Ovi Browser Hits Series 40

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Ovi Browser brings rich web browsing to Series 40 devices that’s fast, easy, and saves on data charges. The browser is powered by patented cloud-based Internet compression technology that delivers advanced web pages to your phone. As a result, pages show up quicker than ever and over the air data usage is reduced up to 90%.

Using the Ovi App Wizard – The Champion Way

Monday, July 26th, 2010

In a new Forum Nokia podcast, Forum Nokia Champions Dale Rankine and Alessandro Pace discuss their recent experience using the new Ovi app wizard tool to create mobile apps for use on Nokia devices. The Ovi app wizard tool lets anyone even those without programming experience  create mobile apps quickly, easily, and at no cost

Qt Web Runtime #wrt #html5 #javascript is now open source and works on #n900

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Qt WRT is a W3C-standards-based web runtime. The runtime is now under the Qt’s new open governance model .

NokiaDevs Now Live

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

A new website for Nokia developers has recently been launched: NokiaDevs.com The website proposes conversations with Nokia developers, talking their experience and thoughts on Nokia technologies. As the website says: Nokia is open, so Nokia Devs want to be: open to any opinion, thought, vision about the present and future of mobile development.

New Web Runtime – Using JQuery based Guarana UI

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

There is a very good tutorial about creating a Web Runtime Podcast application over at Nokia’s Wiki. The example demonstrate how to use a JQuery based UI framework, Guarana UI developed by INdT , HTML, JavaScript and CSS to create a mobile podcast application

Anssi Vanjoki – ‘The Fightback Starts Now’ & There Will Be More Nseries Devices Based On Symbian

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Nokia knows that the world is not looking at it too kindly right now and what is good to see is that they are ready to acknowledge it. Anssi Vanjoki, the head of Mobile Solutions at Nokia has just penned a post on the official Nokia Blog with a simple and affirmative message – ‘ The Fightback Starts Now ‘. He comes across as determined and if you have ever liked Nokia, you will want to believe in the company after reading what he has to say

Create Cool Apps With Ovi App Wizard And Win

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Would you like to create professional-looking mobile applications in mere minutes, then distribute them to millions of consumers around the world through Ovi Store? If so, then the new Ovi App Wizard is for you. Designed to be easy and helpful, this tool lets anyone create an app quickly — even those with no design or programming experience

Symbian^3 Is Now Functionally Complete – Moves To The Hardening Phase

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

The Symbian Foundation hit a major milestone with Symbian^3 being declared functionally complete today. For Symbian^3 this marks a transition from feature submission and stability into the hardening phase

Carbide.c++ Updates to v2.6

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Carbide.c++ v2.6 is available on the software update servers, ready for your to update your environments using the “Software update” feature. The following new features for Symbian development are provided within Carbide.c++ (including 2.5 updates you might have missed): 2.6.0 GCCE 4.0 supported — required for future SBSv2 releases. Symbian^3 supported — new templates and improvements required for the public Symbian^3 SDK. 2.5.0 Plug-and-Play (PnP) On-device Debugging supported — debugging a target device just got easier

Multitasking: The N8 Can Handle 15 Apps Without A Lag

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

We’ve lately been getting our N8 fix pretty regularly and the latest video to show up is that of the N8’s multitasking abilities. The device features a completely new visual task manager which gives you an actual preview of the current state of the application right from the task manager’s thumbnails. If you have a number of apps open, it may be a little more time consuming to switch between applications because you might have to scroll a little to find the app you are looking for, but I have got to say it looks much nicer this way