Just a short post to inform all of you guys in the US, that with the nod of FCC, Nokia 5500 is coming soon. If you remember, it’s a smartphone with a six pack, as Nokia likes to add, with its 3 modes – the phone mode, the music mode and the sports mode. Nice…
Symbian has CIOs on its hit list
silicon.com has an interesting Symbian-related article. Author mixes Nigel Clifford’s (Symbian’s CEO) quotations with some research data and analysts’ prediction. Discussed issues involve current Symbian’s markets, including Japan and EMEA, and the markets where Symbian sees its future growth – i.e. China; Symbian’s enterprise plans; and mid-range product offering. It’s concise and provides a nice…
M608c: Specially developed for Chinese market
Sony Ericsson today announces the M608c phone and messaging device. This is a fully-specified mobile phone and email tool in an extremely stylish, slim device featuring a touch screen and Chinese character handwriting recognition. With a stylish, handy design M608c is a great combination of mobile phone and PDA based on new symbian OS 9.1…
Nokia E50: The smallest of Nokia Eseries
Nokia today announced the latest addition to the Nokia Eseries family of business devices, the Nokia E50. With excellent voice, email and data capabilities, the Nokia E50 offers enterprises a cost-efficient way to extend mobility to a broader range of employees, enabling them to access company telephony and business applications whenever required. Just as importantly…
UIQ 3 final SDK released
The final version of the UIQ 3 SDK is now available for all UIQ Developer Community members. SDK content: library files and binaries files: for UIQ 3 and Symbian OS 9.1 compilers: gcc for device builds (GCC-E target) Nokia x86 compiler for emulator (WINSCW) builds tools and utilities: for building applications in C++, and for…
Phonified Mail[E] for Symbian Devices
Phonified, a developer of wireless data applications, today announced that Phonified Mail[E], a mobile tool that communicates with the Microsoft Exchange email server, is now available for Nokia S60 (2nd Release). Mail[E] allows individuals to access their corporate email from their cell phones, and is targeted at on-the-go professionals who want to read and respond…
Destiny is out
Black Bull Studios, mobile game developer, announced the release of its first Symbian game – Destiny. It’s a high octane entertainment for both savvy and casual gamers. Destiny is a classic “shoot-em-up” game with very impressive features and works on most of Nokia’s current N-Gage and smartphones. I find it interesting that game developers are…
Nigel Clifford at the RIM Wireless Enterprise Symposium
Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford will present a feature keynote at the Research In Motion (RIM) Wireless Enterprise Symposium from May 16 – 18, 2006 in Orlando, Florida. The symposium gathers industry leaders to deliver insightful and informative sessions on the broadening scope of wireless enterprise technologies. Business professionals and IT managers will learn about what…
Phone or a Multimedia Computer
According to The Seattle Times, workers in Nokia are forbidden to call any Nokia device a “phone”. Instead they are “multimedia computers”. Now, that’s weird. I can understand that people call their smartphones “mobile computers”, but “multimedia computers”!? Kind of obsolete – almost all computers today have the multimedia features. Also, what about Nokia’s regular…
100th commercial Symbian phone model ships
Symbian Ltd. today announced that Symbian OS has shipped in 100 different commercial phone models to over 250 major network operators worldwide. In its Q1 2006 results issued today, Symbian also announced it had shipped 70.5 million phones to date worldwide since its formation. Since the Ericsson R380 shipped in 2000, Symbian has set the…