UIQ Technology is a supporting Sponsor of MEX, The PMN Mobile User Experience Conference in London 31 May – 1 June; “a strategy forum for pioneers of mobile user experience”. There ware more than 40 speakers at the last conference, reflecting MEX’s understanding, understanding, insight and approach to championing customer-focused design and technology in the…
Carbide.j now with on-device debugging
An on-device debugging feature is being included in the next release of Carbide.j (formerly Nokia Developer’s Suite for J2ME), a software development tool for Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME). On-device debugging feature allows a developer to check the code while it is running on the phone. It is a big improvement over testing on…
NTT DoCoMo FOMA SO702i
NTT DoCoMo launched today the new Symbian OS powered phone, FOMA SO702i. The new phone is manufactured by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc and is the 29th Symbian OS-based mobile phone shipped in Japan. Like other DoCoMo’s 702i handsets, this model offers regular FOMA features such as videophone and Deco-mail, and also i-channel, which…
Nokia launches 6708 in Taiwan
Nokia just launched its 6708 Symbian UIQ based smartphone in the Taiwan market, following the availability of the model in the China market since early this year. The launch of the 6708, which is manufactured by BenQ, also marks the end of cooperation between the two companies as BenQ is now striving to build up…
Nokia 9300 Outperforms Treo 700W and Blackberry 8700c
While Palm Treo 700W was rated highest for style and design, and Blackberry 8700c scored particularly well in terms of handset size, Strategy Analytics’ latest converged device benchmark report finds Nokia 9300 the best overall device.
Opera Mobile passes the Acid2 test
Opera Mobile for the Series 60 (S60) mobile phones has passed the Acid2 test in its internal builds, according to Gerdur Jonsdottir, an Opera developer working on the browser. This makes it the very first mobile browser to pass the Acid2 test. The Web Standards Project (WaSP) released the Acid2 test, a complex test page…
Symbian BitTorrent client
Introducing the WizBit, a BitTorrent client for Symbian S60 smartphones. It is the work of a British student and is made for its final year Computer Science project at university in the UK. WizBit is currently not complete and (the sad part) does not fully work yet and is only suitable for alpha release. When…
Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS smartphones v2.9 released
Oxygen Software has just release the new update of their Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS phones. For all of you out there who may not have heard of this software, it lets your PC and mobile phone communicate with each other. Also, it is good to add that this is the first PC…
Skype for Symbian coming soon!?
I was reading PCWorld online and have found an article titled “Skype Seeks Bulk to Avoid Being Blocked“. The point of the article is that Skype is having problems with network operators seeking to block its low-cost call service. Skype of course has a large, loyal customer base and in that sense network operators can…
Nokia's S60 Web Browser code released to open source community
Nokia today announced the release to the global open source software community of the source code for S60 WebKit, the engine for its Web Browser for S60, marking a turning point in the drive toward an open code base for web browsers used on mobile devices. This contribution of the S60 WebKit source code, with…