It appears it's McAfee's turn to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in the Symbian world. I quote from their press release: "By comparison, a mobile threat... could infect up to 200 million connected smartphones simultaneously because the majority of these devices do not currently have mobile security protection installed". What rubbish. Read on...
Thanks to Darla for spotting that Nokia has put up a Christmas gift for 6680 owners. Specifically, free downloads of either Sensor, Beach Race, Tunes Studio or Cirqx (qix). All they want in return is your phone number and email address, which seems fair enough.
Interesting reading over at OSNews.com, where they've interviewed marketing and programming people from Nokia about the creation of the next generation S60 web browser. Watch this space in the New Year for Ewan's AAS preview.
AAS's own Arjen Broeze has come up with a utility to create Nokia 9500 or 9300 skins from scratch or by editing existing ones. It can also automatically generate all needed graphics from a single master image, install and activate skins without the need to reboot, and automatically install Desk and cover phone wallpapers. And we can't resist mentioning that this was all written in OPL. Nice one, Arjen!
Anyone caught out by bugs in PC Suite 6.7 might like to note that there's now a bug-fix available, see here, apparently fixing a clash between Windows XP SP1 and File manager. Anyone fancy being the guinea pig for this one?
Courtesy of Forum Nokia comes this little PDF How-to on making your video masterpieces available on the Web. The N70 and N90 produce VHS-quality footage, so why not share your clips?
3-Lib's grid of mobile/smartphone solutions is now fully interactive! You can apply your own weightings for any smartphone functions and the grid will recalculate scores as needed.
... are just two of the short articles posted by AAS-friend Asri Al-Baker over on i-Symbian in the last day or so. Plenty to read and thanks to Al for giving us a heads up.
Spotted recently over on Nokia's web site, both pertaining to the upcoming 9300i smartphone, are an official newsletter and a comparison matrix (to their other business smartphones).
Moscow's Pushkin district greets the first Nokia Flagship Store in the world - the first of many from what we can hear. It's clearly a play from the Apple handbook - so is anyone in Moscow able to nip round and take some pictures for us? Especially the 'mobile gaming' dedicated area?(Thanks to Mobileburn for the heads up).
The Register reports on a Microsoft and Palm rethink about how they get their operating systems, currently running at a far lower market share than Symbian OS, out to a wider market.
There's a new release of Nokia's all-singing, all-dancing PC Suite on the loose, v6.7, here's the download page. Version 6.7 adds the ability to manage your text messages and phonebook easily with File Manager, automatic notifications when a new version of PC Suite is available and improves the back-up and Image Store features. Support for the new Eseries and Nseries phones is also added. Read on for more information.
Now this could get interesting. These guys are working on S60 games in which the camera is used to track physical gestures made with the handset. Fight sequences in RPGs could take on a whole new meaning!
Forum Nokia have just had their annual PRO awards, with Quickoffice winning overall. Here's the full press release. Other winners included Always-On Mail and 3G Fairy Quest.
The Nokia N90 has been receiving a lot of attention in the world of blogs recently partly thanks to the N90 Blogger Program we mentioned last week. There has been a whole range of opinion and some interesting discussion of the ideas behind the program itself which are well worth reading. Read on for a selection of the post from the Blogosphere on the N90 and some comment on the program itself.
