting edge Symbian-powered handsets, over on Google Video. See, for example, the Nokia N92, N93 (camera zoom), N93 (video recording and editing) and Sony Ercisson P990, M600 and W950 (show stand demos). And, in case you didn't see it a while ago, there's Nokia's own N92 promo.
