Symbian
New "Symbian Ready" program promotes quality ecosystem products
LONDON, United Kingdom – 29 April 2008 – Symbian Limited, the market leader in open operating systems for mobile phones, today launched the ‘Symbian Ready’ technology validation program. Symbian Ready ensures that Symbian customers, the market leading handset manufacturers, benefit from the highest quality ecosystem solutions and that the ecosystem partners have the opportunity to showcase the quality of its solutions to key decision makers in the mobile space.
Mobile Developer Days 2008
After the initial event being held successfully in Aalborg, the event is addressing again developers of mobile applications and devices. The main idea of the MDD event is to create a platform where developers, network operators, service providers, and mobile manufactures can exchange their ideas and visions in the field of mobile communication.
Penrillian uSTL now supports Series 60 3rd Edition
Penrillian has recently released an enhanced version of its popular uSTL library for Symbian
OS C++. This is great news for the developer community as it now supports both Series 60
Edition 3 and UIQ devices. The latest release also offers additional features and a more
complete set of STL functionality
BitRabbit announce RabbitFactory middleware version 2.0
Dublin, Ireland – April 17th 2008 - BitRabbit is proud to announce the availability of version 2.0 of its RabbitFactory middleware for all native smartphone and PDA platforms. The RabbitFactory is a full-featured, cross-platform, highly-optimized set of C++ APIs which provide a complete abstraction of native mobile platforms, offering extremely fast development and deployment processes.
Creating a UI library: Approach and Solution
When a programmer gets a task of writing UI Library; normally what a programmer does is, at maximum think and finalize about some basic classes and the final UI interface. While creating UI library we should think in all aspects including its development and its future usage by other applications...
Do's and Dont's of Symbian programming
This tutorial provides an insight to good programming practices and practices that can preferably avoided while programming in Symbian environment.
Hardware and Software Debugging
Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware thus making it behave as expected. Debugging tends to be harder when various subsystems are tightly coupled, as changes in one may cause bugs to emerge in another.
A peek inside the N-Gage first access SIS file
In this article, the N-Gage first access SIS file is unpacked and dissected, and some interesting findings are reported. What does FlashLite have to do with N-Gage, what devices are supported, and what is the security culture really like inside Nokia?
UIQ Technology announces the winners of the UIQ application competition '08
Ronneby, Sweden, March 13, 2008 - UIQ Technology today announced the winners of the UIQ Open, a developer competition aimed at finding and showcasing the most innovative, useful and entertaining third-party applications created with the UIQ open software development platform. The UIQ Open is an application competition where software developers and software companies submit UIQ 3 applications in different categories on the UIQ Developer Community website
Another hack for Symbian Platform Security
One of my articles that has gained lots of attention was written about hacking Symbian Platform Security. Although it turned out that reproducing the workaround found by Symbiaali is laborous, requires strong technical knowledge and its wide-spread use is very unlikely, it clearly showed me that people were interested in this topic.
iPhone SDK and Business Model - only kids get too excited
I think it's a good idea to wait a bit with commenting the announement of big things. You might not be as fast as others, but at least will have a broader view to the whole picture. At least that's what I did with Steve jobs announcement about the iPhone SDK (official press release is here) and developer program.
IPhone SDK is HERE !!
Yes it is. After being a really beautiful phone, the IPhone now come to the world of the SmartPhone, phone for which we can write native application.
Carbide.c++ 1.3 is out
A lot of downloads today for the application developper, in addition to the iPhone SDK, don't forget to update your Carbide.c++ to v1.3. This release adds a lot of small enhancements and bugfixes to the v1.2 as well as On Target Debugging and RAD for UIQ3.
Samsung announce the first Limo Commercial Phone
Samsung Electronics became the first LiMo phone maker in the world. LiMo is the linux based operation system for mobile phone.
Google Phone prototype shown in Barcelona
Finally Google is able to show a first working implementation of its Android platform... And this is definitely not the sexiest phone on earth. Some nice transition effects but still far from (my) expectations. Here is a short video of a prototype which looks very close to the reference design found in the Android SDK.
XPeria: Sony Ericsson goes Windows Mobile... with the iPhone style!
Sony Ericsson has just announced in Barcelona its first Windows Mobile powered device: XPeria X1. The deviceis one of the sexiest Winddos powered device so far and the combination of the full qwerty keyboard and touch panel interface makes it a lot more usable than some competitors like LG KS20.
Carbide.c++ Panic Lookup Plug-In
Here is a cool and free plugin for Carbide.c++ developped by two students of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences and Andreas Jakl. The plugin will automatically give you the description of any panic that occurred in the emulator !
Motorola responds to Nokia's Trolltech buy
Motorola has responded to the news earlier this week that rival Nokia plans to purchase Trolltech, long-time supplier of the graphical development framework used in Motorola's Linux phones. In a nutshell, the response boils down to, "We were over Qt, anyway."...
