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SXSW 2011 PanelPicker is now open

Aug 19th by elisabethgettelman

March next year may seem like a long time away, but if you’re planning to attend SXSW 2011 in Austin, Texas, then now is the time to start thinking that far ahead. The SXSW PanelPicker is open between now and Friday, August 27th for you to select which proposals you want to see at the event.

Symbian has submitted a proposal of its own, Mobile Apps – When New Technologies Go Mainstream, which, if you like the sound of, we’d encourage you to vote for. In this presentation we will be talking about the recent explosion of location-based services and augmented reality apps. You’ll be able to hear from the founders of top apps in these areas and how they were able to predict the popularity of these trends several years ago and create compelling apps that leverage the still cutting-edge technology. Read more »

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Planet of the Apps Europe 2010

Aug 17th by andrewkl

If, like us, you can’t wait to hear the inspiring keynotes, informative seminars, instructive hands-on labs and interactive demos at SEE 2010, then you will doubtless be interested in attending Planet of the Apps while you prepare for the Amsterdam event.

Being held in London on 2nd to 4th November, it will bring together some of the world’s major consumer brands, media businesses, social networking sites, mobile operators, device manufacturers and platform owners, and the developer community. They will meet to discuss how to make the most of the opportunities provided by the rise of mobile apps while enjoying the chance to build relationships and network with peers.

Every day will have sessions dedicated to achieving profitability through app creation, you will find out how peers and competitors are achieving commercial success, and there is a Dedicated Developer Day on Tuesday 2nd November which is free for developers to attend.

Register here, or for more information please download the brochure, or visit the Planet of the Apps website.

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Interview with ThinkChange

Jul 28th by roelofkotze

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, how did you get into developing apps?

Hi! My name is Ren Tong and I got into developing Symbian applications in early 2005 when I was a graduate student in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I majored in Computer Science. At the time I thought there were too many people developing desktop applications, and when I saw the ads for the Nokia 6600 – which is a Symbian OS-based S60 2nd Edition smartphone – I spent all my money and bought one, and started developing on the Symbian platform.

What was your inspiration for developing FlipSilent?

FlipSilent is the app that made me famous. The idea came from an ad, in which a man and a woman were dating and the woman turned her phone over to make it silent. In 2007, the Sensor API for Nokia N95 became available and I spent about two nights making a prototype of the “turn to mute” feature. I then made a video and uploaded it to YouTube in the morning. I went out to play football and by the time I’d come back in the afternoon, something crazy had happened – the YouTube video had been viewed thousands of times within several hours, and my inbox was full of emails requesting the app!

I spent about one month implementing new features and fixing bugs submitted by users from all over the world to make FlipSilent perfect. During this period I made lots of new friends and the YouTube video had more than one million views. Read more »

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Calling All Symbian App Developers

May 19th by elisabethgettelman

We love you, we are proud of you, but let’s face it… hearing that from us is only slightly better than hearing it from your mom. To prove how much you mean to us, Symbian is sponsoring this year’s Gettie Awards, created by GetJar, the world’s second largest app store.

These are the first cross-platform awards and will recognize the world’s most successful and innovative mobile applications. Each major platform, including Symbian, has its own category where a winner will be named. There will also be a grand prize given to the best application overall. Read more »

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MOBILE DOCUMENTS™ from VISIARC launches at DEMO

Apr 15th by ashleeg

There’s no doubt that the bi-annual DEMO event in California is a great place for developers to pitch new products to the tech world: in its 19 year history, products launched there have evolved into brand names such as Adobe Acrobat, WebEx, and Google’s first mobile search efforts, to name just a few. MOBILE DOCUMENTS™ is another product we believe will be just as successful, and we’re not the only ones. VentureBeat says, ‘There’s currently nothing else trying to redefine mobile e-mail attachment handling like Mobile Documents,’ and CIO included Mobile Documents in its list of the top 25 ‘Awesome Tech Products at DEMO’.

So what does this kick-ass little app do? Well, it allows users to immediately access documents that are stored on remote servers, attach them and simply click send. It provides push notification and easy access to email and documents anytime, anywhere – saving users time and data costs. In short, it’s amazing!

We are delighted to have Peter Lindgren, CEO of VISIARC, write a post for us talking about Mobile Documents and what it was like launching at DEMO in partnership with Symbian. Read more »

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Cross Platform Development with MoSync

Mar 26th by Roderick Burns

Patrick Broman, Product Manager at MoSync, talks about their open source development platform allowing developers to create applications across different mobile platforms.

Back in 2004, when MoSync was founded, the mobile landscape was very different. There were far fewer platforms to code for. The idea of downloading a new application for your phone was almost unheard of. Yet even back then, creating a single environment for cross-platform mobile application development was a promising idea.

Today it is much more than that. Now there are many different mobile platforms. No one who understands the way the mobile industry is heading questions the need for a true cross-platform development solution.

We have lots of detailed information about MoSync at our website, and I would encourage you to visit it to learn much more about it. Here I’d like to use this space to explain some things we haven’t elaborated on at the website. Read more »

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ELIPS Studio development environment

Mar 19th by Roderick Burns

In February, the Symbian Foundation invited OpenPlug to demo its ELIPS Studio development environment on its booth at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This article by Guilhem Ensuque, Director Product Marketing at OpenPlug, gives some details.

ELIPS Studio is a new tool freely available in beta at http://developer.openplug.com/. It offers an alternative development environment for Symbian application developers (in addition to Carbide C++ and Qt Creator). Its main proposition is that it uses Adobe’s Flex Builder as the developer frontend and allows to develop native apps in the Actionscript language, using the Flex framework, plus mobile-specific API extensions. The originality lies in the fact that applications created with ELIPS Studio do not require Adobe’s runtimes (Flash Player or AIR) to be present on the device to execute.

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Future of your app

Mar 12th by Joe Neale

“While there are more opportunities than ever for you to unleash your creativity and develop mobile apps, there is a complex landscape of devices, operating systems and app stores to navigate. We’d like to explain why you should spend time, money and effort on developing a Symbian app..”

And so starts the latest engagement campaign under the heading ‘yourapp‘. But why have we done this?

There are a sea of development studios, independent developers and startups out there who have already built successful applications on platforms such as iPhone or Android and are wondering what the next step is for their app. We believe it’s Symbian.

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Symbian Horizon Success for Mobbler

Mar 12th by Roderick Burns

I wanted to highlight a real success story for the Symbian Horizon program. The Mobbler application (‘Mobbler – A Last.fm Radio Player and Scrobbler for Symbian’), is open source, free and developed by a community of volunteers. The application is already popular as an unsigned download but access to Symbian Signed and publishing in Ovi is a barrier because of their non-commercial status. This limits the reach that they have. We tested and signed Mobbler through the Horizon program and published it on the Ovi store this week.

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Wikipedia on your Symbian device

Mar 4th by ivanlitovski

At SEE 2009 a conversation between Tim Holbrow and Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) resulted in the creation of one of the hundreds of ideas that were generated at the show. The idea: make it easier to use Wikipedia on Symbian devices.

Discussing this within Symbian we saw an overlap between what was required and an app that had previously been created to improve mobile access to the Symbian developer website. So I picked up the task to create the initial application, set about adapting it to optimize for presenting Wikipedia content, text and images, in as many languages as Symbian has fonts for.

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