Samsung have a new mobile developer site (in beta) called Samsung Mobile Innovator. It covers Samsung specific S60 development. From October there will be facilities to allow remote testing on real devices, technical support and a business development service.
I think the Market.dev section is particularly useful as it provides a way to submit business proposals […]

One area I find companies often leave until late is provisioning of their application via their web server. It can be as simple as adding the application to your web server and adding the appropriate mime types. Some companies also set up simple SMS and WAP push mechanisms.
However, if you have more than one […]

One of the problems with S60 development is that it can be difficult to get an overall picture of how the UI hangs together. Yes, there’s lots of SDK information on individual classes and some on application architecture but newcomers often come away wondering where to start and how to provide basic UI features.

Today, […]

I have heard from a reliable source that the current versions of Symbian OS won’t be made open source. Open source will start at version Symbian OS 9.6. I guess this makes sense for several reasons…

To be fair on companies who have already paid royalties for current versions
To allow the Foundation to start with a […]

Recently, there has been much confusion and speculation over the SIP stack in the latest Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 phones. The SIP stack is used for VoIP. The truth is revealed by the article on the Nokia Conversations web site. It turns out that the SIP stack is there. It’s just the Nokia VoIP […]

Janus Symbian Engine has just gone open source. Janus allows S60 Flash Lite applications to access phone features that aren’t part of Flash Lite. It does this by setting up a local http server which, in turn, accesses the OS.
Open sourcing will make this technique more attractive to companies who previously might not have wanted […]

With the demise of OPL, developers, especially hobbyists will be pleased to know that NS Basic Corporation have announced the availability of NS Basic for Symbian OS.
NS Basic can now be used to develop both UIQ and S60 applications. It’s easy to use. There’s no need for C++, Carbide.c++ or even Nokia/UIQ SDKs. It […]