Nokia Developer Newsletter

March 6, 2007

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In this issue

1. New Device: Nokia 7373 Special Edition
2. Get technical support with PRO Imaging Zone
3. Nokia and Singtel's Multiplayer Game Quest on SNAP Mobile
4. Top Download: Nokia smart2go
5. New Book: "S60 Programming: A Tutorial Guide"
6. Developer Spotlight: F-Secure Protects S60 3rd Edition Devices Against Malware
7. Blog: New Concepts for the Acceleration Sensor
8. Discussion Thread of the Week: Bluetooth games

Coming soon on Forum Nokia: S60 Platform: 3D Game Engine Example

New Device: Nokia 7373 Special Edition

Marketed as a fashion accessory, the new Nokia 7373 Special Edition shows how solid development can complement a modern design aesthetic. Running on the Nokia operating system and the Series 40 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 platform, the 7373 is a GSM triple-band device that supports Java™ MIDP 2.0. The Nokia 7373 is available in Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Learn more.

Get technical support with PRO Imaging Zone

Joining the new Forum Nokia PRO Imaging Zone lets designers, developers and other industry professionals get technical and business development support — including business model sharing — from other member organizations. Designed as a forum to encourage the development of mobile imaging technologies and service experiences, Imaging Zone membership is open to PRO and non-PRO companies.

Click here to learn more about Imaging zone membership.

Nokia and SingTel's Multiplayer Game Quest on SNAP Mobile

The winners of the Nokia and SingTel Multiplayer Game Quest have been announced after several months of exciting competition between Forum Nokia PRO developer finalists from around the world. The winning games will be offered for commercial distribution with SingTel and its regional partners, to more than 112 million subscribers in the Asia Pacific region. The development was performed using the SNAP Mobile platform, Nokia's end-to-end solution for developing connected Java™ mobile games. SNAP Mobile makes adding community features, such as account creation/login, rankings, friends list, and instant messaging, a relatively simple task. Along with getting around-the-clock support through Forum Nokia, developers using SNAP Mobile avoid upfront costs with their hosted server solution and benefit from established operator and/or Nokia distribution channels.

Learn more about SNAP Mobile.

Top Download: Nokia smart2go

Downloaded 30,000 times in its first two days of availability, smart2go's popularity gives developers insight into the future of programming for mobile applications. Smart2go lets users view their location on a map, search for points-of-interests and create routes to get to those points of interest. Smart2go enables mapping and routing in over 150 countries and supports full turn-by-turn satellite navigation in over 30 countries. Nokia is initially offering the smart2go application for free for select Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices and has plans to roll out support for most major mobile development platforms including Nokia's S60 platform, Series 40, PocketPC, and Linux.

Download the smart2go application.

New Book: S60 Programming: A Tutorial Guide

Forum Nokia Champion Paul Coulton and mobile developer Reuben Edwards, have created a practical 328-page guide that will help readers develop Symbian applications. Based on the authors' experiences developing and teaching Symbian, the book offers programmers a series of example-based development scenarios. The text also includes an extended walk-through of the development of a console-based card game engine into a graphical user interface (GUI)-based, two-player blackjack game operating over a Bluetooth connection between two mobile phones. The authors go on to address how Symbian offers a number of different user interface and screen saver variants to allow for different user interfaces and screen sizes. To learn more about how the move toward 3G technology is pushing the need for mobile application development for S60 devices, and to purchase the book, go to: eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470027657.html.

Developer Spotlight: F-Secure Protects S60 3rd Edition Devices Against Malware

Malware writers have set their sights on the smartphone as their latest target. Standing between that malware and the smartphone, however, is a powerful counterforce: F-Secure Corporation. The company's F-Secure Mobile Security, offers a complete mobile security solution with a firewall for S60 3rd Edition devices. It automatically scans all files on the device when they are saved, copied, downloaded, synchronized, or modified. Infected files are quarantined, so the device stays clean. Virus definition updates are automatically retrieved over the air in the background so that a phone is always protected against the latest threats. Forum Nokia PRO's online technical support and feedback allowed F-Secure to access technical information, such as specific API's it needed while developing its F-Secure Mobile Security anti-virus software. The software is sold primarily as a service, rather than an application and is available through a variety of channels: mobile operators, ISPs, and enterprises.

Learn more (PDF).

Blog: New Concepts for the Acceleration Sensor

Learn about new applications for the 3D accelerometer in the Nokia 5500. In this blog entry, Forum Nokia Champion Andreas Jakl lays out two new applications developed by students of the University of Applied Sciences' in Hagengerg, Austria. Building on the "fall detector" application, the new concepts offer innovations for both the sports and automotive industries. One of the programs, gBoarder, monitors movements as a user goes downhill on a snowboard. After the ride, gBoarder displays statistics such as how many times the user has crashed.

Read the blog.

Discussion Thread of the Week: Bluetooth games

Check out the latest updates on an ongoing Forum Nokia discussion thread on Bluetooth multiplayer games. The thread includes a new post about BlueMGF, a SourceForge project that offers a framework for creating Java multiplayer games for mobile devices via Bluetooth. There's already been some talk within the thread of recreating classic 1980s games so that they can be played on mobile devices via Bluetooth — keep reading to see where the discussion will go.

View the multiplayer-games discussion thread

Browse the Forum Nokia discussion boards

Events and Contests

Americas:

BOSSA Conference — International Conference on Open Source Software for Mobile Internet and Multimedia: Pernambuco, Brazil, March 12-14

BOSSA brings together developers, researchers, and industry representatives to discuss the absorption of Linux and open source software into mobile Internet and multimedia technologies. The conference will entail technical discussions involving code as well as discussions about licensing and the direction of open source software development for Internet and multimedia technologies.

Learn more.

Open C Road Show: March 12, Seattle, WA; March 14, San Jose, CA; March 16, Boston, MA

This multi-city Nokia event will teach attendees to begin development on S60. Open C, now part of S60 3rd Edition, is a set of standard POSIX and middleware C libraries that increases developer productivity by enabling the reuse of existing software assets. Those who join Nokia and platinum sponsor Symbian at the Open C Road Show will learn about development tips and tricks, case studies, and best practices, and get to network with Nokia and Symbian representatives and industry peers and leaders.

Seattle Road Show, March 12
San Jose Road Show, March 14
Boston Road Show, March 16

CTIA Wireless 2007: Miami, U.S., March 27-29

Join a star-studded list of speakers and experts and stay in touch with the latest knowledge and competitive intelligence.

Learn more.

Orange Partner Camp: April 16-18, Cape Canaveral, FL

Camp attendees will participate in three days of interactive sessions, discussions, one-on-one meetings and contests of interest to the developer community. Participants can also sign-up for new Application Shop, which helps developers test and gain Orange Compatibility for applications.

Sign up for the Camp.

Browse all Forum Nokia events

New on www.forum.nokia.com

Documents:

Java™:

MIDP 2.0: End-to-End Sockets API Example v1.1 (ZIP)

MIDP: Mobile Media API Developer's Guide v2.1 (PDF)

Symbian: Avoiding Common Failures in Symbian Signed and Nokia Tests (PDF)

Symbian OS: End-to-End Sockets API Example v1.3 (ZIP)

Symbian OS: End-to-End HTTP API Example v1.3 (ZIP)

S60:

S60 Platform: End-to-End Device Management Example v1.1 (ZIP)

Installing Certificates to S60 3rd Edition Devices (PDF)

S60 Platform: Identification Codes v1.8 (PDF)

S60 Platform: IP Bearer Management (PDF)

Freeware Opportunities for S60 and Series 80 Developers (PDF)

Nseries:

Evolution of voice and beyond on Nseries multimedia computers (PDF)

SNAP Mobile:

SNAP Mobile: White Paper v2.0 (PDF)

SNAP Mobile API v1.3.1 (ZIP)

Tools and SDKs:

Forum Nokia Technical Library v1.38

S60 Platform SDKs for Symbian OS, for Java

Carbide.ui S60 Theme Edition 3.1 for Symbian OS

Browse more document and tool updates

Nokia News

Rendez-vous in Paris: Nokia 7373 Special Edition meets Giambattista Valli

Elisa to pilot Nokia's next generation mobile gaming platform

Glu Mobile and Nokia announce collaboration to bring Glu games to N-gage platform

Nokia wins 3G network contract with RCS & RDS in Romania

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