All About Symbian reports that Nokia is going to pay for all Series 60 and 80 freeware developers to have their apps Symbian Signed. If true this will finally allow open source to play nicely with newer Symbian-based phones. Lack of a free path to get open source Symbian Signed has been a major stumbling [...]
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Nokia and Motorola 2MPix cellcam music machines
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Everybody’s been blogging about the Palm+Microsoft lovefest so I thought I’d cover two other new devices that might be important and more widely used in the long run. Both Motorola and Nokia announced 2 megapixel cellcams yesterday. They both support memory cards and various digital audio formats, promising to be good cellpods as well as [...]
3GSM World Congress 2005
Friday, February 18, 2005
I’ve been reading the deluge of reports and press releases from the 3GSM World Congress 2005 which wrapped up yesterday in Cannes. Expanding upon last year’s limited Sun and Intel & Nokia 3GSM posts, I thought this year I’d summarize the major wireless developments via links to various 3GSM bits from around the Web. Starting [...]
PC and network setup howtos
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
If you’re like me, you often get roped into helping friends and family set up a new PC or troubleshoot their applications and home network. I’ve joked more than once that I’d be glad to help if they’d pay my standard hourly fee…this usually draws a blank stare or a little bit of angst, and [...]
Two months of LG L1400 use is enough
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
I’ve been using the LG L1400 for the last couple of months and I’m longing to have a Series 60 or at least MIDP 2 powerhouse back as my main mobile. Stacked against the L1400 for developers: You can’t test any ideas you might have for Nokia’s new Python implementation. No MIDP 2 support severely [...]
Highlights from year one
Sunday, February 6, 2005
It’s been a year today since I launched my WordPress powered blog on BillDay.com and started shifting my blogging attention here in lieu of my java.net blog. 249 posts later, I feel like I’m finally catching my stride. Of course it helps to have plenty of time to spend reading and writing… Many of my [...]
Nokia launches Python for Series 60
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Nokia has announced the general availability of Python for Series 60. This is fantastic news for wireless developers who’ve been clambering for more programming options than just Symbian C++ and J2ME. As was noted in an internetnews.com interview with proud Nokia Python papa Erik Smartt: “It seemed like a good language to bring to the [...]
Moto Linux powered handsets in 2005
Friday, January 28, 2005
According to LinuxDevices.com, Motorola will launch 8-10 Linux based handsets in 2005. This would constitute roughly one quarter of Moto’s new handsets in 2005. That’s cool. Not so cool, however, is this dorky quote from Jim Ready, the CEO of MontaVista (makers of Moto’s Linux distro): [Motorola's] ability to pop out three phones based on [...]
My new LG L1400
Friday, November 26, 2004
In leaving Nokia, I had to give up my company owned 7610. This was a sad day indeed because it is a truly fantastic device IMO, but on the other hand losing the 7610 also presented me with an opportunity to revisit which features are most important to me and which handsets on the US [...]
Nokia unveils new cellcams including 3230
Saturday, November 13, 2004
Yahoo/Reuters reports on Nokia’s recent announcement of the Series 60 based Nokia 3230 along with the Series 40 based Nokia 6020 and the Nokia 7710 media device. The 6020 is a nice looking and highly capable handset and the 7710 breaks some new ground in high end display and video capture for mobile devices, but [...]
