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Wednesday 15 March

Nokia Launches New Logo Program (12:22) - "Designed for S60 Devices" is something you'll be seeing on products with this new program from Nokia designed to allow developers to have platform recognition in their offerings.The "Designed for S60 Devices" logo program is set up for developeruse in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian OS Basics Workbook - Free (06:55) - Nokia has made available a Symbian workbook for free on the Forum Nokia site.Nokia is now offering all Forum Nokia developers a series of training packages that were previously available only to Forum Nokia PRO members. These self-training packages provide... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 28 February

Scalable Graphics on Series 60 (15:57) - With Series 60 handsets now sporting multiple different resolutions, application developers now need to be aware of multiple screen sizes and scale appropriately.This document describes how to develop C++ applications with custom graphics that scale to multiple display resolutions in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
New Symbian OS Walkman® With 4GB Storage (08:10) - Sony Ericsson's new W950 is the first Symbian OS Walkman®. Being in the Walkman line, it has ample storage for music and videos. However, this is also a tremendous amount of storage for development on a phone. Using Symbian OS... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 3 January

Mobile Usability: The Pause Feature (09:30) - Another one from Forum Nokia where they have published a document talking about the design of the pause menu in mobile games. As they are quick to point out, pause isn't just for action games to be able to take... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
Series 60 World Server Example (08:47) - Forum Nokia has published a package on using the World Server. The World Server API is used for accessing, updating, and performing basic calculations on city, country, locale based information. Unlike what the name may imply, it's a local API... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 9 November

Nokia Application Testing and Signing FAQ (08:11) - Nokia has a published a little FAQ on testing and signing applications. This applies to applications that would go through the Java Verified or Symbian Signed programs. Answers to these and more questions are available: What should I do if... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 7 November

Comparing Mobile Platform Numbers (22:45) - Today (tonight, this afternoon, this morning -- where are you?) we're going to do a comparison between some recently published numbers by Nokia and the commonly published QUALCOMM numbers. Nokia uses some speculative numbers and QUALCOMM isn't publishing as many... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 6 November

Series 60 FTP Example (22:50) - Forum Nokia has provide a package that gives an example of FTP over Series 60. The FTP Example demonstrates the usage of the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Service API, and more precisely, the CFTPSession class. It allows connecting to and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 17 October

Symbian: Signing and the Security Model (07:02) - Forum Nokia has published an update to their Testing and Signing with Symbian Platform Security document. The main updates to this document have been pricing information. The document itself is still fairly new, only have been published about 6... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 10 October

Free Symbian Signed for Freeware (08:35) - Forum Nokia has published a new document on freeware opportunities and the Symbian Signed program. Nokia has taken the stance that freeware can be signed for free, too. This is wonderful and is a nice change from the QUALCOMM... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Thursday 6 October

Symantec and Nokia Bring Improved Security to Symbian Smartphones (08:15) - Nokia is very serious about making sure their Symbian smartphones are safe for users. Although the average person may not care, if there is risk of virus or hacking an enterprise environment will completely reject a product. So, they... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 5 October

End-To-End Network Programming for Symbian OS (07:23) - Forum Nokia brings us a couple of example implementations of enterprise level client-server interaction with both HTTP and Sockets. These include everything form the client all the way to the back end database. This example is an HTTP reference... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 30 September

Rapid Enterprise Mobile Application Development (08:30) - I got a tip today from somebody about this DSM (Domain Specific Modelling) application. Apparently, it lets you draw out applications that can then become fully functional. This sounds like RAD tools from the late 80s or earl 90s. But... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Thursday 29 September

Get Trained on Smartphone Development (13:09) - The Developer Training will provide comprehensive hands-on training sessions for Symbian OS and associated technologies. Delegates will learn how to use Symbian OS products, and understand the necessary conventions, terms and expressions with which to build world-class software for the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Python and Linux: Hacking (11:28) - A mobile phone is a cool gadget to play with, especially when [the author] can run [the authors] favourite programming language (no prize for guessing what it is!) on it! That was the logic which made [the author] purchase a... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Tuesday 27 September

Palm's Dead: Port to Series 60 (10:00) - Well, that's not what Nokia is saying. However, their document about issues of porting from the Palm OS to Series 60 isn't far from it. With Treo's coming with Windows Mobile on it, you have to have somewhere to put... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 20 July

Creating a Custom List Box in Symbian With Subclassing (08:21) - Complete with downloadable source code examples, lots of source example in the article, and plenty of prose to keep you awake, AntonyPranata.com brings us an article on how to create customizations using subclassing with a list box. Add some spice... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 8 July

Learn Python for Series60 By Example: Wikkit (07:58) - As with other open source applications, they can be a great learning experience. Here we have an entire application shown on a web page. The application itself functions as a rudimentary wiki-style note taking tool. The use I see is... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Mobile GMaps: The Buzz This Week (07:52) - Once again, we post to something because it's all the buzz around the web. The idea is actually rather nice. It's much easier to get data from a source like Google than to try to store it all locally on... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 1 July

Symella: The Buzz of the Week (07:00) - Everyone seems to be talking about this, linking to it, posting about it, and just, well, buzzing about it. What is it? Symella is a Gnutella client for Symbian smartphones. Gnutella is a Peer-to-Peer file sharing network system with many... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 30 June

Tutorial Blog for Symbian Development (12:28) - This site is a great programming resource in a blog format. It's got posts that dive into the code, giving examples of what is being discussed. It's focussed on C++ development for the Series 60 platform, keeping it very narrow... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian Programming: Tips, Tricks, Examples, and More (08:25) - Mike Raento has a web site with dozens of useful items for Symbian development. He talks about problems and solutions faced while developing the Context project. In mobile and ubiquitous applications and systems, reacting to user context is a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 28 June

Geotagging Data (21:15) - All data collection applications should geotag the data that is entered or captured. Why? It's a useful bit of information that can enable may new and exciting applications -- even ones that you may not think of yourself. Don't know... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Open Source Symbian: Also a Great Learning Tool (20:30) - Frozen Bubbgle for Series 60 is a SourceForge project of a game apparently made popular on Linux. In this case we also have a complete game, but since it's on SourceForge all required files should be available. This could... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Python consoletools for Series 60 (19:49) - Got an urge to hack on your phone? Need a console? Need tools like ftp and such? Well, all of the above can be done with the Python consoletools found here. Naturally, with a tool like this on your standard... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian Development on OSX (14:56) - So you want to program for the millions of symbian cell phones using C , but you just can't stand Windows. Or you don't want to shell out the $$$ for codewarrior. Or you feel more comfortable programming in a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 27 June

Automatically Generate Symbian Code (23:38) - Well, it's not completely automatic, of course. But it looks like it will help speed up the generation of an application specific code framework to which you can add your own custom logic. Does it work? I have no idea.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
CDC, Series 60 Moves On Up To CDC (22:51) - Announced at the 2005 JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Nokia's vision for the next generation of the Java Platform in the mobile space will build the Connected Device Configuration (CDC) into Series 60 based smartphones. CDC provides a more flexible... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 26 June

Symbian Handset Sales Increasing Dramatically (21:00) - In Q1 2005, shipments of phones based on Symbian OS totalled 6.75M, compared to 2.40M for the same quarter in 2004, a year on year growth of more than 180%. Compare this to 6.7 million sales in all of 2003... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia Updates Technical Library (15:12) - It's also available in other formats, but this is the link to the .CHM format. Resource information: Forum Nokia Technical Library v1.10 Nokia regularly updates the technical library.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 22 April

Symbian Now has Perl (21:56) - Sometimes (well, maybe often) we miss stuff. This is one of those cases. Nokia has released a port of Perl for the Symbian OS. This will work Series 60 handsets, among many other devices that use Symbian. It can be... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 21 April

Forum Nokia Technical Library (14:30) - Nokia has updated their Technical Library, which is a collection of items from their known issues lists and questions they've answered from people. The technical library is available in Microsoft HTML help format, WebHelp format, and as a PDF. Technical... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 24 March

Do you develop for Symbian and like Linux? (15:46) - If so, then GnuPoc is for you. GnuPoc makes it possible to develop EPOC applications on your GNU/Linux machine. It is using GNU make, Wine and GCC crosscompiler for ARM. Because of the EPOC SDK license we are not allowed... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments
The 7710 and Developing Applications for Series 80 (11:30) - Forum Nokia brings us a document on developing for Series 80 and the 7710, which is a close cousin of the Series 80 platform. The stated purpose of this document, straight from Nokia: The purpose of this document is to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Threads Programming on Symbian OS (10:07) - Forum Nokia has a new document on Threads Programming with Symbian OS. In most cases, using an active scheduler and active objects is an easier, less complex, and faster solution than using multiple threads. There are, however, some situations where... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 1 March

Series 60 UI Style Guide from Forum Nokia (15:17) - Nokia has updated their Series 60 user interface style guide. It has up-to-date information for Series 60 Platform 2nd edition. Series 60 3rd edition is around the corner so this document is sure to get more attention. Series 60 UI... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 27 January

Symbian OS 3D Game Engine Example Application v1.1 (21:38) - Now available from Forum Nokia here. This package includes a 3-D game engine example application and a document describing the most important programming tricks and algorithm issues to consider when developing 3-D programs on Symbian OS. The example provides also... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 20 January

Forum Nokia on Scalable UIs with Series 60 (12:15) - Forum Nokia has updated their "Introduction to the Series 60 Scalable UI" document to version 1.2 which can be downloaded here. This updated document gives a brief introduction to the Scalable UI in the Series 60 Platform. Series 60 Platform... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 10 January

Series 60 3D Development v1.1 from Forum Nokia (08:15) - Forum Nokia has released v1.1 of its Introduction to 3D Graphics for C++ package. This package introduces the user to 3D development on the Series 60 platform with an example in addition to the documentation. Maybe more Series 60 developers... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 4 January

Need to Launch a Browser from Symbian C++? (10:05) - So you want to launch a browser from your nifty Symbian C++ app. And you hit the brick wall. Symbian doesn't provide an API. Series 60 doesn't provide an API. UI doesn't provide an API. You're all alone, lost in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 29 November

Forum Nokia Has New Usability Guides for Games and Enterprise (16:54) - Forum Nokia has updated their Series 40 usability guide for games to v1.2. In addition to other changes, they've added a "Top Ten" usability guidelines. They elaborate much more on them in the document, but this sumarizes them: Provide a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 8 November

New Forum Nokia Articles: Series 80 Development (11:40) - After all the Nokia 7710 articles, which is a Series 80 platform, we have a couple of articles on just Series 80. The first is a general FAQ, which can be found here. The second is a whitepaper to introduce... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia 6260 Series 60 Flip/Twist Phone Reviewed (08:47) - All About Symbian has a review of the Nokia 6260 Flip/Twist phone. Also learn more about this phone at Forum Nokia. AAS Features and Articles: Nokia 6260 Review... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 5 November

The Nokia 7710: Converging New and Old Broadcast Media (11:45) - The Nokia 7710 smartphone will feature several mobile media applications and services, such as Visual Radio, which provides a richly interactive information channel to dramatically enhance the FM broadcast experience. For example, listeners can see information on the song... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 4 November

Nokia Aiming Series 60 at High End and Low End Devices (15:30) - Nokia is planning to spread the use of Series 60 in two directions, aiming to use the platform on both high-end devices and lower-end handsets. Series 60 already has about 50% of the smartphone market, but that's not enough for... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Motorola and 3 Announce Three New 3G Handsets (09:05) - Of the handsets is a Symbian UIQ handset with 1.2MP camera, a VGA camera for 2-way video calling, and Bluetooth. This is the A1000. The E1000 also has a 1.2MP camera, MP3 and Video abilities and 3D stereo speakers. It's... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 3 November

Series 60 Challenge (12:51) - There are five entry categories in the contest. 1. Best Operator Service 2. Best Enterprise Application 3. Best Media / Music Application 4. Best Gaming Application 5. Special Prize! Nokia, Siemens, Sendo, and Symbian are sponsoring this challenge. 3... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 30 September

Symbian News: 30 Sep, 2004 (10:00) - The Symbian Expo is coming up next week on Oct 5th&6th in London. This has caused a lot of new press releases to go out. Sorting through these is amazingly exciting, as I can tell you from first hand experience.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 27 September

Symbian News: 27 Sep, 2004 (20:00) - doHeadlines RSS Reader for Symbian UIQ is released, supporting RSS 0.9, 1.0, and 2.0. Symbian emphasizes collaboration for its platform developement. Symbian to face new challenges from Windows Mobile, according to ABI Research. SmartPhonemate Bluetooth keyboard supports Symbian OS, as... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 25 September

OpenGL ES Coding Challenge (16:30) - OpenGL ES is the 3D graphics standard for mobile phones, handhelds, gamepads and embedded devices. The mobile market is the largest and fastest growing area of consumer technology and the OpenGL ES 1.1 Coding Challenge is intended to kick... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian News: 24 Sep, 2004 (15:00) - Nokia introduces a new Series 60 phone in the UK : the Nokia 6670. It sports a megapixel camera, two flavors for various world GSM coverage, a 16-bit color screen, and compatibility with Nokia's new bluetooth GPS module. (Yes, all... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 23 September

Symbian News: 22 Sep, 2004 (02:00) - Not much on the Symbian front today. We have an entry from SymbianOne tht they will be using Cognima at the Symbian Expo to do real time photo blogging. That could make for some interesting content during the show (Oct... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 22 September

Symbian News: 21 Sep, 2004 (03:00) - SymbianOne continues their line of Symbian Expo previews with an article on upcoming Series 60 items that may be seen at the expo. The company behind Quickoffice, Mobility Electronics, Inc., has been acquired by Mobile Digital Media (MDM).... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Series 60 Second Edition SDK from Forum Nokia (02:00) - Nokia has released two different versions of this SDK, a version supporting Microsoft Visual Studio or Borland BuilderX and one supporting Metrowerks. They can both be found here. The Series 60 SDK for Symbian OS enables application development for the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 21 September

Symbian News: 20 Sep, 2004 (10:45) - Excitor's MobileCare is a classic example of a vertical mobile application developed using the hardware that was required. Oh, it is a Symbian app on a Nokia 9200. This eWeek article talks about the ever advancing power of mobile devices... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 20 September

Symbian News: 17 Sep, 2004 (23:00) - Symbian Expo preview, focussing on Sony Ericsson. ABC News highlights from last weeks DEMOMOBILE. Symbian has captured 88% of the "advanced Mobile OS" market. Who else is in that market? Certainly not our favorite platforms, J2ME and BREW.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian News: 16 Sep, 2004 (21:30) - BlackBerry threatens Symbian handsets... and all smartphone handsets. Mobiluck, a bluetooth messaging application, threatens SMS usage and gains lots of users (over 100,000). Get a bartender for your pocket. Well, it won't mix the drinks for you but you'll be... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
O'Reilly Publishes Introductory Series 60 Development Article (20:45) - Using the N-Gage as a base device, a new article about Series 60 development comes from O'Reilly. Symbian is a derivative of the Psion operating system, EPOC. It is a 32-bit multitasking OS, mostly written in C++. Symbian must cope... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian News: 15 Sep, 2004 (19:15) - SymbianWare makes heavy use of Symbian Signed program by getting 12 of their most popular applications certified. Symbian Expo preview about UIQ and it's showing at the (still) upcoming Symbian Expo (coming Oct 5th and 6th in London). Information about... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia Fashion Phones (02:45) - Supposedly inspired by the lavish 1920�s, the three new phones � the 7280, 7270 and 7260, are a blend of art deco styling with a edgy, modern day twist. What this translates to in real-terms is plenty of shiny lacquer... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian News: 8 Sep, 2004 (02:00) - Psion Plc. is planning to use part of its 126.4 million pound ($226.2 million) gain from the sale of its holding in Symbian to finance a buying spree in the areas of mobile hardware, middleware, services and wireless. The company... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian News: 7 Sep, 2004 (01:30) - Nokia to Enable BlackBerry Connect Solution on Series 80 Mobile Device Intuwave and Mercury have combined their respective skill in connectivity and testing to deliver what could be the most comprehensive Symbian OS testing solution to date. Psion has turned... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 19 September

P900 Quick Review (23:15) - You'll find a quick review of the P900 over at Palm Blast!... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian News: 2 Sep, 2004 (23:00) - Maxinote allows for a new entry method on Symbian handsets via an on-screen keypad. Zi now provides for download eZiTap, a downloadable version of its award winning predictive text software.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian News: 1 Sep, 2004 (22:30) - FB-4 provides entireprise grade virus protected and security for Symbian OS devices. You can now rapidly turn a DVD into Symbian UIQ compatible video.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 31 August

New Symbian Antivirus Software from FB-4, Inc. (23:24) - FB-4 Inc., an innovator in mobile computing devices software, announces today the availability of a new suite of enterprise-grade software and services for Symbian OS smartphones. The security suite works with Samsung, Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, BenQ, and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 29 August

Symbian Snake Oil for sale in Manila (12:57) - Despite this Manila phone shops are offering to clean "infected" mobile phone handsets for between 500 up to 1,000 ($8.90 to $19.60) pesos a pop, Jamz Yaneza, a senior antivirus consultant of Trend Micro, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian Smartphone Expo announces Sponsors (12:55) - Symbian Ltd., the market leader in open operating systems for smartphones, today announces the full roster of sponsors for Symbian Expo - The Smartphone Show, its annual tradeshow dedicated to smartphones. Top sponsors of the show are Vodafone, UIQ Technology... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 26 August

Smartphones See Large Growth in 12-18 months (22:50) - A report by In-Stat/MDR gives good news for those developers banking on smartphone growth, especially by Symbian. They also claim Windows will be #2 for smartphones. Digital Media Europe: News - Smart-phones shipments to grow 44% over next five years... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Motorola, DoCoMo, Symbian Handset sports Wifi (22:46) - Motorola Inc.'s new smart phones for NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s Foma service will be powered by Symbian Ltd.'s operating system, ComputerWire has learned. The devices, which are set to reach the market next spring, are also the first announced to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 25 August

Silk: New Content Delivery for smartphones (23:10) - This reads like a bunch of common words capitalized. In any case, it's Clear as Silk that Smart Phones will have a Orange Content Delivery System. Uhm... just read the article over at SymbianOne for the real details: SymbianOne... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 24 August

Nokia and Pointsec Secure your Symbian OS data (21:45) - Nokia and Poitsec today announced that through a collaborative effort they have developed software for protecting sensitive files on Nokia Series 60 and 80 devices. Operating within the familiar Symbian OS, the software technology will allow the encryption of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Scanbuy's Optical Intelligence (21:33) - This resulted in the creation of Optical Intelligence, a utility which provides developers with the ability to include barcode reading functionality within their applications. The user of the application points their phone's camera at the barcode and Optical Intelligence... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Monday 16 August

SimWorks Anti-Virus now removes Mosquitos game (07:59) - In an interesting move that could force the Mosquitos game creators, mojom, to make a statement SimWorks anti-virus now detects Mosquitos as a trojan and removes it from the system. It also detects CABIR. There's no note to whether they... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
PhotoTwister: Twist up your Series 60 Photos (07:53) - In a twist on the photo editing market, we have a photo application for Series 60 devices that allows you to make your friends look funny before you post them on the 'net for billions to see. PhotoTwister will... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 13 August

Series 60 Trojan Horse actually a feature? (07:22) - A couple of days ago, a modified version of a Series 60 game called Mosquito began to circulate that contained a Trojan Horse. This is how Wireless Week puts it: The only way for a Symbian smartphone to become infected... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 10 August

Symbian Phones on DoCoMo act as Wallets (08:08) - The Felica system, introduced on Saturday, enables people to make bank withdrawals and credit card purchases or check in for some airlines' flights, among other activities. Information is transmitted from the cell phone over NTT DoCoMo's own network or... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 9 August

Trojan Symbian Game sends Premium SMS (09:47) - It's not a virus, but it can cause a significant amount of financial damage to the owner before they realize what's going on (which likely requires seeing a bill). A cracked version of popular Mosquitos game for Symbian based smartphones... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 5 August

Symbian shipments nearly double in First Half 2004 (08:45) - Symbian Ltd. said its operating results for the first half of 2004 show global shipments of Symbian OS-based phones nearly doubled to 5 million, as compared to the first half of 2003 when 2.7 million units were shipped. Six... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Lifeblogger: Nokia LifeBlog posting App (08:41) - LifeBlogger gives the ability to post text, pictures, and video to your blog from your Nokia LifeBlog application. LifeBlogger... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbians lead increases against Microsoft (07:55) - Software supplied by Symbian controlled 41per cent of the personal organisers and smart phones shipped worldwide in the second quarter, compared with 37 per cent in the same quarter a year ago, according to research firm canalys.com. A smart... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 2 August

Decuma Handwriting recognition comes to UIQ (08:23) - Decuma's OnSpot handwriting recognition solution has already seen success in implementations on Palm and Windows Mobile, now the solution is coming to UIQ. SymbianOne - The Wireless & Mobile Developer Portal for Symbian OS, series 60, and UIQ device... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 29 July

Spiderman 2 for your Mobile Phone (07:46) - IndiaGames, the developers of J2ME, BREW, I-Mode and Symbian games has entered into an agreement with Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., and Marvel comics to bring "Spiderman 2" to the wireless arena. Two games will be developed. One is a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Best Open Source Symbian OS Project Competition (07:33) - Symbian OS community web site NewLC is running a competition to find the best Open Source Symbian OS projects, with some great prizes from Nokia and Symbian on offer. Find out more from SymbianOne, where they've done an interview... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 25 July

Sample Chapter from Getting Started with Symbian Development (11:50) - Covering the essentials of a Series 60 project, plus building, deploying and running an example application This chapter overviews the process of building, deploying and running an example Series 60 application with a Graphical User Interface (GUI). If you... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 19 July

Semacode and ScoringSystems launch Joint Venture (10:24) - At the NACAA show, ScoringSystem demonstrated their latest innovation in a growing line of unique barcode applications. Using the photographic capability of the Nokia 6600 mobile phone, 2D DataMatrix barcodes containing URLs are captured and decoded, providing access to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian Anti-virus software Ships (10:20) - With anti-virus software, you can never be too early. However, it really feels that way with this software considering that CABIR can't infect without the users agreement. Additionally, since CABIR does not appear in the wild, this AV software feels... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 15 July

Sony Ericsson Reveals P910 UIQ Handset (07:50) - The new model supersedes the P900 by adding a flip-down Qwerty keyboard for emails, and an expanded internal memory of 64MB for corporate applications. Business users can also use the phone to access and view emails on a 262k... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 11 July

Forum Nokia PRO Launched (22:50) - Nokia has launched Forum Nokia PRO, a subscription-based service for advanced developer companies worldwide that delivers premium levels of technical, business development and marketing support. Targeted toward companies playing a leadership role in the evolution of mobile applications and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
SmartVideo Launches Video Solution on Symbian smartphones (22:49) - SmartVideo Technologies, Inc. today announced that it has certified a solution for distribution of live and on-demand video content to Symbian operating system cellular SmartPhones. SmartVideo's cellular solutions provide for live and on-demand streaming of video, eliminating the need... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 10 July

SonyEricsson Invests in Symbian, raises stake (21:08) - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications today announced strategic investments in Symbian Software Ltd., totalling approximately � 57.4 million. In addition to exercising its and Ericsson's pre-emption rights of Psion's holding in Symbian, Sony Ericsson is participating in Symbian's rights issue,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 8 July

Sharp to Ship Symbian Handsets (21:39) - Sharp held a press event o�n the 8th regarding the company's cellular phone business, at which Masafumi Matsumoto (President of Sharp Communication Systems) presented that the company plans o�n investing in cellular phones that feature the Symbian OS next... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Handwriting Recognition in pipeline for Symbian UIQ (21:33) - Decuma's OnSpot handwriting recognition is in the works for Symbian UIQ as well as Windows Mobile and Palm. Geekzone, mobile forums... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian uses new cash to fund staff growth (07:49) - Still related to yesterday's flurry of news that kept Nokia from full controlling position, but a fresh diversion from news directly about it, Symbian is using the extra proceeds to bring the workforce total up to around 1200 from... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
New Symbian Benchmarking from Futuremark (07:44) - Futuremark has released a benchmark program for Symbian based smartphones. The program is called SPMark04 and it provides a comprehensive application for measuring and comparing performance and power consumption of mobile phones. The benchmark has been developed in collaboration... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 7 July

Secure SMS from Silicon Village Mobile (14:06) - Silicon Village Mobile, a Birmingham UK based developer , has today launched the latest version of it's solution for sending secure SMS text messages. The new encryption application provides secure end-to-end data transmission for SMS messages on Nokia Series 60... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 6 July

Avantgo available for Symbian UIQ Platform (23:01) - Avantgo is available for Symbian UIQ platforms via Handango now. It's been available for Series 60 devices since November of last year. Both versions are free downloads. I'm surprised it hasn't sprung up on more phones lately given the content... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia to Only Hold 49% of Symbian (22:54) - Symbian, the mobile phone operating system jointly owned by several leading handset makers, will pass a significant milestone on Wednesday with the announcement that most of its owners have agreed to increase their stakes in the company, preventing Nokia... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Lauterbach supports Symbian OS with TRACE32 (22:51) - Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, now includes support for the Symbian OS real-time operating system (RTOS) from Symbian Ltd in its TRACE32 tool. All versions of the Symbian OS are supported including the new kernel architecture... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 1 July

Symbian Signed Program Not All That? (07:55) - When mobile operating system consortium Symbian Ltd. launched Symbian Signed, a program under which developers submit applications to a third-party tester to validate they are free of malicious behavior and content, the program immediately was criticized by technology analyst Gartner... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 30 June

Day and Wirejack team for Mobile Content (08:25) - WireJack, a mobile lifestyle and entertainment company, develops, publishes and markets content products and services for the BREW, Symbian and J2ME mobile applications. Currently, WireJack has developed mobile applications for world-class companies such as Verizon, Alltel, US Cellular, Midwest... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 29 June

PC Magazine Reviews the Nokia N-Gage QD (11:07) - It's better than the original, but not enough so to justify it for either an upgrade from the original or for anyone for gamers that need all gaming devices (and maybe a few more people). A smaller size and better... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Engadget reviews DoCoMo's F900iT (10:57) - And makes it sound like a very cool phone, feature-wise. We recently got our hands on one of NTT DoCoMo�s new top-of-the line FOMA handsets, Fujitsu�s F900iT. Sporting a touchpanel screen that swivels for PDA-style scribbling, Bluetooth, a megapixel cameraphone,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Review of Sendo X (08:22) - The most striking thing about this phone is that it's a phone. Strange as it may seem, we've never had a truly generic looking Series 60 device. This is much more phone-centric than some of the others, which can look... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Intrinsyc Framework for Enterprise Interop (08:15) - Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. today demonstrated the new Mobile Enterprise Service Bus prototype product for Symbian OS�-based smartphones at JavaOne in San Francisco, California. For this demonstration, Intrinsyc showcased a Microsoft Customer Relationship Management (MSCRM) Client for the Symbian OS-based... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 28 June

Nokia to Integrate Tools with Eclipse (22:36) - Nokia Corp expects an expansion in the number of Java developers building for its mobile platforms during the remainder of 2004, in the wake of SDK support for Eclipse. The world's largest mobile phone supplier believes support for Eclipse... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 24 June

New RSS Reader for Symbian (07:50) - Wildpalm has released the first dedicated Series 60 RSS reader called Headline. It features full OPML import and export, support for RSS 0.9, 1.0 and 2.0, automatic updating and integration with the built in browser, Opera, Doris or NetFront. More... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
OGG Vorbis for Nokia Series 60 2.0 (07:37) - The sis file provided on the release page includes a recogniser so that ogg file will be recognised and played by the Recorder program built into the phone. The recogniser will also mean that ogg files are included in the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 23 June

Series 60 Navigation Software Ships (08:38) - "ROUTE 66 Mobile 2005" turns your mobile phone into a wireless navigation system up to house number accuracy that requires no further subscriptions. Don’t worry! Of course, you can still receive or make telephone calls while you are navigating... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Reaxion Acquires 3SYM (08:00) - Reaxion Corp., a leading developer and publisher of mobile games, entertainment and communication applications, today announced the acquisition of the Byelorussian development company, 3SYM. 3SYM's developers are best known for their work on the popular multi-player Brain Game series... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 22 June

MobiMate Launches WorldMate Professional (08:01) - Following the spectacular success of WorldMate Standard Edition for Symbian Smartphones, MobiMate(R) announces the launch of WorldMate(TM) Professional Edition -- aimed at the business/frequent traveller. The #1 best-selling mobile travel application, designed with the frequent traveller in mind, now... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Forum Nokia on SIP (07:57) - SIP, or Session Initiated Protocol, is used to establish interactive sessions between devices. Nokia has just published three documents on it, from a brief overview presentation found here, to a plug-in for Series 60 devices found here, and a white... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Smartphone OS Battle Rages On (07:47) - Symbian has come closest to delivering a standard mobile phone operating system. Available since 1998, the Symbian OS has garnered significant support. Approximately 18 phones -- from companies such as Ericsson, Matsushita Electronics, Nokia, Psion, Samsung, Siemens and Sony... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 21 June

Sendo X Available in Europe (08:12) - THE MUCH ANTICIPATED Symbian based smartphone from Sendo, the X, has finally started shipping in six major European countries. The X will ship with around 200 Euros worth of applications - most of which will be "fun stuff and image... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 18 June

Nokia Theme Studio for Series 40 and Series 60 (12:49) - Themes can customize wallpaper, application icons, color schemes, and more to offer users a personalized experience. You can get the Theme Studio for Series 40 here and the Theme Studio for Series 60 here.... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Thursday 17 June

Nokia will not Ship 7700 Media Device (14:42) - Nokia Corp has decided against a commercial launch for its first Symbian-based media device, the mobile phone giant has admitted. The 7700 had been due for release in the current quarter. However, the company said at its Nokia Connections 2004... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia Competes with 3rd Party Browser Vendors on Series 60 (08:58) - Opera Software ASA and Access Co Ltd have been dealt a blow with news that Nokia Corp's Series 60 (S60) handset software now contains a mobile web browser that the vendor claims is on a functional par with its third-party... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
FOMA 900 Series Handsets Ship on NTT DoCoMo (08:11) - The new 900 Series handsets are now being marketed and are available in Japan. NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today that they will begin marketing "F900iT," "N900iS" and "P900iV," which are three new highly advanced... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 16 June

Nokia on Designing Series 80 C++ Applications (20:22) - Developers will receive an introduction to the design of Series 80 C++ applications. Some of the elements of design are beyond the scope of this document; where this is the case, references to other resources are given. The document begins... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia Series 80 Getting Started Document (20:20) - This document describes how to develop a simple application in C for Series 80 Developer Platform 2.0. Series 80 Developer Platform 2.0: Getting Started With C Application Development v1.0... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia Series 40 Platform 2.0 Specification (20:19) - This document specifies Series 40 Developer Platform 2.0 by defining which APIs and features are common in devices that are compliant with Series 40 Developer Platform 2.0. Series 40 Developer Platform 2.0: Specification v1.0... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia Updates Series 40 and Series 60 Known Issues (20:18) - This document describes the known issues for Developer Platform 2.0. Two new Browsing known issues have been added. Developer Platform 2.0: Known Issues v1.6 This document describes the known issues for Series 40 and Series 60 Developer Platform 1.0. One... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Series 60 3D Game Engine Example (20:15) - Applicable to Platform 1.0 and 2.0. This package includes a 3-D game engine example application and a document describing the most important programming tricks and algorithm issues to consider when developing 3-D programs on Symbian OS. Series 60 Developer... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia 7610 Camera Plug-in for S60 SDK 2.1 (20:13) - The Nokia 7610 Camera Plug-in enables developers to create applications that utilize APIs for the built-in camera in the Nokia 7610 imaging phone. The plug-in is compatible with Series 60 SDK 2.1 for Symbian OS and Series 60 SDK 2.1... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia N-Gage QD Reviewed (08:37) - If the original N-Gage is like a sleek sports car that looks great from a distance, but compromises a comfy design for a sexy look, then the N-Gage QD is the Ford Sierra of phones. Short stockly, powerfull... and with... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Panasonic and Samsung to Introduce Symbian OS Handsets (08:24) - Samsung, now participating in CommunicAsia 2004 in Singapore, said that it would supply Symbian OS phone to Europe. SGH-D710 is slide-up phone featuring MP3 and 260,000 color screen. Panasonic also said in a press conference that it would introduce its... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Stop Spam on your Symbian Phone (08:20) - SpamKiller helps you to stop SPAM and messages from unwanted persons on your Symbian smartphone. AAS News: NEW: SpamKiller for Series 60 from SymbianWare... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 15 June

Cabir Worm News Spreads Faster than the Worm itself (08:04) - For a worm that has no harmful payload, the news of it is spreading like wildfire. Here, we have The Register's take on this new virus: Some useful citizen has written a virus which targets mobile phones running the Symbian... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Visto Mobile Launched for Wireless Operators (07:52) - Visto Corporation has announced a new integrated platform allowing mobile network operators to provide push-based mobile email/PIM solutions aimed at individual, small business or corporate customers. With this new release, Visto has also improved product usability and performance on popular... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
Flash Networks to Improve Use Experience on Symbian OS (07:49) - Flash Networks� NettGain solutions enable wireless operators to accelerate the adoption of mobile data by extensively enriching user experience over a broad network coverage while minimizing the operators� cost. NettGain facilitates the provision of content-rich applications that are strategic for... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
First Mobile Phone Worm Found (07:26) - Antivirus company Kaspersky Labs Ltd. said on Monday that it discovered the first-ever computer virus capable of spreading over mobile phone networks. Cabir is a network worm that infects phones running the Symbian mobile phone operating system by Symbian... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 14 June

Nokia Introduces 5 New Mobile Products (08:41) - Chairman and CEO Jorma Ollila launched the products, including three clamshell phones and a 3G WCDMA smartphone aimed at bringing 3G to the broader market. Introducing the products, he said, "We have now sharpened our product portfolio in key... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia Series 60 Improvements (08:36) - Expanding on Series 60 Platform, Second Edition, Nokia reveals two new Feature Packs adding more APIs, specification revs, and new hardware options. New features in the Feature Pack 2 * GSM, WCDMA-GSM and CDMA configurations * Video telephony (Circuit-Switch... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Improved Symbian GCC (08:21) - An improved version of GCC from the GCC Improvement Team has been modified for building Symbian applications. This version produces noticeably better code that the official Symbian build of GCC. AAS News: Improved Symbian GCC... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 12 June

Terraplay Systems Receives Investment for Continued Expansion (12:21) - Terraplay Systems has completed its financing round raising 6.5 million from Nordic Venture Partners and existing shareholders. The market for mobile and fixed multiplayer gaming continues to develop rapidly. Terraplay has made substantial progress in this market over the last... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Series 60 to 80/90/UIQ Porting (12:14) - Peroon R&D and Symbian have announced the extension of it's Porting Technology to allow Series 60 C Source Code to be compiled and run nativly on Series 80 and Series 90 devices. IT already allows S60 porting to UIQ.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Barefoot Launches Australian Swimsuit Edition-Free for Series 60 handsets (11:56) - Barefoot Software Asia Limited (BSAL) is pleased to announce the launch Australian Swimsuit Edition-Free (ASE), via the Barefoot Software website (http://www.barefootsoft.com) for download. ASE is a Cardmate application which is being launched for Free as a promotional application to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 9 June

Nokia gets go-ahead for Symbian Acquisition (08:07) - The German competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, has cleared Nokia's purchase of Psion's 31.1 per cent holding in Symbian. This is the final hurdle regulatory hurdle that Nokia has to overcome in Europe before the sale can go ahead. The next... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 7 June

Nokia on the losing side in China and losing lead in smartphones (22:33) - It is not a secret that Microsoft Smartphone - Motorola MPx200 - is one of the best selling smartphones produced by Motorola corporation, although Motorola produces also Linux and Symbian based smartphones. msmobiles.com - Motorola beats Nokia in China and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 5 June

Nokia Series 60 2.1 SDK Available (22:15) - Series 60 SDK 2.1 for Symbian OS enables C++ application development for the Series 60 Developer Platform 2.0 devices, such as the Nokia 6620 and Nokia 7610, which are based the Series 60 2.1 software. New in Series 60 2.1... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 4 June

FOMA 900i Series uses Symbian OS (08:35) - Three new, high end handsets for NTT DoCoMo have been announced. All are 3G smarphones running the Symbian OS. The F900iT is a twist-style handset with a touchscreen and Bluetooh. The N900iS has dictionaries and a "deco-mail" feature, that... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 2 June

Pointsec for Symbian OS 2.0 (09:55) - Pointsec for Symbian OS 2.0 offers extensive data protection solutions for the Symbian operating system. Files and folders are automatically encrypted in real time, with no user intervention required. Email and SMS data can also be encrypted and decrypted on... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 1 June

MIDI SysEx Spec v1.0 (09:15) - This document describes the control of light effects by an extension to a MIDI file. It provides the possibility to have light effects simultaneous to a ring tone or any other sound. MIDI Lights: MIDI SysEx Specification v1.0... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Series 60 Messaging for C++ V1.1 Document (09:13) - This document describes the techniques required for using the Messaging APIs on the Series 60 Developer Platform. It presents an overview of the tools available, the messaging architecture, and also provides an accompanying example application. Series 60 Developer Platform: Introduction... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
High End Phones Bypass Revenue Sources (08:06) - There is a growing concern among operators about savvy users that use high end phones completely bypassing revenue streams. Symbian handsets, specifically, allow users to install their own ring tones, wallpaper, and other applications without using the services of their... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 27 May

Spotcode beta for Symbian Phones (15:15) - Specifically, it's available for Series 60 handsets. What is a spotcode? It's a code that the phone can use to send information back to the computer via bluetooth. The use is to turn the phone into an interface device to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Security for Sony Ericsson Symbian OS 2.0 Phones (09:21) - Pointsec for Symbian OS 2.0 offers extensive data protection solutions for the Symbian operating system. Files and folders are automatically encrypted in real time, with no user intervention required. Email and SMS data can also be encrypted and decrypted on... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Wednesday 26 May

Nokia on Using C++ and/or Java (15:55) - Borland Mobile Studio and Borland Enterprise Studio for Mobile allow developers of mobile applications to combine C++ and Java� programming in the same development environment. The purpose of this document is to assist the developer in deciding which development tasks... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 25 May

"Webinar" for CodeWarrior Tools for Series 60 (19:43) - Nokia has published a "webinar" here that introduces developers to the CodeWarrior Tools for Series 60 development. You can get it here. It is a direct link to a wmv file. Forum Nokia - Developer resources... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Nokia Update Developer Platform 2.0 Known Issues (11:56) - Now on version 1.5, Nokia has updated their Developer Platform 2.0 SDK beta known issues document. Developer Platform 2.0: Known Issues v1.5... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 24 May

Polycom(R) provides group calling for Symbian (09:32) - MobileMeeting is an innovative instant group calling application for mobile carriers that offers a fast and convenient way to connect and collaborate on mobile phones and devices, enabling people to work efficiently and effectively while on the go. By pressing... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 22 May

Nokia updates their Series 60 IDE Choices document (15:56) - This document is aimed primarily at individual developers and company development strategists who are considering creating or porting applications to the Series 60 Developer Platform. It gives a snapshot of the commercial development environment options available at the time of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 20 May

on Trust and Mobile Applications (15:54) - Everyone is looking for our trust at the moment. Schemes for digitally signing applications seem to be popping up like gophers across the mobile landscape, each of them confident that we'll place our trust in their authority. Microsoft, of course,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 18 May

Symbian formally launches Symbian Signed certification program (07:24) - Over 300 applications have already passed the certification program, but Symbian is now formally launching the Symbian Signed certification program. This program is designed to make certification cheaper and easier for developers allowing broader distribution options. In addition, it provides... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 16 May

SceneMachines brings 3D messaging to Symbian (12:05) - LivingPictures delivers next generation messaging to smartphones based on Symbian OS. The consumer takes a photo of the desired subject -- human, animal or even an inanimate object such as a cuddly toy or a pint of beer. The photo... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 13 May

Handango announces 2004 Award Finalists (16:25) - Chosen from more than 50,000 applications, finalists for the awards that will be given on Jun 24th in San Diego have been announced. The platforms for the awards include: Palm OS, Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphon, J2ME, Symbian,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Teleca brings Intel chips to Symbian OS (16:06) - Teleca announced today it will supply leading Symbian OS and Series 60 support for the Intel(R) PXA27x family of processors aimed at customers developing mobile phones, PDA's and other wireless devices. This new technology provides additional performance for 3D... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 12 May

Rumor: Possible N-Gage 2? (11:16) - This article points to the mention of MIDP 2.0 in use for the N-Gage, but currently both N-Gage devices are MIDP 1.0. Is this implying an new N-Gage? Or an upgrade to the N-Gage OS since all new Series 60... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Wildseed launches GameSkin for Mortal Kombat (10:34) - The GameSkin featuring Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance marks the first time a Mortal Kombat game will be played on a wireless phone. This game accessory will add Game Boy Advance style controls to optimize the phone for competitive Mortal Kombat:... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Philips Electronics a Symbian Platinum member (09:08) - Philips Electronics today announced it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program. With Philips joining the program, mobile phone manufacturers can benefit from seamlessly integrated multimedia applications for their smartphone offerings. As a result, mobile phone manufacturers can bring complete and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 11 May

Sonim PTT for Symbian OS (07:01) - Sonim Technologies, the leader in enabling wireless data networks to deliver services including the Push-to-Talk (PTT) capability, today announced the addition of Symbian OS support for its Sonim PoC Client� product line. This addition enables PTT functionality on Symbian OS... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 10 May

IBM's Workplace Client (10:58) - PalmOne stressed the compatibility of Workplace Client with J2ME, a version of Java designed for mobile devices. "With the growth of wireless computing, embedded Java will be increasingly important in allowing disparate devices to access different networks and types of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 7 May

Units up, Sales down (10:05) - Symbian sales fell from 2.76 million in the last quarter of 2003 to 2.4 million in the first of this year.Because handset sales are seasonal, this translates into a flat market share of 1.9 percent, but is disappointing in a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 6 May

Psion sell off of 31% of Symbian to Nokia slowdown (09:57) - The UK tech firm said on Thursday that it has already received a thumbs-up from the regulators in Finland and Austria. But unless Germany's Bundeskartellamt also approves the sale, the transfer of Psion's 31 percent stake in Symbian to Nokia... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian Growing in Japan (09:05) - The London-based company said it was �particularly encouraged� by its improvement in Japan, which is leading the world in third generation mobile networks. Scotsman.com Business - Latest News - Symbian Strengthens Position in Japan... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Symbian shipments up to 2.4 million in a quarter (09:03) - Symbian, the telecoms software joint venture, today said that the shipment of mobile phones based on its operating system more than doubled to 2.4 million in the first quarter. Times Online - Latest news Update: More stories related to this... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 5 May

Symbian - A Growing Market (14:08) - During all of 2003, 6.7 Million Symbian handsets were shipped worldwide. Of that, over 1 million were shipped in just December. Certainly the rate is increasing. Given the projected sales of the N-Gage, which wasn't doing too bad, the N-Gage... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 4 May

New Series 60 Book for Developers (16:53) - Developing Series 60 Applications : A Guide for Symbian OS C++ Developers by Leigh Edwards, Richard Barker, Staff of EMCC Software Ltd - the definitive guide to Series 60 development for C++ programmers and software designers. A book that... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 29 April

Palm OS Leads the US Smartphone Market (23:16) - Palm OS holds the leading share in the U.S. smartphone market, according to data released by the NPD Group, a retail sales tracking firm. According to NPD's report, U.S. market share for Palm Powered smartphones in February 2004 was... | 0 Comments
Symbian Leads Smart-Phone Market (23:15) - A study published by ABI Research predicted Symbian OS to dominate the market for smart-phones for the rest of the decade. This is, of course, for the world because as we all know, Palm leads the US. :) We... | 0 Comments
Access announces NetFront 3.1 browser for Symbian UIQ (23:14) - ACCESS announced its NetFront v3.1 browser software for UIQ 2.x, a platform for smartphones based on the Symbian OS. I just love the NetFront browser on the Zaurus C700 -- it's version 3.0. It has all kinds of things that... | 0 Comments
IT Investor's Journal: Openwave embraces Linux (23:13) - An interesting pair of articles about Linux in mobile devices. The Symbian relation is the mention of Nokia moving more towards Linux. Oh? IT Manager's Journal | IT Investor's Journal: Openwave embraces Linux, Part 2 Part 1... | 0 Comments
Former Symbian, Psion boss answers all your questions (23:12) - Colly Myers, the former managing director of Psion and founding CEO of Symbian, is taking the wraps off his start-up today. It's a fascinating challenge to the web's free search engines. For the price of a pound, Issuebits' AQA... | 0 Comments
Symbian Exposium 2004 Dates Announced (23:11) - ExCel have announced that the 2004 Symbian Exposium will be held at the ExCel Exhibition and Conference Centre in London's Docklands on Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th October 2004. Details here. There are no details (yet) on the events... | 0 Comments