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Top Story: Support Knowledgebase Now Live!

Neatly transplanted from 3-Lib and enhanced significantly, AllAboutSymbian is proud to present its new Support Knowledgebase (click the link or use the menu tab above). This compendium of Symbian-related problem solving will be added to further in the coming weeks. If there's a problem that's been bugging you, give the search engine a try...
Posted by Steve Litchfield at 9:19 GMT, February 7th under Software, Miscellaneous in Series 60, Series 80, UIQ, General, N-Gage || 3 Comments

Top Story: Ewan previews the new Sony Ericsson M600i

Ewan takes a closer look at the M600i and tries to work out Sony Ericsson's strategy in releasing this capable but occasionally confusing device. There's oodles of business power here and some (but not all) consumer features as well. What do you think?
Posted by Steve Litchfield at 11:29 GMT, February 6th under Editorial Thoughts in UIQ || 6 Comments

Symbian to cut license fee and develop Freesacle reference design

According to this Reuters story Symbian is planning to develop a reference design using a single chip solution with US chip maker Freescale. This follows similar reference design in partnership with Intel and Texas Instruments. Reference designs are aimed at lowering development times and cost for Symbian phones. Additionally the reports states that Symbian, as expected, will be lowering it's licensee fees. The official details of these announcements will likely be made at 3GSM. Read on for more.
Posted by Rafe Blandford at 2:37 GMT, February 8th under Industry, Editorial Thoughts in General || 0 Comments

Symbian announce email validation program

Symbian have announced a mobile email validation program to promote best practise for push email solutions. In practise this means Symbian will be working with vendors to insure their solutions have the best possible user experience and functionality on Symbian OS.
Posted by Rafe Blandford at 2:35 GMT, February 8th under Industry in General || 0 Comments

Shock horror - S60 tips and app ideas - on a US site!

It's not often that Symbian OS and Nokia's Series 60 makes an impression on the hacks over on US sites like Engadget, but here's a tips roundup with some nicely positive comments and suggestions.
Posted by Steve Litchfield at 21:28 GMT, February 7th under Links of Interest in Series 60 || 0 Comments

Let Your Series 60 Phone Autotag Flickr Pics with Merkitys

Merkitys is an open source upload tool for Series 60 Flickr users. It allows you to add custom tags that are automatically added to the photo, and currently allows GPS, GSM Cell, Country and City location information,  Calendar information, or any user generated tags and descriptions. And why the name Merkitys? It's Finnish for "Meaning." 

Posted by Ewan Spence at 11:27 GMT, February 7th under Software in Series 60 || 0 Comments

The Smartphones Show - number 4!

Programme 4 of the Smartphones Show is now live. A free TV programme all about smartphones, available online, programme 4 features AAS's very own Thomas Boys reviewing the Nokia N90, while I do a batch of Treo and Series 60 tips and look at the i-Mate SP5.
Posted by Steve Litchfield at 10:18 GMT, February 7th under Links of Interest in Series 60, General || 0 Comments

More P990 Software Bundle Details

To go with the M600i announcement, Sony Ericsson has revealed some more details on the software that will come bundled with the P990 at launch. Read on for the new applications and some thoughts…
Posted by Ewan Spence at 15:33 GMT, February 6th under Software, Links of Interest, Editorial Thoughts in UIQ || 1 Comment

SE Prep P990c for Chinese Mainland

More P990 news, as Sony Ericsson provide details on the two variants of the P990. Both will support the 900/1800/1900 GSM frequencies, with the P990i aimed at Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. The P990c will be launched in mainland China as and when 3G services are available. Which may lead to the P990c (UIQ3) going head to head with Nokia's 6708 (UIQ2.1) when the respective devices appear.

Posted by Ewan Spence at 13:47 GMT, February 6th under Hardware in UIQ || 0 Comments

SE P990 Delayed to Accomodate the M600i

Sony Ericsson are delaying the launch of the P990 to focus more resources on the M600i due to 'operator interest' in the M600i announced today. Read on...

Posted by Ewan Spence at 13:21 GMT, February 6th under Hardware, Industry in UIQ || 6 Comments

Sony Ericsson Announce M600i

m600i ThumbnailThe second UIQ3 powered smartphone has been announced from Sony Ericsson. The M600i has a 240x320 touchscreen and 80Mb of memory. Key features include a slim 112g design, support for corporate email services and a dual function keyboard. The main differences, compared to the P990, are the lack of Wi-Fi, flip keypad and camera. The phone is expected in Q2 2006 in both black and white (Sony Ericsson M600i Homepage).

Posted by Rafe Blandford, Ewan Spence at 8:57 GMT, February 6th under Hardware in UIQ || 4 Comments

More music thoughts, but not completely thought through

Symbian's Oren Tversky's interviewed about music on mobiles here, although he misses several important points. Firstly, bandwidth IS still an issue for many people. And secondly, what about syncing music over from your desktop's hard disk, who says it all has to come over the air?
Posted by Steve Litchfield at 14:09 GMT, February 5th under Links of Interest in Series 60, General || 0 Comments

Your Weekend Reader's Digest

The Carnival of the Mobilists #14 is online here, with the usual round-up of interesting mobile/smartphone articles from round the Web. Happy reading! Meanwhile, as a tease, there's something brand new on AAS - announcement tomorrow...!
Posted by Steve Litchfield at 13:19 GMT, February 5th under Links of Interest in General || 1 Comment

PayPal On the Move?

The key to mobile serices to many companies is how to get to "Step 3: Profit" as fast as possible. Up till now the only effective route is using reverse SMS services via the operator, but budding entrepeneurs may be interested to read that Paypal is setting up a start-up, tentatively called PayPal Mobile. More at Finextra and MocoNews.
Posted by Ewan Spence at 23:00 GMT, February 3rd under Industry in General, General || 1 Comment

N91 and E70 FCC approved, N91 supports UPnP

The Nokia N91, the music focused phone with a hard disk, and the E70, the enterprise focused phone with a gulwing form factor, have been approved by the FCC. The documents available include internal pictures (where the N91's hard disk is visible) and the user manuals. The N91 user manual reveals the N91 will innclude UPnP support and includes details on the Music Shop application which will allow users to download music over the air to their phones and the PC Music Sync (which uses Windows Media Player 11). Read on for more.
Posted by Rafe Blandford at 13:01 GMT, February 3rd under Hardware in Series 60 || 2 Comments

All you ever wanted to know about the new S60 browser - and lots you didn't

Up today on Forum Nokia is an exhaustive PDF document, detailing every technical and UI feature of the upcoming next-gen browser from Nokia. Scroll past the geeky bits and you'll find lots of screenshots and interesting stuff nearer the end...
Posted by Steve Litchfield at 11:12 GMT, February 3rd under Links of Interest in Series 60 || 1 Comment


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New Software

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This mobile cam pimps your body! We bet, your friends have never seen you like this before! Or did you ever surprise them with a picture of you looking like a Barbie doll?

5-in-1Game Pack for Series 60

All 5 different games in 1 pack as well as Money Saver Pack, Very attractive games..

Bulls & Cows

Bulls & Cows is a series 60 based game for Nokia smart Phones. It’s a simple,classic,addictive game which will appeal to all user groups and ages.

Best FullScreenCaller

Shows a big picture and detailed information about the contact during incoming and outgoing calls!

Time Machine

Time Machine provides Alarm, Stop Watch and Timer functionality for Symbian Series 60 mobile phones

QuickLauncher XPStation

Easily launch Handango website from your desktop and access 8 Windows Accessories !

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