Symbian Ltd. today announced the latest book in the Symbian Press series: “The Accredited Symbian Developer Primer“. The book has been written to help prepare developers for the Symbian Accredited Developer exam. A pass from the exam is now recognised by the British Computer Society (BCS) as a suitable pre-requisite for becoming a member of…
Archives for October 2006
FreeBe TV now available on your desktop
Not exactly the pure Symbian news, but interesting nevertheless. FreeBe TV, a service I’ve already talked about, now offers a desktop client. To remind you, FreeBe TV is the world’s first subscription-free mobile TV service. Their just launched desktop application offers instant access to a range of channels spanning multiple programme genres, with no need…
Symbian Smartphone Show 2006 – Day 1
The first day of the Symbian Smartphone Show has ended. And what a day it was. Two new phones from Samsung and LG Electronics and bunch of product and service announcements. But, let’s start with the Nigel Clifford’s keynote, where he argues that the new kind of lifestyle emerges – smartphone lifestyle. And the rest:…
CoPilot Live navigation for UIQ 3 smartphones announced
ALK Technologies today announced that their award-winning satellite navigation system, CoPilot Live, is now available for the latest Symbian smartphones with UIQ software from Sony Ericsson. Initially compatible with the Sony Ericsson M600i and P990, the latest version of CoPilot Live provides fully featured navigation that offers the same experience as a dedicated system or…
Scalado to provide mobile imaging software solution for Symbian OS
Scalado AB, a leading developer of digital imaging software, today announced that Scalado is providing Scalado CAPS as an extended imaging solution in Symbian smartphones with camera. CAPS enables highly efficient capture, editing, browsing, and manipulation of high-resolution megapixel images efficiently on any mobile camera-phone, thus giving Symbian smartphones with cameras the speed, performance and…
Visto's push email solution receives Symbian Approved mark
Visto today announced that the company has successfully completed the Symbian Email Validation Program and is the first company to be accredited the “Symbian Approved” mark for push email. The hallmark guarantees mobile professionals a high-quality mobile email experience, and will help accelerate a mass adoption of business-ready push email services on Symbian smartphones.
PeerBox Mobile: Access open P2P networks
PeerBox Mobile was also introduced at the Symbian Smartphone Show. It is the service which lets you access open P2P networks from your mobile, allowing you to instantly search and download music, videos and pictures. Furthermore you can record a song or any part of it and PeerBox Mobile will recognize it for you. Interesting.
Nigel Clifford's keynote at Symbian Smartphone Show
At the Symbian Smartphone Show, Symbian’s CEO Nigel Clifford today announced that the smartphone is poised to change the way people live in ways as profound as those triggered by the Internet and PC in the 1990s. During his keynote at The Symbian Smartphone Show at ExCel in London, Clifford stated that a smartphone revolution…
Get free or cheap phone calls with Truphone
One of the interesting companies which presents its offer at the Symbian Smartphone Show was definitely Truphone. They provide a service that routes your mobile calls via the Internet, giving you free mobile calls to other Truphone users and very cheap calls to anyone else. Their service is especially interesting when used in roaming, where…
Sony Ericsson announces its complete offering for OpenGL ES
After announcing the version of OpenGL ES SDK for UIQ 3-based phones, Sony Ericsson today announced its complete offering for OpenGL ES, enabling powerful 3D graphics on mobile phones. Following an extensive implementation program, Sony Ericsson’s support for OpenGL now includes in-market mobile phones and games, a Software Development Kit (SDK), developer tutorial and a…