N97 Homescreen Widgets

The N97 has a great new feature called Homescreen widgets.  I thought I'd write a little here about what they do and what is involved in developing them. So yesterday we announced that we have just released 4 homescreen widgets for the N97 and here they are...

robin.jewsbury, 3 July 2009 | Comment

Kero Mobile released for Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800...

Finally the Kero Mobile version for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia N97 was released. Download it directly to your phone from www.biskero.mobi . Kero Mobile gives access to Apps, Games, Videos, Music, News, City Information, Blogs, Sport News, RSS feeds,...

biskero, 3 July 2009 | Comment

Mobilise your website, build a Web Runtime launcher in...

Today I'd like to give a first preview a new little tool that allows users, developers and websites' owners to create a mobile launcher WRT widget for their websites in few, easy steps: the Website Launcher generator !     The...

jappit, 2 July 2009 | Comment

Contribute to the Python Wiki Book

We (me and my fellow champion Bogdan Galiceanu ) are working with the guys at Symbian Foundation to come up with a new book for Python enthusiastics. We already have great PyS60 community and it can only get better I hereby take the oppurtunity of inviting folks...

croozeus, 2 July 2009 | 1 Comments

Innovations on Nokia N97

First I would like to thanks to Forum Nokia Champion program, it is a great honor to be a champion and thanks for the N97 as a gift After several days using N97, I found many functionalities for me and would like to share with everyone: 1, the hardware...

tongren, 2 July 2009 | Comment

Java Runtime 2.0 for S60 in beta, improves usability and...

A beta version of Java Runtime 2.0 for S60 (JRT 2.0) has been made available via Nokia Beta Labs . As you may remember ( I wrote about it some time ago ), Java Runtime is now versioned and released separately from the underlying S60 Platform. The latest version of JRT can...

jack44, 2 July 2009 | Comment

Forum Nokia Podcasts: Episode 003 - Series 40 6th Edition...

In this episode, Forum Nokia's Bill Volpe talks with Jouko Nuottila, Series 40 Technology Marketing Manager with Forum Nokia, and discusses the latest news from the Series 40 team including their latest 6th edition release and the opportunities that it brings for mobile...

bill.volpe, 1 July 2009 | Comment

PyS60 1.9.6 is here

Hello PyS60 Fans PyS60 Team yesterday announced a new PyS60 version which is 1.9.6 this is again a experimental release for testing with a aim of getting an efficient final product i.e. 2.0. Now lets list out some features of the PyS60 1.9.6 as listed by...

gaba88, 1 July 2009 | Comment

Widgets: One more step to simplicity...

There's no doubt that widgets still remain in the spotlight. It was not so long ago when Nokia WRT plug-ins for Adobe Dreamweaver , Microsoft Visual Studio and Aptana Studio were released (IMHO, these represent about 80%-90% of the web development environments, so it...

jack44, 29 June 2009 | Comment

Update on the SBGames 2009

The SBGames 2009 ( see this post for more info ) has now a extended date for paper submission. The new date is: July 24th, for full papers July 24th, for posters More info about the event at the official web site .

lpvalente, 28 June 2009 | Comment

Whither, BREW?

If you're not in North America, BREW might not be familiar to you.  Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless is a C-based API for application development on mobile phones.  Qualcomm are the developers of CDMA (an alternative to GSM, used mainly in North...

grahamhughes, 27 June 2009 | Comment

Qt for S60 "Tower" demo running on Nokia N97

ltomuta, 25 June 2009 | 1 Comments

Qt for S60 "Tower" released

You will most probably be glad to hear fresh news from the Qt for S60 port team. They have a new release* out, it is called Tower and it is based on Qt 4.5.2. There are many new things and many improvements on the existing features, you can see them all listed in the...

ltomuta, 25 June 2009 | 6 Comments

How Smart is My Phone?

I've been looking a lot at the mobile phone market over the past few months.  A lot has changed recently, with Apple and Google entering the game.  In particular, these high-profile players have increased the level of interest in smartphones .  Depending on...

grahamhughes, 25 June 2009 | Comment

Adobe Device Central CS3 Profile update #9

Adobe Device Central Online update #9 is availabl,  the number of device profiles included is 182, and this update contains 57 new device profiles from all regions of the world, many released in the last few months, as well as updates to 125 existing profiles. ...

cool_li, 20 June 2009 | Comment