Nokia have announced the 5 winners of the Series 60 community awards. They are :- Most Innovative Service - t-zones from T-Mobile, Most Innovative Application - IR Remote from Psiloc, Most Innovative Multimedia Application - MGS Karting from Noumena, Most Innovative Accessory - Remote S60 from mobileways.de and last but by no means least Evangelist Award - My-Symbian. So AAS was pipped at he post for the evangelist award. Congratulations to all the prizewinners. Full press release in comments.
Nokia have announced that the 6600 has started shipping. In addition they have announced that Opera will ship with the phone. On the 32MB MMC included with the phone will be the Try and Buy concept. This enables users to try several popular applications 3 times to decide whether they are interested in buying them.
Open Bit has announced the launch of Superdistribution for Series 60. This is the ability to send programs from your phone to another phone using an option in the programs menu (built into by the author). Additionally the program can then be paid for by premium SMS. This is all facilitated through the Open Bit License Manager.
To celebrate the release of the new version of Opera for Series 60 AAS is launching a Mobile Opera specific version of the site. The mobile site is optimised for display in the Opera browsing and enables full access to the website when on the road.
Well there have been two official announcements from Opera today about their full featured web browser. Firstly its being included as standard on the new Nokia 6600 smartphone. Plus there is a new version for existing Series 60 devices. This new version is significantly smaller than the old version causing fewer memory problems. It also has several other enhancements. Full press release in comments.
Rafe and Ewan will be in Nice on Tuesday for the Series 60 platform awards. Aside from reporting on the awards we hope to speak to many of the companies (both hardware and software) from the Series 60 community. So if you have any questions let us know. And if you're going to be there yourself let us know and we'll try to catch up with you!
Well its turning out to be quite a week for Symbian. Sendo have announced their Series 60 device the Sendo X. It seems like a very promising device it even has a camera with flash. Full press release and details in comments.
Album is an easy-to-use image browser for Symbian/ Series 60 camera phones. Album Features: - Full screen image viewing - Easy to use and browse - Organizes the images chronologically - Images can be send via MMS, e-mail, Infrared and Bluetooth - Cost effective You can DOWNLOAD Album to your PC and then copy it to your phone either via IR (Infrared) or Bluetooth. Album is at its best when used with other Open Bit imaging product Photographer and Studio
FileXchange is an application that enables a mobile phone user to access the phone's internal file system and the file system of a remote PC via GPRS, Internet, Bluetooth, and Infrared.
The Register is carrying those all important sales figures for the Nokia N-Gage. Week 1 = 500 units. Compare this to Week 'whatever' for the Gameboy Advance to be around the 14,000 mark. The big question is how many were sold with a contract through the phone shops. Nokia isn't saying...
Nokia have announced the forthcoming availability of several interesting addons for their Series 60 range of phones. The Nokia Digital Pen enables consumers to create, store and share personal and colourful messages. Images can be viewed on a TV using the Nokia Image Viewer and the Nokia Add-on Lens clips to the back of the 3650 enabling close up (5-10cm) photos. Full story for pictures and more.
Video Recorder is now available on the Nokia website. This version (Hantro 3.4) supports audio recording and playback with video. This version is also said to work on the Nokia 7650.
Zindell Technologies, Ltd. released Passwords. Passwords is a useful application that allows you to encrypt & store different username and password pairs. For more info and to buy click here.
