I had a chance to speak with Laurent Chollat, QualityKit Product Manager, SysOpen Digia. He answered our questions regarding the Quality Kit 4.0 offering. Let’s start… Q: To whom this product is targeted to? A: QualityKit is addressed to companies which are involved in Symbian smartphone creation and in Symbian application development. The reason for…
Start a savings revolution with Cellfire
Yet again, thanks to the eagle-eyed Darla, we found a great free mobile application Cellfire, which gives U.S. consumers mobile coupons to save while shop. Each user has their own set of discounts and offers specific to their geographic location. Users simply click on the coupon they want to use and show the coupon code…
Free Nokia E62 from Cingular
Cingular’s Nokia E62 offering just got better, a lot better. Instead of paying $149, U.S. consumers now can get this powerful smartphone for free (with 2 year agreement). Now that’s a low-cost entry to the Symbian OS world, and I would strongly suggest our readers to consider this offer (no, I’m not paid by Cingular).…
Lee Epting: S60, Open Source and Tools
Richard Bloor recently caught up with Lee Epting, vice president of Forum Nokia, Nokia’s global developer program, and took the opportunity to find out how she views the changes in S60 over the last year, including the increasing role of open source software. Lee Epting, a software developer relations executive with over fifteen years experience…
Nokia S60 Tech Day Conference Analysis
The rest of the first and the complete second days were the tech tracks. They offered a basic and advanced track. I took the basic track, never having had touched any sort of mobile development. After a drawn out process of everyone trying to install the development environment, SDKs, etc., lots and lots of bytes…
Update your Nokia N73 to music edition
It seems that now it is possible to update your Nokia N73 to the music edition. The procedure is quite simple – change your N73’s product code to 0539343 and then use Nokia Software Updater to update your N73 to the Music Edition firmware. The updated phone has the well-known Moby tune “In My Heart”,…
Help to make Carbide C++ better
Carbide C++ development team wants your input. All Symbian C++ developers are invited to respond to the questionnaire. It takes about 5 minutes and in this case your vote actually counts. 🙂 Here’s the link for the 2006 user satisfaction survey.
Nokia: failing to connect developers and consumers
When Internet Explorer was enjoying zero competition and was the dominant browser amongst all clicks, innovation stalled. Firefox was released for those who sought after an alternative. The bare bones browser was quick and efficient, but what made it special was the fact that it had an open extension system. Anyone could write their little…
Symbian Signed to the Rescue? An Idea on Piracy and Certification
For the above idea on Symbian Signed to aid the fight against warez to work, either the signing process needs brought back in house and the cost significantly reduced – which means either Symbian takes a hit somewhere, or the process needs to be streamlined. So how about extending the self-signing program to instigate a…
Forum Nokia Technical Library v1.32 released
Forum Nokia Technical Library is a documentation package compiled by Forum Nokia. 4 Javaâ„¢ known issues, 6 Symbian C++ known issues, 13 Symbian C++ technical solutions, 2 Content known issues, and 2 Content technical solutions have been added. 1 Java known issue and 2 Symbian C++ known issues have been updated. Technical library is published…