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Category: S60

MicroWeather for S60 goes Open Source

I usually don't write about specific mobile software, but this time it's a bit different. You know, it's one thing that one of my colleagues, Jouni Miettunen , became a Forum Nokia Champion last time thanks to his active participation in Python for S60 community. I'm really...

Static vs active application icons

I found an interesting blog about mobile interaction design at Sender 11 (whatever that name means). The point of the article is that in order to make application icons more attractive and provide a better user-experience, the icons should refresh their content from time to time and show...

Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Of course, I read the press release from Nokia. I even noticed that my fellow FN Champion, Paul Todd , was faster than me to write about it. Never mind, I knew it in advance that I can't be faster than AAS , nor Simon Judge , either. What comes as a surprise to me, though, that...

Tilt-O-Mania, also known as Nokmote

Have you ever felt that your idea is stolen and "Damn, I wish I had been faster in doing it"? Now I feel exactly that way. The first time I heard that another Nokia phone, N95, has a built-in accelerometer I started wondering why on Earth ? Why on Earth is it worth for Nokia to put...

Android SDK is out - first impressions

After watching the video about the introduction of Android for developers , I'm convinced that the new phone will generally be as useful and user-friendly as e.g. the-also-newcomer iPhone . Well, it came as no surprise to me, I'm just expecting a lot of innovation from the new...

Symbian Platform Security - hacked?

Well, 3:00am has already passed and I'm tired and sleepy. One thing doesn't let me sleep, though. I've just stumbled upon these articles ( Exploring S60 with AllFiles and Goodbye S60 Platform Security, Hello CAPABILITIES! ) and I can't believe my eyes: Platform Security...

Symbian development - An alternative to embedding applications

I usually don't write articles about actual Symbian development issues, but this time I think I make an exception, if you don't mind. If you don't speak "Symbianish" or simply are not interested, then please skip the rest of my post. Nevertheless, I hope that the majority of you will just keep...

Time of competition - a peaceful summer?

Summer is hot, silent and peaceful in Hungary. I can just sit back and watch/read what's happening around the world. And in mobile space, of course. Well, it's not that silent as I expected. In the past few days I have noticed new signs of a tough competition between mobile- and consumer...

Protecting APIs - a different approach

I have been wondering lately if the current is the most optimal way of protecting APIs in the S60 (or Symbian in general) C++ SDKs. It must not come as a surprise to any programmers that there are far more features in these SDKs than what we can use with the publicly available functions. But...

Cost monitoring

I've started wondering just recently why there is no support at all for cost monitoring on our phones? Okay, on S60 phones there are two applications where you can monitor - how much time you've spent with speaking on the phone, - how much data you've up/downloaded. You've spotted that...

Carbide.C++ - How to purchase it?

We had to purchase a few Carbide.C++ licenses for our company - the first ones, actually. Therefore, I visited Forum Nokia/Tools/SDK section in order to find the right link that I can click on to purchase the licenses. The problem that there wasn't any such link. :( I could have downloaded the...

S60 E-phones = ugly phones?

We had to purchase a couple of mobile phones recently. We want to use them for business purposes. For that reason, I had checked out what our Hungarian mobile operators offered and what's available in Nokia stores nearby. First, we specified the criterion that an ideal business phone must fulfill...

Random thoughts on web browsing in S60

As I was involved in the development of S60 browser for years, I think I have a good overview on how a mobile browser works. Therefore I'm particularly interested in the "mobile browser war" taking place in S60. First of all, I'm surprised that there's a _war_ at all. Of course, I'm...

Let's use DRM!

I've seen *lots* of questions on various S60 forums, where developers were asking for advices on how to implement THE ideal security technique that protects their application from cracking, stealing and in general: using without the permission of the author. I'm not sure if they're aware of that...