The mobile lantern

Symbian OS finally open!

2008-06-28T22:48:00.005+02:00

It was one year ago when I dreamed of Symbian OS being open source....Indeed I felt a little satisfaction when some days ago Nokia announced the buy of the rest of Symbian Ltd shares and the creation of Symbian Foundation which will be the gatekeeper of the evolution of the next OPEN SOURCE generations of Symbian OS.It is a huge turnkey into mobile business ecosystem and really really hard to say

Retrieving deleted sms from Nokia phone

2007-05-17T14:27:00.001+02:00

During some research, I found an interesting "feature" on my Nokia mobile phone; I was able to retrieve any apparently deleted sms/mms....Source: SecurityFocus Davide Del Vecchio, an Italian security specialist, serendipitously discovered how to retrieve deleted text messages from Nokia NGage and Nokia 6600 simply using Nokia PCSuitebackup file and an hexadecimal editor.Powered by ScribeFire.

How to download Helix source files?

2007-04-29T15:46:00.001+02:00

Bofore you start reading those lines I would let you know that my intention is not to provide a user guide. I would like to express my disappontment on Helix community's tools and if you reached this post googling in search of a solution probably you will agree with me and join the rant. What is Helix? Briefly it is a suite of products offering multimedia features for several OS (Windows, Linux,

Freescale chip in Nokia 5700 phone?

2007-03-30T14:40:00.001+02:00

I have to agree with Michael Mace when he says that in blogosphere (and not only there) a buzz pinged back and forward became a news Why? Because of this abstract: ...The 5700 runs S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and is based on a 369 MHz Freescale solution (same chip in the 6290). I can't find anything about the chip inside the 5070.Is the 5700 the cheapest S60 device to ever be released?

Carnival of the mobilist #66 at AllAboutSymbian

2007-03-28T11:10:00.001+02:00

This week Carnival of the Mobilist is host by All About Symbian. Enjoy reading blog entries on every aspects of mobile world. technorati tags:carnival, mobilistBlogged with Flock

Open source Symbian OS ? New frontier or blasphemy

2007-03-18T14:59:00.001+01:00

The fact that Symbian has an outstanding position in smatphone OS market isn't something new, as it is not new its strong relashionship with Nokia from economical as well as technical point of view. Nokia is the major shareholder of Symbian Co. therefore its predominant position makes less appealing the partecipation of others investors (that little by little reduce their shares) and the arrival

Which development platform for Symbian OS?

2007-03-08T22:32:00.001+01:00

Red Five Labs have ported the .NET Compact Framework to Symbian OS. What does it mean for.... developers? Additional troups of developers are enabled to play on mobile phonespowered by Symbian Os. Even those who are not confortable nor with C++,nor with C, nor with ActionScript, nor to Java, nor with Python, norwith Ruby. I don't care about which one is the best/the smartest/ the coolest, for

Wiki as an enterprise tool

2007-03-01T00:16:00.001+01:00

In my previous post I forgot to mention Wiki as powerful tool for knowledge divulgation, probably because right now I've never used it. Here you can read how difficult is to make in place a proactive community of contributors. It contains patterns and antipatterns to follow to let the community grow as well as the contents.....but it does not contain magic recipe. Do you have direct experience

An introduction to smartphone industry

2007-02-27T09:37:00.001+01:00

For those interested in smartphone production cycle it is worth to read "Symbian for Software Leaders" by David Wood, co-founder of Symbian. I've bought the book at Symbian Smartphone Show 2005, and the first time I've read it I didn't appreciate how it leverages on fundamental aspects of production cycle which now, being in Freescale, have become clear. The perspective is software oriented so

Moved in Toulouse....time to blog again

2007-02-14T01:31:00.001+01:00

It's a while since I've blogged for the last time.....well, summer vacation turned me into laziness and then something more happened: I've changed job, city,...and country actually. All these changes caused hard time not only to me but also to my girl, Marilena, who's still in Rome. Now I'm in Toulouse and I work for FreeScale Semiconductor, Motorola's spin off. My job always concerns mobile

Italy vs Germany

2006-07-05T09:39:00.000+02:00

According to EETimes, Italian mobile operator H3G has set up a good urban coverage on DVB-H during the soccer world cup. It seems that the signal strenght has been tested up to 160 km/h (BTW, the max speed on highway here in Italy is 130 km/h!!).On the other hand, in Germany the same journalist experienced a poor video quality on T-Mobile network. (via Gamdala).I do not consider myself a soccer

Conference call on Symbian phones

2006-06-30T12:53:00.000+02:00

The procedure to create conference call is targeted for Symbian OS prior version 3.0.The code needs a little hack to compile and link because it uses telephony APIs that are not public on Nokia SDKs; in fact third party software that manages phone calls should use the CTelephony class however only a subset of functionalities are provided by this class.The whole functionalities are provided by

Bluetooth for automotive

2006-06-23T15:19:00.000+02:00

Mercedes Benz has released Telephone Module With Bluetooth that: allows users to operate their Bluetooth (SAP-Profile) compatible phones via their vehicle's multifunction steering wheel, audio system, and central display in the instrument cluster, all without ever taking their phone out of the pocket (or briefcase, purse, etc.). (via textually.org)I just want to add that sometimes Italians do it.

Carnival of the mobilists at m-trends

2006-06-23T09:48:00.000+02:00

I'm pleased to announce this week's Carnival of the Mobilist hosted by m-trends.You'll find as usual interesting articles on mobile society ( and my first contribution, too :-P )

What do you do with your old phone?

2006-06-18T11:33:00.000+02:00

I guess the most frequent response will be: "I abandoned it into a drawer". I will say:"Me too!"My first mobile phone was a Nokia 5110, monochrome GSM phone just to make calls and messaging; then came Nokia 3330. The personal information stored in that phones where a few so backup and removal data was not a problem.Then I bought a Series40 phone, Nokia 6610i; I've started using Contacts and

DVB-H Coverage Map by TIM

2006-06-16T10:27:00.000+02:00

Here it is an update of the situation concerning DVB-h coverage in Italy....another carrier has issued its map.It's a pity that the image could not be enlarged and....pay attention it does NOT describe the actual coverage but how it will be after summer!!In the same page you could find the list of cities covered by the end of June: Monza, Milano, Pavia, Torino, Roma, Fiumicino, Latina.I assume

How to create a launcher for FlashLite movies on Symbian 3rd Edition

2006-06-13T09:56:00.000+02:00

I hope the long title is clear enough about what I'm going to discuss :-)Symbian 3rd edition introduces several changes compared to the previous versions; I'll try to be concise as possible in order to describe the procedure to build a native ( C++ ) application whose only task is to launch the FlashLite player with a specified content.The prerequisities to build the application are:Symbian 3rd

Debug on FlashLite

2006-06-12T17:49:00.000+02:00

This is my second post on FlashLite...I'm more and more fascinated by this technology, however I have been stuck for days trying to debug my flashlite application but no way to hit a breakpoint during execution!Hopefully Alen gave me a great hint...now silent failure are less tricky to face!

DVB-H Coverage Map by H3G

2006-06-08T10:27:00.000+02:00

Some days ago Martin made the point about 3G networks coverage in Europe and he did not found any map about Italy because mobile carriers do not easily provide this kind of information...but something has changed! H3G has just released the coverage map for DVB-H.....ok, it's not about 3G but the important thing is that carriers make simple and clear communication if they want their services

Impressions on FlashLite

2006-05-23T19:51:00.000+02:00

During these days I'm involved in my first mobile project on FlashLite...uhm...not so impressive as news!However I would like to point out some considerations on how FlashLite looks like from a C++ developer perspective without any knowledge of authoring tools ( to be honest the only one I knew was Paint..shame on me!)Why did I (and my team) finally come to FlashLite? Mainly because of:uncertain

2D barcodes vs. RFID tags

2006-05-18T11:51:00.000+02:00

Barcode are used since a long time to tag products for identification reasons, however a new barcode generation known as bidimensional barcode is coming out.Below I list some formats proposed by different organizations:- QR code;- Shotcode;- DataMatrix;- and many others;The main characteristic is a bigger data storage that can extend usage beyond identification

Krugle: search engine for developers

2006-05-16T16:53:00.000+02:00

Hey you developers, Krugle Inc., software company based in California is developing a "vertical search engine" specialized in code search.On their web site you can find a demo: it is quite difficult understand the product’s potentialities but the UI interface is attractive, it looks like an IDE giving the possibility to browse the results as if they were projects located on your workstation.The

Odd procedures part 1

2006-05-12T10:40:00.000+02:00

As I announced in the previous post, I would figure out some peculiarities about Italian mobile market.In Italy, the most common way to buy mobile traffic from a network operator is buying prepaid cards. There is a variety of prices from 5€ up ot 50€, however the operator (no differences if you are a TIM, Vodafone or Wind customer) witholds a part of the money you pay as "Rechange cost".This

My very first post!

2006-05-08T16:46:00.000+02:00

Hi All,I'm Fabrizio and you're welcome on my blog.My aim is to create a collection of news, documents and info related to mobile technologies.Why another blog about mobile world?Indeed there are so many interesting blogs related to mobile stuff that I waited a long time before starting this one.The main reason is to let people know who am I and networking with them.So let's say who I am......I'm