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Symbian Delivers Carbide.ui 3.0, Nokia plugs-in

Can’t wait to get your hands on a Nokia N8? Why not while away the time before you can lighten you bank balance by creating your dream theme. Carbide.ui Theme Edition 3.0 has been released on the Symbian Foundation website, offering the final version of the tools for creating Symbian^3 device themes.

# Posted by Richard in Developer at 0:47 BST, Jul 16th || 7 Comments

Qt Developer Network opens in beta

Last week Qt quietly rolled out the public beta its new developer website, Qt Developer Network, which aims to provide a one-stop portal for Qt developers and consolidate resources that were previously spread across the main Qt website. It also provides a more vendor neutral destination for developers than Forum Nokia, something that could be important in helping drive adoption of the Symbian and MeeGo platforms by manufacturers other than Nokia.

# Posted by Rafe in Links of Interest, Developer at 12:53 BST, Jul 14th || 3 Comments

Is PR more important than specs for the smartphone ecosystem?

There's been a lot of noise on the internet this week about issues in the smartphone world. And while the initial reading of all these words is to tell a story, it's actually more about controlling the PR message and protecting a brand (and ergo sales) of software and hardware. There's a lesson in all of this for Nokia and the Symbian Foundation. You've either got it, or you haven't. And right now Symbian and S60 don't have it. Read on...

# Posted by Ewan in Developer, Editorial Thoughts at 15:18 BST, Jul 13th || 35 Comments

Forum Nokia Projects - online project hosting

Forum Nokia recently took the covers of Forum Nokia Projects (projects.forum.nokia.com), a free service providing online project hosting for collaborative software development, documentation, or any other project. The service is built on top of the open source Trac software and is fully integrated with Forum Nokia. The service includes the usual tools such as source-code browser, wiki, forums, tickets and support for three version control systems (SVN, Git, and Mercurial).

# Posted by Rafe in Developer at 21:02 BST, Jul 12th || 1 Comment

The Symbian Podcatcher comes to S60 3rd Edition

The Symbian Podcatcher project has been in development for Symbian^1 (S60 5th Edition) for some time now, but it was announced yesterday, via Twitter, that Podcatcher has finally been backported to S60 3rd Edition. Nokia made the inexplicable decision to remove Podcasting support from their Eseries S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 phones, so the availability of this could be a breath of fresh air for the enterprise-orientated platform.

# Posted by David in Software, Links of Interest, Developer at 23:28 BST, Jul 11th || 4 Comments

Symbian^3 PDK 3.0.0 available for download - includes emulator

Symbian's Product Development Kit (PDK) 3.0.0, which is based on Symbian^3, is now available for download. This is the first PDK released since Symbian^3 attained its functionally complete status. The PDK contains a build of Symbian^3 platform, the complete source code, related utilities and an emulator. It is aimed, primarily, at platform developers and device creators, but the curious may also be interested in taking a look, as it enables you to gain a better understanding of the new version of the platform.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Links of Interest, Developer, Industry at 15:16 BST, Jul 8th || 12 Comments

Silverlight arrives for the S60 Browser

Microsoft’s browser-based app framework Silverlight is now available for Symbian S60 5th edition devices. Popping up in the Ovi Store, "the .Net framework allows for applications to run in the browser over multiple devices, operating systems and browsers". The easiest way to get Silverlight installed is to head to the Bing example app (here or here). If you need the runtime installed, you’ll be offered just the link, which takes you to the Ovi Store.

# Posted by Ewan in Software, Developer at 9:47 BST, Jul 7th || 5 Comments

AAS Insight 124 - Future of Nseries, developer initiatives

In All About Symbian Insight 124, the team discuss the future of Nseries devices and the respective roles of MeeGo and Symbian in Nokia's software strategy. We move on to a discussion of the application business model and app store, which leads into a discussion of Nokia's new developer initiatives. We also share news of updates to Ovi Store and Ovi Suite and the opening of Sports Tracker's online shop. You can listen to AAS Insight 124 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Developer, Industry, Editorial Thoughts at 16:05 BST, Jun 28th || 1 Comment

Nokia fights back with new developer offerings

Nokia has made a number of developer announcements today, which significantly strengthen their developer services and offerings. Perhaps most interesting is news of a public beta service that allows developers to get their content Symbian Signed at no cost (compared to a previous first time signing cost of up to $215). Also important is the news that individuals can now register as Ovi Publishers (previously restricted to companies) and that the Ovi Store is now accepting Qt-based applications. Finally, and the most significant in the long term, is the first full release of the Nokia Qt SDK 1.0 and the accompanying Nokia Smart Installer (previously in beta). Read on for additional details.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Developer, Industry, Editorial Thoughts, Services at 14:23 BST, Jun 23rd || 29 Comments

AAS Insight 123 - Nokia X5 and X6 8GB, Nimbuzz, N8 hands-on

In All About Symbian Insight 123, the team discuss the news of the Nokia X5-01 and X6 8GB, which were launched at Nokia Connection in Singapore. Ewan gives us an overview of the Nimbuzz application, before Rafe explains that Symbian^3 is now functionally complete. Finally, Rafe and Steve discuss their thoughts on what they learned at the recent Nokia N8 hands-on event. You can listen to AAS Insight 123 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Hardware, Developer, Industry, Editorial Thoughts, Events at 9:01 BST, Jun 21st || 0 Comments

Video: NRC demo - Nokia Image Space mobile client

As part of Nokia's 'Open for Ideas' event, I had the opportunity to attend the Tampere Innovation Experience @ Demola day, which included a showcase more than 40 research projects that had been guided by open innovation principles. I teamed up with The Really Mobile Project's Ben Smith to shoot three videos of NRC (Nokia Research Centre) demos. The first video covers the Nokia Image Space research, with a demo of the Image Space mobile client on a Nokia N900.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Developer, Editorial Thoughts, Events at 15:04 BST, Jun 18th || 11 Comments

Why data caps should not affect application developers

Marguerite Reardon at Cnet is worried that the upcoming data caps are going to “force developers to be efficient”. Which I raised an eyebrow at, because I’d hope that any decent developer out there is already coding as efficiently as possible. If they can’t make sensible use of data, what else are they not bothering about in application design? Should we be worried that smaller batteries will force developers to stop using tight coding loops next? Read on for more.

# Posted by Ewan in Software, Developer at 17:17 BST, Jun 15th || 6 Comments

Forum Nokia website design refreshed

Forum Nokia, Nokia's developer portal, has unveiled a new look for its website. The structure of the site has changed; it is now divided into three key areas: design, develop and distribute - matching the three key parts of mobile application and service development. The website aims to provide access to a wide range of learning resources, tools and technical documents. However there's also an emphasis on helping developers connect with each other, which is achieved through the community section of the site.

# Posted by Rafe in Links of Interest, Developer at 18:38 BST, Jun 8th || 8 Comments

Qt to embrace open governance

A post on the Qt blog explains that Nokia is planning to move Qt towards a more open governance model. The move would see the community having shared control over decisions about Qt and its future roadmap. It follows on from the move to the LGPL license and opening up of the Qt contribution process last year. The planning for the move is at an early stage, but the Qt team are keen to have an open discussion with the community about the details and implementation of an open governance model.

# Posted by Rafe in Links of Interest, Developer, Industry at 17:36 BST, Jun 7th || 10 Comments

How are the Symbian Incubator Projects coming along?

Following a presentation at the recent Towel Day, Symbian’s Lars Kurth has blogged an update on their Incubation Projects (community initiated projects where more help is needed to deliver on the promise of the projects). Coming along nicely are the Wild Ducks handset, GCC Compilation of Symbian ^3 and Python.

# Posted by Ewan in Links of Interest, Developer at 16:23 BST, Jun 7th || 2 Comments

Games and Music top application survey results

American pollsters Nielsen have released details on a survey of mobile users and their attitudes to mobile applications. Being a US company, the 4,200 people surveyed provide a good cross section of which genres are popular, and the huge le-up that built in applications receive. Any developer looking for a new project should be taking notes.

# Posted by Ewan in Software, Developer at 11:31 BST, Jun 2nd || 3 Comments

First Symbian^2 phones ship in Japan

The Symbian Foundation today announced the Symbian^2 platform is being used in four of the seven Symbian based handsets announced by NTT DoCoMo a few weeks ago. The F-07B (Fujitsu) went on sale on May 21st; it features a dual orientation screen (swivels from portrait to landscape) and a 12 megapixel camera. The SH-07B (Sharp) went on sale a week later; it features a 12 megapixel camera with full HD video recording and is partially waterproof. The F06-B and F-08B will go on sale later in June. These are the first Symbian^2 handsets to ship worldwide.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Developer, Industry at 14:33 BST, Jun 1st || 4 Comments

SEE 2010 - Amsterdam 9th-10th November

The initial website for this years annual Symbian show recently went live. They reveal that SEE 2010 will take place in Amsterdam at Beurs van Berlage on the 9th and 10th of November. On the site you can find the basic information about the event and register your interest in attending as well as find out more about sponsor and speaker opportunities. SEE 2010 could be the venue for the first substantive look at the new UI of Symbian^4 and will set the scene for the Symbian ecosystem as it moves towards what is likely to be very busy 2011.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Links of Interest, Developer, Industry, Editorial Thoughts, Events at 16:45 BST, May 30th || 7 Comments

First Symbian^3 phone from Asian manufacturer

During an interview with Reuters, Lee Williams, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation, has said that the first Symbian^3 phone will come from an Asian manufacturer rather than Nokia, although he declined to say which one. He also indicated that the Symbian^3 code is "nearly ready" and than he expected to have a "very mature" Symbian^4 ready in the first quarter of 2011.

# Posted by Rafe in Hardware, Developer at 20:49 BST, May 26th || 0 Comments

PIM ideas for Symbian and ideas.symbian.org

Following on from his 'clean sheet of paper' ideas for Symbian's Calendar, Ewan looks at the first steps of what's needed to take such thoughts through to inclusion in official Symbian Foundation code. Essentially, the Ideas board at the Earls Court show is now a fully functioning social network, dedicated to bringing the best ideas through to implementation.

# Posted by Steve in Miscellaneous, Developer, Editorial Thoughts at 8:43 BST, May 26th || 2 Comments