There’s an interesting development reported at Symbian Freak…
"In short, ROMPatcher makes the S60 platform truly and finally open to anything, this is the amazing piece of code, application allowing patching the ROM"
There are already two patches available to enable showing of hidden menus and allowing the install of unsigned applications.
The only limitation I can […]

Following on from my post on the deficiencies of the Symbian/S60 emulator and subsequent comments at Nokia Forum, it appears that the Carbide.c++ team are considering changing the emulator.

One of the difficulties of creating your first Symbian Signed application is knowing how to code your application in such a way that it is compliant. The test criteria just say how your application should behave - they don’t give any clue as to what extra code you might need to pass the tests.
Hence, it’s […]

It seems that Symbian Signed has been hacked yet again.
Given by the number of emails I receive about signing freeware, I have concluded that many end users just don’t understand the new signing processes. Some people are asking me to sign freeware applications that I didn’t even author (which I don’t do). Others are […]

Up until now, I haven’t been that interested in Nokia’s widgets/web runtime as I saw it as currently having a very small user audience. Only the very latest (S60 3rd FP2) phones were to carry the runtime and I had been told by several people at Nokia that retro-fitting older devices via an additional install […]

Handango have just released their Yardstick for 2007.
"Entertainment applications rose to the leading content category, showing a shift in consumer smartphone usage from business only to work-and-play"
The top devices adding software make more interesting reading…
 
Last year I questioned why there were so few Symbian devices adding software. This year, the same seems to have happened […]

I am getting many requests from people asking if I will create a Symbian dev cert for them. Why? Well, Symbian has taken away the facility to create dev certs without a publisher ID.
This means people can’t sign and use many of the freeware applications currently available. Symbian intend to introduce the new Open […]