TamsS60 - the S60 Blog

The last few days were pretty busy when you like emulators…first, there was Red Five’s .NET CF; then there was StyleTap(exclusive demo video at our sister site TamsPalm). Red Five’s .NET Compact Framework has kept us busy before - I now proudly present a video showing Red Five’s talk at the Symbian Smartphone Show 2007 in London. Essentially, the video consists of a demo of a small web services application written in VB.net - it is first run on a Windows Mobile Smartphone, then on a Nokia E90:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2411808007271515996(please use headphones…recording it was very difficult as the speaker had a silent voice)

A few pretty interesting questions were posed - here goes:

What about applications created for PocketPC
These applications can be run only on touchscreened UIQ devices. The Series 60 version emulates only the smartphone part of .NET CF - so no PocketPC apps for Series 60(as of now).

How is this licensed
No direct sales. Developers purchase a runtime packet, and additionally pay per license sold.

This clarifies quite a bit for me - let’s stay tuned what’s upcoming next.

Nokia has released the third model in its ever-famous N series of internet tablets - the successor to the N770 and N800 is called - surprise, surprise - N810:

Among the most notable new features is an integrated GPS receiver, an integrated QWERTY keyboard(pictured above) and the new OS2008…which will be made available for the N800 eventually. Developer support for maemo(==OS2008) is handled via Forum Nokia from now on.

Other than that, little has been changed in regards to the N800. One of the memory card slots was replaced by 2GB of internal memory…ah, and the USB port now supports USB 2 OTG.

Further reading:
Press release
Stats table
Maemo info for developers