Issue: 6

About a week after getting back from the Symbian Exposium a fortnight ago I got an e-mail from Sophie:

<<I'm not going to be back at base for another week or so, the weather's been holding up, so probably won't have the time to edit. I guess the issue if going to be Exposium focused? Probably make me green with envy anyway.>>

So I'm afraid you're stuck with me this week� So what do we have for you? Richard has his usual software roundup with it special style. Andy gives a report on the pub meet and Ewan is talking about the Exposium. Jordan has an interview with Opera and Hayden talking about OPL. Me I'm going to give you a quick overview on my impressions on the Exposium, with special attention towards what developers were saying. There's going to be more coverage of things we saw and listened to at the Exposium in future issues, along with the usual material.

EXPOSIUM OVERVIEW

It's a little under two weeks since the Exposium ended. I'm still digesting everything I heard and saw there. The Exposium is a developer's conference, but it is also an opportunity to see what various companies are up to. You can meet with many of the software developers, service providers and manufacturers as well as Symbian themselves. This is because along side the developer's conference there is the Symbian Exposium Exhibition. This is a large hall filled with stands from various companies all relating in some way to Symbian OS.

The Symbian stand gave you the opportunity to play with all the announced Symbian devices, for me this was the first time with some substantial hands on time with the N-Gage, SX1 and the Samsung phone. You had the service providers from the large scale to the small scale. You had the big phone companies with Nokia having a particularly strong presence. There was also a strong representation from the semi-conductor side of things with Texas Instruments, Samsung having particularly large stands. Although most of this went completely over my head in technical terms the interesting thing is there is very substantial support for Symbian in chipsets terms. The importance of this is that you need the chip sets to build interesting phones.

All the semi-conductor test kits were running UIQ. UIQ technology had a stand at the show. Aside from being incredible friendly they couldn't tell us that much (despite looking like they might want to). What is not in doubt is that there will be a significant number of UIQ devices in the next 18 months, to the point which it will become a platform like Series 60. What interesting is that almost all the software developers said that UIQ, i.e. P800, software was outselling Series 60 considerably. People mainly attributed this to the type of people buying. Although some said they would focus only on UIQ some I spoke too agreed with the contention that Series 60 will build with time. The smartest developers are jumping on the compatibility in the development cycle between S60 and UIQ that is being pushed by Nokia and Sony Ericsson and being facilitated by Metrowerks.

Talking of Metrowerks there was a large amount of praise for them from the developers. Developing for Symbian now has been 'interesting' in toolset terms said one developer, but he hoped that the likes of Metrowerks and Borland developing specialist Symbian tools would considerably improve matters. He felt this was necessary for C++ developers not because Symbian is difficult to develop for, but rather because it doesn't do things the way other OS do (error and memory handling being an oft quoted example). The developer were very positive about writing for the OS with the general consensus being that there was an initial learning curve but the final programs were more stable because 'someone and thought about 3rd party stuff when they wrote the OS'.

The software developers obviously made up most of the attendees and the exhibitors. There were those who are selling direct to end users (like Epocware) and those who are more Enterprise focused (like Intuwave). Even those selling to end users were looking to do distribution deals, fastmobile being a good example. Their fastchat service, is likely to be taken up by Operators and built into brands like Vodaphone Live.

And you know what the over riding impression was? Friendliness, people were on the whole very relaxed and only too happy to talk to you (even if you did look like Harry Potter). It was more that though, people were genuinely enthusiastic and excited about what they were doing. Everyone had the feeling that we were standing on the edge of a divide. The divide between Symbian and it's ecosystem being relatively unknown and it becoming mainstream. More than one person talked with me about how in the future we may look back and remember this as the time when it all began. For someone who has followed Symbian since its birth my over riding feeling was. Yes - and about time too!

More from me soon.

I knew this was going to be a surprising couple of days when I turned up at Bristol Temple Meads on my way to the pub meet in London and the train was on time! I was even more impressed when I got to Paddington 1 hour 40 minutes later, bang on schedule. How come public transport only works when you're not in a rush?

I checked into my hotel (Tired decor but clean and only �50) then walked straight to the Dover Castle pub with no deviation apart from buying the obligatory Paracetamol, which I anticipated needing the next day. However, I thought, stuff the medication stick to traditional means.

"Pint of Sam Smiths please."
"Certainly sir that will be �1.64" the barmaid said.
Bloody Mary, I thought, that's cheaper than my local pub in Bristol.

When I came out of my Lou Reed moment (Perfect day) I thought I'd better find out where the rest of the All About Symbian (AAS) people were. The answer was nowhere! We'd arranged to meet from 3:30 onwards and it was now nearly Four. I confirmed that I was in the right place and the evening meeting was booked, so settled down to wait. I had just brought my second pint and was beginning to wonder if I'd got it wrong and those two quiet people in the corner were from AAS? After all I did not know what anyone looked like. I thought this unlikely as I was very noticeably wearing my "Your Symbian. ITS CRAP" T-shirt, but perhaps they were shy? BANG, CRASH, I turn round, "Hello Ewan" I say to the slightly wild looking kilted Scotsman who was reversing through the pub door pulling a push chair behind him. A beautiful looking woman with gorgeous babe in arms and then a young man with black hair and clothes follows him. My guess was right, it was Ewan, after all I knew he was Scottish and I'd got the impression that quietness was not his forte, or it may have been that he was wearing the same Crap T-shirt.

We made our introductions and I found out that the lady was his wife Vikki, the baby his daughter Eilidh and the man our site technical expert Dazler, who had just flown in from Belgium. It was then that I got my first shock of the day when I offered to buy a round of drinks. They just wanted a bottle of Coke each! It was not Vikki or Dazler who surprised me but Ewan. Never in my history can I remember buying a Scotsman (Especially one in a kilt) a Coke or any other soft drink, in a pub!

So cokes in hand (well I've got beer) we sit down at the table and start pondering the ways of the world when another young bloke comes in and looks suspiciously at Ewan's T-shirt before introducing himself as Jordan our regular AAS Forum Lurker and site contributor. He wanders up to the bar and orders a pint of lager. Thank God for that I think, as I was beginning to debate what the AA meant in AAS? We check out the rooms for the pub meeting that evening. There were two rooms available to us (both quite small with a window in between which unfortunately does not open). So we define one room as a nappy changing area and settle into the more comfortable, and now considerably fresher, one.

"Hello" we hear and turn round to see Harry Potter has just entered the room "I'm Rafe" says Harry. I quickly realise my mistake it can't be Harry, as he does not have a scar on his forehead, anyway if he was trying to hide his identity he would use an invisibility cloak or something. It was indeed Rafe our beloved AAS Webmaster.

Rafe started telling us about his recent trip to the Microsoft Mobius in Disney world Paris and how suitably unimpressed he was with the Microsoft powered Orange SPV Smartphone. He had been given one at the event which he had brought along for us to have a look at. It was at this point that Eilidh decided to test out the SPV for herself. She picked it up a put it straight into her mouth and seemed to be enjoying it immensely. Vikki managed to retrieve the phone but its quite amazing the slobber that can be deposited, in such a short time, by someone that small. I'm still not sure if Rafe got it working again. Anyway now we now had a definitive opinion, the SPV was nearly as good as Farley's Rusk if not quite as durable.

It was about this time that Ewan revealed his deepest darkest secret. He rummaged in his Sporran and pulled out, a 7650 running Vexed. Vexed is Ewan's port of a fiendishly addictive puzzle game, it uses a programming language called OPL and was previously only available on PSION devices and the Nokia 9200 series. Now there is a series 60 version and OPL has been made into a full open source product under the LGPL license. Ewan and Vikki then sorted out the prizes for the prize raffle which had been generously donated by various companies. These included a special mystery prize from Siemens.

Ewan and Rafe, who had been worried about how many people would turn up, were starting to relax as our little room quickly filled up with people and it all started to get very cosy. The conversation was convivial and all was going well. The raffle was held the Siemens mystery prize was the first to go. The winner was so impressed when it turned out to consist of about 50 small sachets of Siemens branded sugar. Oz Zechlin then gave us a great little speech about how good Series 60 was and about the development of the SX1. There were a couple of prototype devices there and they were being avidly examined by all.

It was great to meet some of the forum regulars in including Gadget17 and MaleBuffy and more, although exactly who I met gets a bit blurry. I'm not sure how he managed it but I think MaleBuffy managed to escape early without anyone taking a picture of him? It's quite strange to meet people in the flesh who you've only had contact with via the web and it was great to find out that they all seemed to be such a nice bunch. It was interesting to see the range of people who had turned up from all over the world and the general enthusiasm for Symbian amongst them all. The evening was turning into a jolly night out. I even managed to get Ewan a beer, which made me feel a lot more comfortable. I knew it was getting late when Jordan started doing strange rituals with the murals in the back bar and sure enough they rang time soon after. We said our good byes outside the pub and I wandered back to my hotel in a not so direct a manner as I got to the pub in the first place.

I must admit, I was really worried. I didn't know where it would end up - things were getting worse and worse, voices were being raised and the threats were getting more and more real. How was it going to end. But, it seems to be ok now and I feel much safer in the world. That's right, the arguments on the AAS 7650 Forum about who own what icons seem to have subsided and people are getting on with creating great looking skins. If you don't know what I'm on about, then please e-mail me with a latest lunar weather report, but also, I'll tell you that just too late to appear in my last software round up (though it was mentioned in the web page roundup) was Symbianware's Smart Launcher (http://www.symbianware.com). It's the perfect partner to compliment Wildskinz (http://www.wildpalm.co.uk). It totally replaces your Menu and (should you desire) Task Manager with a funky, colourful (or otherwise, if you so wish) Menu and Task Manager. It's an outstanding, killer application that has taken the Series60 world by storm! Trust me, if you haven't tried it (it comes with a free, easy to use skin editor - and no complicated MBM conversions necessary). trust me, you want to!

Jacado (http://www.jacado.com) deserves, I feel, a mention because they really have pumped out some really colourful and fun Java Games of late. Some of their latest releases include Space Cadet and Cobra - shooting games for whiling away a few minutes, and at only $3.95 each, they're not going to pummel the pocket.

More shooting can be done with Orca Games' (http://www.orcagames.gom) Talon, where you drive a 'Combat Vessel' which can fire in a 360 degree radius to kill all that alien scum! Euch! Slimy green fellas that they are too, wanting to come down here and suck the juices from our bodies and hang us out to dry. Kill 'em all! So please, save us all from the evil Malkon empire and slap a copy onto your Series60 phone! It'll set you back $10.99, but well worth it for the inevitable sense of satisfaction!

I was listening to a sermon the other day and it frightened me! No, he wasn't preaching hell fire and brimstone, he just happened to mention how many thousands of times the human heart beats every day! Now I don't know about you, but I'm a worrier and that started to worry me. Doesn't my heart get tired!? Should I top it up with oil!? What can I do to make sure it doesn't break down! Oh! Woe was I for yea, I did fret much! Well, I did fret much until I saw that Mobizex (http://www.mobizex.com) had released just what I needed - HeartRate, which will tell me what my recommended HeartRate is, what it's allowed to be (should I decide to do some exercise - yeah, right!) and even sends you to the doctor should you need to go. Of course, it does depend on you being honest when entering your details....... Of course I'm only Nine Stone!

And finally, for Series 60, if you just want to read some text files, Reaxion's (http://www.reaxion.com) M-Reader may be just what you're looking for. At $7.95, it may seem a little steep when you think that for a little more, you can have software that'll read more formats, but this is small, versatile and does have some pretty neat features. It can be downloaded from Handango (http://www.handango.com), but there's no trial version available - which is a shame.

Members of the Welsh national party (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) may be interested in a new application for the Nokia 92x0 by Tridcomm (http://www.tridcomm.com) called Nokicont (am I the only one worried about pronouncing that properly?). It allows you to diagrammatically show an organisational structure with such detail and functionality (such as multiple Zoom levels, editable elements and so on)! It costs only $15 and a trial version is available (and a Lite version as well - which has some inevitable and understandable limitations). You may be interested to know that the same company (Tridcomm) is also responsible for Mo-Re, a free system for medicinal recipes.

So while things have been a little quiet on the Communicator front (trust me, you guys are about to have your spacebars well worn out very soon), things are still very active on the Series60 front. I really would love to see SmartLauncher replace the Desktop on my Nokia 9210, but I can;t wait to see where this Skinning craze is going to go next. My phone has never looked so good!

One of many attendees at the Dev Expo (and the AAS Pub Meet the night before) was Dag Olav Norem. Jordan caught up with him for a few minutes for what promises to be the first of many YS Question and Answer Sessions from the Exposium.

Jordan: Why was Landscape mode in the P800 not included in the final release of the browser?

Dag Olav: "I think the reason people started expecting this is that it was in a list of features in a generic smartphone brochure I made back in December. As I mentioned, Opera supports landscape mode, but only when we have the underlying text rendering support from the operating system. Opera Smartphone Edition for Linux (as shipped on the Sharp Zaurus SL-5600) has landscape mode implemented and I therefore listed it in the generic brochure. But there were never any plans to include it in the P800 version."

(Jordan: This is partly my fault as when I did the Opera review, I listed it in the review as being one of the features.)

Jordan: For quite sometime it was thought that Opera for the Nokia 7650 wasn't going to get released, why did you decide to include the Nokia 7650 when it obviously has memory restrictions?

Dag Olav: "At first Opera was so big it wasn't going to be released on the 7650 as it just wasn't a viable size, but we have now managed to get the size down to a reasonable size."

Jordan: Are there any limitations when running Opera on the 7650?

Dag Olav: "No, there are no real limitations when running Opera on a 7650, but users have to make sure they have enough memory left to run the application."

Jordan: Why is the user interface so different between the P800 and S60 version?

Dag Olav: "The user interface and features are quite different between the P800 and S60 versions of Opera. On Symbian OS v7 Opera is the default browser and we deliver the browser directly to Symbian. That delivery includes the browser engine and a reference UI that exposes the functionality in the engine. As you probably know, Symbian subsidiary UIQ designs the UIQ platform on top of Symbian OS for the P800 (and other UIQ devices). They also designed the UI for Opera, which on Symbian v7 is considered part of the OS. We helped tweak it a bit before Sony Ericsson made the browser available to the end users, but the bulk of the P800 browser UI was not done by Opera at all."

"S60 on the other hand uses Symbian v6.1 and Opera has developed the entire browser internally. IMHO, we did a more thorough job. While the browsing experience may still be slightly better on the P800 due to the jog-dial, touch screen and larger screen size, I feel the S60 version is a more comprehensive app. There are a lot of challenges in making full Internet browsing user friendly under the restrictions of the limited input methods
on S60 devices."

Jordan: Are there any plans in the near future for upgrades to the UIQ Browser?

Dag Olav: "The P800 UI has room for improvement. There are obvious omissions; such as the lack of a full-screen mode and that it is not possible to save images. But it's not as easy as just fixing them, due to the commercial and legal complexities of the relationships between Opera, Symbian, UIQ and Sony Ericsson."

Also we supply the API for add-ons such as Flash to Macromedia, but it is out of our hands if they decide to actually produce the add-ons for the Opera browser.

Jordan: Thanks for taking the time to talk to us, it's been a pleasure!

One of the burning questions I had while looking at the schedule of the Dev Expo was this. "What does a �75 dinner taste like?" As well as two days of exhibitions and seminars, the Tuesday evening saw the most influential people and companies in the Symbian world (and Your Symbian) gather for a slap up meal and "After Dinner entertainment." Per head, this was more expensive than your average Scottish Royal Wedding. But a cold icicle of fear was forming, and not because it would be the perfect setting for Alan Rickman to burst in and hold us all for ransom...

The main auditorium (used for the Keynote speeches that morning) had been transformed. If you happen to have seen the film "Memphis Belle" and remember the Dance Hall scene with Bette Midler, it was just like that. Festooned with hanging nets, soft purple and green lights permeated the atmosphere, and some light Jazz drifted across the tables.

Except the light Jazz had a touch of "too loud" to it. I know woman can make great singers (Kirsty MacColl springs to mind), but only if they choose their material correctly. It's not going to work if you belt the male classics out with all the power of an amp that goes to 11.

The meal arrives. To this day I'm still not sure exactly what it was that was served. The contents of the �75 dinner had already been decided, so I was left with a main course that, according to my French, was a Roasted Alive Guinea Pig. (It was Guinea Fowl - Rafe). I was worried what I would find on my plate.

I found... a lot of plate. Yes, I can confidently report that a �75 dinner, is in fact a �7.50 dinner... but with smaller portions. My god I was scared.

So what does any aspiring Road Warrior do in a situation like this? After having held back on snacking all day for this luxury? After remembering that this was one of the most expensive meals I would ever attend? That's right.

I was going to phone out for Pizza.

But while the rest of the AAS Staff, hangers on, random Russian programmers and Antipodean journalists were more than happy to join me, Rafe (probably thinking of the, ahem, envious looks other diners would give to us) just managed to explain why it would be "a bad idea."

Now, remember that icicle of fear? The After Dinner Entertainment almost thawed it. Almost, because while Table Hopping magicians can be really good fun, deciding to do a card trick based around reading an SMS message had all the programmers (of which there were a fair few) pulling out their SDK's.

I'm being harsh, because he was probably the highlight of the meal - and seeing as we both had a mutual acquaintance from International Magic, he was more than happy to loan me a pack of cards so I could do some Roy Walton classics.

As we departed, I looked around for signs of satisfied people. And you know what? I couldn't see any. I wonder just how many of those at the meal would have joined us calling out for Pizza if they knew their promotion prospects wouldn't have been damaged?

Rafe's Note: Rafe was worrying about his expense budget (which was compounded later by Ewan suggesting the Ritz for a post Exposium debrief), not to mention the damage to the somewhat dodgy Your Symbian reputation that would have resulted by pizza delivery man going - 'Yeah Pizza's for All About Symbian guvnor' - I genuinely think that no one else in the room would have ever spoken to us again. So I banned Pizza, but Ewan ate my desert instead so I guess I got my just deserts for being mean.

Here are a few things that caught our eye during the Exposium. It is not comprehensive (too much to mention) and we will re-visit some of these companies (or even ones not yet mentioned) in later issues.

APPFORGE
What does Orange say to you (the best Club biscuit? - Sophie), (my phone company? - Rafe), (Tango? - Jordan). Well in terms of Symbian, it can only mean the App Forge Staff! Appforge have a little application called the Appforge Booster, which allows you to run apps written in (say it quietly) Microsoft Visual Basic. It's a good idea, but having to give up over 1 megabyte of memory maybe a problem for Series 60 users. Anyway corporates do love them, and so de we because they are among the friendliest in the community (probably because they are on something, happy pills perhaps? - Rafe).

METROWERKS
Metrowerks are probably responsible for more applications for Symbian than any other company - they provide the authoring software that allows programmers to write their own C++ applications. Looking for all the world like a corner of an Iron Maiden stage set, with towering black pillars and gleaming aluminium stage lighting, you couldn't fail to miss the Americans. And with the friendly giant of Darcy J Salzmann (from Austin, Texas) presiding over everything (mmmm, Sophie), they oozed class, and you can tell they're big supporters of Symbian.

FASTXT
We've a soft spot for Fastxt here at YS. Late 2002 they suddenly appeared with an instant messaging application that seemed to do everything. What was surprising was (a) it did do all those things (really well), and (b) it's got even better! A tiny stand next to a million "we can make your phone talk to your corporate databases" didn't do Chris Issac and his team any justice. Let's hope they get something a bit bigger for next year. Memo to Sophie... at some point we really need to look at the app in-depth.

ZINGMAGIC
These shows are all about meeting new people. But sometimes you turn a corner and meet some old faces. Purple Software is no more, but a couple of people I remember from them when they worked in the Psion days have re-emerged. One of them is John Holloway. His company, Zingmagic, have bought back all the software titles out of liquidation and plan to update them (and some new apps to I hope) for the Symbian phones. Already released is the obligatory solitaire card games (three of them!), Draughts, Backgammon and, ehrm, something else nice. They're available through Cascata Games.

SENDO
Inevitably there wasn't much real news from friendly UK based Sendo. Now very committed to Symbian and Smartphone generally (probably have more experience than anyone else in this department). The phone will be out before Christmas. It will have a normal keypad and likely more memory. It is going to have some add on API's too like the SX1. It will be a second generation smartphone, and we think it could be very good. A future issue will have our interview with them in it.

BITWEEN
Aka as the guys from Italy. Some of the games they have on the way look good. Football is bound to be a hit. There's also Boxing and Pentathlon on the way. Remote Control is still one the top selling corporate apps in the Symbian world and with good reason - these guys are pros. Keep an eye on them, you'll hear a lot from them in the future.

EPOCWARE
Epocware - is there anyone who doesn't like them? Their figures say they have about 30% of the Symbian software market. You can probably believe it too. They too have plans for the future - porting a few programs between platforms and with some new stuff on the horizon too. P800 power users will love them.

POCKETTOP
Producing keyboard drivers for both Series 60 and P800 for their infra red keyboard (which folds out from a very small size - tape size-ish). This means you'll get a keyboard for both Series 60 and UIQ.

WILEY
Wiley were showing off their latest Symbian Book. Programming C++ style. First report indicate that it is good (not being a developer I can't tell your first hand - Rafe). There's plenty more in the pipeline. The books were certainly popular at the Exposium. Together with the Developer Documentation (phonebook size!) from the seminars the amount of paper being carried around by people weighed several tonnes.

iTRAFFIC
Producers of the rather nifty live traffic information program for the P800, these guys were showing off their stuff. We'll have a review of it soon.

Oh dear run out of space, and there were another 70 or so companies there! Ah well, maybe some more next time� Along with the rumours section - nothing really juicy - just the odd whisper of new Symbian powered Nokia (and others) phones and possibly more platforms/UI's.

Coding for the future

With the recent announcement of OPL going open source and the release of an Alpha of the series 60 runtime for it, questions are surfacing such as "Why should I code in it?" and "Is it worth having for apps?". OPL's prime competitor on Symbian devices is MIDP, also referred to as Midlets. The advantages that both these apps have over C++ is that they a free to start coding in, and all the information needed is free online.

Both OPL and MIDP are semi-compiled languages, the code is written and then compiled to a "byte code" in a similar manner to machine code for a computer, then both use a run-time environment that works like an emulator to run the apps. Short of this and the fact the tools are free the similarities end here, so what are the differences that should help you choose which is best?

Firstly MIDP, the language underlying this is Java, and because of this MIDP apps should work on any MIDP supporting device without the need to be recompiled. This is all well and good, unfortunately different device manufacturers like to add "useful" commands, and this has dramatically reduced the cross compatibility of MIDP apps to single brand devices, unless people stick to the MIDP standard, which doesn't seem to be happening. For beginner developers MIDP also throws up problems because Java is a relatively complicated language to learn, and to produce an app people would want is quite difficult, on the other hand, those experienced in Java should have little trouble using MIDP.

OPL on the other hand has its coding roots in BASIC, and although to port your apps to different machines involves editing the source, many apps can be ported in a few lines of code. Because of the current roll-out OPL is limited to Symbian based devices (although there's nothing to stop it being ported to any other platform), and as such apps would only work on OPL compatible devices. Fortunately following the Expo it would seem 20 odd Symbian devices are in the pipeline, so there should soon be many devices out there supporting OPL and more importantly, all supporting the same instruction set. Its BASIC base means that OPL is a tool that a relative beginner can pick up easily and an experienced programmer can adapt to with ease, this means that apps can be rolled out much faster and easier than with MIDP. Also due to OPL's nature as a partially compiled language it suffers none of the speed issues that traditionally hampered BASIC languages. This puts OPL on the same relative speed setting as MIDP.

Now for the good news, I'm not gonna tell you what to do. I'll recommend though, that a beginner or someone who wants a fast production time look at OPL, and an experienced programmer, who wants their app to work on many devices use MIDP. As more Symbian based devices are produced, most supporting both MIDP and OPL, there is no real reason to worry about either not working on the device, so to developers I'd say use what feels comfiest. For end users there should be no real major differences between the 2 languages and the apps produced, so I'd install both runtimes for access to the wealth of applications produced (or at least I would install MIDP if a. it worked, and b. there weren't the compatibility issues).

And that's issue 6. I hope you've enjoyed reading and if you have any feedback�

Let me know what you think! A short email to [email protected] with what you liked, what you didn't like, and what you would change, would go a long way to making a better magazine.

Hardest ever editing job this time round. So much we had to leave out. So now it is back to revision for me. All the best to you all.

-- Rafe

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