S60 application storm forecasted for summer 2009

GLOBAL – Crack out the umbrella, we’re soon going to be caught in a torrential shower of fresh-faced S60 applications eager to be soaked up. This is as a result of QT Software (formely Trolltech, bought by Nokia back in June) porting its QT cross-platform application framework to S60, which in real-world speak means it’s now going to be dead easy for developers to port existing applications available on other devices and platforms to S60 Nokia devices with little fuss, fast.

GLOBAL – The mobile phone has gradually nudged traditional buzzer off the bedside, with many of our handset’s built-in alarm clocks now on night duty.

The evolution of the mobile alarm clock is mirroring this subtle shift from the traditional wake-up routine, with innovative developments shining light through the curtains in the shape of a smart new app called HappyWakeUp. This S60 3rd Edition sliver of software doesn’t deliver the usual rude awakening, but instead monitors your sleep and wakes you up at the optimum moment to ensure you feel most refreshed. Hocus pocus or genius? Read on for more about this intriguing “arousal clock”.

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Symbian S60 5th edition rolls out

LONDON, England – Not only have we been treated to Comes With Music and
a brand new handset, but Symbian is getting in on the act as well with a new edition of S60.

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An evening with S60 – New York

NEW YORK, USA – Going to be in New York this week? Looking for something to do on Wednesday night? Not any more. The bods over at S60 are hosting another “evening with S60″ at the Nokia Flagship store on 5 E 57th Street, NY 10022. If you didn’t see our last post on the Milan event, then read on to find out what it’s all about.

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A fake Nokia Chinese fake and more on The 1100 Club and VoIP (BONUS: S60 and Ovi events, too)

ESPOO, Finland – First we had real phones available in real shops spurning real fakes. Then real phones that weren’t available, being faked. Now we have phones that aren’t even real being faked. Go figure. I found out via Unwired View that Mobile Mentalism found some pics of a Chinese phone that is based on nothing more than a Nokia patent.

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How many platforms do we need?

GLOBAL – At last week’s Symbian Foundation event, Vodafone Director and SF member, Guido Arnone lamented that in the past his network had 17 platforms to deal with when tailoring its Live! services to fit on handsets. Don’t worry, it’s since been trimmed down to a manageable three but the move by the Foundation to put all the different Symbian OS – S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) – into one melting pot for a universal Symbian platform must be manna from mobile heaven for these guys.

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Symbian Foundation: have your say

GLOBAL – Now the dust has settled on the hullabaloo (and rightly so!) surrounding the Symbian Foundation, Conversations has trawled through the bulging comment boxes of various sites, including our very own, to gauge the public’s reaction to the new open source Symbian OS. The world’s press and tech experts have had their two penneth; now it’s the turn of the tech community to speak up.

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Symbian Foundation – The Big Round Up

We’re starting to lose count of all the Symbian Foundation stuff we’ve written this week, so we thought we’d do the decent thing and make a nice little compendium here for you to enjoy. Below you’ll find links to all the articles and we’ll be updating it as we add more (yes, there’s still more coverage to come!)

Initial shock – As soon as we heard the news, we posted

Symbian Foundation announcement

Video interview: Lee Williams, S60

Video interview: Guido Arnone, Vodafone

Interesting analysis

Choice picks from the Q&A

What the papers say – the nationals

What the papers say – the tech press

Comments round up – have you had your say?

How many? An opinion on the great operating system count

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Balanced views from the technology press

GLOBAL – There’s been no shortage of coverage of what is possibly one of the biggest stories to hit technology for a long time.

The tech press have been ruminating long and hard on Nokia’s benevolent gesture of giving, for nada, its Symbian-owned OS, to the newly formed Symbian Foundation and opening up its platform to whoever wants a piece.

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New and better futures predicted (and how to send us links)

ESPOO, Finland – I found some pretty interesting stories out there today. One serves as a entry into the discussion around the Symbian Foundation announcement on Tuesday. Three stories are around designing products and services that make our world safer and more sustainable. And then, I’ve added a little note on how you can send us some links of stories that you find interesting.