According to this Register report Nokia will release a version the Pearl scripting language for Series 60 devices. Perl allows for easy development of simple applications normally web based. Also of interest was that Nokia seem to be taking more notice of Open Source basic like language OPL and our own Ewan Spence gets a good mention for it. It even hints that Nokia may be put some resources into OPL's development.
Nokia today have announced their first EDGE enabled Series 60 phone the 6620. This new phone is designed for the Americas showing their commitment to the north American smartphone market. Mobile Burn were at the launch and have a good preview. Full press release and photo in comments.
Lots of people are asking what they should put on their new phone? Russell Beattie has went into what's on his new Nokia 6600, and it's as good a place as any to start.
There is now an (experimental) version of EMame, micro-EMame60, which might run on older Series 60 devices with limited memory (Nokia 7650 and Nokia 3650).Download the latest version of micro-EMame60
The Philips Camcoder is a high quality audio video encoder and player for the Nokia 7650 and 3650 mobile handset. It provides real-time audio video grabbing and encoding in the MPEG-4/H263 video format as specified by the 3GPP standard. It is fully integrated into phone application environments such as MMS, BT, IR and e-mail.. Videos can be stored in the handset and transferred to PCs to be played back without any additional converter: enjoy recorded videos on all 3GPP compliant players such as but not limited to Philips Platform4 PC Player and Apple Quicktime 6.3!
99% of people are going to go "what's SSH?" The other 1% are going to go to the Sourceforge Project Page and download it straight away. Symbian OS is turning out to be a rather capable portable computer system in its own right. Told you we did, but did you all listen?
Metrowerks have announced the availability of the Siemens SX1 SDK. The SDK contains a commercial release SX1 as well as everything you need to develop for it. The cost is $1,150, but only limited quantities are available.
The Helix DNA Player Preview Release 1.2 is now available. This is the result of the Open Source Helix program (RealPlayer). The Helix player is effectively a more advanced Real Player. Supported media includes RealAudio G2, 7, 8, RealVideo G2, 7, 8, 9, H.263, AMR-NB, AMR-WB and MP3. The advanced profile version also supports 3GPP SMIL and 3GPP Timed Text.
All About Symbian have recently recieved a review SX-1 from Siemens. What do we think of it? Here's Ewan's 30 Minutes With The SX-1 which might answer some questions. And if it doesn't, you can always ask them here.
UltraMP3 from Lonely Cat Games is a new addition to the group of music players for Series 60. It is a handy application with cool graphical user interface, allowing you to listen to your favorite music on your Symbian mobile device. UltraMP3 loads and plays music in MP3 format, as well as MOD, XM, IT, S3M. The player has built-in playlist editor, which allows you to arrange music files on your phone, and play them in any order you wish. High degree of customization allows you to choose from one of more available skins, and skin editor ships with application - in a few simple steps you may create your own skin. Handful of nice skins is shipped already with the application.
Crystal Mailer is a POP3/IMAP/SMS/MMS/GPRS messaging application for Symbian OS powered mobiles. Crystal Mailer offers a powerful, multi-account e-mail & messaging engine to enable users to have greater control over the received messages.
Nokia have released a theme creator for the Nokia 6600 (Series 60 Developer PLatform 2.0). The free Java program is available via Forum Nokia. The program allows you to customise the idle screen wallpaper, application shell icons, colors, screen savers, signal and battery strength graphics, volume and slider graphics, scrolling indicators and the analog and digital clocks.
FreEPOC and Ewan Spence have released a new app, called Event Core. Aimed at the newcomer to OPL, while it does nothing, it provides the source code to show you how that nothing is written, how to save states, interact with the OS... in general, how to be a good application.
