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!
Augmentra has updated its S60 off-road satnav application. It now supports the built in GPS on the Nokia N95 and track recording in any location worldwide, along with a host of other features.
ViewRanger 2.3 contains several improvements, a number of which have been requested by customers. In particular this update includes enhancements suggested by Cyclists, Mountain Bikers, Geo-cachers, Skiers and Joggers. We very much appreciate all your feedback and always welcome additional comments and suggestions. The main changes in this release are:
TripView The TripView displays a range of statistics about your current journey. You can configure which statistics are shown and can choose from several different screen layouts. The statistics include values such as distance, speed, average speed, time moving, estimated time of arrival, altitude and pace. You can save different combinations and layouts as profiles, and step through the profiles with the arrow keys.
Track & Route Analysis For a track you can display graphs of speed, altitude, GPS altitude and distance against time. You can display these individually or superimposed. For a route you can display a graph of altitude against distance.
International UTM Support The international UTM coordinate system is now supported. Tracks can be recorded and POIs can be created worldwide. This means you can use ViewRanger worldwide to record tracks, navigate to waypoints, create POI etc. We'll be announcing details of new international map availability soon.
Buddy Beacon You can send your location to the ViewRanger server. If you give friends your details, they can see your location either using their own copy of ViewRanger or using a web page.
GPS Tracks/GPX enhancement Amongst several changes is that tracks now store the GPS altitude, which can be exported to GPX files for moving your tracklogs into Google or PC-based map software.
And more... including Sunrise/Sunset times for your location in the Where Am I? panel.
Support For Nokia N95 Internal GPS
ViewRanger is now Symbian Signed accredited and therefore can use the internal GPS on the Nokia N95 mobile phone. ViewRanger will also use the internal GPS on the Nokia E90 and Nokia 6110 handsets announced by Nokia.
Symbian Signed is a program run by Symbian for and on behalf of the wireless community to digitally sign applications which meet certain industry agreed criteria. Symbian Signed promotes best practice in the design of applications and content to run on Symbian OS-based phones. Symbian Signed is endorsed and supported by network operators, handset manufacturers and developers. Testing is carried out by independent test house(s) approved by Symbian.
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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 
Augmentra has updated its S60 off-road satnav application. It now supports the built in GPS on the Nokia N95 and track recording in any location worldwide, along with a host of other features.
