As I was sitting thinking about the kind of gaming experience that I would love to have on Symbian^3 and the Nokia N8, one particular idea hit me and I couldn’t remove it from my head for a few days. We have TV-Out, DLNA certified devices, WiFi or Bluetooth multiplayer gaming, HDMI out, and quick [...]
Long before the Make My App competition Nokia launched for their Nokia N8, we’ve been giving Symbian developers ideas about applications and functionality that we want to have on our devices in our Developer Challenge series. Most of those ideas have been turned into reality (with or without our contribution) which is super exciting and [...]
Going off previous successes, Forum Nokia is hosting yet another Calling All Innovators contests, this one with 4 categories and a host of new, ‘special’ prizes up for grabs, in addition to the standard first, second, and third places. If you’re not familiar with it, Forum Nokia’s Calling All Innovators contests are a great opportunity [...]
Part of the news that Symbian^3 is completely open sourced and freely available is the unveiling of a side project going on Tuesday evenings at the Symbian Foundation offices in London, UK called Wild Ducks. This project, kicked off back in December 2009, has several goals but overall, they intend to document a way to [...]
A few days back, Vikas aka @tsuvik asked me on Twitter whether or not there was an application that records a video or flash file of Symbian devices’ screen internally. This question reminded me that I had been wanting an on-device Screencast application for an eternity. Right now, if you want to demonstrate an application [...]
The Internet Movie Database or IMDB is easily one of my favorite websites on the internet. For those who don’t know it, it’s simply *the* reference to find any movie, any actor and recently any TV series ever made or about to be made. It shows you the movie credentials with the main cast, directors, [...]
I have recently moved from the archaic “Bookmark” or “Save web page” or “keep tab open” browsing system in my daily news consumption flow, to join the Read It Later cult. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then try to think of what you do when you run across an interesting website or [...]
Today, Amazon unveiled its Amazon Mobile Payments program, which makes it possible for consumers to use their Amazon.com account to make purchases on mobile websites and applications. The service includes a set of APIs, to allow developers easy access to integrate the Amazon Mobile Payments System into their applications and services. What does this have [...]
Developer Challenge was a series that we started earlier this year to highlight a wishlist of applications that we would love to see on S60 devices. It was also meant to help us answer a question that we get by some developers who contact us saying “what would you like us to develop for S60?” [...]
