SoonR Talk

Simple and nice idea:
1. Click on the buddy you want to talk to.
2. SoonR Talk will tell your PC to call your mobile phone using SkypeOut.
3. Then SoonR Talk will instruct Skype to call your buddy, placing you in a conference.

Will Skype fight with it?

Nokia S60 Summit will begin soon

As I have received in announce this summit will start on 24th May in Nice. The Summit and its Expo will examine the opportunities, markets and threats facing operators today. There you can meet new partners and see innovations that can help create business success.

The Summit’s agenda aims to show you:

· How a software platform ecosystem can boost the efficiency of service differentiation

· Which consumer segments to focus on for services development and delivery

· How subscribers actually use rich mobile devices

· How the business rules are changing

· How innovative developers are generating new and lucrative business opportunities

Registeration to summit available here.

Nokia have delayed its multimedia smartphones

By info from Reuters Nokia will release smartphones N71, N80 и N91, also E60, E61 и E71 models in next few week. But previously Nokia claims that N91 would have been released till the end of 2005, then the date of release was shifted to begin of year 2006. Nokia explains delay by fixing the software for these models.

Another smallest smartphone in the World

ASUS claims that its P305 is the smallest Ms Winodows Mobile 5.0 smartphone in the world. This phone is targete to work in 3G networks. Windows Mobile 5.0 with Direct Push Technology gives ability to instant updating of Microsoft Office Outlook Email, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks when synchronizing with MS Exchange Server. The P305 also runs Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player 10 Mobile so it can play MP3, AMR, AAC, WAV and WMA, as well as streaming MPEG-4 video. Connectivity consists of Bluetooth 1.2 and IrDA. Memory expanded with use of the mini-SD expansion card slot.

Photos of new Symbian smartphones by Nokia

Again leaked photos have been published in the net of new Nokia smartphones. At this time it were N73 and N93 models. N73 model have to replace N70 Symbian smartphone. It will have upgraded camera with 3.2 Megapixel sensot and Carl-Zeiss optic. The phone will work in 3G and UMTS networks. N93 model will replace N92 smartphone. Camera will be the same as in N73 but with 3x optical zoom. Both models are based on Symbian OS 9.0 and Series 60 3rd Edition, have support of Bluetooth 2.0. N93 phone will work in GPRS, EDGE and UMTS/WCDMA networks with support Wi-Fi.

Premium Smartphone Mago

This is a high end smartphone with exclusive desing and made of unique matherials. Also it is a is quad band GSM phone. Features of this smartphone are following:
- running Windows Mobile 2005 (latest version of MS Mobile for now)
- it has 240x320 2.8 inch LCD screen
- built-in memory is 128MB SDRAM, 128MB Flash and SD/MMC support
- conectivity imlements 850/900/1800/1900MHz GSM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11b
- also it have not such a big size - 134x55x15mm

The price of this smartphone is also really exclusive - about 3K euros.

The smallest Windows® Mobile smartphone

Malai company Fifth Media has presented its new product - the smallest Windows Mobile 5 smartphone in the world. The size of this phone is 20.8 x 48.8 x 113.3 mm.
The name of this new product is AXIA A308. It supports GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz networks with GRPS and EDGE technologies. Also this phones have support of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b) and Bluetooth technologies. Fifth Media has used Intel PXA272 processor with working frequency 416 MHz. Other features is 1.3 megapixel camera, 128 Mb of the flash memory, and 64 Mb of RAM. The memory can be expanded by using miniSD cards. The phone have screen with resolution 240 х 320 pixels and can play WAV, WMA, and MP3 files.

This phone will be presented on CeBIT 2006 in Hannonver.

Antivirus now preinstalled on Symbian S60 3Ed. devices

Nokia has announced that F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus will be available through Nokia to the users of new devices based on S60 3rd Edition - Nokia N71, Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70. More info here.

Symbian on 3GSM 2006 World Congress

If you want to read latest Symbian news from 3GSM World Congress just go to this site: Symbian 3GSM 2006 Mini site.

Sony Ericsson K800i Wilma

It looks like there are new Sony Ericsson K800i phone “Wilma”. It will be a successor of the K750i. It will support a 3.2 megapixel camera, 176х220 display, 466MB of internal memory, conference camera, EDGE/UMTS network and Bluetooth support. The appearance of the new phone is on the picture.

Photos of new smartphone Nokia N95

There are some photos of new Nokia phone or smartphone prototype that will become a Nokia N95 phone. I suggest this phone was built on Symbian 9 OS.

Names of nul string descriptors in Symbian

I always forget who nul string descriptor is called. If you do too, here they are:
_LIT(KNullDesC,"");
_LIT8(KNullDesC8,"");
_LIT16(KNullDesC16,"");

They are declared in e32std.h file.

Secret of full-duplex audio on Nokia 6630 and 6680 has been revealed

Finally we can find out how to use full-duplex audio on Symbian Series 60 2ed. FP3 phones. As they say here Nokia has released on its Forum Pro site such example in 9 November. It' named Full-Duplex Audio Example. Details of this example we can learn very soon when somebody will publish such a code.