F-Secure today announces with F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus its support for S60 3rd edition platform. F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus 3.0 for S60 3rd Edition is available first for new Nokia Nseries mobile computers and new Nokia Eseries devices. In Nokia N71 and N80, F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus will be distributed as the default antivirus application in the standard…
Series 60 3rd edition themes
Symbian Themes, a site part of the Mobile Themes network, announced that it has converted all of its existing themes to be compatible with S60 3rd edition. That means there are now more than 5000 themes available for the S60 3rd edition phones. Symbian Themes has almost 10,000 customisation elements for your S60 phone ranging…
Connecting the S60 phones and Linux
Developer, Nick Burch, prepared a page with details how he got his S60 phones play nicely with Linux. He also provided the details explaining what applications he’s put on them, how he’s (trying to) program them, what he’s used them for, and other similar things. Some of the issues he covered: Communicating with S60 phone…
Developer case study: WebGate – porting to UIQ 3
Sony Ericsson Developer World brings an interesting article about the issues involved in porting existing UIQ applications to the new 3.0 platform. Presented case study features the bulgarian based company, WebGate – developer of Advanced Call Manager (which will be preloaded one Memory Stick that accompanies the new P990 and M600). Article points to such…
Can we install OS in our mobile phones ourselves?
Have you thought about it? It seems reasonable to think that way. After all Apple had its operating system on their own computer and they’ve managed to get only the tiny piece of the market share in the long run. IBM PC is the dominant platform on the market today, since everyone can make it.…
Wayfinder Earth: Leaked Video
There’s a leaked video on the Esato forums of something that looks very much like Google Earth. The Real’s 3GP video file contains a very brief demonstration of the product done on a Nokia (N70 as far as I can tell). Rumor is that it’s the Wayfinder‘s new product – Wayfinder Earth. If you are…
Palm's going down – a chance for Symbian
After two years since the release of the last major upgrade to the Palm operating system for mobile devices, CNet’s News.com notes that Palm OS may be losing its mojo with software developers. Some larger developers of mobile applications are looking elsewhere when launching their new multimedia applications and both Symbian and Windows Mobile emerge…
Porting Applications from Windows Mobile
Forum Nokia brings us an interesting document which examines the issues involved in porting existing C++ applications from the Windows Mobile platform to the S60 platform and in creating new, highly portable applications that target both platforms. Porting applications from Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 to the S60 platform makes sense, because both platforms are feature-rich…
Nokia Shipping Six S60 3rd Edition Devices
Nokia recently started shipping four S60 3rd Edition devices: the Nokia N91, Nokia N80, Nokia N71, and Nokia E61. Taken together with two other devices that Nokia has already been shipping, the Nokia 3250 and Nokia E60, there are now a total of six S60 3rd Edition devices shipping to customers. The three new Nseries…
Convergence comes of age
In his latest insight article just published online, David Wood, executive vice president of research at Symbian, explains the reasons increasingly powerful and useful smartphones are spreading ever more widely in the real world. Pointing out the different categories of device that smartphones are likely to supersede, such as music players, games consoles, messaging terminals…