Karrier Communications, the developer of IntelliGolf – the #1 selling “Golf Scoring and GPS Software”, recently announced the JAVA-based version of their popular software for UIQ devices. IntelliGolf has been completely rewritten in JAVA (MIDP 2.0), removing the need for continued use of AppForge’s Crossfire (Booster) software on Sony Ericsson’s P900-series of phones. The new…
Archives for June 2006
Converging with Flash Lite
According to Al Ramadan, senior vice president of mobile and device solutions at Adobe, consumers worldwide demand engaging content and services on their devices. Research by the Boston-based consultancy, Strategy Analytics, forecasts that there are 38 million flash-enabled mobile phone handsets today, but that number is going to grow to 216 million by 2010. The…
PuTTY for Symbian OS
Have you heard of PuTTY? It is a free telnet/SSH client developed by Simon Tatham and others. The Symbian version is also available and it’s free (like the PC original). PuTTY for Symbian OS works on all Symbian smartphones including all S60 devices (not just Nokias), Series 80 Communicators and Nokia 7710 (Series 90). Separate…
Edge 2.60 SDK with Symbian 9 support released
Elements Interactive B.V. releases version 2.60 of its multi-platform mobile game engine Edge. This new version adds support for the new Symbian 9.1 operating system and includes improved versions of the Edge Packer and Edge IDE development tools. Emulator library builds for Series 60 third edition and UIQ 3.0 are included in the SDK as…
Mobipocket compatible with Symbian 9
Mobipocket, the universal reader for PDAs and smartphones, is now compatible with Symbian 9. Both S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3 are supported, allowing users of all new Nokia and Sony Ericsson smartphones to utilize this handy app. Furthermore, new Sony Ericsson smartphones (namely M600, W950 and P990) will come with Mobipocket pre-installed on their…
Flander to provide Symbian Signed certification
Mobile software testing and development company, Flander, has been granted Publisher Certifier status by Symbian. This agreement allows Flander to test both its own and third-party applications and content and to grant Symbian Signed certification. Flander’s high quality, well-defined processes (they received CMMI 3 level acknowledgment in 16 processes), allow them to offer fixed testing…
In search for a perfect all-in-one device
Yesterday I was thinking something. Wouldn’t it be great to have a perfect all-in-one device which could have all cool features such as: full QWERTY keyboard, WiFi capability, built-in GPS and high-quality camera. Apparently such device already exist. The only problem is that it’s working on Windows Mobile platform and it’s part of the Fujitsu-Siemens…
SlovoEd 1.7 for S60 3rd Edition
New version of SlovoEd, a multilingual software dictionary, is released by Epocware. Support for Symbian S60 3rd Edition is now included, allowing users of all new Nokia devices to take advantage of this extraordinary application. SlovoEd 1.7 highlights: Easy-to-use interface; High quality of dictionary databases is a consequent result of SlovoEd and the world leading…
Watch the Mobile TV during the FIFA World Cup
Nokia had already done some research regarding the DVB-H technology. Now, another pilot project involves German mobile network operators E-Plus, O2, T-Mobile and Vodafone. It started in Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover and Munich and will run until August 31 except Munich where the pilot ends on July 31, 2006. The main point is to allow FIFA…
Smartphone market 67% increase
Converged mobile device market worldwide recorded sales of 18.9 million units in Q1, an increase of 7.5% over the fourth quarter of 2005 and 67.8% over Q1 of 2005, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Nokia is leading the market with 43.2% share, followed by Panasonic (10%), NEC (9.5%), RIM Blackberry ( 7.7%)…