Introducing the Tuny Engine, the advanced cross-platform audio system for mobile games, currently supporting Symbian OS, Windows Mobile and PC. Its features include built-in high quality software MIDI synthesizer, two MIDI channels for playing a background MIDI and a foreground SFX MIDI simultaneously, unlimited number of software mixing channels and well designed API. Tuny Engine supports Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Wave Files (WAV), Microsoft MIDI files (RMI) and Standard MIDI files (MID).

At the moment of this writing, Tuny Engine is free for non-commercial projects and you can get more information and download it from the Focusbyte.com.

Remember the Python for S60? Want to learn it? Jürgen Scheible, a researcher, engineer, programmer, project manager, music and video artist, prepared a page with lots of useful information on the subject. First of all, Jürgen wrote an extensive Python for Series 60 tutorial. It covers such issues as SMS, sound management, bluetooth, networking, graphics drawings, camera, image handling, XML, GUI design, database issues, etc.

Beside the written word, you can also learn by watching Jürgen’s educational movies. At the moment, 3 videos are available:

• Python S60 workshop given by Jurgen Scheible @ UIAH Media Lab, Helsinki.
• Python S60 workshop given by Jurgen Scheible @ Berkeley University, California / Yahoo Research Labs Berkeley
• Comments by people who use PyS60

I encourage all the developers out there to start using the Python, as it is the de facto technology supported by the major player, namely Nokia (NYSE: NOK). And I expect to see more PyS60 applications in the near future. In the meantime, visit MobiLenin, the Jürgen Scheible’s site, for more information.

SEVEN today announced the immediate commercial release of push email on the latest mobile devices powered by Symbian OS v9. SEVEN’s push email solutions will be immediately available on eagerly-anticipated devices such as the Nokia Eseries, as the devices become available through SEVEN’s extensive network of over 90 mobile operators and numerous resellers worldwide.

The availability of SEVEN’s push email on the devices means mobile professionals and consumers now have even more choice in the way they access their email, contact and calendar information while on the move. Forum Nokia honoured SEVEN with Best S60 Enterprise Application Award in December 2005 and recently SEVEN push email was highly commended in the 2006 GSMA Award for the Best Mobile Enterprise Application.

As one of the few vendors accredited for Symbian Self Certification, acknowledging the quality and competence of SEVEN’s development processes, SEVEN works in close cooperation with device manufacturers and Symbian to develop its push email solution, putting it through rigorous testing to ensure compatibility across a range of advanced 2G, 2.5G and 3G phones, smartphones and PDAs.

Introducing the new concept phone, the Polygon, designed by Alloy and presented at the MEX conference. It only looks like a normal phone, but it’s a clamshell phone which replaces the buttons on the bottom half with a rugged touchscreen, which changes according to what you’re using it for.

So when you’re playing music, the touchscreen looks like an iPod. When you’re watching TV, you turn the phone sideways and the touchscreen morphs into channel-switching controls. When you surf the Web, it becomes a QWERTY keyboard. It’s a neat idea – and in every case leaves the top screen completely free for whatever content you’re viewing / accessing.

Now, wouldn’t you all like to see the Symbian powered phone working like this? I know I would. Check out the pictures at the bottom of this post to see for yourself how cool is this. Also, you can read more about it from the TechDigest.

Handy ZIP for S60 smartphones from Epocware, allows you to open, extract and create zip archives on your phone. Using it, you can open compressed files from Internet straight on the smartphone, without download them on PC.

Handy Zip provides users with the following possibilities:

• to open, look through and change compressed e-mail attachments,
• to compress files and so to save much storage space,
• to use simple and rapid compressing technology,
• to preview e-mail attachments without their preliminary extraction.

Now, you will have more space to install more songs, pictures and programs.

Remember the .mobi domain. Well, it seems that its success is round the corner, as China Mobile (NYSE: CHL), the largest mobile telecom carrier in China becomes the first enterprise in Asia registering .mobi mobile phone domain name. That’s great news and I’m looking forward to see many new .mobi websites and mobile web services arise in the near future. TMCnet has a more in-depth article on the subject.

The Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE)’s smartphones P990, M600 and W950 are all UIQ 3-based phones using Symbian OS v9.1 and they share the same family DNA. This way an application written for one phone, will in most cases run on the other two UIQ 3-based phones.

This compatibility also holds true for Symbian Signing. Signing a UIQ 3 application for either the M600, P990 or W950 means that the application is Signed for the other two phones. Although Symbian Signing is not a technical requirement of UIQ 3, it is in practice a business requirement for many on-line sales channels, including the Motricity powered Sony Ericsson Application Shop. Motricity is supporting developers by offering a discounted price for signing UIQ 3 applications through the software testing house MphasiS until July 31, 2006 September 30, 2006. Read the full article »

There ware rumors earlier this year about the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) E62 – the Nokia E61 without WiFi for the US market. Well, the Engadget guys say that little birdie told them that Cingular will very soon introduce the Nokia E62. The same birdie got them the picture. What a birdie!

Beside the WiFi, E62 won’t be the UMTS device, but will still have all other features of E61. It’s clear that this move could drive Nokia forward in the US market, where both RIM and Palm (NSDQ: PALM) have strong positions in the business handset market.

We’ve already talked about the new Nokia N72. Well, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has started shipments of it. As you may recall, Nokia advertise it as a sleek and stylish multimedia computer which comes in pearl pink or gloss black compact package. Matching themed headset and wrist strap are included in sales packs of the Nokia N72.

The Nokia N72 has started shipments to key markets worldwide, including the Middle East and Africa, Russia, Eastern Europe, mainland China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

As mentioned, Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s recent web browser code release to open source community is just a first step. The next stage is to go fully open source, with the aim of accelerating uptake and creating a major developer community.

Lee Epting, head of Nokia’s global software development community, said that by releasing the S60 engine to the open source community Nokia can encourage much needed innovation in the browser space while keeping the browser experience consistent across hundreds of smartphones.

The Register has an interesting article on the subject exploring even more the future of the S60 platform and Nokia’s potential alliance with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in their mutual quest to depose Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT).