Carbide.c++ v1.3 is now available from the Forum Nokia site. This C++ development tool, aimed at developers of Symbian OS applications, has been improved based on developer feedback obtained by Nokia engineers, who flew to several customer sites. The result: a greatly improved version with a high level of usability. New features in v1.3 include:

• Support for Eclipse 3.3/CDT 4.0 Europa from the Eclipse Foundation: improves stability with navigation tools, such as the new Quick Search utility
• Support for Microsoft’s Vista OS
• Code Scanner: scans code to detect potential problems, such as memory cleanup, excessive code, etc.; finds defects and coding deviations, improves the quality of code, and shortens debug time with early problem-detection
• Platform Security Suite: scans APIs in the active project and lists the capabilities required. Helps developers manage security tradeoffs and aids in getting applications signed

Learn more and download Carbide.c++ for Symbian OS, v1.3.

At this week’s Symbian Smartphone Show in London, UK,  Nokia introduced a touch user interface for the Series 60 on Symbian OS. The S60 touch UI offers developers the opportunity to create applications and content that use a variety of input methods, including touch screens with traditional keypads, touch screens with full messaging keyboards, and touch screens with finger or stylus input. All existing S60 3rd Edition applications will run on touch-enabled devices without modification. New touch UI comes with support for tactile feedback, which means that there is a some kind of pulse (physical feedback) when the user taps on the screen. This improve the user experiencebetter with ability to perceive  the device’s response.

Also, Nokia soon plans to offer tools that will help developers optimize the touch experience of their S60 applications and content.

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It looks like a new word in mobile phones customization. The screensaver generator by Red Dodo makes personalized screen savers for mobile phones. The animated gif is created on the fly and can be downloaded to the computer through the browser or directly to your mobile from their WAP page. As far as I know, not all the phones are capable to play screensavers and animated wallpapers.
My Sony Ericsson plays both of them :)
Generally it quite good idea, only, it would be good to see more templates.

After more than two years in the making, Apple has revealed its much-anticipated iPhone at the annual Macworld
conference in San Francisco. CEO Steve Jobs took the device from his jeans pocket and showed off the sleek device which gained him a standing ovation at the end of his speech.
Apple,the company already better known for iPod portable music players than its Macintosh computers unveiled two devices — a digital entertainment server for the TV and a radical music player and telephone — that could complete Apple’s transition from computer company to America’s leading consumer electronics manufacturer.
“You’re looking at the birth of the next Sony,” said James L. McQuivey, professor at Boston University’s College of Communication. “That’s what their ambition is.”
The iPhone brings together several features of the iPod, digital camera, smart phones and even portable computing to one device, with a widescreen display and an innovative input method.
Featuring a new input technology called “Multi-Touch” the iPhone features only a single physical button, called “home.” You control the phone by sliding a finger across its touch-sensitive 3.5-inch display, which has a resolution of 320-by-480 pixels at 160 pixels-per-inch display.
The iPhone, which runs Mac OS X, has full iTunes integration and can seamlessly sync data with a Mac, PC, or Internet service, including music and videos from iTunes, contacts, calendars, photos, notes, bookmarks and e-mail accounts.
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LG has released a new Digital Multimedia Broadcasting cellphone, the LG LB1700, which will be marketed only on Korea. Very small and rather light (106 g) with 2.0-inch LCD screen, this phone offers many features other than DMB, such as a 1.3 MegaPix camera, a MP3 player, and IPN function (In-Plane switching - function allows you to receive SMS text messages while watching TV broadcasts for uninterrupted viewing), an electronic dictionary, a text viewer, Mbank, microSD memory expansion .. EV-DO

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