During the Smartphone Show, Navicore (recent Symbian Platinum Partner) introduced the world’s smallest Bluetooth GPS receiver to accompany the latest version of its award-winning GPS navigation product, Navicore Personal 2007.

The design of the device is marked by its size (only 64 x 22 x 15 mm) and its weight (just 30g). Nevertheless, it doesn’t compromise on quality of the receiver or the performance of it.

The Navicore Bluetooth GPS receiver is powered by the SiRF Star III GPS chipset and offers users up to 8 hours of battery life in continuous use. The built-in battery can be charged easily by connecting the USB cable included in the package to a laptop, PC, or a cigarette lighter outlet.

The Navicore Bluetooth GPS receiver is compatible with all Navicore Personal products supporting the following platforms: Symbian S60, Series 80, UIQ 3 and Linux Internet Tablet OS 2006 Edition. Availability: November 2006.

Thanks to the Aving, we have the new photos of Samsung SGH-i520 Symbian OS HSDPA smartphone, which was released at the Symbian Smartphone Show 2006 held from October 17 to 18 in London, UK.

These are most likely the official Samsung’s photos. However, I was unable to find them on Samsung’s site. If someone happen to have more photos of this neat device, I would gladly put them on the site. In the meantime, see how slick & stylish this device actually is:

e61life blog has found a search applications that will help you search through your phone. The application quickly searches in messages, emails, calendars, contacts and other files with the entered keyword(s).

Apparently, this applications comes built-in in Nokia E50, and now everyone can use it. Download from here.

To further encourage and keep informed UIQ 3 developers, Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) Developer World created a Wiki, thus providing up-to-date technical information from the commercial world of mobile application, game and content development.

Currently, three sections are present, covering Java ME, Symbian OS/UIQ 3 and Media. At the moment, the Symbian OS/UIQ 3 section consists of such subjects as Security Platform (articles on Symbian Signed, DevCerts and restricted APIs) and Porting to UIQ 3 (covers porting from UIQ 2.1 and S60 platforms).

Everyone can access and read the articles in the Wiki. Editing, on the other hand, can be done by discussion forum members who have attained at least the Junior level.

Symbian Freak spotted the new minor firmware update for Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N80. The update removes some known bugs and brings several improvements. The firmware version 4.0623.0.42 will soon be available in the official Nokia Points, Nokia Service Points, as well as through the Nokia Software Updater service.

Introducing Syncxo, the new wireless mobile synchronisation service, which lets you synchronise your contacts, calendars, tasks and emails with mobile devices, PCs and Laptops “over the air”.

Syncxo offers more than a synchronisation, you can use it to backup your messages, contacts and appointments or send and receive your email with your mobile phone. The service of course, works on Symbian OS devices, and you can start using it for free.

Oxygen Software just released the new version (v2.11.5) of Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS phones, a PC application that lets your PC and mobile phone communicate with each other.

New in this version:

• Phonebook. Added ability to schedule meeting directly from the phonebook.
• Phonebook. Popup menu item “Schedule birthday reminder” moved from “Number” to “Contact” menu part.
• Calendar. Importing events from Lotus Notes is available now.
• Application Manager. Added support for Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Series 60 3rd Edition.
• Interface. Added ability to hide “Phone explorer” from the screen to enlarge work space.
• Connectivity. Improved algorithm that checks PC communication capability for better detection.
• Synchronization. Improved Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Outlook installation detection routine.
• Licensing. Import and export functions available in licenses starting from Business now.
• Messaging. “Request delivery report” check removed from the “New short message” form as it is ignored by the device afterwards.
• Gallery. Significant speed improvement while reading data from disk at program start.
• Calendar. Alarm and Location fields are visible for Series 80 and Series 90 models now.
• Calendar. Description field added for Series 80 and Series 90 models now.
• Forensic Edition. Contacts are sorted in alphabetical order now.
• Options. Settings are applied and take the effect much faster now.

At the recent WiMAX technology conference in Boston, Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s representatives told the press that they will make the WiMAX capable mobile devices sometime during 2008. Roughly at the same time, Nokia rolled out a WiMAX-enabled version of its lightweight base station, previously used just for transmitting HSDPA and W-CDMA third-generation cellular signals.

Those of you who follow the telecom news, probably remember that Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel announced last August its intention to make a 4 Mbps WiMAX network by the fourth quarter of next year.

It will be interesting to watch the developments surrounding WiMAX and other 4G technolgoies. And, even more interesting to see them integrated in the future smartphones. Full story.

The introduction of an enhanced security architecture in Symbian OS v9 has imposed constraints that have necessitated some minor changes in the structure of applications. These necessarily result in some changes to the structure and location of resource files involved in localization.

To address these issues, Symbian has prepared an article that outlines the measures required to localize your UIQ 3 applications. The underlying principles remain the same as for earlier versions, but the requirements of Platform Security necessitate some syntactical changes to the MMP and associated resource files. Download here.

During the Smartphone Show, ShoZu Inc. announced an upgrade to its mobile phone media service that enhances the service’s value to media companies, content owners, web partners and handset manufacturers by increasing the visibility and usability of both the application and the partner offerings. The new features make it easier for camera phone owners to activate the application, send images to photo sharing sites and other Web destinations with the company’s Share-It service, subscribe to the company’s ZuCast media delivery service, and discover both the Web destinations and ZuCast options available.

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