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Ron Liechty's Forum Nokia Blog

Category: S60

Launching S60 5th Edition mobile platform for smart phones

Today we reached a milestone at Nokia and Forum Nokia by launching S60 5th Edition mobile platform for smart phones and the Forum Nokia online communities is joining in on the fun!! There is a contest in the Wiki for contributions on articles for developing applications, utilities,...

Forum Nokia Provided Code Snippets

Forum Nokia has started production of Code Snippets in the Knowledge Base in the FN Wiki. Code snippets are well-written code blocks that demonstrate how to use APIs and methods to perform a certain task or use case, providing easy-to-use code for faster application development....

Ask the Experts: Carbide.c++

This weeks ask the experts is on Carbide.c++ Nokia’s tool for Symbian C++ developers. Our experts this week are Matt Salmo (msalmo) and Matt Pinsonneault (Mpinsonneault) from the Carbide support team. If you have questions for them please ask in this thread....

S60 Programming Competition

Forum Nokia has launched a new competition for S60 developers. There will be a new programming challenge on a monthly basis and the best solutions will be awarded. For discussion visit Forum Nokia's newest discussion board. Problem for January:...

Ask the Expert about Symbian Platform Security, manufacturing grantable capabilities and Java verified.

Forum Nokia devotes one week to answering questions on a specific topic on our discussion boards. The Nokia expert that will answer the questions daily that are within their expertise as long as it is a reasonable question or comment. We are fortunate this week to have an...

S60 3rd Ed. FP 2 , SDK Beta Includes Web Runtime Engine

Today the S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 for C++ SDK Beta went live on Forum Nokia and with that a WRT testing environment. Note, this is a beta version, but the included WRT engine is close to final and developers are encouraged to use it. See the Tools and SDK’s: Nokia Tools web page...

Power saved is Product Sold

Increasingly I see complaints on the discussion board about poor battery life. Of course there are bad batteries out there but for the most part batteries live longer now than ever before. One of my mobile devices would go for days on end without needing a charge but if I used it for an...

When to Start Fresh with New Equipment

I live in an old house and there is constant upkeep on the house as age and gravity take affect. This last weekend I had to do some plumbing, removing the old sewer pipe and replacing it with space age materials (also known as plastic). Because I was very careful and also have lots of...

Remote Device Access - Testing on the Latest Devices

Forum Nokia's new Remote Device Access (RDA) technology allows application testing on actual target devices over the Internet . The system consists of a device pool connected to a server, and users connecting to the server in order to remotely use the devices. Once a user has...

Pogo's Paradox and other quotes

Walt Kelly an American cartoonist is most noted for what is now known as Pogo’s paradox, "We have met the enemy and he is us". However, another Pogo quote that I enjoy is "We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities." Finally John F. Kennedy said...

What I can't tell you about the S60 Browser 2.0 but someone can

Being a Nokia employee I am not allowed to talk about unreleased technology and products. But PhoneScoop.com can and they do review the S60 Browser 2.0 version. If you like your gadgets and you like them to be quickly updated then the new S60 Browser is for you. I recently was able to...

New Porting to S60 3rd Ed. Discussion Group

In case you haven’t noticed we have added a new discussion group on the Forum Nokia Discussion boards dedicated to porting applications to S60 3rd Edition. http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=122 This group was initially aimed for developers from...

Dr. Who, the Tardis and Quick Sort

When I was self learning C I came upon a strange phenomena known as recursion. I could use it, I could understand it and I could see how it worked. If you (and I don’t know why you would) wanted to walk though 80 doors and return to the same spot you could set up 80...

Why do we have a User Interface Guidelines?

A survey of 15,000 "faulty" devices by mobile data provider WDSGlobal found 63 per cent of the one in seven new phones which are returned have nothing wrong with them. As reported by Chris Williams in the July 13 th 2006 issue of the Channel Register...