If my post on the S60 Widgets slides interested you then you might like to know that the first S60 3rd FP2 SDK (beta) incorporating widgets has just been publicly released. There are also documents on…

Getting Started with Nokia Web Widget Development

Web Run-Time API Reference

Porting Apple Dashboard Widgets to S60

Nokia previously said…
"In the forthcoming 3rd Edition […]

There’s a very interesting article on SymbianOne on Epocware’s experiences and challenges. In particular…
"The number of Symbian smartphone owners buying software is still small compared to the total number of shipments," says Jeanne. "One reason for this is that many people are simply unaware that software is available and as a result aren’t searching for it."
I […]

Nokia’s acquisition of NAVTEQ wasn’t that surprising. After all, Canalys only recently predicted…
"There is likely to be more convergence between the mobile phone and navigation industries over the coming year… it is not hard to imagine a leading brand trying something similar in the navigation/phone crossover space"
However, the $8.1 Billion purchase price did surprise me. To […]

Artem at Agile Software Development has extended the CppUTest unit test framework to support Symbian descriptors and leaves. There’s also a heavily commented example how to use the framework.
If you are looking into unit test tools then you might also like to consider Penrillian’s Symbian OS Unit and Symbian Test Unit.

Last April Nokia announced that there would be a new web runtime that would allow widgets to be run on S60 phones. Today, I came across a set of slides on SlideShare giving more more detail on how this will actually work.

In the short term, Nokia have implemented a limited run-time that won’t allow access to the […]