Just spotted this entry on Antony Pranata's blog, announcing the availability of a Series 60 3rd edition screenshot utility. It's a port of his existing app and it's still freeware. Kudos to him for getting it out so quickly and AAS will find this very useful in making our upcoming reviews even prettier.
Nokia has put an interesting Flash version of the E61 user manual online, which will give you a rough idea of how it will work, although there are very few images to help out. Thanks to Michal for the heads-up. Ewan's full E61 review is coming soon, by the way!
Ever helpful, Ewan has prepared a quick reference guide to the brand new Symbian OS powered smartphones that are specifically aimed at music playback, with comparison to the ubiquitous iPod. Food for thought, though don't forget that almost any recent Symbian OS device can also play back stereo music too...
Nokia's iconic LifeBlog system is now available in 2.0 guise for all Nseries smartphones, here's the main download and info page. Thanks to Tommi for the heads-up.
Our Darla, a hacker? Not exactly, but she's written several techy tutorials for S60 over on her blog. Here's her summary post, worth bookmarking to save yourself having to find this via Google later on....
Looks like we missed this one back in March, but the Open Source SSH client for S60 (including S60 v3), S80 and S90 devices has been updated to v1.4. Download from here, and the Sourceforge homepage is here.
Nokia's Open Source Research Centre has a reference implementation for Streaming Audio from your S60 phone, and supports the ShoutCAST standard. It's not a polished app, but Nokia are hoping that it helps stimulate audio application developmenton S60 v3. Now, I'm away to set up the N91 as a pirate internet radio station...
Simon Judge, a freelance mobile developer, has released the first piece of (native) freeware for S60 3rd Edition. SExplorer (available in beta) is a file explorer utility. Features include the browsing of all drives (but not the folders protected by the Symbian 9 security model), creating, moving, and renaming of folders and files and opening files according to their file type.
As reported by the S60 Multimedia Blog the support pages for the Nokia N91 are now available. The support pages includes the manual and interactive demonstrations to help you get the most out of the phone. Also available is the Nokia Music Manager Plug-in for iTunes on the Mac which allows you to sync music between your N91 and Mac OSX.
It may not be the number one object of lust for the Nokia fanboy, but the N91 is one of the best consumer targetted Series 60 phones around. With S60v3, gorgeous build quality, and a 4gb Hard Drive to go with the dedicated music controls, it's all the entertainment you could need. Isn't it? Read Ewan's Review on the N91 to find out...
Opera Mini, the proxy browser that I declared in my review would 'change the way you browse, the sign of a killer application' seems to be going from strength to strength, according to Opera's latest press release and observing a number of industry deals, ranging from added-value branding and support from Onspeed Mobile to a variety of redistribution deals. Opera Mini currently serves up over 4 million pages a day to mobile and smartphone users.
Strictly for developers only (or for pointing your development team towards) is this new ZIP archive on Forum Nokia, explaining how to write for both platforms at once and how to adapt existing WinMob apps for S60. The kit is useful for including example game source code, implemented on both platforms.
Nokia's S60.com has announced that all the S60 3rd edition N and Eseries smartphones from Nokia will feature the MPEG-4 AVC codec. So the full list of products reads: N71, N80, N91, N92, E60, E61 and E70. Also known as H.264, this is the video standard for the next few years and a version of it is used in consumer Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats.
Interesting to see figures coming from Telephia, which included Pan-European (UK, G, Sp, F, I, Sw) sales for Nokia's main S60 smartphones. The 6630, N70 and 6680/81 each sold around 1.5 million units in Q1, 2006, way more than any other smartphone and comparable to mass market proprietary best sellers like the RAZR. (via Nokia Phones) [Thanks to those you wrote in pointing out my maths error yesterday!!]
The Emblaze Group today announced the launch of it's emoze push email solution for mobile phones. The personal edition is being made available for free. The personal edition works by installing a connector into your PC's email client which pushes received email to the emoze distribution network from where it is intelligently pushed to your mobile device.
