Demonstrated at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 offers new features that enrich the platform and thus the user experience with browsing, location capabilities and device management functions. S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (demonstrated on Nokia N95) is readily available for S60 device manufacturers, and at the Symbian…
Archives for October 2006
Symbian Signing gets better
Symbian Signed, mobile industry endorsed certification program that promotes best practice in designing applications to run on Symbian smartphones, just got better as Symbian announced a range of new initiatives to help developers bring Symbian applications to market faster. These initiatives include a fast-track certification process, a DevCert Request plug-in for Carbide.c++, automated test tools…
CoWare: New Symbian Platinum Partner
CoWare, Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, today announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for Symbian OS. As a Platinum Partner, CoWare is extending its virtual platform for software development solution to the Symbian ecosystem. CoWare Virtual Platform product family…
Online debugger WTFWMSFI launched at AAS Pub Meet
WTFWMSFI stands for “Why The F*ck Won’t My SIS File Install” and is a free online debugger and style guide for Symbian OS v9.1 SIS files. Launched exclusivly at the All About Symbian Pub Meet earlier today, this very useful online tool offers developers with an easy way to diagnose the problem with their SIS…
Nokia S60 3rd Edition Challenge winners announced
Nokia today announced the winners in the Forum Nokia S60 3rd Edition Challenge global developer competition, awarding €100,000 in grand prizes to outstanding mobile applications developers for the best new applications based on the S60 3rd Edition.
RoadSync 3.0 beta released
DataViz, Inc. has released a public beta of RoadSync, version 3.0, which now supports select mobility features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Based on the Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol licensed directly from Microsoft, RoadSync provides secure, wireless and direct push synchronization of corporate e-mail, attachments, calendar and contacts. The beta is currently available for Nokia…
Nokia: Acquisition of Loudeye completed
Just after the gate5, Nokia today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Loudeye Corp. and is on target to deliver the best fully integrated mobile music experience to our customers during 2007. Music Recommenders is one of the new music-centered services coming from Nokia and a iTunes-like store will probably follow in the…
Attend the AAS Pub Meet tonight
Just to remind you all folks that tonight (Monday 16th October 2006) is All About Symbian’s Pub Meet. The place: The Crosse Keys Pub located at the 9 Gracechurch Street (EC3V 0DR) in London The time: The AAS team will be there from 6.30 PM. AAS crew even compiled the top 15 reasons to come.…
Samsung SGH-i520 to be unveiled at Smartphone Show
Korean Chosun brings the story that Samsung is set to unveil its new S60 phone – SGH-i520 – at the Symbian Smartphone Show which starts tomorrow. Apparently, the SGH-i520 would be a HSDPA device running on Symbian 9.2/S60 3.1, just like the N95. No news whether it will have a built in GPS and/or WLAN.…
Symbian Ltd. and Cingular Wireless: Together for new Symbian OS v9 apps
Cingular Wireless and Symbian Limited today launched an early access support program to promote and accelerate application development for phones based on Symbian OS v9. Cingular Deluxe and Corporate Deluxe developers are offered complimentary Symbian Affiliate status, providing early and free access to Symbian reference materials. Cingular has also joined the Symbian Platinum Partner Program,…