All About Symbian - NewsNews Headlines from All About Symbian (Mobile Full Feed)'Ecosystem expired'- September 17, 2008 Following on from Ewan's thoughts yesterday on the freedom in the SymbianS60 developer world, I have to say that I take a slightly different view. Over and over, I'm finding that applications I download (from developer sites, from AAS, from Handango, etc) can't easily be installed, each coming up with 'Expired certificate'. Read on for a Steve rant....Now look, I understand the reasons for certificates on SIS files - the idea is to a) validate who produced the application and b) specify a time..http://mobile.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8063_Ecosystem_expired.php Glimpse into Evening with S60 in New York- September 17, 2008 If you're in New York later today, there's one of S60's infrequent 'Evenings with' at the Nokia Flagship store. Among the attractions are the Segway's inventor Dean Kamen and the event starts at 7.30pm local time. Just as importantly, the event is being streamed live using Qik, from about midnight UKEuropean time, in case you feel like dipping in to see what's going on.http://mobile.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8069_Glimpse_into_Evening_with_S60_.php How to connect the Linux Asus EEE PC to the internet via an S60 phone- September 17, 2008 After my recent look at using S60 with Apple Mac computers (see 'FeaturesHow to'), Tzer2 now starts a new series of articles looking at using S60 with Linux-based computers. First off is a how-to guide on connecting the Linux-based EEE PC to the internet using an S60 phone as a modem.Read onhttp://mobile.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8068_How_to_connect_the_Linux_Asus_.php Star Wars: Force Unleashed goes live on N-Gage- September 16, 2008 The much talked-about Star Wars: Force Unleashed is now available from the N-Gage application's showroom (select "Options" and then "Update Now" if you can't see it). We'll be bringing you the review in due course as always. See AAN's game page for more info including screenshots and the official trailer video.http://mobile.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8066_Star_Wars_Force_Unleashed_goes.php Insight 38: Nokia Open Lab 08 and live video streaming- September 16, 2008 In All About Symbian Insight 39 (AAS Podcast 92) Rafe, Steve and Ewan cover Nokia Open Lab 08 in the first half of the podcast; Rafe introduces some of the key themes and ideas that were discussed. In the second half of the insight we discuss the live streaming of video from a mobile phone. In this podcast we cover: Nokia Open Lab 08 Streaming live video from your phonehttp://mobile.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8064_Insight_38_Nokia_Open_Lab_08_a.php Screensavers and hidden media files- September 16, 2008 A couple of great little articles over on the N82 blog, covering ways of manually hiding your media files so that others don't stumble on your goodies (although there's also always the fairly new Media Safe 2, in our software store, which does everything automatically) and a how-to on setting a GIF or Flash animation as your S60 phone screensaver.http://mobile.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8062_Screensavers_and_hidden_media_.php One AppStore to rule them all... is a bad idea- September 16, 2008 When your application is blacklisted because it duplicates the functions on the phone, something has gone wrong, thinks Ewan Spence, who considers the issue of a single monolithic app store, and tells why he thinks the Symbian way is better.Read onhttp://mobile.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8058_One_AppStore_to_rule_them_all_.php GPS-less Google Maps just got more accurate- September 16, 2008 Google Maps for S60 (and also the UIQ and Java versions) just got more accurate, with news that Google has significantly improved its cell tower location algorithms for its 'My location' feature ("far more accurate") to take into account tower coverage areas - hmmm... I'd assumed that these were already taken into account.... No matter, Google Maps is free, as always, at m.google.com, and this will help anyone without a GPS in their phone or in areas of poor sky visibility. (via Google...http://mobile.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8057_GPS-less_Google_Maps_just_got_.php Nokia N96 - the ongoing test and questions invited- September 15, 2008 As you know, AAS's guest Nick Anstee is now well over a week into his 'exclusive' Nokia N96 experience. Seeing as production N96s seem to be a couple of weeks away, this is as close as most of us will get for a while. Below are more thoughts from Nick, along with an invitation.Nick: "Just some further thoughts on the N96.I had a day out with it yesterday, took about 60 photos and 4 short Videos, plus surfed the net and checked email every 0.5 hour and watcheda few minutes of video. The...http://mobile.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8048_Nokia_N96-the_ongoing_test_and.php Broken Nokia Maps - is it just me updated- September 15, 2008 Another trip away, another opportunity to really test out Nokia Maps, here in its latest v2.0 version with updated maps. And it all went horribly wrong, with navigation completely unusable. Read on for more and to comment if you've experienced similar problems. update From the comments so far, it seems that map data for some countries is simply broken.My trip was across the South of the UK and, as usual, Nokia Maps was my navigator. Maps 2.0 was in my shiny new v30 firmware for my N95 8GB and a.http://mobile.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8042_Broken_Nokia_Maps-is_it_just_m.php |