DataViz, Inc. announced the availability of Documents To Go for Symbian smartphones with UIQ 3.0, featuring InTact Technology and PowerPoint editing. This new edition of Documents To Go provides the ability to view and edit native Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on the latest Symbian smartphones from Sony Ericsson, including the just released M600 and…
UIQ Knowlegebase – a companion to the discussion forums
In a recent post I’ve mentioned the reorganization of the UIQ Developer Community. As my intent is to motivate and inform the developer to start programming for the new Symbian v9 platform, this time I’ll go just a bit further and will say something about UIQ Knowledgebase. UIQ Knowledgebase is a practical complement to the…
NTT DoCoMo's FOMA SH702iS
The 36th Symbian OS powered phone is shipped in Japan. NTT DoCoMo‘s FOMA SH702iS is manufactured by Sharp Corporation and offers all the benefits of a smartphone. As a part of DoCoMo’s “7 series” FOMA SH702iS sports such features as i-channel, Deco-mail (with Signature), Data Security Service, Omakase Lock, Full browser, PushTalk. It also has…
New momentum for digital organizers
Smartphones bring so many features into the hands of end users that it’s no surprise that one of the most important of these tends to be overlooked. In his latest insight article, David Wood, executive vice president of research at Symbian, looks at how smartphones can improve the way we organize our lives. Outlining the…
PhotoRite SP – photo editor, viewer and camera
Introducing PhotoRite SP – the most popular camera + editor + viewer. It allows you to take and create amazing photos with Advanced Autofix, Unlimited Photo Frames, Slim-up, Blow-up, Monster Filters, Soft Lens and other effects. Highlights: Take amazing photos with great effects Auto-Fix with just a click Unlimited photo frames – unlimited creativity Slim-up,…
Nokia N73, N93 start shipping
Nokia today announced that shipments of their flagship products, part of N-Series, N73 and N93, have begun. Nokia N73 sports a 3.2 MP auto-focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, and has a built-in Flickr support. Available color combinations include silver grey/deep plum, frost white/metallic red and frost white/mocha brown. N73’s estimated retail price will be…
Symbian S60 v3 Office Applications
i-Symbian has an interesting article which involves OfficeSuite which comes with some of the latest Nokia S60 handsets. Asri al-Baker, author of the article and the founder of i-Symbian, shows how OfficeSuite works and compares it with the similar (good ol’) Psion applications (for those of you who don’t know, Symbian OS is created on…
Nokia N93 to bring 3d gaming
Fuad Abazovic from The Inquirer heard from several sources that Nokia N93 features Power VR architecture inside. It uses a new Texas instruments Omap 2 chip that uses the Power VR, MXB core inside. Now, I didn’t know which chip N93 will sport, but support for the OpenGL ES 1.1 was already announced. Even more,…
mBrain's Pdf+ for S60 phones updated
If you’re not familiar with Pdf+, it is a viewer for Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files. A must-have utility for every Symbian S60 smartphone, Pdf+ now reached version 1.65 with a support for S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 3 and Feature Pack 3 handsets. New version also fixes a number of bugs and brings following improvements:…
Converting from iPod video to S60
Jukka Eklund, whose review of N92 I’ve posted some time ago, prepared a great article on converting an iPod video to S60. His tip applies for Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices such as Nokia N and E series, excluding N93 which is able to play these videos without conversion. The problem was with QuickTime which…