Audible, provider of electronic audio books and other audio content, will soon make a solution available for Series 60 phones. The AudibleAir service for Series 60 is being demoed at CITA. AudibleAir will allow you to download Audible content over the air.
One of the more popular applications on both the online stores and bundled with the device is Quickoffice. Craig Senick has been with the product for many years, and All About Symbian sat down with him to find out more about the Office Suite.
India based Consign Technology has released a $199 Royalty free 'Lite' edition of its GoDB development system for Symbian 60 Phone series. GoDB Lite Edition is targeted at developers looking to developing simple applications, utilities and 2D Games.
Devlex have released some very nice bluetooth connectivity applications for Series 60; PhoneFile accesses your smartphone's memory from a command line prompt; Remote Commander lets you control a Powerpoint presentation; and Remote Tunes gives you a remote control for Apple's iTunes.
SplashBlog from SplashData is now available for Series 60. SplashBlog streamlines the process of mobile photoblogging, allowing users to capture an image and publish it to an online photoblog. The client application for the phone is free and comes with a free online photoblog account at SplashBlog.com (for upto 100 images, subsequently the service is $29 a year). SplashBlog was previously available as an award winning application on the Palm OS and a UIQ version will be available shortly.
Nokia has formally announced the Nokia 3250 this morning. It will fit in Nokia's new XpressMusic branding (for handsets with dedicated music buttons and 3.5 mm headphone sockets). Key features inlcudes a 2MP camera, expandable storage up to 1GB for music via microSD (10 MB internal), a 3.5mm headphone socket, support for leading music file formats (MP3, M4A, WMA, AAC and eAAC+), 10 hours of music playtime, stereo FM (visual) radio, Bluetooth 2.0, Series 60 Platform 3 with Symbian OS 9.1 as the software package and an innovative twist design (oh and it's a phone too with tri-band GSM and EDGE support). The phone is expectd to cost approximately €350, and be available in Q1 2006.
Nokia has been showing off a forthcoming Series 60 phone, the Nokia 3250, at the Trends Berlin event last night. The 3250 is a music phone (as a 3 series phone it is likely to be targeted as a budget version of the N91 - no WiFi and no hard disk). Features include a fully rotatable bottom section incorprating a 2.0 MP camera (similar to the N90 in design, but lower quality lens), with music buttons on one side and a standard (3230 like) keypad on the other. Read on for pictures and further information.
By running a PC based driver, and a Series 60 client on your camera equipped smartphone, you've got yourself a Bluetooth Webcam for your PC. Warelex's Mobiola application brings this admittedly simple sounding idea to life.
Forum Nokia have released an updated version of CodeWarrior (Thanks to NewLC for the news). Updates include support for OS 9.1 and a new compiler/linker.
Why reinvent the wheel? The Eclipse project, an Open Source community has a new member, Nokia, who will be coming on board as a strategic developer and board member. In other words we'll help you guys with some developers and support in "other areas" to work on a MIDP authoruing tool that will be compatible with our phones (and others). Good to see a little more embracing of the Open Source Community from Nokia.
Okay, it's not the fabled N91, but Nokia have pushed out the 6630 Music Edition into the stores, coming with a bundled 256mb RS-MMC, which Nokia labels as holding up to 15 albums of music, which should be more than a match for the 100 iTunes song limit on the Motorola ROKR.
It's the day for getting info on the move! Resco's second Symbian application (after Resco Image) is Resco News. Worth comparing this to Wildpalm's Headline if you're looking for a portable RSS Reader.
Series 60 owners, have you been looking at UIQ's QBubbleMP and wanted an online multiplayer game for yourself? Then have a look at Cardfool, which allows you to play opponents worldwide.
The BBC have published another hype-filled virus scoop. F-Secure again are the villains of the piece, proclaiming the "growing number of viruses that infect handsets", "hopping from phone to phone", predicting that Symbian viruses "will eventually become as big a nuisance as Windows viruses". What rubbish. Read on...
There's a rumour that every third Palm OS applicaiton is a full screen clock. Luckily Symbian seems to have avoided this curse, until now. There's yet another version of SuDoKu available for Series 60 now - Twisted Coding's SuDoKu Fun - with a set number of puzzles, the same user interface appearance (just some different colours). Come on guys, is it too much to ask for some innovation on the basic principle?
