Symbian Foundation – Application Spotlight MWC09 Summary

Posted by Lester Madden under General, Symbian, Travel

A few weeks back we decided, wouldn’t it be great if we could have real developers speak on our Symbian Foundation exhibition stand at Mobile World Congress. So we sent out an email to our developer community, sweet talked a few bloggers into giving us a mention and generally made a nuisance of ourselves asking for developers to contact us if they wanted to give a 15 minute talk on our stand. The only requirements were the application had to run on a S60 5th Edition device (eg Nokia the 5800).

Cool Phones From MWC09

Posted by Lester Madden under Smartphones

At MWC09 I took a walk around the event looking for my next phone. Yeah I know what you’re thinking, last week I got a Nokia 5800, the week before I got a Samsung I8510, and three weeks ago I got the Nokia E71. Next week I am going to try and get hold of a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. It’s not a phone, more of an ultra mobile PC based on Linux. A man needs hobbies.

LG Watch Phone

Posted by Lester Madden under Gadgets, General, Smartphones

At Mobile World Congress 09 last week there was, as you’d imagine an abundance of mobile phones. I went for a walk around the 8 exhibition halls and have to admit after a while it was pretty hard to focus any more, all the mobiles started to blur into one. One thing that did stand out though was the wrist watch phones on the LG stand.

MWC09 – Party Review

Posted by Lester Madden under Travel

Greetings From Barcelona

Posted by Lester Madden under General, Symbian, Travel

Arrived safe and sound. Its not as warm as I was expecting but still nicer than London. We have just had the first two presenters for the Application Spotlight and so far they have gone well. If you are at mobile world congress drop by the Symbian Foundation stand in hall 8 and see me for your party tickets. I am posting this blog on my Nokia 5800 so short entry today.

Application Spotlight – MWC Update

Posted by Lester Madden under Symbian, Travel

A couple of weeks back I invited people to submit their applications for the chance to present them on the Symbian Foundation stand at Mobile World Congress. I’ll admit that I was a bit nervous about the idea, not because I doubt anyone’s ability to build great stuff, but because the device was so new (it only shipped in the UK a few weeks ago) I had no idea how many responses I’d get back.

Clarification on presenting at Mobile World Congress

Posted by Lester Madden under Symbian

Apologies for IE readers, parts of the site are not rending correctly.

If you’re interested in presenting on the Symbian Foundation stand at Mobile World Congress, I just wanted to clarify what smartphone devices currently use Nokia Series 60 5^th Edition.

The only device currently available is the Nokia 5800

So if you want to be on the stand presenting you’ll need to make sure your application runs on one of these.

Mobile World Congress

Posted by Lester Madden under General

I spent most of last night researching WordPress themes so I can give the site a new lick of paint. I found the one I like and I am going to spend sometime over the weekend tweaking it. I’m actually pretty excited at the thought of looking at some PHP code, It’s been a while.

One of my big projects right now is what Symbian Foundation will be doing for developers at Mobile World Congress next month.  At the event we plan to have an Application Spotlight area where developers who have built applications using Series 60 5th Edition can showcase application on the foundation stand.  Yes thats right, we are allowing 3rd party developers to present their smartphone applications on our exhibition stand.

Time is short with the deadline being Friday to apply so for more information and to apply go here:   It’s a simple process of telling us little bit about your application, nothing scary.

If you are successful we’ll even give you 2 free exhibitor tickets worth €599 each, and tickets to the first ever Symbian Foundation party.