MobileSystem, one of the top developers of Symbian applications, announced the release of MobileDVD – an application that allows seamless video playback on Symbian S60 3rd edition devices. MobileDVD comes as both Windows and a Symbian application. The first one is used for converting video files and DVDs to an appropriate mobile phone’s screen size,…
Nokia N95 commercial
With the launch date for the Nokia N95 approaching, the first video ads for this magnificent device have appeared on 6rooms. The main point of this clip is to emphasize N95’s many features – “There’s a thing in my pocket, but it’s not one thing – it’s many!”. It’s kind an old school, but I…
UIQ Open winners announced
Remember the UIQ Open, UIQ Technology’s developer competition? During the past few weeks a jury of experts has evaluated the submissions, and now we have the winners announced! Actually, that’s two winning applications per category: Category Business RoadSync by DataViz Projekt by Kylom
Epocware expands its family of “Handy” products; Adds Converter and Blacklist
Epocware, the well known developer of popular Symbian apps, released 2 new “Handy” utilities for Symbian S60 3rd Edition based devices.
An evening with S60: Nokia smartphone users’ gathering
An evening with S60 is tonight. Users of the Nokia’s popular Symbian S60 platform will gather for relaxed conversation at Nokia Flagship Store in New York City, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Actually, it’s sort of an unofficial industry meeting, with most of the U.S.-based S60 bloggers attending. I guess this is also part of Nokia’s…
Find out when Nokia E61i is available
At the 3GSM, Nokia announced the successor of its popular business device E61 – E61i. The new, improved version brings several enhancements, including the different order of the buttons, and a 2 MP camera. Next, the E61i replaces the (annoying) joystick with much easier to use 5-way navigation button. Apart from the mentioned, the E61i…
Developers: A real Carbide C++ blog
Creating Carbide C++: Whereas this blog focuses on a lot of the end-result product and the gathering of requirements to get there, Ken Ryall from our team blogs about the work we do around Eclipse and CDT to get it to work for Symbian. As one of our most senior developers and and as a…
Buy Nokia N80, get “The Da Vinci Code” for free in South Africa
Sony Pictures and SterKinekor Home Entertainment, along with Nokia, announced the release of the first movie on a memory card in South Africa. The 512MB miniSD movie card features the movie “The Da Vinci Code”, and will be given exclusively for a limited period of time, starting from 3rd of March 2007, to customers when…
.NET Compact Framework 1.0 for S60 platform released
Now this is big. It seems that the long-time awaited .NET Compact Framework 1.0 for Nokia Symbian S60 smartphones has been released by Red Five Labs, with a no-royalties runtime. The significance of this release is hard to deny, as it may bring more applications and developers to the S60 platform, which is known for…
Sony Ericsson’s two new devices!?
It seems that Sony Ericsson is working on the new phones. After their announced acquisition of the UIQ Technology, many people (including myself) expected to see the Japanese-Swedish company announcing the new smartphones at 3GSM. However, they only announced a pair of new stylish Walkman and Cybershot phones a day before the event.