April 12th 2008 |
As other popular browsers such as Opera Mini and mobile Safari (also based on Webkit) have adopted the concept of displaying real web content as well, the S60 Browser has remained essentially static as far as end user experience is concerned. Today we learn that we’re not the only ones with our eyebrows raised.
Eric Seidel of Webkit recently posted an open inquiry to Nokia after noticing that no one had checked in on the S60 project in over eight months. The response he received from Nokia didn’t provide any specifics, but a Nokia employee kindly closed all related bug reports and noted that if any additional cleanup was required he could be contacted.
So where does that leave the S60 Browser? Obviously Nokia isn’t leaving the mobile browser game any time soon. After all, Nokia is an Internet Company now. Can we expect a new breed of browser on S60 handsets in the not-so-distant future?
April 12th 2008 |
Opera’s Chris Mills explains that rather than start from scratch they’ve used the existing code base and binary package with a wrapper that converts the Java ME API calls to Android API calls — think translator.
Of course, this has all only been run in software so far, though we just know now that it’s hitting the wild, you can be sure that people playing with early hardware are going to be all over this. We love Opera Mini and are pretty stoked about Android, too, so you go gents, make us proud.
April 12th 2008 |
Apple are currently planning on bringing the Nike+ training system to the iPhone and iPod Touch, as reported by Stuff.tv,
The Nike+ system was originally created for the iPod nano, using a small sensor placed in your shoe, the device would recordthe distance and length or your run and also act as a timer and pedometer to log your personal workout stats.
The new Nike+ system will also take advantage of the iPhone’s Wi-Fi capability giving the user the ability to transmit their workout stats to Nike’s online database – where a Coach system will help to improve their workouts and training. [Read More...]
April 12th 2008 |
BenQ’s new T60 is holding down the 3.2 megapixel camp with some serious hotness. The slick candybar features a 2.2 inch QVGA display, “high quality media player” (whatever that means), integrated radio, 24MB of onboard memory, and microSD expansion — you know, for actually making the camera and music player useful. BenQ’s touting the whole package as being “affordable,” too, which makes sense considering that the data flow appears to top off at measly GPRS speeds. Look for it to launch in Taiwan, Turkey, and Bangladesh this month — quite a hodgepodge of countries if you ask us — this month.
The BenQ T60 features an embedded handy caller black list function that is able to screen out unwanted calls. It comes with 24 MB of internal memory, integrated stereo FM radio with schedule recording function, and a micro SD card slot. it supports reproduction of MPEG4, MP3, AMR, MIDI and SP-MIDI music files, and it also features Bluetooth with stereo sound (A2DP), remote control (AVRCP) support, and USB connectivity. It’s standby and talking time are 200 hours and 3 hours, respectively.
  
