Want To Meet People Without Being Noticed?
Perhaps it's a social no-no in your country: making eye contact, approaching or talking to the opposite sex in public, or perhaps you don't want people to know your sexual preference. New phone application RendezBlu uses Bluetooth to gather the profile of people who are within 30 feet of you and also running the application. As long as your preferences match, the phone will store their profile until you either shut off your phone or upload the profiles to the web.
While currently limited to phones running Symbia S60 version 3 and Windows Mobile version 6.1, there are more platforms under development. The range is about 30ft, which is what you would expect from Bluetooth. With RendezBlu running behind the scenes on your phone, you could "meet" other people by simply being in close proximity to them, all without bringing attention to yourself from prying eyes. This little application can definitely assist people to "meet" other people in public without anyone knowing. Once at home, you can visit Rendezblu (dot) com and review your contacts in total privacy. You have the choice of deleting any profile you do not like (they will not be notified), or you can invite them for further contact. Once you've obtained their email address, you are free to correspond using your favorite email client and without going through the site, which is an added bonus.
Stuck With a Bad Date?
You've just realized that the date you're currently with has been a total disaster and waste of time and money. You have nothing in common, or there is not much to talk about. If only you could salvage the rest of the evening and meet that cute blond over the other side of the bar: While you would not abruptly dump your date and walk over there (you do have a warm, beating heart), a tiny phone application running in the background could come in handy in situations such as these. RendezBlu is a Mobile application development which attempts to gather the profiles of other users who match your preferences via Bluetooth.
The range is about 30ft or 10m. You will also need internet access to upload your contacts. In our hypothetical scenario, you could still finish the nightmarish date and still leave with 5 contacts in the "bag" before night's end, all without even having a single "look" around. Not a total loss after all.
RendezBlu can run on Symbian S60 Version 3 and Windows Mobile 6.1 phones for now, with more operating systems under development. You simply upload your contacts to the web, go online and contact whomever you fancy in the privacy of your own home. You cannot add other members to your network, only the ones you have actually "met" through the application. If you shut off your phone before doing the upload, you lose all your contacts. Alternatively you could upload them to the web and delete anyone with a profile you do not like. Next time let RendezBlu do all the hard work for you and enjoy your night out.
Presented By: Articlesbase.comBeing an open source application, Android has never went through restrictions over development. But as a leader to the Open Handset Alliance, Google devised a path that allowed a native code development, which will enable developers to execute the code directly on the micro-processors of a device. Recently, Google released its NDK 1.6, which is much-hyped as a blaster kit allowing rapid native mobile application development to derive the results.
What is NDK?
The NDK (Native Development Kit) is an adjunct to the Android Software Development Kit, which enables developers to generate and execute native machines within application packages. This code adopts the same restrictions as the Virtual Machine code, but it can embed a big list of operations, rapidly. This is a kind of ultimate tool to Android app developers since it can do heavy computations, digitized processes and developers can even port some performance-sensitive portions of their existing applications coded in ARM assembly language C and C++, which can call-out a live Java application through Java interface. Few types of applications that are inefficient in creating interpreted Java, for instance, a real-time business intelligence supported by the mobile device, will work as native code. This kind of approach by the native code does not allow the application to slip out the sandbox created by the Operating System and specially, the native coded apps can't be executed from the GUI, directly.
NDK 1.6 , What it has?
It's a good news for Android app developers, that some new improvements have been introduced in the recent NDK 1.6. As seen in the Android's official site, the new release has:
The capability to directly call-out the OpenGL functions which enhances the graphic rendering to big screen mobiles.
The new NDK can parse the properties and can find which platform it was targeted. Then, it will automatically generate libraries in the native code. All sources like C, C++ and Java can be placed under the same tree for easier editing. Increases the performance of memory-intensive operations, and promises a big-drop in battery drain
And hot fixes to increase the host system abilities.
X code and Eclipse:
X code (iPhone's IDE) is a great development kit. Its like a rainbow of different tools which range from interface designing tool, debugging tool, advanced compilers, memory analysis tools, memory leak finders, simulation and even icon designing tools. That's pretty much more than you need.
But Eclipse, (Android's IDE) is a Java-based kit. We can say that it is a pretty straight-forward SDK, since you can easily know what's going on from the start till end. Luckily, Android SDK allows to integrate all libraries, compilers, emulators into a mixture.
Like Apple's App store, Google is positioning itself to design and run its own Android market. But it will take a long time, since iPhone's app store is considered as the most organized integrated application market on the Internet. Till the second quarter of 2009, app store reached 1.5 billion downloads. The reason is the smooth integration of iTunes with the device but Google thinks that the concept of App Store will eventually vanish and the web will take over, everything else.
Since, Android is open source, it liberally allows introduction and execution of innovative technologies. The platform will grow as a big giant as the open-source developer communities constantly support the path. Android has gained a global recognition all over the world but Apple's iPhone takes the credit to spark up the industry where in the past, most mobile applications were either media players or simple race games that looked like 16-bit Nintendo stuff. ?
The release of the Android 1.6 NDK to the developing community indicates that the Android team had started to attract more developers to the platform - especially the Symbian developers, and possibly, the iPhone developers who feel that their hard work plunges in to the pool of hundreds of thousand apps, which is clogging the enormous iTunes App Store. Let's wait and see, what this open source application, will bring to the world.
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A phone using the Symbian operating system is able to integrate several software applications at once, such as word processors, internet browser and email. The first phone on the Symbian OS was the Nokia 9210. It was launched in 2000 and was a fairly ordinary-looking handset with the old style black-on-green screen and simple keypad:at first glance.
Opening it up revealed a full QWERTY keyboard and colour screen, almost like a mini laptop. It could be used to send emails, browse the internet and it featured a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation viewer and file/contents manager. All this from a fairly basic-looking handset.
Since the 9210 the Symbian OS has appeared on several new handsets, with more and more software being developed to make use of them. A regular feature on the Symbian OS is the ability to send and receive emails as well as access instant messaging, full internet access and even hook the handset up to your TV.
Nokia seems to have cornered the market in Britain when it comes to Symbian phones, with handsets in all shapes and sizes from clamshells to sliders to PDA's. There's even a handset which looks like a small camcorder; the Nokia N93i is capable of video capture of DVD quality, as well as mobile TV software to turn it into a portable television.
But Nokia are by no means the only manufacturer to jump on the Symbian bandwagon. Ericsson, LG, Samsung and Motorola all have handsets carrying this technology too. The Motorola Z8 also carries yet another new feature; a 'kick-slider'. This means that when the phone slides up, it forms a curve which fits the shape of your face letter than a standard handset would. Not exactly a feat of modern technology, but sometimes the simplest things are the best.
While Symbian phones are the top end of the technology spectrum at the moment, they're still reasonably priced. Some are even available on a pay as you go tariff, for those who don't want to be tied to a monthly package. Look on the internet and mobile phone retailers for the best deals.
Look for pay monthly or pay as you go mobile phones on the Symbian OS. Compare tarriffs and deals on mobile phones before you buy. You can often find the best deals on mobile phones if you buy online.
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In 1980, Psion Software was founded by David Potter.
EPOC16. Psion released several Series 3 devices from 1991 to 1998 which used the EPOC16 OS, also known as SIBO.
EPOC OS Releases 13. The Series 5 device, released in 1997, used the first iterations of the EPOC32 OS.
EPOC Release 4. Oregon Osaris and Geofox 1 were released using ER4.
In 1998, Symbian Ltd. was formed as a partnership between Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion, to explore the convergence between PDAs and mobile phones.
EPOC Release 5 a.k.a. Symbian OS v5. Psion Series 5mx, Series 7, Psion Revo, Psion Netbook, netPad, Ericsson MC218 were released in 1999 using ER5.
ER5u a.k.a. Symbian OS v5.1. u Unicode. The first phone, the Ericsson R380 was released using ER5u in 2000. It was not an 'open' phone - software could not be installed. Notably, a number of never released Psion prototypes for next generation PDAs, including a Bluetooth Revo successor codenamed Conan were using ER5u.
Symbian OS v6.0 and v6.1. Sometimes called ER6. The first 'open' Symbian OS phone, the Nokia 9210, was released on 6.0.
Symbian OS v7.0 and v7.0s. First shipped in 2003. This is an important Symbian release which appeared with all contemporary user interfaces including UIQ (Sony Ericsson P800, P900, P910, Motorola A925, A1000), Series 80 (Nokia 9300, 9500), Series 90 (Nokia 7710), Series 60 (Nokia 6600, 7310) as well as several FOMA phones in Japan.
In 2004, Psion sold its stake in Symbian.
Also in 2004, the first worm for mobile phones using Symbian OS, Cabir, was developed, which used Bluetooth to spread itself to nearby phones. See Cabir and Symbian OS threats.
Symbian OS v8.0. First shipped in 2004, one of its advantages would have been a choice of two different kernels (EKA1 or EKA2). However, the EKA2 kernel version did not ship until SymbianOS v8.1b. The kernels behave more or less identically from user-side, but are internally very different. EKA1 was chosen by some manufacturers to maintain compatibility with old device drivers, whilst EKA2 offered advantages such as a hard real-time capability. v8.0b was deproductized in 2003.
Symbian OS v8.1. Basically a cleaned-up version of 8.0, this was available in 8.1a and 8.1b versions, with EKA1 and EKA2 kernels respectively. The 8.1b version, with EKA2's single-chip phone support but no additional security layer, was popular among Japanese phone companies desiring the realtime support but not allowing open application installation.
Symbian OS v9.0. This version was used for internal
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One of the emerging trends in mobile marketplace has been the increasing adoption of smartphones. When we talk of smartphones, Symbian is the first word that comes to our mind since it has taken over 70% of the existing smartphone market. Symbian OS is an open operating system that powers the most popular and advanced smartphones from the world's leading handset manufacturers. Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturer like for example Nokia and some other leading names such as Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Fujitsu, LG Electronics, Motorola, Mitsubishi Electric, Sharp and others.
Symbian has all those salient features that make it stand apart from other operating systems. It targets mass market by providing a wide range of products with wireless connectivity and offers an open platform for independent software developers. It has maintained a continuous focus on improved user experience, by keeping in mind the diverse individuality of different users. Other than this the phones with Symbian operating system include basic features such as calendars, contacts, messaging, push email and web browsing, but can also extend easily to any enterprise information system.
Looking at the sole success of Symbian phones it is found out that 20.4 million Symbian smartphones have been shipped in quarter 3 of 2007. Symbian is also the leading OS for smartphones in China with a market share of 60% in Q2 2007. The robustness, security and ease of customization of Symbian OS contributes greatly to the possibility of short development time for a wide variety of handsets making it over 30 million Symbian smartphones shipped in Japan up until the end of November 2007.
In the previous few months, we have been witnessing some major industry changes in which Google has launched a new operating system called as "Android". Android is built from ground up with the goal of being the first open, complete and free platform. It has managed to gain a broad developer base and industry support from the leading companies such as T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and many others. Some leading mobile operating systems of mobile communication industry such as Symbian and Microsoft have still denied in becoming a part of it.
Nokia has remained a global market leader that uses Symbian OS. A recent rumour has been that Microsoft is trying to grab Symbian's share by convincing Nokia to move to Windows mobile OS. Although Microsoft still has quite less chance of becoming successful since they share only meager part of smartphone market. But we have to consider the fact that if Nokia shifts towards Microsoft, how this will affect the dominance of Symbian OS. However for the moment, it is indeed pleasing to find that Symbian OS - based smartphones have gained immense amount of popularity in a very short time and they truly have a great beneficial and positive impact on the mobile industry.
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The .SIS extension identifies an installer application used for Symbian operating systems. SIS stands for Symbian Installation System or Source and it provides a simple and consistent user interface for installing applications, data, or configuration information to Symbian OS devices. End users install components packaged in Symbian OS Installation (.sis) files either from a PC using connectivity software, or from a Symbian OS phone using an on-board installation program. The Symbian operating system is used by a range of mobile devices and hence could be associated any one of a large number of brands of mobile phone.
What is Symbian OS?
Symbian OS is an open project operating system, which was mainly developed for the use on smart mobile phone devices. The development of the Symbian OS was spawned by a joint partnership in 1998 by big name companies such as Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, and Psion. This venture was proposed in order to exploit the convergence between PDAs and mobile phones, creating a new hybrid phone which is called a PDA phone or a smart phone with greater functionality and sophistication. In 2008 Nokia announced that they intended to acquire the rest of the Symbian shares, trademark and name.
The first version of the Symbian OS was named EPOC and was designed by Psion. It runs exclusively on ARM processors.
How to create SIS files? (For developers)
The tools mentioned here are all mentioned on the Symbian website. Four tools are provided to enable developers to create installation files.
* CreateSIS, is a wrapper for MakeSIS, SignSIS and MakeKeys
* MakeSIS, the Installation File Generator, creates the installation files from a specification provided in a package file.
* MakeKeys, the Certificate Generator, creates private/public key pairs, which are used by SignSIS to digitally sign installation files.
* SignSIS, the Installation File Signer, digitally signs installation files with a specified key.
How to install SIS files on your mobile device?
A file with extension SIS is an installation file for Symbian OS, and not an application file, as sometimes believed. The proper Symbian application is the .APP file. The .APP file is generated whenever the SIS file is installed on your mobile device.
Since the introduction of Platform Security (PlatSec) in Symbian OS v9.1, the number of rules to follow in order to get an application installed has increased almost exponentially, to the point where it has become quite difficult to remember them all. This fact, coupled with the poor feedback provided by the S60 and UIQ installer User Interfaces, and often confusing advice from various sources often leads to intense frustration.
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Symbian OS is the operating system that powers today''s most popular smart phones , including Nokia 7610, Sony Ericsson P 910, Siemens SX 1, Panasonic X 700 and Motorola A 1000. Symbian OS v9.5 is the newest version of Symbian that provide you around70 new set of features for the better performance. It Provide highly featured mobile phone with powerful features for the market. In recent new series of mobile phones are well known for known for its popularity in market. In Nokia Mobile Phones Symbian series are available as well as Nokia Series 60v2, Nokia Series 80, also you will find in Siemens 60 UI, and Sony-Ericsson P800-900 with Symbian software. Symbian software runs on the ARM processor that offers to user to access any information whatever they want.
Symbian operating system is to integrate many software applications to use at the once. Like as as word processors, internet browser, email, download, surfing chatting all it once. For your kind information is that the Nokia has released first Symbian Os mobile phone is the Nokia 9210 which is. The first phone on the Symbian OS was the Nokia 9210. It was launched in 2000 and was a fairly ordinary-looking handset with the old style black-on-green screen and simple keypad at first glance.
Symbian OS is built by Apple to run on their iPhone. The iPhone OS is actually a stripped down, but complete version of the original OS X operating system. This OS supports media playback identical to the iPod line, but with a layout designed to take advantage of the phone's multi-touch screen. Symbian OS application ecosystem is expanding at an average of 30% per quarter. According to Symbian OS applications are the highest selling smart phone applications. Furthe rmore. Try More than 1,000 free software titles for your Symbian OS powered series s60, UIQ, Nokia, Sony Ericsson phone.
Symbian Smartphone is not just a phone. It can also be a powerful eBook Reader thanks to the Mob pocket eBook Reader. The good news is that this application is free and runs on all Symbian Smartphones. Freeware and shareware software titles for Symbian powered smart phone and mobile phone themes, games, utilities, sport and music downloads
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There have been major advancements in the mobile operating system. What we see today is the advanced technology based smart phones. Thanks to the development of Symbian software that has brought about a revolution all across the globe. Symbian software enables the average user not just to talk over the phone but to do much more than that. To be precise, it allows the user to surf the Internet over the phone itself, play online games, listen to their favorite numbers and last but not least click beautiful pictures. A couple of years ago, nobody could have ever thought that all these functions would be possible through a compact phone. Symbian software is an addition to the usual operating software systems such as Windows Mobile, Java (J2ME) and Embedded Linux.
Symbian software has raised the bar and set stringent quality standards. It is of great use in sending the Multimedia SMS. Most of the phone providers have resorted to the Symbian software system. To name a few leading companies that have made an extensive use of Symbian software are Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. The basic idea is to make the phone more functional. Symbian operating system has received license from the top phone manufacturers of the world. It is designed keeping in mind the requirements of the high tech 3G mobile phones. Symbian software has made an attempt to integrate the advanced applications environment with the mobile telephonic system to provide the highly sophisticated data services to the common man.
Symbian OS v9.5 is the latest version of Symbian that offers approximately 70 new set of features for greater performance level. It has made possible to provide highly powerful smart phones at the cost of mass market. The recent mobile phone series is known for its scalability in the global market. Popular Symbian mobile phone series are Nokia Series 60, Nokia Series 60v2, Nokia Series 80, Siemens 60 UI, and Sony-Ericsson P800-900. Symbian software runs on the ARM processor that allows the user to access any kind of information.
S60 is presently one of the leading mobile phone platforms worlds over. The credit for its development goes to Nokia. Nokia has given the licensing to other manufacturers as well including Samsung, LG Electronics, Lenovo, and Panasonic. The display resolution of the S60 mobile phone device is 176x208. S60 enjoys a competitive advantage due to the fact that it supports multiple resolutions such as Basic (176x208), QVGA (240x320) and Double (352x416). Nokia N90 is the original device with a very high resolution.
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Mobile phones have become a comprehensible communication device that the modern day individuals use for multifarious activities. The usage of mobile phone is not limited to communication but the device is also used as a mode of entertainment. Mobile phones also had a substantial impact on the industry of information and technology as they are nowadays even used for getting access to the Internet. Symbian Mobile Applications have enabled the mobile users to get the benefit of using the mobile phones. Symbian Apps often uses Symbian operating system that is particularly designed for the mobile phones.
Symbian Applications are used in the mobile phone handsets of a number of mobile phone manufacturers. It is at present owned by a number of major mobile phone manufacturers in the likes of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Siemens and many others. The majority of the share is owned by the Finland based mobile manufacturer Nokia with a holding up to 47.9 %. Ericsson and Sony Ericsson have got holdings up to 15.6 % and 13.1 % respectively. Its OS is believed to be consisting of structures with close resemblance to that of numerous desktop operating systems. The operating system of Symbian thus contains structure with memory protection and even pre-emptive multitasking. It also has multi threading. Symbian mobile applications came into existence mainly due to the advent of the its operating systems. The major advantage that the Symbian OS has over other applications is that it can be used effectively on the hand held devices such as the likes of PDA and mobile phones. The Symbian technology also enhances the memory of the mobile phones. With the correct usage of the mobile applications the life of comprehensible parts like battery also gets enhanced.
Symbian applications are now been used in most of the new mobile phone hand sets produced by a host of mobile phone manufacturers. In a number of popular mobile phone sets manufactured by Nokia, like Nokia N75, Nokia E90, Nokia N81 and many other N series mobile phones Symbian OS 9.2 version is embedded. The newest of Symbian operating system comprises 9.3 and 9.5. Symbian is not considered as open source software. Although the various phone manufacturers and different partners are time to time provided with some parts of its source code.
Based upon Symbian mobile apps, a wide array of mobile handsets have been launched in the market. The first mobile phone having Symbian apps was launched by Ericsson in the year 2000. Ericsson R380 was the set in which Symbian OS had been used for the first time.
With the passage of time a wide array of mobile manufacturers have also started using the Symbian mobile applications. Nokia 9210 Communicator smartphone launched in the year 2004 was also enabled with Symbian operating systems.
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Every Symbian developer knows that the most of mobile applications for new Symbian devices have to go through the special certification, a Symbian Signing. For many small development companies this new initiative of Symbian has turned to a plaque and made the development of Symbian applications not interesting financially. Symbian market becomes to be dominated by companies, not single developers.
What does the Symbian Signing bring? There are some benefits and some drawbacks as always.
Beneficial is this mobile software certification system first of all for the consumer. Buying the certified applications the consumer can be sure that there is a certification authority that has tested the application, so it can not crash the system or include viruses.
The main drawback is felt by the developers. They have pay more, wait unpredicted time for the certification and have to fill out many papers to pass the Symbian Signing.
There are some general tips on how to pass the Symbian Signing in first round testing. These tips were gathered from the real company experience, so they also may help your company or team.
The preparing for Symbian Signing begins at the application planning. Please, make your application as simple as it is possible. Take away all steps that are not easy to test or that can cause questions. If it is hard to use and to test the application, you will for sure get questions from Symbian Signed teams.
During application installation, do not forget to place the announcements for the user that warn him about all exceptions that your application has (like application can not be installed on MMC). At the first start of the application you have to announce the user about all features of the phone the application is using, and tell the support mail for the case of questions. You have to place the warnings of the features use on every first feature usage, even if it sounds odd for you.
Be sure that your application not crashes and not closes unexpectedly, and has no obvious bugs that are really bugs, and can not be claimed as normal application behaviour. Bugs and crashing will for sure add one round to your testing.
Before Symbian Signed submission please make sure that you have run the last Symbian Signed tests on your application. Yes, it is time consuming, but it is worth it. Please note that for every test that you can not run you have to write exceptions with explanations: why this test can not be run or why you think that this test is not applicable to your application. It is also worth to make sure that you are using the last version of the tests, as they change often and without reason.
In your texts and explanations that you are submitting to the testing house you have to be as precise as possible. If you are sure that the error will occur, find a good reason for its occurring. But if you know that the error is small and very hard to find it is recommended that you just not mention it and hope for the best.
Symbian Signing is not so difficult as it may seem. If you are accurate enough and treat the process with humour you will soon be able to get the application accepted in the first round.
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