The Symbian Exchange & Exposition SEE09 that will take place on October 27th and 28th in London, is now only a week away. It’s a very hyped and highly awaited event, as everyone is excited to see the first real efforts of the Symbian Foundation taking shape, and to understand the direction it will be [...]
We’re still wading through our videos from Nokia World 2009, so expect a few to come up over the next week or so. Today’s video is of our friend Oren Levine, showing off a Yahoo! Events widget that his team created for the Nokia N97. Oren was previously on the S60 team, working with developers, [...]
Ever since Widsets was closed I’ve been looking for an application which offers me news from a convenient and quick interface with less hassle. I previously tried Flyscreen which worked decently and decided to test out Snaptu which one of our readers mentioned to be really good. Snaptu is a java application which comes with [...]
Last week, Forum Nokia announced two new Web Runtime plugins, one for Adobe Dreamweaver and the other for Microsoft Visual Studio. The plugins are joined by the existing one for Aptana Studio as Forum Nokia continues its focus on Web Runtime (WRT) widgets as an alternative development platform for developers. Personally, I think this move [...]
If you’re a frequent reader of the site, then you must know that I don’t hide my excitement in regards to the Widgets implementation on the homescreen of the Nokia N97. Widgets have been supported by Symbian for a long time, but the N97 takes things further and allows you to integrate them in your [...]
Although Widsets, the service which Nokia launched in 2006 is still alive despite it saying it will become part of the OVI Store, the service is surely going to close down. Many are therefore going to focus on the new popular widgets format such as the Facebook widget for S60 touch phones like the N97 [...]
Recently, Symbian Foundation’s David Wood (who we interviewed previously) posted about WRT widgets, asking for suggestions as to what widgets you’d like to see. One answer that intrigued him was for a Symbian.org widget, which would allow Symbian users to keep up with happenings around the Foundation – and so it was. The new Symbian [...]
