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Week of November 11, 2001
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Epocn.com has Details of Chinese 9210 Developer Competition
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The 9210 website Epocn.com has details of the results of the Chinese Developers competition for the 9210. The site also has loads of great information on running the 9210 in Chinese and installing Chinese software. A must if your interested in that.
The details are repoduced below (thanks to epocn.com). Please visit their site.
11.13 The results of “The Chinese Application Contest of Nokia 9210 Communicator” have been formally released on November 8, 2001. This contest, namely “Mobile Application Challenge”, held by Nokia developing project partner, “Nokia Forum”, began from July 31. More than 1500 valid applications are received till October 31. Financial analysis software developed by Jia-Cheng Software company from Shanghai, electronic map developed by Lingtu Software Technology company from Beijing, and MP3 player developed by m-internet.com from Hong Kong are respectively awarded the first prizes in the three categories of Efficient Enhancement, Communication, and Entertainment. In addition, five other companies are respectively awarded the second and third prizes. Through developing the application softwares for Nokia 9210 Communicator, the elite participants will cooperate with Nokia to enlarge brand-new business opportunities on mobile application; meanwhile, the large Nokia 9210 Communicator users can also benefit from the increasing applications of various fields.
Awarded the first prize in the category of Communication, the electronic map known as Skywalker developed by Beijing Lingtu Software Technology company is a software based on geographic information service. It also supports the high-definition maps of more than 100 cities nationwide. It provides users with the sufficient geographic information service like roaming, searching, route guiding, users’ marking, transmitting positioning, and geographic positioning by combining the network positioning and SMS with the pre-installed maps on its mobile terminal.
Financial analysis software, Fon-Fan Finance (mobile version), developed by Jia-Cheng Software company from Shanghai is awarded the first prize in the category of Efficient Enhancement. By the unique special skills in financial analysis of its experienced investors and combination of its convenient mobile telecommunication technology, this software can offer its major investors simultaneous investing combination management, information consultations, and on-line transaction service as an integrated form with the functions of combination management like quotations, analyses, transactions, and investments. And it is all in one according to the inner logical synthesis of financial investments by integrating news, quotations, financial managements, and wireless transactions.
Awarded the first prize in the category of Entertainment, “MP3Go” the MP3 playing software developed by m-internet.com from Hong Kong can play MP3 music that saved on the Multimedia Memory Card (MMC). When Nokia 9210 Communicator has incoming calls, MP3Go will pause the music and go on playing the original music automatically as the calling is terminated. The file formats of M3U playing list can be compatible with MP3Go. Nokia 9210 Communicator users can enjoy music by selecting built-in speaker, hands-free earphone, and built-in earphone.
In addition, other award-winning applications include the mobile health care consultant developed by Tongta research institute of Chinese medicine from Beijing, the file-encrypting software developed by Shanghai Universal Information Technology company, Deep-Sea fishing game developed by Beijing Digital-Red, eBookReader developed by German Paragon Technologies GmbH, and mobile sales managing tool developed by Etone-net from Shanghai. (Excerpted from Hardware Weekly of SOIM e-managazine.)
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Nokia 9290 Shown at Comdex
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From the Symbian website:
Attendees at the Comdex show in Las Vegas (starting Monday 12 November) will be able to see the first open Symbian OS phone for the American market: the Nokia 9290 Communicator. The Nokia 9290 will be available in the first half of 2002. This is a GSM 1900 version of the Nokia 9210 already available in Europe. The 9200 Series of Communicators are the world's first integrated mobile multimedia phones featuring Symbian OS and PersonalJava. They are the first Symbian OS phones open to both C++ and Java developers. As well as being fully-featured GSM phones, the Nokia 9200 Series boasts superb data functionality: high-speed HSCSD, WAP and web browsers, SyncML and an integrated email client (POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP).
The developer community has rallied around Symbian OS and helped make the Nokia 9210 a resounding success in Europe. If in addition to the calendar, word processing, spreadsheet, presentation viewer, etc. you want to play an action game, enjoy a video clip or connect to your office server, it is likely that a software house in the Symbian community has already started to develop the application you need. Forum Nokia is co-operating with application developers to ensure the timely development of add-on software. Symbian, Nokia's partners and other ISVs are working to deliver many C++ and Java applications for Nokia 9200 Series Communicators. Symbian OS now has a market lead in Western Europe, according to independent analysts firm Canalys. Its November 1st research release states that in the third quarter in Western Europe: 'Nokia takes lead with 28.3% share of [the mobile device] market, helping Symbian to 34% share by OS.' With GSM coverage increasing in the US, this success is set to repeat itself with the availability of the Nokia 9290.
For American software developers discovering the Nokia 9290, many resources are available on the Forum Nokia and Symbian Developer Network websites. Three new papers should prove particularly helpful: Getting started with C++ on the Nokia 9200 Series Communicator, Getting started with C++ on the Nokia 9200 Series Communicator, and Symbian OS for Palm OS developers. The latter looks at the similarities between Palm OS and Symbian OS, and describes the architecture of Symbian OS in more detail. The first two are primers targeted respectively at C++ and Java developers.
See more at http://www.symbian.com/News/featured/comdex01-feat.html
| Posted by Rafe
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Mertama Release 3 New 9210 Programs
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Mertama have released 3 program for the 9210. The first is a much requested Picture Message Viewer which enables you to view picture messages with the 9210. Secondly there is Versit Utils which enables you take vCal and vCard files and integrate them into Contacts and Calendar. Thirdly there is Beamer a program that can be used to send files to another 9210. This can be used to get round the 1mb limit that is currently in place due to bugs.
From website @ http://koti.mbnet.fi/~mertama/
Picture message viewer allows you to view famous picture messages with 9210.
Versit Utils is two tiny applications for vCard and vCalendar entries. If you have received these entries via email, or have them as a file - with Versit Utils you can store them into Contacts or Calendar databases.
Beamer is an application for sending items between two 9210 devices directly, without storing them as a message. That allows you send big files efficiently, directly to right drive and folder. This version supports only infrared connections, but datacall is under investigation.
| Posted by Rafe
on 15/11/2001 | |
Symbian and Macromedia have announced at Comdex a technology partnership that will bring the Macromedia Flash player to the Symbian platform. The two companies are planning to work together to develop the Flash Player for Symbian based phones. Hopefully this means Flash for the 9210.
Full Press Release:
Las Vegas, Comdex -- November 12, 2001 -- Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) and Symbian today announced a technology partnership to bring the Macromedia Flash Player to Symbian OS. The close relationship between Macromedia and Symbian will provide a technology and marketing framework for the companies to jointly develop Macromedia Flash Player for Symbian OS phones. As a part of this relationship, Macromedia has become a Symbian Technology Partner.
"Macromedia Flash offers device manufacturers and content providers the ability to deliver rich, compelling content on their device platforms," said Peter Goldie, general manager, Macromedia. "This partnership enables Symbian OS licensees to tap into more than one million Macromedia Flash developers who will be able to create content for their devices."
"Symbian OS enables handset manufacturers to combine voice communications, wireless Internet access and computing functionality for open, advanced mobile phones," said Gilles Allain, VP Account Management and Partnerships, Symbian. "This agreement enables one million Macromedia third party developers to deliver new and existing content for a radically new medium."
About Symbian
Symbian supplies an operating system - Symbian OS - to the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers enabling them to create mobile phones which combine voice communications, wireless Internet access and computing functionality. Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Psion are already shipping Symbian OS phones and PDAs. Other companies developing next generation mobile phones on Symbian OS include Kenwood, Motorola, Panasonic, Sanyo and Siemens. Symbian's website can be found at www.symbian.com/
About Macromedia
Macromedia is passionate about what the web can be. Its award-winning products empower designers and developers to efficiently create and deliver the most engaging experiences on the web, and enable innovative Internet business applications. Headquartered in San Francisco, Macromedia has more than 1,500 employees worldwide and is available on the Internet at http://www.macromedia.com/.
| Posted by Rafe
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PsiNT Release Alpha Multimedia Player for 9210
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PsiNT have released, later than expected, their Multimedia Player for the Nokia 9210. The alpha version plays both WAV files and MP3 files. Initial indications suggest that the software is still rathern buggy and does not work very well. However this is to be expected in an alpha version.
Although no information is available on the PsiNT website the program can be downloaded from their download page or FTP site:
http://www.psiloc.com/nokia/eng/download/index.html
ftp://psiloc.com
From people's first comments it seems that the software is still buggy.
Hope at Epocn.com comments that "The interface is very simple, and it will not pause if you press Menu key. The quality of sound is even worse than MP3Go, and the time indicator just jumps with several seconds. I hope the Beta version will be much better."
The website aikon.ch says that "playing of the MP3's is still in the wrong speed and with the WAV's play is jumpy and of low quality. Unfortunately the playlist function, which is apparently intended is not currently available" (translated from German).
It would seem that unless you are very keen to try the player this version is best avoided. You can read further comments in the forum.
| Posted by Rafe
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Updates to Data Safe and Smallbase
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Data Safe has been updated to version 1.10. The new version adds German language support and it is now possible to install the program to the D drive (MMC Card).
You can download Data Safe from: http://www.jwalter.info/
Smallbase has been updated to version 1.40 and the new version has support for 9210 Frames (an improved UI and look) as well as opening multiple tables at once and several bug fixes.
Smallbase updates:
* 9210 FRAMES supported & New look and feel for other EPOC devices (see screenshots in SmallBase section)
* Open Multiple tables at the same time and increase speed when switching over tables
* Find, Color and Filters Bug fixed
Coming soon are French and German language versions.
You can download Smallbase from : http://corisoft.free.fr/
| Posted by Rafe
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