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Following the line I put down in my previous post, Life Underground, we are starting to explore how to use the Symbian platform to do some fun stuff and learn.
Symbian Blog: Articles by Julien Fourgeaud
Symbian presents Nokia’s UI Extensions for Mobile (Formerly known as Orbit)
Feb 24th by Julien Fourgeaud
Daniel Zucker and Ray Rischpater will share their thoughts on Nokia’s UI Extensions for Mobile (previously referred to as Orbit) , the new UI framework Nokia has recently open-sourced to Symbian and Gitorious (see http://qt.gitorious.org/uiemo) .
They will provide a summary of the business case for developers to move to Uiemo, followed by a review of its architecture.
With these fundamentals out of the way, they will provide a brief tour of benefits for Uiemo to Symbian developers including more in-depth discussion of individual UI components.
Join our team at the Symbian Foundation US office today at 6.30pm.
Free registration here: http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Symbian-Developers-Meetup/
Life underground…
Feb 19th by Julien Fourgeaud
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They’re all alike….
And then it happened… a door opened to a world… rushing through
the phone line like heroin through an addict’s veins, an electronic
pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies
is sought… a board is found
“This is it… this is where I belong…”
So said Loyd Blankenship, aka The Mentor, in “The conscience of a Hacker” (Phrack – Volume 1, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10, 1986).
A manifesto supporting individuals who explore, learn, discover, striving for Freedom thanks to Technology. 24 years later, where are we? Read more »
What is a mobile?
Feb 2nd by Julien Fourgeaud
What is a mobile phone nowadays? For most of us, it is an invisible pipe that enables communicating with family, friends and business. It keeps us connected to the net, sharing, broadcasting, consuming content and information. But is that all?
Not really.
With the existing connectivities such as Bluetooth, Wifi and with the upcoming NFC, mobile phones switch from passive to active devices.
From commercial (PhonePoint) to free applications (Phone Remote Control), you can control PowerPoint, iTunes or any other application on your PC.
But it doesn’t stop there!
Becoming as powerful as computers and being connected to the real world via sensors (camera, audio, acceleration, compass, light and more), they can interact with it. Read more »
The Navigation Market
Dec 1st by Julien Fourgeaud
This week, San Jose is welcoming the 6th annual US Navigation and Location conference.
Nav&Loc 09 is a place where Navigation players meet in order to shape the future of Navigation Based Services. This year’s conference is an important milestone in the Navigation landscape.
Only last month Google announced “Google Maps Navigation”, bringing a free solution to consumers and seriously disrupting the paid-for market. By providing free access to navigation content, Google has seriously undermined the business model of most of the top players.
This had a major impact on the stock market as well. Tomtom, a navigation services company, lost 21% on their share following the announcement.
With Navigation migrating to mobile phones, the sales of Personal Navigation Device (PND), have declined, forcing manufacturers to adopt new strategies. Garmin, leader in the PND makert, have had to come up with a Garmin phone. The nuvifone embeds Garmin’s top of the line Navigation solution with phone functionality.
As a side effect of Mobile Phone navigation solutions spreading, car manufacturers have to differentiate their built in car navigation offering. Coming up as an option on most midrange vehicles, it remains an expensive one.
Symbian being an Embedded Real Time OS, it could support the industry in migrating to a more standard solution, based on open source and an open community.
I will be representing the Symbian Community during the keynote panel at the conference. If you have any specific questions, or comments, please, add them to this blog post.
I will be talking about how the Symbian Open Governance model will help content owners to enable Symbian developers to use their content.
How for device manufacturers migrating to a future proof open source OS will reduce development costs and shift resources towards productization of experiences, enabling devices to be closer to consumer needs, and services to take off.
And I will look at how Symbian is the perfect candidate to enable in car entertainment/navigation systems. Bringing 3G/4G/LTE on each display, enabling installation of applications/games, supporting multimedia content. Pushing further, Symbian could be the heart of in cars control units (ECU), providing a new range of opportunities in term of measurements and analysis.
Symbian Meet-up in the Silicon Valley Thursday 5.11
Nov 4th by Julien Fourgeaud
Visiting North California for the Qt Dev days I figured out it would be a good opportunity to get some feedback from the Valley.
Being a geek in my younger ages, the Valley has always been an important part of the world for me.
Working now on the Roadmap of Symbian, I would love to be able to bring back the feedback from our fellow californian developers and innovators to our UK office.
The team is organizing a monthly SIG (Special Interest Group) around Symbian in the Valley. This Thursday is the next one.
Jason Barron from Qt team will be joining us to present what Qt brings to the Symbian Platform.
I’ll then be glad to sit down around couple of drinks with anyone interested in sharing their views of Symbian.
Info about the event: http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Symbian-Developers-Meetup/calendar/11668852/
Location: Symbian Office, 1051 E Hillsdale Blvd, Suite 520, Foster City, CA 94404
Date: Thursday the 5th of November
Time: 6.30pm
See you there.
Symbian, enabling experiences (Part 2)
Sep 10th by Julien Fourgeaud
As pictured in the previous post, we are trying with this app to push the boundaries of what we might want to do with phones based on Symbian.
We are here in Oschersleben at Motorsport Arena with Schubert Motorsport.
The car has been rigged up with the N95 and both applications (Qik and RaceChrono) have demonstrated good performances. Read more »
Symbian, enabling experience to the extreme
Sep 7th by Julien Fourgeaud
Mobile phones have been part of many people’s daily life for more than 10 years. Enabling us to get closer to people in a mobile manner, via calls, sms, internet and lately social media services.
These devices are now allowing us to develop new experiences. In the next series of blog posts, we’ll be trying to capture how Symbian, as a platform, enables people to experience life to the most and push their own boundaries.
I will be starting with an exciting experiment and will share that with you live. Read more »
Symbian Foundation pitching for South by Southwest 2010 conference
Sep 4th by Julien Fourgeaud
South by Southwest is the largest Media/Entertainment conference in the US and takes place in Austin, TX.
This year, the Symbian Foundation proposed 2 different topics:
“Experience, Create, Share: Now! Perform Live, Connected“
“Mobile Phones -> SmartPhones -> Mobile Computers. Combining computing power, High Definition Video/Audio, touch screen, high speed internet, they become perfect tools to generate content, and perfect media to share it. Will they break the individualism paradigm, allowing us to become actors of our lives, connect and share our experiences?”
“Future: Mobile DJ truly Mobile“
“The 70s-80s were stamped by huge flight cases and records, making the debut of mobile DJing a pain and a struggle. 30 years later, technology evolved to bring mobile Djing closer to portable, but how far are we before becoming really mobile?”
Contributions are accepted based on voting system. Feel free to vote and make comments.
