Design Dimensions Size:123.7 x 62.4 x 13.6 mm Weight (with battery): 176 g Volume: 97.8 cc Display and user interface Nokia ClearBlack display for improved outdoor visibility Screen size: 4″ Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) AMOLED 16 million colours Capacitive touch screen Orientation sensor (Accelerometer) Compass (Magnetometer) Proximity sensor Ambient light detector Keys [...]

The newly released Qt SDK 1.1 Tech Preview supports Qt Quick, a UI technology that enables developers and UI designers to work together and create animated, touch-enabled UIs and applications easily. The technology and tooling makes for such quick development, we thought we’d have a quick competition. For your chance to win one of several new [...]

Ovi Maps Rendering API provides easy and fast access to pre-rendered map data for all regions of the world for displaying position data. The Ovi Maps Rendering API is a Java based service, running in servlet containers for Tomcat. The given parameters in the URL request are parsed. Based on this, the required map tiles [...]

Hendy Irawan has put up a great post on how you can sign Symbian/Qt Apps on the fly on Linux (Ubuntu) OS. With the latest version of Qt Creator 2.0+ (included in Nokia Qt SDK) you can now easily sign Qt/Symbian applications (.SIS files) with your Symbian Signed certificate and key files. The best part [...]

Kudos to Pankaj and Bogdan for this amazing book. Python on Symbian is a great way to start your adventure in mobile programming! Python applications (“apps”) look like native C++ apps, can access the same important platform services, and can be distributed through the same channels. The main difference between Python apps and native C++ apps [...]

Mobile developers can help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems and compete for cash prizes in the World Bank’s Apps for Development competition. To enter, developers must create apps that support the bank’s Millenium Development Goal Indicators, a set of of ambitious goals to alleviate world hunger and extreme poverty. Entries will be [...]

Nokia along with other device manufacturers have looked at ways to address the battery life consumer experience issue with push notifications and are pleased to introduce a shared-push notification service which can be enabled on 3rd party apps using the Notification API. With the service enabled, applications on Nokia devices don’t need to constantly poll [...]

People at Qt labs have worked hard to make Qt Quick development easier, productive and fun for you.  For Qt Creator 2.1 they have the following new features: A fancy Quick Editing Toolbar The toolbar makes it easier to edit properties like colors, text or gradients. A QML JS Debugger QML snippets QML code refactoring [...]

A true account on going big with unlimited possibilities in Nokia’s Ovi store, by Kiran Patel. Ever since Nokia decided to start their own Ovi store, people out there were checking on the possibilities to publish their contents as an individual. Time went by and it is now knocking your doors. Welcome it without fail! [...]

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 [...]

The Symbian Foundation today announced its annual event, the Symbian Exchange and Exposition 2010 (SEE 2010), which will be held at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on the 9th and 10th November. Attendance is free and the event is open to all. To register, visit www.see2010.org. Just as Symbian has broadened its mission to driving [...]

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. [...]