Symbian have started looking for some new employees. If you've got a relevant BSc Degreem and fancy working on ' the global open industry standard operating system for advanced data-enabled mobile phones' (and can remember that phrase for your interview) then the full details on applying can be found on the Symbian website.
Long time friend of All About Symbian Russell Beattie has managed to get his thoughts about where mobile information may go in the future. He dubs it Communicontent, and it's worth looking at over a coffee.
Vodafone in the UK is ready to launch their 3G Content Service this Christmas (reports The Sunday Times). Now the handsets are here (see our preview of the 6630) the Vodafone portal promises Video Clips, music through deals with Sony and Warner, and a wide range of mobile Java Midp games. And the gamble? A £20 billion investment in the technology. Every other network is watching with a keen financial interest...
Yes, those who know me (Steve Litchfield) will probably note that I have a small vested interest in the Palmtop User journal (I write much of the Symbian content). They've upped their front page special offer to include free copies of issues 7 and 8, plus issues 1 to 6 on CD, in addition to issue 9 with the normal 6 issue subscription. Catch the offer at Palmtop.
Infosyncworld reports that Nokia and Sony Ericsson have joined the SD Card association! Reports about Nokia joining had emerged earlier already, but now SE has joined too. This is a remarkable move by SE, since they always were dedicated to Sony's Memory Stick Duo.
OK, we are sailing away with this photo contest! We want you best Boat photos (taken on a Symbian Phone). Please upload your photos to the Photo Contest 17 page. Vote will start on 7th November 2004 to pick a winner. Winners Photo is displayed on Main Gallery page and can select next category.
Not exactly Symbian, but an interesting read is this article in Business 2.0. It looks at the Firefox web browser, a web browser who's lead developer Blake Ross decided to 'take back the web from Microsoft.' So one man can make a difference.
Mobile Application and Content delivery is one of the top issues facing the mobile world today (reports America's Network). Building communitys, porting applications, device limitations, bandwidth and network connections are all familiar problems to Symbian OS developers. Here's a fresh look at it.
CEO of Macromedia, Robert Burges, talks about the future, and his company's view that the new markets of mobile phones and PDA's hold the key to success. The experience of Flash on DoCoMo powered phones is a good example. Read more in the interview on Knowledge Wharton.
Just a quick one here. Nokia has completed the acquisition process to obtain the Metrowerks Development Tools and the licencing of the core development tool technologies (reports Nokia). It still remains to be seen if UIQ (and Symbian) will remain focussed on Metrowerks or look for alternative solutions. After all, you don't want to concentrate too much power in one company.
Looking at their financial report, Nokia really need a decent high volume, low cost phone (suggests The Inquirer). One way forward... How about the acknowledge design classic of the 2110, with some modern guts inside it?
Apart from deciding that Strathclyde University (one of my old haunts) was holding 'a Mobile Conference in England' (it's in Glasgow) and hilariously labelling Symbian OS as 'a small kernel OS maker for mobiles,' Corante understands one key feature of the mobile market. Selling lots of units means you make a lot of money, even if the unit price drops a bit. Put simply, Symbian is a classic representation of Moore's Law.
