The man that’s essentially responsible for Nokia’s mid to high end phones speaks: Do you feel that Apple’s iPhone has the potential to disrupt the market? The iPhone is a touch screen music phone, which will be available in the middle of the year in the USA. Walkman music devices are already available in the…
CIOL interviewed Nigel Clifford
CIOL (Cybermedia India Online Limited), an Indian IT-focused website, had a chance to interview Symbian’s CEO, Nigel Clifford. In a brief interview, he goes through recently announced POSIX libraries, feature phone market, Symbian’s clients, Symbian’s development facility activities in India, and more. As for the iPhone, Nigel commented: “Apple is following a trend that has…
ERP5 goes mobile
Nexedi, the creator of ERP5, free open source ERP platform, has released the first open source ERP for smartphones today – ERP5 Mobile. The addition of ERP5 Mobile to the collection of freely available Business Templates makes it possible to access ERP5 from any web enabled mobile device such as the Nokia E61 smartphone.
UIQ Open ends soon
We’ve already talked about it, but as we want to see more new, cool apps featured on the UIQ 3 platform, it’s not bad to repeat. Especially when we’re approaching the deadline. Anyway… Developers should know that UIQ Technologies’ UIQ Open competition ends on February 18, 2007. The UIQ 3 software developers can submit their…
Aztecsoft joins Symbian's Platinum Program
Aztecsoft Limited has announced that it has joined Symbian’s Platinum Program, to extend applications and platform solutions for mobile and convergence markets to the Symbian ecosystem.
Nokia E90 screenshot!?
Over at My-Symbian forums, someone posted a screenshot from the Nokia E90. Apparently, the upcoming device is the successor of the popular Nokia Communicator devices and will sport two displays, one featuring 800×352 resolution, and will use the S60 UI. The resolution of the picture (click here for the original) definitely matches the rumored specs,…
Fring now available for S60 3rd edition smartphones
As we’ve already mentioned last year, Fring allows you to make free mobile calls, send instant messages to other fring users, and communicate with PC based VoIP applications such as Skype and Google Talk. And now, it is available for latest Nokia S60 3rd edition smartphones. However, the application is still in beta (preview) and…
NTT DoCoMo's FOMA SO903iTV
And the last FOMA in the series is Sony Ericsson manufactured SO902iTV. First of all, this beautiful device is Bravia-branded and sports a wide mobile TV-ideal (16:9) hi-res 3″ screen which displays 240×432 pixels. Users can even record the TV on this device and play it later.
mBrain's Pdf+ updated; Supports latest Symbian handsets
Recently mBrain Software released updated version of its popular Pdf+ viewer for both Symbian S60 3rd edition and UIQ 3 platforms. The applications gives users all the functions they would expect, such as displaying specific pages, searching, zooming, full screen mode and displaying and following bookmarks and links. Furthermore, Pdf+ can open password-protected files, and…
fMSX 3.1 for S60 3rd edition devices released
fMSX is a program that emulates MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ 8bit home computers. The program will run MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ cartridge files (.rom and .rom.gz). The new version also supports disk images (.dsk and .dsk.gz). Starting the games is easy – place your files into “E:\Others\fMSX”. If your phone has no keyboard, or its…