Out of Business Cards – Great Symbian Help for Inmote @MWC!

Mar 4th by magdav Retweet Share on Facebook

Guest post by Rene Heuven, Inmote

Rene_Heuven_InmoteI feel Symbian again! After a turbulent year, Symbian Foundation has made a successful transition from a commercial organization into a fully and truly open source software platform that provides the richest set of APIs on smartphones. Symbian was giving away of memory sticks containing the Symbian^3 source code at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and they were in high demand. Friends and competitors (LiMo, Android and iPhone developers) took the USB sticks to learn about the new Symbian.

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Wikipedia on your Symbian device

Mar 4th by ivanlitovski Retweet Share on Facebook

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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Skype for Symbian

Mar 3rd by magdav Retweet Share on Facebook

We talked about this previously when we were at MWC (read our ‘Skype on Symbian’ post), and Skype have officially announced today the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform.

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The crowd is wise if you are

Mar 2nd by freddiegjertsen Retweet Share on Facebook

The aim of Symbian Ideas is to generate and discuss the ideas that will make the Symbian platform innovative and desirable for users. It is predicated on the belief that there is ‘wisdom’ within the crowd that is the Symbian community. This blog posting is about the techniques Symbian can employ to best capture that wisdom.

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Unboxing video of the Emxys BTSwitch

Mar 1st by Julien Fourgeaud Retweet Share on Facebook
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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.

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Getting to know the packages: the Homescreen framework

Mar 1st by Lars Kurth Retweet Share on Facebook

The Homescreen framework is a collection of two packages: Homescreen and Homescreensrv. This framework provides two applications, the Homescreen and the Menu through which the user manages widgets and launches other applications.

We have recently spoken to Jaakko Haukipuro, the Homescreen package owner, who has done an amazing job of providing us with up-to-date information on the ongoing development work that has been carried out on these packages for both Symbian^2 and Symbian^3.  And yes, the development for Symbian^4 has already started as you can see from the package backlog.

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Symbian Stammtisch, Helsinki 9th March

Feb 26th by magdav Retweet Share on Facebook

Helsinki is proud to join the growing network of cities with Symbian Stammtisch. Our kickoff is on Tuesday, March 9th, from 6pm to 9pm at restaurant Vltava in central Helsinki. The Stammtisch is made possible by Sasken, an active contributor and the mastermind behind Social Mobile Framework contribution.

The event is organized in cooperation with Mobile Brain Bank. We are collecting discussion topics for the evening here. Please register and claim your seat in the Helsinki happening.

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Inside Symbian SQL

Feb 26th by satum Retweet Share on Facebook

Hi, I’m Satu Dahl, editor in the Symbian Technical Communications team. I thought you might be interested to hear that we have published a new book about SQL called ‘Inside Symbian SQL’. The book was written by our very own Ivan Litovski and Richard Maynard from Nokia, and their author team: James Aley, Philip Cheung, James Clarke, Lorraine Martin, Philip Neal, Mike Owens and Martin Platts.

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CalDAV support for Symbian: a contribution by Sun Microsystems

Feb 25th by magdav Retweet Share on Facebook

Guest post by Maximilian Odendahl

Following up from my last post in October, I’m happy to announce that the CalDAV contribution by Sun Microsystems (now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle) is now integrated in Symbian^3. This means that any manufacturer releasing a handset based on the current and any upcoming Symbian version will be able to make use of this great addition to the platform.

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Symbian presents Nokia’s UI Extensions for Mobile (Formerly known as Orbit)

Feb 24th by Julien Fourgeaud Retweet Share on Facebook

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/

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