Nokia Developer Newsletter

June 3, 2008

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In this issue

1. Open C/C++ Plug-ins for S60 3rd Edition Leverage Desktop Skills
2. Java Verified Renewal on the Way
3. S60 Summit: New Device, New Member, and New Program
4. Forum Nokia Announces Code Camp Competition Winners
5. Meet Python with New Forum Nokia eLearning Module
6. Developer Spotlight: UbiSafe Helps Parents Track Family Locations

Open C/C++ Plug-ins for S60 3rd Edition Leverage Desktop Skills

Forum Nokia recently released Open C/C++ Plug-ins for S60 3rd Edition, which lets developers leverage their desktop C or C++ skills to create new applications and middleware — or to port older desktop applications and middleware — for S60 3rd Edition devices. The Open C/C++ Plug-ins for S60 3rd Edition package includes a plug-in for S60 3rd Edition SDKs, for Symbian OS, for C++, and a set of plug-ins for S60 3rd Edition devices. The plug-ins deliver the headers and libraries that enable application development and testing on a PC and the execution of software on S60 3rd Edition devices. The plug-in package also includes example applications and comprehensive documentation of the APIs.

The Open C/C++ Plug-ins for S60 3rd Edition replace the older Open C plug-ins. The new plug-ins include: various fixes for standard C (Open C) APIs, new standard C++ APIs, and a new Real-Time Graphics and Audio (RGA) API.

Download the new Open C/C++ Plug-ins for S60 3rd Edition.

Java Verified Renewal on the Way

At the recent JavaOne conference in San Francisco, the Java Verified team introduced a new R&D Signing Service and Publisher ID requirement. Both will be available in September. The R&D Signing Service will provide a free-of-charge opportunity to sign Java™ Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) applications for testing purposes. The Publisher ID, akin to a passport to Java Verified services, will cost approximately $200 a year and will be provided by TC Trustcenter. Developers who already have TC Trustcenter Publisher IDs for Symbian Signed can continue using them.

Check out the Java Verified testing program.

S60 Summit: New Device, New Member, and New Program

At the recent S60 Summit in Barcelona, Spain, manufacturer Samsung introduced an S60-based phone for business users, Sasken joined the S60 community, and a program for S60 early adopters was launched. Also, Nokia announced that more than 150 million S60 devices had been shipped by all licensees as of this past January. Here are the details:

Samsung's new mobile device, the business-style L870, is based on the S60 platform and features a 2.4-inch QVGA display, 3-megapixel camera, Push e-mail, document viewer/editor, and more. The announcement brings the total number of S60 devices in the marketplace to 79.

Sasken Communication Technologies of Bangalore, India, has joined the S60 Product Creation Community. Sasken offers consulting, products, and services for embedded communications. In addition, Sasken Wireless IP has shipped more than 50 million phones across networks in Australia, China, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan.

The S60 community launched the S60 Ambassador program to encourage and engage early-adopting consumers to discuss and share information on S60-based products, services, and applications. Members of the Ambassador program can also send feedback to the S60 community.

Check out the new Samsung L870 based on the S60 platform.

Discover more about Sasken and its work with the S60 community.

Explore and join the S60 Ambassador program.

Forum Nokia Announces Code Camp Competition Winners

Forum Nokia has announced the winners of the 2008 Code Camp Competition. The contest aimed at inspiring Forum Nokia Code Camp attendees to build Web Runtime (WRT) widgets and Flash applications. The winners are:

Grand Prizes

• Flash: CityLite by MSCorp of Coral Springs, Florida. A mobile guide to night life, restaurants, and entertainment venues in Latin American cities.
• WRT: Flickret from Mark Caunter of the U.K. A mashup that combines the Flickr photo-sharing application with MapQuest APIs to let users look for and get directions to places of interest.

Regional Winners

• Europe/Middle East/Africa
  • Flash: Kuneri Easy Vote from Kuneri of Oulu, Finland. One-button mobile voting lets users vote by mobile phone call, text message, or Web service.
  • WRT: Flickret from Mark Caunter of the U.K. This mashup is a grand prize winner.
• Americas
  • Flash: CityLite by MSCorp of Coral Springs, Florida. This mobile guide is a grand prize winner.
  • WRT: Fon11 by Mo'Blast of Berkeley, California. A mobile social-networking utility that lets users share their whereabouts with friends and family and determine if their contacts are nearby.
• Asia-Pacific
  • Flash: WIND from Fieldsystem. This screen saver displays an image of a propeller turning in the wind. If the mobile signal is strong, the propeller spins quickly; if the signal weakens, the propeller spins more slowly. Also, the screen saver's background scenery changes throughout the day.
  • WRT: Nutrition from Singapore Polytechnic. This widget is used for calculating your BMI and also calories burned on a daily basis, and it can help the user to check typical food nutrition in order to maintain a healthy life style.
• China
  • WRT: Push To Speak from Beijing Motech Technology. This mobile travel guide to China helps tourists search for restaurants, places of interest, streets, and more. Also, when the user clicks a word, the software "speaks" the word in Chinese, a useful feature for asking directions and instructing taxi drivers. The latest version includes information relating to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

View the full list of the 2008 Code Camp Competition winners.

Keep up with the Forum Nokia Code Camps.

Meet Python with New Forum Nokia eLearning Module

Get introduced to Python, the open source programming language optimized for rapid application prototyping, with a new Forum Nokia eLearning module. Python is an object-oriented scripting language that is easy to learn and use and is supported on many platforms. The new eLearning module is an introduction to Python that will give students an idea of where and how the language can be used and show how to write Python programs that run on the S60 platform. The eLearning module assumes some familiarity with object-oriented programming languages.

Download the new Python eLearning module.

Check out Python for S60.

Developer Spotlight: UbiSafe Helps Parents Track Family Locations

Where in the world are your family members and friends — and are they safe? These urgent questions are addressed by UbiSafe, a new location-based service (LBS) from developer UbiEst S.p.A. of Treviso, Italy. The company's UbiSafe service uses a Java platform-based client for mobile devices that handles personal security, contact locating, and emergency needs. A user of UbiSafe can stay in touch with family members, friends, and people with special needs. UbiSafe also lets the user monitor the real-time location of these contacts on maps. Users monitoring children can also set a geographic radius of security, essentially a safe area they want the child to remain within. If the child moves beyond the designated area, the UbiSafe service sends the adult user an alert in the form of an SMS message to his or her mobile device, then allows the user to call the child or take other actions. UbiSafe recently won the Grand Prize at the 2008 NAVTEQ LBS Challenge, EMEA Edition. "Winning gave us a real measure of the quality and technical value of what we're doing," says Nicola De Mattia, UbiEst's chief executive officer.

Explore more about UbiSafe.

Upcoming Events

Americas

Forum Nokia Code Camp: Location-Based Services: June 10

Are you looking to get up to speed on the exciting world of location technologies? Look no further! In this exciting LBS session, we'll cover the latest enabling technologies for building location-aware mobile applications and services, including positioning technologies, POI management, mapping and navigation, and service integration. The content will be delivered by top Nokia experts and select members of the location-based ecosystem.
Learn more and register »

EMEA (Africa, Middle-East, Europe)

Navigation and Location Europe 2008: June 4-5

This is the premier conference for everything navigation and LBS. This year will see a special focus on mobile application developers and location-based services. With more than 50 speakers from such companies as Nokia, Motorola, Orange, O2, Telenor, Garmin, TomTom, Tele Atlas, and Panasonic, this year’s conference is set to be huge. Forum Nokia will deliver a special LBS workshop, and, to celebrate, we're making available a limited number of deeply discounted, 400-euro developer tickets. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to make connections with the people who really matter — apply now for a 400-euro developer ticket.
Learn more »

Asia-Pacific

Forum Nokia S60 Application Development Code Camp: Beijing: June 12-13

In this hands-on session, learn about developing mobile applications or services for the S60 platform. Check back soon for more information.
Read more and register

Forum Nokia LBS Development Code Camp: Beijing: June 19

In this hands-on session, learn about developing location-based services (LBS) for the S60 platform.
Read more and register

New Tools and SDKs:

Open C/C++ Plug-ins for S60 3rd Edition
Open C/C++ plug-ins for S60 3rd Edition provide developers with access to a comprehensive range of standard C/C++ libraries. Application --- Development Tool; Multi-Platform Development, Open C, S60 ... S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 / S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2, S60 --- Symbian OS; English (en)

Extensions plug-in package for S60 3rd Edition SDK for Symbian OS, for C++, supporting Feature Pack 1, Version 2.5
This is an Extensions plug-in package for S60 3rd Edition SDK for Symbian OS, for C++, supporting Feature Pack 1. PLEASE NOTICE THE FOLLOWING ISSUES WITH THESE APIs: 1. Nokia is not giving any binary compatibility promise for these APIs; neither between platform versions or within a platform version. 2. You must test your application with each device that the application can be installed on. This is needed to ensure the best possible user experience. To prevent application installation on other than tested devices, define the Product ID/s (also known as Machine UID) in the .pkg file. More information can be found in the document S60 Platform: Identification Codes available on the Forum Nokia Web site. Application --- Software Development Kit; S60 ... S60 3rd Edition, S60; Zip Archive (.zip); English (en)

Extensions plug-in package for S60 3rd Edition SDK for Symbian OS, for C++, supporting Feature Pack 2, Version 1.1
This is an Extensions plug-in for S60 3rd Edition SDK for Symbian OS, for C++, supporting Feature Pack 2. PLEASE NOTICE THE FOLLOWING ISSUES WITH THESE APIs: 1. Nokia is not giving any binary compatibility promise for these APIs; neither between platform versions or within a platform version. 2. You must test your application with each device that the application can be installed on. This is needed to ensure the best possible user experience. To prevent application installation on other than tested devices, define the Product ID/s (also known as Machine UID) in the .pkg file. More information can be found in the document S60 Platform: Identification Codes available on the Forum Nokia Web site. Application --- Software Development Kit; S60 ... S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2, S60; Zip Archive (.zip); English (en)

Python for the S60 Platform eLearning
Learn about Python, the open source programming language optimized for rapid application prototyping. It is an object-oriented scripting language that is easy to learn and use and supported on many platforms. This module gives students an idea of where and how the language can be used, and show how to write Python programs that run on the S60 platform. The module assumes some familiarity with object-oriented programming languages. Training Course ... eLearning; Getting Started, Open Source, Python, S60, S60; English (en)

New Devices:

Nokia 6600 fold
The Nokia 6600 fold is a class 10 quad-band hand portable phone, supporting GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 850/2100. The Nokia 6600 fold features a 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, USB 2.0 Full Speed, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, Bluetooth stereo, Flash Lite 3.0 and MIDP Java 2.1 with additional Java APIs.

Nokia 6600 slide
The Nokia 6600 slide quad-band hand portable phone, supporting GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 850/2100. The Nokia 6600 slide features a 3.2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, USB 2.0 Full Speed, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, Bluetooth stereo, Flash Lite 3.0 and MIDP Java 2.1 with additional Java APIs.

Nokia 6212 classic
The Nokia 6212 classic implements the Contactless Communication API (JSR-257), for 3rd party NFC development. Use the Nokia 6212 classic for easy sharing of mobile content between NFC phones or other NFC devices, including service initiation and contact-less ticketing and payment. The Nokia 6212 classic supports dual band WCDMA 850/2100 and quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900. Additional features include support for 4GB microSD cards, USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, Bluetooth stereo, Flash Lite 2.1 and MIDP Java 2.1 with additional Java APIs.

Nokia 5320 XpressMusic
The Nokia 5320 XpressMusic is a dual mode portable multimedia computer supporting EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA/HSDPA 900/2100. The Nokia 5320 XpressMusic supports video calls, photos, and videos with two built-in cameras. Enjoy superior audio quality with dedicated audio chip, and fast and easy music downloads with HSDPA and USB 2.0 High Speed. Additional Nokia 5320 XpressMusic features include Bluetooth 2.0 EDR with A2DP, and 8GB MicroSD memory card support.

Nokia 5220 XpressMusic
The Nokia 5220 XpressMusic is a tri-band music phone for GSM 900/1800/1900 or GSM 850/1800/1900 in some regions. In addition to a 2 megapixel camera, the Nokia 5220 XpressMusic supports 8GB microSD cards for AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA music files, pictures, video, contacts and more. Additional features include USB 2.0 , Bluetooth 2.0, Flash Lite 2.1 and MIDP Java 2.1 with additional Java APIs.

Nokia 3600 slide
The Nokia 3600 slide is a quad-band hand portable phone, supporting GSM 850/900/1800/1900. The Nokia 3600 slide features a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with 8x digital zoom, USB 2.0 Full Speed, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, Bluetooth stereo, Flash Lite 3.0 and MIDP Java 2.1 with additional Java APIs.

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