Unboxing the N95 8GB
October 18, 2007
Steve Litchfield @ All About Symbian has just announced the unboxing of the Nokia N95 8GB. This is the real deal and not a prototype and he will be updating the story as the day goes by. Check it out!
Symbian S60 announced touchscreen User Interface
October 18, 2007
The big news this week in the Symbian community has been the announcement of Symbian’s coming S60 touchscreen user interface. I have a feeling that this will very much resemble the UIQ interface (which has been sold to Sony Ericsson). I have not found any information on whether this UI will support multi touch technology (?) meaning being able to use two or more fingers at the same time for a better user experience.
Rafe at All about Symbian (or was it Stefan at Intomobile?) shoot this great video of the announcement.
The S60 touch UI is flexible to suit the different needs of the user while also retaining a familiar look and feel. S60 touch can be used with a finger or stylus and supports all the familiar S60 applications, as well as various text input methods. Everybody can find their preferred way to input text. It also supports Asian languages. [via: S60.com]
There’s a also this podcast by Phil Schwarzmann at Voice of S60 interviewing Minna Karvonen, the product marketing manager for the S60 UI.
Other bloggers on the new interface:
Darla Mack - S60 Announces Touchscreen UI - Yes its True and The Podcast Proves It!
All about Symbian - S60 Touch Interface Launched
Intomobile - Video: S60 Touch screen officially announced
Symbian Freak - Nokia to launch touch-screen version of S60 platform!
Symbian Guru - S60 Touch UI Announced
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Free trial - Handy Calendar for S60 3d Edition v1.0
October 16, 2007
Handy Calendar is a powerful timekeeping system which intends to help you organize your schedule, remind of your family special days, help you to be in time and won’t let you forget when and where you should do something. Being much more powerful than the standard calender it helps you to keep track of your schedule.
Handy Calendar has several views: Month, Week, Day, and Tasks. Month and Week views show all your meetings and events at a glance. Event and birthday icons remind you about the upcoming events. Busy bars in Week view and dots in Month view help you to quickly estimate your day workload. Day view shows a detailed list of entries for the current day. The time scale at the top shows your busy hours and prevents you from overcommitting your schedule. Task view shows all your tasks. You can sort them by due date, subject or priority. You can filter your tasks using predefined filters: all, active, overdue, today, next 7 days, undated and complete.
You can open and preview any meeting or task from Day and Tasks views. Preview shows all the details of the current entry. Contact names, phone numbers, e-mails and URLs are recognized and highlighted. They can be used directly from Handy Calendar (e.g. you can call to meeting attendees). With Handy Calendar you can edit and create entries of the following types: anniversaries, all day events, tasks, appointments and reminders. Tabbed interface allows you to easily edit any entry detail from alarm settings up to comprehensive repeating rules.
Handy Calendar has many unique features, which will help you to increase your productivity:
Features:
- Hot keys for all important operations to speed up your work on keyboard devices
- Settings to personalize all views and application behavior;screen capacity
- Insert contact/message/location/note functions for composing your entries.
- Handy Calendar uses the same database as built-in Calendar application. This allows you to synchronize Handy Calendar entries with Outlook entries and vice versa.
- Want to organize your business and private life - HC is the best companion.
Minimum Requirements:
- Symbian S60 3rd Edition
Compatible devices:
Nokia: Nokia 3250, Nokia 5500, Nokia 6290, Nokia e50, Nokia e60, Nokia e61, Nokia e62, Nokia e70, Nokia e90, Nokia n71, Nokia n73, Nokia N75, Nokia n77, Nokia n80, Nokia n81, Nokia n91, Nokia n92, Nokia n93, Nokia N95
Samsung: Samsung SGH-i520
Nokia N95 8GB starts to ship!
October 16, 2007
I arrived to Sweden yesterday after my trip to Egypt. The red sea offered crazy scuba diving possibilities with amazing corals and sea life. I would recommend everyone to visit this place. Finally back home I’m catching up with the news on the Symbian community and as expected the Nokia N95 8GB shipped yesterday! Hurray! This one is a must have upgraded version from the original Nokia N95. Nokia, please send me one asap as it probably wont be available in Sweden until December 
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Vacation
October 5, 2007
I’m going to Egypt for one week to enjoy the sun and some excellent scuba diving in the red sea. I’ll try to check my mail from time to time so keep sending me your questions and new tips using the contact page.
