As announced during the Smartphone Show, Synchronica’s latest Mobile Manager 1.3 extends support to S60, Series 80 and Series 90 Symbian smartphones. The latest version of the software also offers a richer set of management functions to support new device features such as the latest Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU updates, with advanced security, device querying…
Hey developers: check out this virtual workbench to try out your application on various phones
If you develop software for mobile phones you already know the big pain point. No, not the carrier; the fact that you can’t possibly test your application on all the handsets in a given carrier’s deck let alone across any swath of the market. Even if you invested your life savings in mobile phones (like…
ColEm 2.1 for S60 3rd Edition
ColEm is the ColecoVision videogame console emulator, that will run ColecoVision cartridge files with .cv, .cv.gz, .rom, and .rom.gz extensions, placed in “E:\Others\ColEm” folder (where you should also put the “COLEM.ROM” file). Among many things, new version brings several usability improvements such as addition of the config menu, palettes, fast forwarding on non-QWERTY phones, and…
PyS60 1.3.14 released
The new, version 1.3.14 of Python for S60 has been released. Compared with the version 1.3.11 (which was the last version we noted), the new version brings the following improvements: Calendar has now been implemented for S60 3rd edition Orientation switch and callback when screen change in canvas Initial version of the contacts module for…
MobilePirates' Nokia N95 video review
Thanks to the Nokia blog we’ve found MobilePirates‘ video review of the Nokia N95 “multimedia computer”. This is not yet another short preview of the device, but a real, almost 10 minutes long, review. In a nutshell – a must-see for all N95 fans.
Python for Series 60 updated
Direct link to SourceForge Via Biskero More information on Python: Python is a programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990. Python has a fully dynamic type system and uses automatic memory management; it is thus similar to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, Smalltalk, and Tcl. Python is notable amongst current popular high-level languages for having…
Ewan speaks to Markus Ahonen from Nokia’s Carbide C++ Development Team (audio)
One of the key planks in developing software for smartphones is your developer environment. After a number of options, most of the Symbian developers (including Symbian themselves) are now using Carbide C++. It’s a vital plank, given that, as well as using it for writing most of the third party applications, it’s also used to…
New UIQ 3 Merriam-Webster dictionaries
Epocware released three mobile editions of the well-known Merriam-Webster’s dictionaries: English-Spanish, English-French bidirectional dictionaries as well as Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary for Sony Ericsson Symbian UIQ 3-based smartphones. Both Merriam-Webster English-Spanish and Merriam-Webster English-French dictionaries contain 40 000 entries, numerous translations accommodating with the extensive word translation coverage of each direction. Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary leads to…
Swiss Manager Pro
We’ve already posted information about Swiss Manager for Sony Ericsson Symbian UIQ 3-based smartphones. This time we’re showing off the more powerful Pro version which brings several important enhancements: Status icon (always visible, displays time, RAM usage and CPU usage). Task menu (opened by tapping the Status icon, provides task switching and cleanup). Favorites (found…
S60 video development
Connected Symbian S60-based mobile devices allow you to watch video clips and even live TV, and create and share your own video clips directly with friends or through the Internet. As a software developer, you can take advantage of the open platforms and tools offered by the S60 platform to create new applications and services…