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Following the example of other major companies, LG decided to take advantage of their presence at the 2009 edition of the Mobile World Congress and to officially present their latest smartphones, such as LG KT770, LG Arena KM900 and LG GM730.

The novelty consists of the fact that the KT770 is equipped with the Symbian S60 3rd edition, compared to the other two smartphones I mentioned above which run on the Microsoft Windows Mobile. This is a little bit surprising for an LG product, because the Symbian operating system isn’t available on many devices.

There is a special LG website dedicated to the MWC, which is a little bit difficult to use, if I may say so, where you can find the details you’d like to know about the devices the South Korean company prepared for the event.

In the given context, as far as the features are concerned, the KT770 comes equipped with: quad band GSM/EDGE connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), dual band UMTS/HSDPA connectivity (850/2100 MHz or 900/2100 MHz), a 2.8 inch TFT WQVGA display with a resolution of 240x400 pixels and 256k colors, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, facial recognition, smile shot and panorama shot, an integrated assisted GPS, Wi-Fi connectivity, full Internet browser, an internal memory of 1GB/2GB and microSD card slot for expandable memory of no more than 16GB. The new LG slider cell phone measures 111x51.5x15.8 millimeters.

The point is the phone looks quite good, but we hope that the price won’t be too high. As far as the availability is concerned, the LG KT770 is expected to start selling in the next couple of months.

Labels: LG, Symbian

what is emTube?
- emTube is an application for Symbian S60 3rd edition phones that allows you to:
- Search and browse videos on YouTube.
- Download selected videos onto your phone.
- Stream FlashVideo files directly from YouTube.
- Play local FlashVideo files.

Other features:
- Audio and position control during playback.
- Normal and full screen (portrait and landscape mode) video playback.
- Ability to use built in accelerometer to rotate video between portrait/landscape mode.

Screenshots


Download:
emTube for Symbian s60 3rd edition
1.0.0
emTube for N95 with accelerometer support enabled.
1.0.0
libavcodec/libavutil source code including Symbian specific modifications.
1.0.0

Usage:
Documentation is available in pdf.

Labels: Nokia, Symbian

This N95 clone has been out for quite a while. It is in fact a candybar disguised to look like the original N95 slider. The keypad is all there..where the navigation keys are. It also comes with a huge 3 inch touchscreen and 3 mega pixel camera. Here are tons of pics of the device and even comparing it to the real N95. The phone is very huge...

Labels: Nokia, Other mobile phone brands, Symbian

It had me fooled there for a sec. If this phone would have Nokia or N73 printed on it then it would've fooled me for a bit longer. These guys really put an effort in copying the real N73 physically (of course it is not identical). Here are some specs.

- 2.4 inch 260k color QVGA touchscreen
- 2 mega pixel camera
- stereo 3D ringtones
- microSD support
- bluetooth stereo
- measures 110x49×19 mm
- weighs 115 grams

Labels: Nokia, Other mobile phone brands, Symbian

Symbian Press has published two new books, "Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones Volume 3" and "Symbian OS Communications Programming, Second Edition", both targeting Symbian OS™ v9. Below you'll find a brief summary of each book with links to Symbian's website for more information and purchasing options.


Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones Volume 3
This book by Richard Harrison and Mark Shackman is fully up to date for Symbian OS v9 and combines the best of the two previous volumes, and includes the following sections:

- An introduction to Symbian C++, with descriptions of the basic building blocks and usage patterns
- Examples that are fully compatible with the latest Carbide.c++ Symbian IDEs guide the reader through increasingly complex aspects of Symbian C++
- The core concepts, resources, APIs and programming idioms that you need to create, test and publish a non-trivial GUI (graphical user interface) application
- An introduction to some of the most significant Symbian OS system services: extensibility and the use of plug-ins and practical descriptions of the communications, multimedia and database services.
- Advice on the available range of graphics APIs and helps you to ensure that your application code is as device-independent as possible.

Authors: Richard Harrison and Mark Shackman
ISBN: 0470066415



Symbian OS Communications Programming, Second Edition
Targeting Symbian OS v9.1 and v9.2, "Symbian OS Communications Programming, Second Edition" introduces the major communications functionality in Symbian OS and demonstrates how to perform common tasks in each area. Each chapter gives background information on the technology where necessary, an overview of the functionality provided in Symbian OS and descriptions or examples of how to use the Symbian OS APIs.

The author team for this book is assembled from Symbian's top experts in the field of communications. Each of them has extensive experience in creating and using Symbian OS, and spends every day defining, creating or improving Symbian OS.

This book has four main sections:

- Section 1 gives an overview of the book and its contents. It also provides an introduction to the communications functionality in Symbian OS, and a high-level overview of how it all fits together.
- Section 2 covers communications technologies such as Bluetooth, TCP/IP, IrDA, virtual serial ports and telephony. Each of these technologies acts as the underlying layer for the functionality covered in section three.
- Section 3 discusses higher-level technologies, such as the messaging framework and plugins (for SMS, MMS, and e-mail), the SendAs service, OBject EXchange (OBEX), hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and OMA Device Management (OMA DM).
- Section 4 contains practical information on developing with Symbian OS, including information on setting the development environment up for various types of communications-related development. Much development can be done using the Symbian OS emulator and various ways of connecting the emulator to an IP network, and using an IR pod, Bluetooth hardware, and a phone with the emulator are discussed.

Labels: sony ericsson, Symbian

TWUIK, is a UI technology that we recently launched at JavaONE '07. It allows carriers, developers, content providers to easily create high impact visual UI, snazzy animation and dazzling graphics for your applications. Without any esoteric graphics and math techniques, developers and content providers can create fluid, stutter-free effects and experiences. You can catch a glimps from our YouTube videos how we easily replicate mockups of Apple iPhone, Microsoft ZenZUI, Yahoo GO, Nokia Widsets UIs to quickly turn around a product idea into implementation. This would greatly help your company to deploy mobile solutions quickly and speed up time to market and yet most importantly differentiate with a killer User Interface. (more)

Labels: Iphone, LG, Miscellaneous, Motorola, Nokia, Other mobile phone brands, Samsung, sony ericsson, Symbian

After a day and a half I realize that a smaller secondary phone may not have to have a qwerty.

Labels: sony ericsson, Symbian

This is an original and creative way for all you folks who wants to protect your valuable Nokia N95. This is a good way to totally prevent scratches but will that transparent cover leave residue when peeled off.

Labels: Miscellaneous, Nokia, Symbian