In this Photo Contest we want your best Texture photos (taken on a Symbian Phone). Please upload your photos to the Photo Contest 19 page. Vote will start on 5th December 2004 to pick a winner. Winners Photo is displayed on Main Gallery page and can select next category.
Our friends from MoDaCo have asked us to tell you about a study on smartphones they are running. Respondants are entered in the prize draw to win cash prizes. More details in the full news story.
Steve Litchfield has made a start at a Nokia 9500 tips page over at 3-Lib - see what you think. The 9500 is tremendously powerful but also fairly complex for beginners to cope with. Maybe Nokia should put an IQ-warning on it? Hopefully, the tips page will help...
Finally some companies are starting to realise that the power users are the likey to creatue new features, and value, not large programing houses and think tanks (see The Feature). Having free development languges and tools aimed at different skill sets, allowing anyone to create programs, was one of the strong points in the EPOC OS (the predecessor of Symbian OS). It looks like the same lessons are being painfully learned again.
"Advanced Processor, advanced 3G networking, advanced OS (Symbian 8.0a), and enough RAM to only run one app at a time. I am astounded," writes Russ Beattie. The 6630 is a lovely phone and scores in every department expect one, and as usual, that one thing kind of pulls the phone down in the must have stakes. Russ wonders if it is because Nokia are leaving you a reason to upgrade to a newer model in a few months...
Not Symbian news, thankfully, but info about a competitor. There's something of a storm in the Palm OS world about the recent news of PalmSource switching future direction to being a software/GUI company based on a Linux OS. As someone who had a brief love affair with a Palm IIIc about five years ago, which was nice and simple at all levels, seeing the continuing confusion in their OS and the general mess they've since made of most things at a technical level (e.g. VFS), is really rather sad. Interesting reading here for Christmas.
Don't shy away into the Shadows as you can now pick your favourite photos from the 4 displayed * here *. This poll will close on 19th December 2004 & Good Luck to all taking part.
It may be an overused phrase on certain sites, but with Preminet, another small string for the Finns is starting to emerge (speculates The Register). With Preminet attempting to replicate the success of the Brew system, can Nokia use their custom store-front to do the same in the J2ME market? And will they get the leverage of the developers they need?
Swedish 'Mobil' magazine might have well just said that this was Symbian's year. Their awards ceremony was a good night for Symbian (reports UIQ.com). Symbian were "The Company of the Year," the P910 was awarded "Smartphone of the Year" and Opera won the plaudits in the "Application of the Year."
In this Photo Contest, we want your Best photos featuring Shadows (taken on a Symbian Phone). Please upload your photos to the Photo Contest 18 page. Vote will start on 5th December 2004 to pick a winner. Winners Photo is displayed on Main Gallery page and can select next category.
PDAtotaal (formerly Symbian.info) are holding a meet and greet for users of Symbian phones (and others PDAs) in Amsterdam on November 27th. PDAtotaal is a usergroup for the Benelux countries. At the meet and greet there will be a chance to meet like minded people, talk to the people behind PDAtotall and enter a raffle to win prizes (including phones, software and services). We hear it will be like the AAS pub meeting so it is sure to be worth attending if you can.
Phonescoop recently attended an event run by Samsung where they were showing their latest products. One of these was the Samsung D710 which we can expect to see in the market in the New Year. The report mentions some of Series 60 customisations as well as the tweaks in the design and styling that the phone has had.
Mobitopia has been around for a while, but it's previous life as a Blog for views on the mobile world is no more. Thanks its large IRC Community (which includes All About Symbian) it's the perfect home for a Link Log. Russ explains why.
Well, Avant-Go asked it's readers what must have features should be in a mobile device, and here's the top 3. Calendar and Contacts list... Easy Sync to PC.... Great Battery Life. How well does your device measure up? 9 more items are behind the link.
Today the Bluetooth SIG introduced version 2.0 of Bluetooth. This version will include multiple connections at the same time, higher bandwith and lower power consumption!
