Thursday, 10. May 2007, 15:19:30
p1, sony ericsson, symbian, smartphone
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Here's the latest from Sony Ericsson if you want to make your friends (and the guy at the cell phone outlet) drool... enter the P1. Based on the UIQ form factor, this device sports a QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera, WLAN and Voip, touchscreen display and loads more. If you aren't familiar with UIQ its an open platform that offers broad potential for multimedia applications from operators/carriers, content owners and third party developers and sits on the Symbian OS. My colleagur Richard wrote up a nice piece on the device after an interview with a key SE Exec. See
http://www.symbianone.com/content/view/4490//
Sunday, 25. March 2007, 15:17:30
symbian, wireless, smartphone, symbianone
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Symbian generously gave companies a heads up on a big announcement taking place next week... the release of Symbian OS 9.5. The company asked companies to observe an embargo, unfortunately allaboutsymbian could help trhemselves and decided to not only mention the release (which Symbian said was fine to do), however, they actually posted the entire press announcment, basically blowing the embargo deal... too bad AAS decided to do this because in my experience this typically screws it up for everyone else in the future as the company will likely not send pre-announcemnents any more if people are going to ignore their requests (whay Rafe would do this is beyond me!). Anyway, since the cat's out of the bag, here's a few details... Some details include... Symbian smartphones based on Symbian OS v9.5 will support rich multimedia experiences with advanced camera features similar to standalone digital cameras with 35 new features including image orientation following tilt sensor, preset image enhancements, digital/optical zoom, auto focus spots, panorama stitch, image distortion correction auto-focus such as red-eye reduction. With improved seamless connectivity to home computers, enabling the easy transfer of music, videos and images, one smartphone can replace several devices. In addition, with support for multi-standard digital TV (DVB-H, ISDB-T) and standardised LBS, the Symbian smartphone will bring true convergence to consumers worldwide. Symbian OS v9.5, backward compatible with all versions of the v9 family - for more info see www.symbian.com
