Thanks to the eagle eyes here, who have spotted that Nokia has released a World clock update for all their Series 80 v2 devices. The countries mainly affected are Brazil, New Zealand, Israel and Australia.
Just spotted this entry on Antony Pranata's blog, announcing the availability of a Series 60 3rd edition screenshot utility. It's a port of his existing app and it's still freeware. Kudos to him for getting it out so quickly and AAS will find this very useful in making our upcoming reviews even prettier.
Nokia has put an interesting Flash version of the E61 user manual online, which will give you a rough idea of how it will work, although there are very few images to help out. Thanks to Michal for the heads-up. Ewan's full E61 review is coming soon, by the way!
Nokia's iconic LifeBlog system is now available in 2.0 guise for all Nseries smartphones, here's the main download and info page. Thanks to Tommi for the heads-up.
Our Darla, a hacker? Not exactly, but she's written several techy tutorials for S60 over on her blog. Here's her summary post, worth bookmarking to save yourself having to find this via Google later on....
In a further Insight article at Symbian.com, David Wood deconstructs the myth of a mobile Operating System being a commodity, the all-conquering Linux-Phone, and how (naturally) Symbian OS has addressed these problems. As Wood points out, the arguments he is hearing sound similar to the debates about how search was solved and no innovation was needed... just before Google launched.
It's the now weekly Carnival of the Mobilists - always worth a read for anyone interested in all things mobile. This week it's at Helen Keegan's place.
Another blast from the past, perhaps, but if still have any old Psion 5mx, Revo or Series 7 netBook palmtops, note that Opera has now been made freeware for each of these. See PScience5 for the appropriate ZIPs and instructions.
Those mobile Ruskies have done it again - here's their detailed review of the upcoming UIQ 3-powered Sony Ericsson M600. It's in halting English again, but hey, I can't speak Russian, so...
Opera Mini, the proxy browser that I declared in my review would 'change the way you browse, the sign of a killer application' seems to be going from strength to strength, according to Opera's latest press release and observing a number of industry deals, ranging from added-value branding and support from Onspeed Mobile to a variety of redistribution deals. Opera Mini currently serves up over 4 million pages a day to mobile and smartphone users.
Strictly for developers only (or for pointing your development team towards) is this new ZIP archive on Forum Nokia, explaining how to write for both platforms at once and how to adapt existing WinMob apps for S60. The kit is useful for including example game source code, implemented on both platforms.
Nokia's S60.com has announced that all the S60 3rd edition N and Eseries smartphones from Nokia will feature the MPEG-4 AVC codec. So the full list of products reads: N71, N80, N91, N92, E60, E61 and E70. Also known as H.264, this is the video standard for the next few years and a version of it is used in consumer Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats.
Interesting to see figures coming from Telephia, which included Pan-European (UK, G, Sp, F, I, Sw) sales for Nokia's main S60 smartphones. The 6630, N70 and 6680/81 each sold around 1.5 million units in Q1, 2006, way more than any other smartphone and comparable to mass market proprietary best sellers like the RAZR. (via Nokia Phones) [Thanks to those you wrote in pointing out my maths error yesterday!!]
And so VoIP takes its first fledgling steps onto the Communicator, with Barablu, available now. It's only single duplex though, i.e. push to talk. Still, interesting! Thanks to the folks here for the heads-up.
There's an interesting overview of the role of Symbian devices in the enterprise over on symbian.com this week. Might be worth forwarding the URL to the relevant IT managers in your company?
