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!
mBrain Software releases version 1.20 of PdfPrinter for S60 3rd edition smartphones
Written by mBrain Software
Monday, 14 January 2008
With PdfPrinter you can create PDF documents, also known as Adobe® Acrobat® files, on your Nokia Eseries smartphone, such as the Nokia E61(i), the Nokia E65 and the Nokia E90.
PdfPrinter is a printer driver, it transforms the generic printer commands generated by programs into PDF commands and stores them in a PDF file. As a result you can create PDF files from most programs that can print.
The resulting PDF file can now be backed up, viewed on a desktop PC, stored in your corporate database, emailed to a client, etc.
PdfPrinter (for S60 3rd edition smartphones) is only suitable for Nokia Eseries smartphones. Other S60 3rd edition smartphones do not have the printing software components, and these phones offer limited or no printing support.
PdfPrinter on the Nokia E90
PdfPrinter (for S60 3rd edition smartphones) creates PDF version 1.2 (Adobe® Acrobat® 3.x), 1.3 (Acrobat 4.x) and 1.4 (Acrobat 5.x) files.
* You can set the PDF properties of the file, such as the title, the author and important keywords.
* PdfPrinter compresses the file, making it less demanding on storage space and also making it faster and cheaper to email to another party.
* You can restrict access to the file by specifying whether the contents can be copied, printed or viewed by special-needs viewers.
* You can encrypt the file with the Standard 40 bits encryption (Acrobat 3.x and 4.x) and the much safer 128 bits encryption schemes.
* It is not possible to use the Standard PDF Symbol and Zapf Dingbats fonts. Neither is it possible to embed fonts.
There are some issues you need to be aware of when creating PDF documents with PdfPrinter (for S60 3rd edition smartphones).
* Only characters that are part of the codepage 1252 character set are added to the PDF file, other characters are replaced by a space.
* PdfPrinter cannot be loaded by applications that have more Capabilities than PdfPrinter itself. This includes most of the built-in applications, such as the Agenda.
The built-in word processing and spreadsheet applications can print fine to PdfPrinter.
Not all S60 3rd edition devices contain the printer subsystem. Nokia Eseries devices do contain the printer subsystem. PdfPrinter can safely be installed on other S60 3rd edition devices, but it will not work.
* Nokia E90
* Nokia E70
* Nokia E65
* Nokia E62
* Nokia E61i
* Nokia E61
* Nokia E60
* Nokia E51
* Nokia E50
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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 
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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 
