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Week of May 19, 2002

Borland previews tools for Symbian OS

Full Press Release:

Borland previews C++ technologies for 2.5G/3G mobile applications on the Symbian operating system

Anaheim, Calif.--(Business Wire)--May 21, 2002--Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq:BORL - News) announced today that it will preview its emerging C++ technology for the development of mobile applications for 2.5G and 3G mobile phones and voice-enabled Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) that run on the Symbian™ operating system (OS) at BorCon™ 2002, the 13th annual Borland� conference on May 20, 2002. To support innovation through the emerging wireless market, an early release is currently planned to be available during the second half of 2002.


Building on the release of Borland� JBuilder™ MobileSet 2.0 in January 2001, the preview of the Borland C++ technology will extend Borland's support of enhanced mobile application development. As currently planned, the Borland C++ solution will enable developers to rapidly produce C++ applications that run on the Symbian OS, an operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones. As currently planned the solution will also support the development of C++ applications for Nokia's Series 60 platform, which runs on Symbian OS.


"We welcome Borland's support for C++ and Java," said Jouko Hayrynen, vice president of Nokia's global developer program, Forum Nokia. "The market for advanced, data-enabled mobile handsets is growing quickly, and Borland's C++ technology for mobile devices will enable millions of developers to bring new applications to market and capitalize on this great opportunity."


"2002 will be an exciting year for mobile devices - they are finally becoming powerful enough to run the interactive multimedia applications that users expect," said Jessica Figueras, e-infrastructure analyst at Ovum. "This year, nearly 165 million devices capable of running these sorts of applications will ship worldwide. But this means nothing without the tools to create the applications in the first place."


"Borland's reputation for rapid application development tools, and its existing developer community, align well with Symbian's desire to see effective and quick exploitation of the power of Symbian OS mobile phones as application platforms in 2.5G and 3G wireless environments," said Mark Edwards, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Symbian. "We are pleased to forge a relationship with Borland supporting our licensees' requirements."


"Symbian OS has been adopted by leading mobile phone manufacturers and our support of this platform underscores Borland's intent to provide developers with every opportunity to build advanced mobile applications," said Simon Thornhill, vice president and general manager of rapid application development solutions for Borland. "With the addition of the C++ solution to Borland's JBuilder MobileSet, developers will have the freedom to build mobile applications with either C++ or Java."


About Symbian

Symbian is a software licensing company, owned by wireless industry leaders, that is the trusted supplier of the advanced, open, standard operating system for data-enabled mobile phones. Symbian's mission is to create a mass-market for Symbian OS mobile phones by enabling its licensees to build winning products. Symbian's website can be found at www.symbian.com.


About Borland

Borland Software Corporation is a leading provider of technology used to develop, deploy and integrate software applications. Delivering best-in-class technology solutions dedicated to interoperability, Borland allows enterprises of all sizes to move into Web based computing while leveraging legacy systems. From the Fortune 1000 to the Borland Developer Network comprised of millions of developers around the world, Borland provides customers the freedom to develop applications, deploy them anywhere, and integrate and manage them across the enterprise. Borland solutions enable organizations to increase productivity and deliver higher performance projects faster and on budget, while lowering total cost of ownership.


Founded in 1983, Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Borland at http://www.borland.com, the community site at http://community.borland.com, or call Borland at 800/632-2864.




Posted by Rafe on 24/05/2002   |   
New: iDisk for the 9200

Symbianware have release iDisk for the Nokia 9200 series. This small utility can show you very useful information about your disks (their size and free space) as well as the memory information in a handy form. Moreover, it performs very useful function - transforming (substitution) the specified folder into "disk".

It simplifies your relocations through a folder structure soundly. For example I get used to create branchy tree in Documents folder. It takes ages to find the necessary file - but this problem has got very simple solution with iDisk by pseudo-disk creation. Let's call it P:. It is displayed instead of a long path e.g. Communicator\\Documents\\Work\\Projects. It is very easy to go to the right folder after the pseudo-disk creation - just choose the "disk" P: in the File Manager (or in the Open File dialog) and you are there.

The program has got the intuitively understood interface based on Nokia 9210 standard operations. "Disks" created by iDisk are still available after the user closes the program. These "disks" are almost identical to the real ones; the one thing the Communicator doesn't allow you is to format such a "disk". You can copy files from/to a disk, edit, create, rename etc. All the changes take place in the appropriate folder of the real disk but can be seen both in the real and pseudo disks. Connecting Nokia 9210 to PC in PC Suite for Nokia 9210 Communicator "false" disks can be seen as the real ones.

Available @ http://www.symbianware.com/index.cgi?page=idisk

Posted by Rafe on 24/05/2002   |   
Updated: M03Go goes to version 1.03

m-internet has made available via Handango a new version of its MP3 Player for the Nokia 9210. The new version inlcudes support for Traditional and Simplified Chinese song name and localized user interfaces; support for a 'Simple Skin' mode, highly optimised to use 700k main memory. Also improved is sound quality, lower bit rates and some bugs have also been fixed.

Updates:

- support Traditional and Simplified Chinese song name and localized user interface
- support 'Simple Skin' mode, highly optimised to use 700k main memory only!!
- improved sound quality
- support MP3 low bitrate file
- minor bug fixes

More @ http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&catalog=0§ionId=0&productType=2&platformId=4&productId=22079

Posted by Rafe on 24/05/2002   |   
Updated: Meltdown from WildPalm

WildPalm, the developers of Doom for the 9210, have updated their 3D shoot 'em up game Meltdown to version 1.1. New in this version is faster game play an improved audio engine and saving and resuming of games.

Full game features include:

+ Fast full-colour 3D graphics (4096 colour mode)
+ 20 different game zones
+ Full enemy artificial intelligence
+ Full 4 channel arcade sound effects
+ Free 5 level / 10 day trial

More @ http://www.wildpalm.co.uk/meltdown9210.htm


Posted by Rafe on 24/05/2002   |   
New: Epocware Release Safe for 7650

Epocware, the well known 9210 developers, have released the first 3rd party program for the Nokia 7650. Safe is a program for keeping important information both secure, accessible and well organised. (It's Code Vault for the 7650). It uses 448-bit blowfish encryption to keep your information secure. In addition there is a PC Client that can be used to access the data, and which will sync with Safe on the 7650.

Infomation from Epocware:

Now you can have all your important information in one place, safe, secure, easy to access, and always with you!

Store credit cards, calling cards, user names, passwords, codes, accounts (email, Internet, shopping, bank),
web pages, addresses, and much more.

Features
  • Over 35 unique information forms to store everything.
  • Over 35 icons to associate with your records help you get organized in style.
  • Password protection and strong 448-bit data encryption (Blowfish) to keep your information private.
  • Desktop PC client to synchronize and access your information on your PC.


More from http://www.epocware.com/

Screenshots from 7650 and PC Program:




Posted by Rafe on 23/05/2002   |   
Updated: Extended Internet from PsiNT

PsiNT have updated the beat version of their extended internet program to version 0.99. Updates include a new look and feel, replacement of the Internet applet in the control panel, supports GRPS, Dial-up and RAS Connections. Support for connections via Mocha PP and much more. Available from their website.

http://www.psiloc.com/nokia/eng/internet/index.html

Updates:

- new look & feel
- eInternet now replaces standard "Internet Access" in Control panel and provides much higher functionality
- supports built-in GSM modem as well as external GSM and landline modems (via IR and serial cable)
- supports GPRS, Dial-up and Direct (RAS) connections
- supports connections via Mocha PPP (http://www.mochasoft.dk)
- provides separate management functions for modems, Internet connections and locations
- contains definitions of standard modems, connection types and locations
- built-in "Quick connect" function
- automatically turns Remote Link off/on when needed

Posted by Rafe on 23/05/2002   |   
RMR Updates all programs with new runtime

As a result of the recently released new version of the Symbian OPL runtime RMR have released an update for all their OPL programs. These are available now from the RMR website here.

Symbian have worked hard to iron out all the bugs in the OPL runtime code for the OS V6.0 Operating System as fitted to the Nokia 9210/9290). So they have now issued the full version as a very stable and robust BETA. There have been some minor changes so all of our program have been rebuilt using the new code. So all the programs move up to V1.4. No changes to the program, but tried and tested on the new code. The new OPL Runtime is still available from the Symbian's Website, and our programs are available as follows:

RMRBank - Personal Accounts Suite
RMRFuel - Fuel Consumption Manager
RMRCar - Company Car Tracker
RMRExpenses - Expense Account Manager
RMRInvest - Investment Portfolio Manager
RMRHome - Home Inventory Manager
RMRNotes - Notepad/Jotter
RMRFruit - Fruit Machine Game (V3.01)

Posted by Rafe on 20/05/2002   |   
Nokia 7650 �300 with contract

If you have kept an eyes on the forums recently you'll have noticed that the 7650 prices is starting to surface. Now expansys have updated their page so you can see it be available in about 21 days. Sim free cost is �528 (inc. VAT) and with an Enliven24 Tariff the price is �293.75. This is likely to be fairly standard as a starting price.

More at http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=NOK_7650

Interestingly they say the P800 is expected in 30 days (although this is probably optimistic):

http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=P800

Posted by Rafe on 20/05/2002   |   
Forum Nokia Series 60 Updates

Forum Nokia have released several FAQs which may be of interest. These are the Series 60 Platform FAQ and Series 60 Platform Information Kit. Also available is Nokia 9200 Communicator Series FAQ and a New version of the Nokia Developer's Suite for MMS. There have been many other recent updates inlcuding MDIP development kits for Series 60. Thanks to MM for pointing this out.

Posted by Rafe on 20/05/2002   |   
New: m-internet.com release Mahjong

m-internet.com have released a version of Mahjong for the Nokia 9210. It supports multiple languages (even on an English Communicator), conforms to the Cantonese style riles, differing levels of AI, animations and has realistic human speaking sound effects. A restricted trial is available and the full game can be purchased for $25.

Handango Description:

Feel Boring? Mahjong for Nokia 9200 series Communicator is a classic and popular Chinese tile game Mah Jong in Asia running on your Nokia Communicator. Mahjong fully uses of your Communicator's full screen 640x200 to show the best of all graphics, sound and give you the highest entertainment.

Features:

- Support languages of English, Chinese and Japanese even on English Communicator
- Playing rules conform to Cantonese style
- Realistic human speaking sound effects
- Animated computer players
- Changeable computer players based on difficulty

Trial version can play one round only and you have to restart every time you complete one round.

Buy now via All About ER6 and Handango (and free trial)

Posted by Rafe on 20/05/2002   |   
New: Shuffleboard from Digital Red

Digital Red, the makers of Fisherman and Magic Lines, have produced a new game for the Nokia 9200. Shuffleboard is an implementation of the physical game shuffleboard for the 9210. First reports on the game are very good, with impressive playability and graphics.

Digital Red's information:
Shuffleboard 2002 Network Game

It is said that Shuffleboard is an old game stemming from the 15th century's Britain. At that time people rolled a quite big coin on the desk so that the game was called Rolling coin or Pushing coin. Later the special shuffleboard replaced coin and the game is enjoyed by both youngsters and elders. Shuffleboard has become a welcome recreation.

Digital-Red has succeeded intransferringthe world-wide popular game to your 9210/9290 mobile-phones. In accordance withthe wide-screen of 9210/9290, using 3D visual angle, users may choose several skills to achieve immediate enjoyment.

In the game, computer rivals of all levels will challenge you. Some focus on skills, some play cruelly, and some player will take you by surprise. In a word, the computer's intelligence can bring you satisfaction to the end. Of course, if you are tired with computer rivals, you can select other 9210/9290 users. Thanks to SMS communication mode, you should onlypay for SMS expense instead of high network expense. The game is absolutely a one-in-a-hundred product.

The first type of network game Shuffleboard 2002 of NOKIA9210/9290 supporting SMS has just been introduced on to the market.

Thank you very much for your belief to Digital-Red. After Fisherman, MagicLine, we now put forward Shuffleboard 2002 of NOKIA9210/9290. On the facing sale promotional day, any user purchases our product will receive a special 20% discount, that is you can only pay 20USD$ for Shuffleboard worthy of 25USD$(maintaining until the May of 2002). We are looking forward your order, and assuring you that your requirement will have our very best and prompt attention.


More at http://www.worldup.com/products/92109290/shuffleboard/index.htm


Posted by Rafe on 20/05/2002   |