I’ve stumbled upon an interesting article on the::unwired. The author, Alfredo Padilla, discusses some issues about the highly-anticipated Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s iPhone and sees some very interesting possibilities in a potential Apple/Symbian partnership. The rest of this post is a combination of Alfredo’s opinion and my own.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) already uses Safari’s code for its S60 web browser, and an additional venture with Apple could benefit the both companies. One can only dream of the next line of Nokia smartphones – not “N” or “E”, but iSeries.

However, Apple is known for its closed platform and entering the Symbian realm could be a sort of precedent. Also, Nokia’s recent acquisition of Loudeye indicate that the finish giant is preparing to compete with Apple’s iTunes. On the other hand, I wonder is there a space for yet another mobile platform? Read the full article »

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Research Center’s SensorPlanet project organizes the new kind of real-life game where approximately 250 players run around Manhattan, New York City with their Nokia N80 smartphone and take photos that illustrate words in stories written by other players and the visitors of the official game’s site. The resulting illustrated stories are shown on large public signs in Times Square in real-time and on the site.

People from the Nokia Research say that they are interested in combining the physical and the virtual worlds through new ways of sensing. As it happens, lots of people always carry a mobile phone with them, making it a perfect platform for this job.

Manhattan Story Mashup happens on Saturday, 23rd of September, and promises lots of fun for the players!

For all of you guys who intend to go to this year’s Symbian Smartphone Show, you will be delighted to know that the single largest Symbian focused site, All About Symbian, has its own event on the night before the show.

Every year, All About Symbian organises an open meeting for Symbian users, developers, manufacturers and interesting people to come along for an informal get-together. This year is no different, and they hope that everyone who comes along will find a warm welcome, friendly conversation, and have a good night out.

The Crosse Keys Pub located at the 9 Gracechurch Street (EC3V 0DR) in London, will host the event, and the AAS team will be there from 6.30 PM. The date is Monday 16th October 2006.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to go there but I would strongly suggest to any one of you guys and gals to go there. You’ll learn something new, you’ll have fun and make new contacts! More information here.

SNAPin Software, the first company to deliver self-service software for mobile devices, has announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for phones based on Symbian OS. As a Platinum Partner, SNAPin Software is extending its SelfService Product Suite to the Symbian ecosystem. The SNAPin SelfService product suite lets operators deliver their own branded self-service experience to their subscribers, delivering interactive promotions and context-sensitive training on every device, driving adoption of advanced services and generating incremental revenue. It supports all mobile devices and networks, giving operators an unprecedented ability to monitor and manage their subscribers’ service experience.

Simon Garth, Vice President of Marketing at Symbian Ltd., said that they (Symbian Ltd.) are delighted to welcome SNAPin to the Symbian Platinum Partner Program. “This underscores our joint commitment to deliver the leading smartphone experience through the ever expanding and increasingly sophisticated Symbian OS ecosystem”, he added.

Just after the N93 update, Symbian Freak spotted the new firmware refreshment – this time for Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s “ultimate challenge to the digital camera” – N73. The firmware version 2.0628.0.0.3 will soon be available in the official Nokia Points and Nokia Service Points.

This minor release should improve the N73’s performance and fix known bugs and problems from previous versions. More info here.

I’ve already posted that Forum Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has created a separate category on it Developer Discussion Boards dedicated to the porting to S60 issues.

Well, the discussion is heating up with addition of two subjects – “Porting to Native Symbian, Key Issues” and “Migrating to S60 3rd Edition“.

Once again, I use this opportunity to invite all developers to transfer their existing mobile applications – not just the applications developed for the older S60 platform, but for all other smartphone platforms including Palm (NSDQ: PALM) OS and Windows Mobile – to the new S60 3rd edition platform.

Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) today announced a new service called “M-BUZZ” for breaking new and developing artists. Complementing the company’s unique music offering of Walkman branded phones, services and accessories, M-BUZZ is yet another building block in Sony Ericsson’s extensive mobile music offering to music fans worldwide.

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Sapio, a developer of application-based services for wireless devices, today announced that they have signed an agreement where Sapio is to develop, promote and facilitate mobile printing solutions and services in the Nordic region.

Based on the agreement, Sapio is to identify and collaborate with interested service providers in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark in order to upgrade their existing printing infrastructures to support and offer direct mobile printing services to Nokia Nseries users. Sapio enables service providers to deploy and market their services in Nokia Nseries multimedia computers quickly and conveniently. Via seamless integration of their printing services in Nokia Nseries devices, the service provider is able to promote and distribute their service under their own brand directly in the handset. Read the full article »

The latest release of the mobile development tool MobiForms now includes improved networking functionality using serial, USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi or mobile phone connections. Integrated file and data transfer commands make it even easier to synchronize mobile data back to financial or field service systems.

This latest release complements the existing features in MobiForms such as signature capture, bar coding, image objects, connectivity to Oracle, Sybase and IBM DB2 databases, or simple ASCII file access.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has reached an agreement with Time Warner Inc. to offer Warner Bros’ Entertainment content including Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbara cartoons for download on its portable devices through Nokia Content Discoverer.

Beside the games, video and audio files for kids, Warner Bros will also supply some of the popular films such as “Dukes of Hazzard” and “V for Vendetta”.

Slowly the Nokia Content Discoverer is filling up with high quality content. After EA, now comes Warner Bros. One wonders who’s next?