According to Al Ramadan, senior vice president of mobile and device solutions at Adobe, consumers worldwide demand engaging content and services on their devices. Research by the Boston-based consultancy, Strategy Analytics, forecasts that there are 38 million flash-enabled mobile phone handsets today, but that number is going to grow to 216 million by 2010. The…
PuTTY for Symbian OS
Have you heard of PuTTY? It is a free telnet/SSH client developed by Simon Tatham and others. The Symbian version is also available and it’s free (like the PC original). PuTTY for Symbian OS works on all Symbian smartphones including all S60 devices (not just Nokias), Series 80 Communicators and Nokia 7710 (Series 90). Separate…
Mobipocket compatible with Symbian 9
Mobipocket, the universal reader for PDAs and smartphones, is now compatible with Symbian 9. Both S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3 are supported, allowing users of all new Nokia and Sony Ericsson smartphones to utilize this handy app. Furthermore, new Sony Ericsson smartphones (namely M600, W950 and P990) will come with Mobipocket pre-installed on their…
Flander to provide Symbian Signed certification
Mobile software testing and development company, Flander, has been granted Publisher Certifier status by Symbian. This agreement allows Flander to test both its own and third-party applications and content and to grant Symbian Signed certification. Flander’s high quality, well-defined processes (they received CMMI 3 level acknowledgment in 16 processes), allow them to offer fixed testing…
SlovoEd 1.7 for S60 3rd Edition
New version of SlovoEd, a multilingual software dictionary, is released by Epocware. Support for Symbian S60 3rd Edition is now included, allowing users of all new Nokia devices to take advantage of this extraordinary application. SlovoEd 1.7 highlights: Easy-to-use interface; High quality of dictionary databases is a consequent result of SlovoEd and the world leading…
Mobile Search Expands across Europe
Nokia announced the expansion of Mobile Search, a free software solution for the high-performing Nokia Nseries multimedia computers and other Nokia devices based on the S60 platform. Mobile Search provides people with an easy, fast and direct way to find what they want, when they want it. The Mobile Search application fast-tracks the user directly…
S60 Theme Studio 3.0 for Symbian OS
As the name says, it’s the PC tool for creating themes for S60 devices, allowing user to manage the appearance of wallpaper, application icons, color schemes, or any other UI component. Once a theme has been created, the S60 Theme Studio will package it into a Symbian OS installation file. Version 3.0 adds support for…
NTT DoCoMo FOMA D902iS
Another Symbian OS smartphone comes to the Land of the rising sun. It’s NTT DoCoMo‘s FOMA D902iS, the 31st Symbian device shipped in Japan (we should stop counting now), manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. Like SH902iS, the D902iS is also a part of DoCoMo’s “9 Series” and has such features as music player, extensive data…
Another survey – Win S60 3rd Edition device
Here’s another survey and again it’s for developers. This time Forum Nokia is conducting it in order to analyse the effectiveness and the development needs of Java for S60. Among all respondees, there will be a lottery for two latest Nokia S60 devices.
Developers win M600 – take UIQ survey
The first UIQ 3 phone, the Sony Ericsson M600 hit the stores last week, and to celebrate this, UIQ is offering developers the chance to win one of these fantastic smartphones and other great prices. Over the next two weeks, June 8 to June 22, UIQ Technology is conducting a survey related to the UIQ…