Who said OPL was a dead language? This press release from Syscan International shows OPL being used in a new custom application for Bell Canada Mobile Communications.
NTK (Need to Know) have woken up to OPL. Previously, they asked for info on any IDE's for Smartphones. So the AAS Crew swung into action to remind them OPL was Alive and Kicking (tm). And what did they think? We'd hoped to scare off the Symbianites by unfairly disparaging their newly open-sourced OPL, but unfortunately we misspelt it as "OML", so they got a look in. Close, I guess. Thanks for the oxygen of publicity Danny.
1 million Symbian OS phones were shipped in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) far outstripping its nearest competitor according to this canalys report.
New UK law comes into effect at the end of the year regarding the use of mobile phones in cars. This seems a step too far from the anti-mobile lobby. SwitchBlade has a bee in his bonnet again...
John Romero, in this article on IBM Developer works, talks about the n-Gage, why it shows so much promise, and lets us know that the port of Red Faction has pretty much everything the PC version has! Read on...
An important deal clinched by Real Networks with Vodafone has potentially kept mobile multimedia available for the masses after Real Networks had to fight off competition from none other than Microsoft. Imagine a world where all media was controlled by Microsoft and only able to be played on Microsoft smartphones. This would have been a dream come true for The Beast.......
The FT has a lovely article with some commments from Juha Christensen (ex Symbian, now Microsoft), illustrating why Microsoft will win the Mobile Phone OS Wars. Highlights include [we] would like to work with Helsinki-based Nokia and Expect at least one major manufacturer to announce its support for Microsoft's Smartphone before the end of this year.
There's an interesting article on the Wireless Development Netowk web site which discusses the future of the Mobile Phone OS. What makes it interesting is that it says that the future really belongs to the system that reaches the ordinary man and woman in the street. Well, I believe that Symbian has already done that......
An article featured on BBC News Online shows how doctors in South Wales are using Symbian smartphones to speed up treatment for patients. It'as good to see real everyday use of a technology that works - and this article gives details of how it is making a difference for the people surrounding the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant. Questions may arise over the quality of an image taken in 640x480, but they say that tests have been carried out and the results are positive. Needing a reliable platform on which to base this service, one that won't crash or take half an hour to load an application - means that the natural choice is Symbian.
It's been a while since SwitchBlade posted a comment here, mostly as they've been appearing in Your Symbian *subscribe now*. So it was felt that the time was right for another. With all the recent goings on with releases of the Matrix and Terminator 3 coming soon, it is time for a look at A.I.
You may or may not have spotted that in the middle of the night, we had our 100,000 post! Was it in depth? Exciting? Death Defying? It's the top entry here.
Sendo are suing Orange over a circuit board design in the Orange SPV which they allege infringes a patent granted to Sendo. This follows on from Sendo legal action against Microsoft as a result of the failed partnership.
Palm Computing and Handspring (the two main Palm OS companies) are to merge. It's being portrayed as a merger, but reading between the lines, it looks like Palm is doing its level best to make sure Handspring (founded by the two people who originally set up what was to become Palm) doesn't go bust before it can be brought back into the family.
Apple have released the latest version of their Mac synchronisation software iSync 1.1. As previously speculated this now supports Nokia series 60 devices and the P800. However at the moment this is limited to Contact details only. Calender and To Do support are listed as coming soon.
There is an article on Silicon.com which states that Microsoft is moving into Ericsson and Nokia's backyard, despite the plans that Microsoft had to expand its European presence suffering terrible setbacks...
