Phil Northam: Samsung's Mobile InnovatorSamsung Mobile Innovator is the latest developer support program from a Symbian OS licensee. Richard Bloor caught up with Phil Northam, the program's Global Marketing Manager and one of its founding members, to find out more.
A note from Nokia reps this week informs us that the Nokia viNe application will be rolled out of Beta soon... possibly even this week. viNe is a web service that enables users of the application to share their journeys, along with media collected along the way. As a long-time Sports Tracker user, N95 enthusiasts, and evangelist of all things mobile and geospatial, I was provided with a pre-release version of viNe - details and a complete "How To" install and use the application are provided... enjoy! Enter Nokia viNe 101
It was back in June 2008 that the E71 was officially released to the public - the selling points for the E71 were a sleek, stylish do-it-all device that came with Mail for Exchange mobile email client - pre-loaded with the Nokia E71. Actually, the device boasted much much more than these attributes as you'll see below in my findings after having the pleasure of making the E71 my main device for 3 weeks... enjoy the recap, the images and the videos!
Odendahl SEPT-Solutions has announced the release of MobileOffice for S60 2nd Edition devices and its free for these devices. MobileOffice is the first and only application for Symbian (or any other mobile platform) that enables users to read OpenDocument format files on the go.
Mobile Office for S60 is an office suite for the new OpenDocument format. With MobileOffice, user now read OpenDocument files on their mobile to provide anytime, anywhere access.
The OpenDocument format is also used by other well known dektop applications such as OpenOffice, StarOffice and KOffice. With Mobile Office, you can read those files on the road without the need to convert them to other formats as well as compromising on formatting and ODF features.
Key features include:
open OpenDocument text(.odt), spreadsheet(.ods) and presentation(.odp)
view thumbnail image
get information about subject, title, keywords and other meta information
get statistics about paragraph count, words and pages
zoom and fullscreen
search
view of changes
Formatting supported includes:
all text and highlighting colors
bold and italic
underline as well as crossing lines
upper and lower text
left, right and center alignment
left and right margins
bullets and numbering
embedded images
paragraph bordering
full support for footnotes (show them by pressing ok/enter button, if there are more then one, use the arrow keys to scroll)
A version of MobileOffice is already available for S60 3rd Edition devices for $14.99 and a version for UIQ is also planned.
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Samsung Mobile Innovator is the latest developer support program from a Symbian OS licensee. Richard Bloor caught up with Phil Northam, the program's Global Marketing Manager and one of its founding members, to find out more.
A note from Nokia reps this week informs us that the Nokia viNe application will be rolled out of Beta soon... possibly even this week. viNe is a web service that enables users of the application to share their journeys, along with media collected along the way. As a long-time Sports Tracker user, N95 enthusiasts, and evangelist of all things mobile and geospatial, I was provided with a pre-release version of viNe - details and a complete "How To" install and use the application are provided... enjoy! Enter Nokia viNe 101 
It was back in 
I’ve been a long-time fan and user of Nokia Sports Tracker. In fact, I’ve considered it to be one of the best location-aware mobile apps anywhere… hands-down! Now it's even more fun, more useful, and easier to share with others... 
It was almost a year ago at 
Odendahl SEPT-Solutions has announced the release of MobileOffice for S60 2nd Edition devices and its free for these devices. MobileOffice is the first and only application for Symbian (or any other mobile platform) that enables users to read OpenDocument format files on the go.
