Opera Software recently released Opera Mobile 8.65 for Symbian S60 devices. The upgrade offers full compatibility with the latest S60 3rd Edition devices. New in Opera Mobile: Improved start page that makes it easier to enter a Web address and go directly to your most frequently visited Web pages. More intuitive text entering into form…
Symbian on BBC News
BBC Newsnight have visited Symbian, where Symbian’s CEO, Nigel Clifford and EVP of Research, David Wood, took Newsnight’s Paul Mason on tour of the smartphone world, demonstrating new applications and outlining their vision of where the mobile phones are heading. Presented were Sony Ericsson’s P990i and soon-to-be-released W950, as well as Nokia N93. You can…
Ruby for Symbian
Ruby – a reflective, object-oriented programming language with sort of a hybrid syntax which combines elements from Perl, Python, Lisp, Dylan and CLU – now has its Symbian version. Though the S60 devices are the main focus, other Symbian platforms could also be supported. The eventual goal is integration into mainline Ruby. Ruby for Symbian…
NTT DoCoMo's FOMA Raku-Raku PHONE III
NTT DoCoMo keeps adding new phones. The latest is FOMA Raku-Raku PHONE III, an easy-to-use Symbian OS handset which includes the MOAP platform, and is manufactured by Fujitsu. This is 38th Symbian OS powered phone shipped in Japan. FOMA Raku Raku Phone III includes large-character iChannels, a one-touch alarm, noise cancelling functionality, brightness sensor, megapixel…
S60 Tech Days come to India
From 19-20. September 2006, Forum Nokia’s S60 Tech Days will be in Hyderabad, India. Developers and anyone interested in the leading smartphone platform, S60, is invited to join the mobility movement and learn how to create and market mobile applications and profit from them. The event consists of four parts: Business Track Tech Tracks One-2-One…
MINO – VoIP application for low cost calls
MINO Wireless, a Sunnyvale, CA-based mobile services company, has announced its easy-to-use, inexpensive new mobile application for making international calls from Symbian supported phones. All mobiles phone users supported by Symbian OS can call any phone worldwide at rates as low as 2.2 cents per minute using MINO. With MINO, users do not have to…
Nokia N80 Internet Edition
Nokia today announced a new bundled package, Nokia N80 Internet Edition, which comes out of the box ready to create, connect, consume and interact with some of the internet’s most popular services. Use Yahoo! Search in the Mobile Search application to conveniently search for and find most anything on the web, and use the Mini…
Five reasons to develop for UIQ 3-based phones
With the maturing of UIQ 3, the platform took a major step forward during June and July 2006 as the first, eagerly anticipated UIQ 3-based phones are now on the market: the Sony Ericsson P990 and M600. The “wait and see” phase is over. Here are five reasons why developing for Sony Ericsson’s UIQ 3-based…
TimeTrack – Project Time Management for S60 phones
TimeTrack is a S60 applications used to track the project time in an easy way – activate a project and the time is running. After the program is started, there is no need to keep the thread in background. At the end the accumulated values could be saved to a log file. The csv formatted…
M5T to add Symbian OS Support to its Secure Software Development Suite
M5T, the leading provider of software solutions for secure real-time multimedia communications over IP, today announced that it will offer developers creating software components of Symbian OS a comprehensive secure and portable SIP client engine on the Symbian OSTM in Q4 of 2006. M5T has worked closely with its Symbian customers to produce a comprehensive…