Symbian VoIP SIP applications

There is a lof of free and not really free VoIP clients for Symbian Nokia and Sony Ericsson devices like BaraBlu, AQL, Mobiboo, Skype, RebTel, Jajah, Truphone and possibly others. But we talk now about really free software clients that allows to use SIP gateways on Symbian 9 and Symbian 8 smartphones. You always can use special edition of Nokia smartphones Ineternet Edition - N80 IE and others. These devices have embedded SIP client that can be configured to work with any SIP gateway server. But what to do with other Symbian smarphones? We need to install some free SIP client on the smartphone. One of these applications is Fring. Since version 3.0 it allows you to call not only to Skype contacts, but configure a SIP service and directly use it. Now you can call for free to many countries with SIP services like Gizmo, Free World Dialup or bunch of Betamax services like VoipStunt, VoipDiscount, VoipCheap, NetAppel, Voipbuster, SparVoIP etc.
Update: Read about new Free Skype VoIP client in Nokia phones, it's ready to be released in Nokia N97 phone

Native Skype VoIP client application on Symbian phones - not until real HSxPA

If you are waiting for Skype client on Symbian you probably should suspend your hopes until arrival HSxPA or other next-generating networks. Skype still not release it's client for Symbian. As we know only phones run Symbian so Skype don't ready to play on this field. In the meantime there are a bunch of third-party solutions that transfer voice over current cell networks to the Skype network. Such well-known solution is Fring free VoIP client software that actually encode voice with AMR codec and transfer it to its server.
But I think Skype is losing to traditional VoIP clients in consumer phones. There is a lot of free SIP VoIP clients for Symbian even embedded into phones like in Nokia Internet Edition devices N80, N73 etc. If Skype will waiting too long it might completely lose this battle to companies like Betamax (VoipDiscount, VoipCheap brands).

More on Abobe PDF Reader applications for Symbian S60 and UIQ

There are two options - free applications and commertial ones. Also there are three main platforms where you want to read PDF documents and e-books: Nokia Symbian S60 2nd Edition, Nokia Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Sony Ericsson UIQ. There is Series 80 platform from Nokia but it has really small coverage among Symbian devices. Lets break applications in categories stated above and give some links.
The first part of links will be about really free Adobe Reader. Free Adobe Reader or Adobe PDF Reader freeware links:
The Adobe Reader application from Adobe site direct links:

• Nokia 6680, 6681, 6682 Symbian Adobe Reader English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese version.
• Nokia 6680, 6681, 6682 Symbian Adobe Reader English US, Latin America Spanish, Portuguese Brasil version.
• Nokia 6680, 6681, 6682 Symbian Adobe Reader Chinese version.
• Nokia 6680, 6681, 6682 Symbian Adobe Reader Asia-Pacific Chinese (Simplified), Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Japanese version.
• Nokia Communicator 9500, 9300i Symbian Adobe Reader English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese version.

It seems that Nokia 6680 and N70 version works on Nokia 6630 and N72 device and some others but not on N90.
The Adobe PDF Reader application from Nokia site direct links:

• Nokia N70 Symbian Adobe Reader European version.
• Nokia E60 Symbian Adobe PDF Reader European version.
• Nokia N80 IE Symbian Adobe Reader European version.
• Nokia N80 Symbian Adobe Reader European version.
• Nokia E70 Symbian Adobe Reader European version.
• Nokia E61 Symbian Adobe Reader European version.
• Nokia E50 Symbian Adobe Reader European version.

And there is common Nokia E-Series Adobe PDF Reader E-Series Symbian Adobe Reader

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Another Symbian S60 free application - Screenshot

This application is not only free but also is open source. It works on S60 3rd Edition but there is version for UIQ. It captures screenshot on Symbian OS mobile phones. It supports 31 languages. The screenshot can be sent directly to a PC via Bluetooth or infrared and another mobile phone. You can download it here.

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Free Symbian software application - VoIP service Symmy

I've recently found an interesting free app for S60 devices - Symmy. Symmy is a VoIP communication service on Symbian S60 v2 and v3 phones. It is completely free application like Skype or other VoIP . You can call user of Symmy for free and send them instant messages.

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Samsung i550 - GPS Symbian S60 smartphone

There was some posts in different sources about new Samsung i550 that would be a first GPS enabled phone from Samsung. Moreover - it has Symbian OS S60 which is great for all of us. Connectivity is the GSM/HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.0. Sources claims that maps and routing info are downloaded over-the-air and on-the-fly. Other not official specs are:

• 2,6-inch display
• 128Mb RAM
• 150Mb flash
• micro SD-slot
• 3,2 Mpix camera with autofocus and flash
• FM-radio
• MicroUSB
• Size - 115x53x13,8 mm

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Symbian UIQ 3.1 SDK for Motorola Z8 now available

UIQ Technology had announced the availability of the final version of its Symbian SDK for UIQ 3.1. This Symbian version is used in the Motorola MOTORIZR Z8 phone. This SDK like other UIQ ones supports touchscreens. The SDK can be downloaded from UIQ Technology website uiq.com.

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Open Adobe PDF documents on Symbian devices

If you have a Nokia or other Symbian OS-based device, then you might want to read PDF dociments on it. In this case you sould use sone third-party application to do it. Because Symbian doesn't support Adobe PDF documents natively. There is three options: mBrainsoftware's Pdf+ for viewing PDF files with Nokia S60 devices, Documents to Go to use with UIQ and Series 80 and native Adobe Reader LE 1.1 for some Symbian devices. Pdf+ viewer lets you view stored PDF files, read password-protected PDF files, and display all the text, line drawings and images within a PDF document. Also you can search and follow hyperlinks in the Adobe PDF file, and view and follow bookmarks. The Documents to Go by DataViz provides the same capabilities only in professional version. The simpliest application is Adobe Reader, but the main advantage is no cost of it, you can download it for many models from Nokia website.

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Three new classic phones from Nokia - 6267, 3500 and Symbian S60 Nokia 6121

Here some features of new phones. Two first phones are Series 40 5th Edition (I hope). The first one is a clamshell Nokia 6267 device. It has quadband GSM with WCDMA 850/2100, 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, secondary VGA camera 320 x 240 pixels display, FM Radio, microSD card slot, wireless Bluetooth and miniUSB cable connectivity. Product datasheet here.

The second device is also Series 40 but has classic monoblock design. This is Nokia 3500 classic. It's features are just GSM, 2 megapixels camera with 8x digital zoom, FM Radio, microSD card slot, wireless Bluetooth and miniUSB cable connectivity.Product datasheet here.

The thidr device is a Symbian S60 smartphone in classic design. Nokia 6121 also supports GSM with EDGE, WCDMA 850/2100 and HSPDA 900/2100 with is Ok for smartphone. It has 2 megapixels camera with 4x digital zoom which is little not modern but because this smartphone is from middle range it would be Ok. Also there is VGA front camera. Symbian is S60, 3rd Edition SP1 which gis a lot of features. 320 x 240 pixels display, FM Radio, microSD card slot. It has both wireless Bluetooth and cable miniUSB connectivity. Product datasheet here.

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Mobiola and Skype - new snapshot capability

Skype 3.2 has been released. The new featrues are: send money with PayPal to friends direct from Skype; video snapshot to your profile picture with photos of yourself from webcam; invitation friends from Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail for a call; simple account management within Skype. So main interesting feature of Skype 3.2 for mobile phones owner is what they can easily and fast make snapshot of themselves within Skype using Mobiola Web Camera and setup this picture into account information.

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Apple iPhone stuck with AT&T Cingular forever in US

Rumor and news about AT&T Apple agreement on iPhone for five years, according to a USA Today, tell us about not so happy vision of iPhone's future by heads of Apple. T-Mobile, the another GSM carrier in the U.S., won't be able to use iPhone. Fortunately there are another countries except US, so you can buy unlocked iPhone there.

Motorola RAZR2 V9 announced

The long-awaited successor of very popular motorola phone RAZR has been announced a few day ago. This is the new shiny RAZR2 V9. The main features of this phone are:

• GSM 850/900/1800/1900, 3G HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
• Size 103 x 53 x 13.3 mm
• 262144 colors TFT 240 x 320 pixels display
• Java J2ME support
• Audio MP3/AAC/AAC+ support
• Camera 2 MP with video capturing
• Opera 8 browser
• 45 MB of memory expandable by microSD cards
  
• USB cable Interface and BlueTooth 2.0 connectivity

This will be very attractive and succesful phone on US market.

How to detect version of MS Visual Studio or compiler in compilation time

To do this you should use _MSC_VER define like in this code:
#if _MSC_VER >= 1400 // this is Visual C++ 2005
#elif _MSC_VER >= 1310 // this is Visual C++ .NET 2003
#elif _MSC_VER > 1300 // this is Visual C++ .NET 2002
#endif