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…
Archives for June 2006
First Push Email for New Symbian OS v9 smartphones from SEVEN
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…
Mobile phone of the future – Ideas I would like to see in Symbian OS phones
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…
Handy ZIP S60
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…
China Mobile Registers .mobi
Remember the .mobi domain. Well, it seems that its success is round the corner, as China Mobile, 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…
P990, M600 and W950: UIQ 3 compatibility and Symbian Signing special offer
The Sony Ericsson’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…
Nokia E62 on Cingular soon
There ware rumors earlier this year about the Nokia 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…
Nokia N72 Starts Shipping
We’ve already talked about the new Nokia N72. Well, Nokia 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 steps up open source efforts
As mentioned, Nokia’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…