Darla reports on F-Secure anti-virus software being made available for S60 3rd edition, Symbian OS 9 smartphones. Hang on. Er.... but with Platform Security in OS 9, there's absolutely no way for malware to install and propagate. Which means that noone will ever be able to infect anyone else. So... what's the point in anti-virus software? Its existence was tenuous at best under Symbian OS 7 and 8. Under Symbian OS 9.... Comments welcome.
One of the S60.com blogs has posted comment and a link to Adobe's official (new) list of S60 3rd Edition devices which will have the Flash Lite 1.1 runtime loaded in their firmware.
Interesting to see Nokia UK's new dedicated 3250 (twisting music smartphone) Flash web site, including a (trivially easy) competition to win a 3250 of your own.
Freeware author Antony Pranata has launched his own S60Tips.com, with RSS feed. Worth adding to your Bloglines roll or RSS Bookmarks? In the battle to educate the masses, you can never have too many tips pages...
So what have sweaty naked Finns and smartphone keypad designs got in common? Read Russ Beattie's not so gentle poke at the bare-faced cheek(!) of Nokia's hardware design teams... A little gentle Easter reading...
Equipped with a Nokia N70 or N90 and off for a long Easter weekend? Why not leave the camcorder at home and try shooting your video all on the smartphone? Steve Litchfield did just that a week ago and here he reports back and assesses the pros and cons.
Nokia's E60 and N71 are also apparently now fully supported and near to shipping. Here's the E60 support page and the N71 support page. Thanks for the heads-up, Jukka!
AllAboutSymbian caught up with Bruce Carney, Symbian's head of Developer Marketing, at the recent CTIA show in Las Vegas. How many Symbian OS apps are there, why isn't freeware counted and why all the fuss over Platform Security? Here's the full interview.
No, not another site from Rafe and the team, this is a hugely important FAQ from Forum Nokia explaining the ins and outs of the changes needed in applications in the move to Symbian OS 9 (with Platform Security). A must-read for anyone even remotely interested in developing applications for the next gen of Symbian-powered hardware.
Interesting to see someone on the front line at Nokia confirming that 2GB cards work fine with Symbian OS 9 and S60 3rd edition, at least on the E61 tested. I wonder who'll be the first to get hold of and try a 4GB miniSD? Still, 2GB is pretty jaw-dropping when you stop to think about it.
Nokia's N80 pages have appeared on their web site, with the usual mix of FAQs, documents and add-on software. Which can only mean that the N80 is shipping. Somewhere in the world, anyway!
Orange have announced more details of their latest developer event. The Orange Partner Camp's Platinum sponsor is Symbian, and with UIQ as Gold sponsors and Nokia as Silver sponsors the event looks like the non-Orange content will be dominated by the Symbian platforms. There are sessions on a wide range of topics from mobile TV and mobile search to usability and segmentation. You can read our report from the last Orange developer event here.
Having a mini-keyboard seems all the rage on Enterprise devices, but what if you're on a device that doesn't have one? Well you could live with T9 input, or look at the Bluetooth enabled Freedom Mini Keyboard. Steve Litchfield has reviewed it, and, while it's got some potential, it's a very niche product.
