The Carnival of the Mobilists #14 is online here, with the usual round-up of interesting mobile/smartphone articles from round the Web. Happy reading! Meanwhile, as a tease, there's something brand new on AAS - announcement tomorrow...!
Up today on Forum Nokia is an exhaustive PDF document, detailing every technical and UI feature of the upcoming next-gen browser from Nokia. Scroll past the geeky bits and you'll find lots of screenshots and interesting stuff nearer the end...
Seem to be something of a buzz around the mobile world this week about location-based marketing. Not a smartphone-specific thing, let alone Symbian, but MobHappy have a good example of how it might appear to the end user.
American readers (and those following news in the country) might want to bookmark their just launched WAP site (http://wap.usatoday.com/). It's a good site, and in conjunction with my perennial favourite (the low bandwidth BBC News website news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm) it's possible to keep up to speed with current affairs in your mobile web browser.
As it's a slow news day(!), here's a link to a new German version of my TimeLog utility for Nokia 9210/9300/9500. Yes, I know most Germans speak great English, but now they've got the option of the program in their own language(!)
Free over on The Register is this interesting PDF report on mobile security in companies. If you've been thinking about the way security is handled on mobile devices in your outfit, this makes some good points.
The Sendo Smartphones web site has a short but interesting piece speculating on the possible merging of Sendo X2 development work and Motorola's latest announced UIQ smartphone.
A new blog has been added to S60.com, the S60 Multimedia Blog, written by Jukka Ekland and it will be covering all aspects of multimedia related to the S60 platform. There are already several intering posts including one about the inclusion of Real Player in the S60 SDK (of interest to developers) and another about MP4 video recording (of general interest).
If you fancy a little wider reading for the weekend, try the weekly Carnival of the Mobilists, latest roundup here. There's always something interesting and thought-provoking included.
Interesting interview with Symbian's Jorgen Behrens, over on Builder UK yesterday. Some good sound bites, including Microsoft being 'a mobile upstart', backed up by the familiar 10-to-1 sales ratio. Thanks to MobHappy for the heads-up.
The story pretty much speaks for itself. American Network Operator Cingular has applied for a patent to "[allow] a user of a mobile phone (or other device) to select a displayable icon, such as an emoticon, that indicates the mood or emotion of the user or conveys other information independent of text." To which I say :-(
A couple of news goodies from Forum Nokia: there's now a complete (C++) SDK for Series 60 3rd Edition; and the source code to Python for Series 60 is going to (at last) be made available as Open Source.
According to this thread on Nokia's own forums, Orange plans to make display of their 'love it or hate it' Home screen optional on future branded S60 smartphones. They don't seem to be able to 'fix' existing devices though. Still, at least they've been listening to their customers....
Analysts In-Stat only heap ridicule upon themselves with this piece of research. The "big winners will be Microsoft and Linux, at the expense of RIM and Palm OS"? Er... what about Nokia (and Symbian OS) with its 60% worldwide share of the smartphone market?
