by greg on September 9, 2009
Sony Ericsson have just announced a November release date for the first of it’s new generation of multimedia phones, the Satio. It will feature a staggering 12.1 megapixel camera and run on the same Symbian operating system as the Nokia 5800 and N97. Until now, most phones have either concentrated on being primarily a music or camera phone but the Sony Ericsson Satio seems to do it all. The camera is not only a staggering 12.1 megapixels but also features a xenon flash as well as smile and face detector features. The operating system, which is all new to Sony Ericsson, is run on a 3.5″, 16 million colour, 360×640 resolution touchscreen with an accelerometer controlling the orientation.
With full HSDPA and HSUPA support alongside WiFi, Bluetooth, A2DP and GPS the Sony Ericsson Satio also covers every base when it comes to connectivity and the external MicroSD card slot allows easy memory expansion as opposed to the less readily available memory sticks used in previous Sony Ericsson models.
With all the above features packed into such a good looking handset, Sony Ericsson seem to have all the bases covered with their new top end multimedia handset. With an already proven, functional and easy to use operating system will this be the handset to give the iPhone a run for it’s money?
Sony Ericsson Satio image via Mobile Phone Shop
by Patrick Altoft on April 25, 2007
Over 100 million Symbian S60 devices have been shipped, according to Nokia. The figures make the S60 software the world’s leading smartphone software, developed by Nokia and licensed by some of the industry’s top mobile device manufacturers.
To date, 57 devices based on S60 and Symbian operating system have been launched, 28 of which are based on the latest S60 3rd Edition.
“This announcement represents a significant landmark for S60. We believe it inspires further innovation on S60. The open platform gives mobile users more choice and provides a platform upon which new applications and services can be built”, said Matti Vanska, Vice President, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia.
Speaking at the event press conference, Matti Vanska said: “We see three key trends affecting the requirements for software platforms. The mobile device is becoming the hub for personal experiences, whether focused on imaging, business, music, navigation or video. People are accessing Web 2.0 services and content with their mobile device. Thirdly, simplicity and intuitiveness of user experience are increasingly important.”
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by Patrick Altoft on April 16, 2007
Nokia has added widget support S60 in a step towards bringing Web 2.0 to mobile phones. S60 is now the first mobile platform to support standards based widgets.
Widgets have been popular on the Internet for a while now and allow users to personalise content into lightweight applications that allow them to keep up to date with their favourite news feeds.
“Mobility will change the Internet as people are able to access and create information specific to place, time and context,” said Tero Ojanpera, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia. “Widgets are an important milestone in this development. Introducing widget support for S60, much of the innovation seen on the Internet today is being brought to the mobile space for the benefit of the millions of S60 mobile device users”.
The world’s leading smartphone software, S60 on Symbian OS, will be complemented with Web Run-Time, a Web application development environment, enabling the development of widgets and integrated Web applications for mobile devices with familiar standards-based Web technologies, such as Ajax, JavaScript, CSS and HTML.
Web Run-Time is powered by the same feature rich, open-source environment used by the Web Browser for S60, the world’s first full HTML browser bringing a desktop-like browsing experience to millions of S60 mobile devices.
Web Run-Time offers numerous possibilities for Web application development. As the Web Run-Time is built with standard Web technologies, developers can create new innovative widgets and also migrate existing widgets from the desktop to S60 with minimal effort. In the future, widgets will benefit from connecting both to Web 2.0 services, Web content and to the core applications and capabilities of S60, such as phonebook, calendar and GPS.
by Patrick Altoft on March 7, 2007
Warelex, a company well known for producing mobile phone software applications, have developed an interesting new download that turns your Symbian phone into a webcam.
Install the Mobiola Web Camera software onto your PC and mobile phone and you have a high quality web cam to take with you anywhere.
Connectivity is via USB or Bluetooth but a WiFi version is coming soon.
A Windows Mobile version is also in the pipeline and Warelex are even offering a free trial version so you can test the application before you buy.
Turn your Symbian smartphone into a high-quality web camera and throw out your bulky USB webcam. Very simple to install and configure, Mobiola Web Camera consists of two software components: (1) a client application that resides on the phone, and (2) a webcam PC driver compatible with any Windows application that can receive video feeds from a web camera including Skype, Yahoo, MSN, AOL IM, ICQ messangers, www.YouTube.com, www.MySpace.com and www.grouper.com. Carry your webcam with you wherever you go and connect it to your laptop at anytime.
