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Symbian Applications Development

Some Contents for Symbian application

development :--

1.What is SYMBIAN ?

2.Symbian application development.

3.BEST Constructive Applications on

Symbian Mobile .

4.Best Symbian Applications for Your

Symbian Phone .

5.FEATURES OF SYMBIAN OPERATING SYSTEM.

What is SYMBIAN ?

Symbian is a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform

designed forsmartphones and currently maintained by Nokia. The

Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60;

unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system,

Symbian includes a user interface component based on S60 5th Edition.

The latest version, Symbian^3, was officially released in Q4 2010, first

used in the Nokia N8 .

Symbian application development :-

Some say that Symbian Application Development is not as exciting as

iPhone or Blackberry application development. I have prepared a list of

my favorite 7 apps available on Symbian to counter this accusation.

Many feel that Symbian is losing battle against BlackBerry, iPhone and

Android-based smart phones. While Symbian's market share has reduced

over time, especially in Asian and European markets where Nokia

handsets have dominated the market for years. One of the reasons often

given is the advent of smart phones and the app culture that has

developed around them.

It has been often said that Symbian application development has not

taken off as well as that of its rivals iPhone and BlackBerry, but over

300,000 apps are downloaded every day on Nokia devices, and there are

numerous Symbian apps in the market. Below is the list of my favorite 7

Symbian apps.

Gravity: This application by Mobile ways allows user to access their

Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and other social networking accounts. It

also makes the task of uploading photos quicker and easier for most of

the popular sites, including Flickr and Twit Pic. It especially good for

Twitter users as it has almost all the features you would find on a

desktop Twitter app.

Best Screen Shot: The names says it all-it does give the best screen shot

you can get, and you can also send the screen shots to your friends and

your desktop. It lets you save the screenshot as color BMP, JPG and 256

color BMP, and also auto-generates names for the images, making your

task easier.

Qik: This app is an example of smart Symbian application development. It

allows you to broadcast/stream your videos over the internet using

your phone camera. It's amazing when you can see the comments of the

viewers as your performance continues.

Handy Task man: This app will make using your smart phone simpler and

will let you manage multiple applications with ease and élan. You can

get a bigger view of your app listing after installing Handy Task-man

and it makes switching and force closing frozen applications painless. It

displays your RAM and available storage options, and does a lot more to

make handling your smart phone trouble-free.

BEST Constructive Applications on

Symbian Mobile :-

The market share of this operating system shows that it holds a

tremendous future in mobile app development. Here are some of the

fantastic Symbian apps that are very practicable. Some of the most

useful applications are -

Shazam application

This is an exclusive app, especially, for the music lovers. This allows the

users to listen a song somewhere even if they don't know the name of the

song or artist. The users can even download their favorite songs very

easily without knowing the details of the song. Whenever they listen a

sweet but unknown song, they can automatically search all the details

of the song online using the Shazam application from their devices. This

app will provide to the user all the details and downloads the song with

in few seconds.

Gravity

This app is the only twitter client worth considering for 'power' users.

The is featured with supports, drafts, favorites, picture posting, RT, URL

shortening, delete tweets, user search, scheduled tweets, basic

geolocation etc. It also supports basic Facebook, Google Reader and

Statusnet. With so many features, one would think that the app to

perform poorly. But, by using practically, one will surely find it to be

very quick and have an intuitive UI.

Joiku Spot

The users can use this to turn their device into a wireless router. The

users must have a Wi-Fi enabled Nokia Smartphone to run the application

and it will give the users a wireless access point that connects them to

the internet via their mobile internet connection. One can download paid

as well as the free version of this app.

Instant Messenger (IM) for Symbian phones

Instant Messenger has become an essential thing for the Smartphones.

The Smartphones are known for their features like - providing

connectivity on the social networking platforms. Keeping this thing in

the mind Instant Messenger application was developed for Nokia devices,

that allows the users to connect with all their social friends through a

common platform. The biggest drawback of this is that it doesn't give

connectivity to the Facebook, the biggest social networking site.

Resco Photo Viewer

The default Gallery app by Nokia or Symbian is possibly the worst photo

viewing application ever created - on any platforms. There are few

gallery apps which are really useful. Resco, which is a Symbian based

Photo Viewer is one such application. This app supports a plenty of image

formats and also has a built-in image editor to edit the elements like -

color, contrast, adjustment etc. The app also navigates quickly and is

very simple to use.

Quick Office Pro

Quick office pro is the Microsoft Office of the Smartphone. This app

allows the users to read and edit any Microsoft document directly from

their Nokia Smartphone. As Microsoft office is the lifeline of a desktop

or laptop, so same is the case with the Quick Office which is the lifeline

of Smartphones. With Quick office pro the users can do almost everything

with their document which can be done on their laptop. This is a featured

one and is available at a price of US$ 2.5 from the Nokia store.

Best Symbian Applications for Your

Symbian Phone:--

Symbian is one of the most reliable and most used operating mobile

operating systems. The biggest brand in cell phones, Nokia uses Symbian

and so do some of the phones from the Sony Ericsson stable, like the Sony

Vivaz. Let us look at the ten best Symbian applications that you should

have on your phone:

1. Google Search Client: Compared to the standard Google search from

your mobile phone, the Symbian Google Search Client can give faster

results and displays search results in an easy to read mobile friendly

format.

2. Fring: Download Fring for Symbian as a centralized chat platform

where you can integrate famous chat programs like Google Talk, Yahoo

Messenger, Yahoo, Skype, ICQ etc. You can also make VOIP calls wherever

you can get Wi-Fi network. You can make cheap international calls

through Skype at cheap rates

3. Opera Mini browser: Opera Mini browser as we know is the best mobile

browser and it can work quite smoothly for your Symbian device. You can

also zoom in and out of pages as well, the page loading is faster and

there is a download and upload manager also available. You can also

save the pages offline to read it later

4. Handy Taskman: Handy Taskman gives you the option to open a taskbar

and find out which applications are running at a certain point of time.

You can also see how much of CPU energy is being consumed fm each

application, and enables you to close every one of them through a single

touch click.

5. ShozuL: Trust Shozu as your favorite video uploader for Symbian

mobile phones. You can upload videos as pictures to famous websites like

YouTube and Flickr. You can also categorize and tag the pictures or

videos. Go through the application and find out which websites are

supported for uploading. It is a versatile program, you can also surf the

mobile net or do other things with your mobile while the picture or video

is being uploaded.

6. Google Maps: Download Google Maps application, as it can be quite

useful. You can find information like turn-by -turn direction to a

destination that you are seeking; get access to a local business or

office.

7. Nokia Sports Tracker: Nokia Sports Tracker helps walkers, athletes,

cyclists etc to track their average speed, the total distance they have

covered and how much altitude they have covered. You can also show

your workout routes to your friends through the Facebook application

or through Google Earth. A very good application for anyone who loves

outdoor adventures and workouts.

8. SkyFire: SkyFire is second only to Opera Mini browser but what makes

SkyFire a very good alternative is that it is particularly good for

watching videos online.

9. Active Notes: This note taking application helps can be an extension of

your brain, where you can take plain text notes, along with images,

video clips, sound clips, business cards and other such devices.

FEATURES OF SYMBIAN OPERATING SYSTEM:--

Despite the size of its target computers, Symbian OS had many of the

features of its larger siblings.

Processes and Threads :

Symbian OS is a multitasking and multithreaded operating system.

Many processes can run concurrently , can communicate with each

other, and can utilize multiple threads that run internal to each

process.

Common File System support :

Symbian OS organizes access to system storage using a file system

model, just like larger Operating systems. It has a default file system

compatible with windows (by default it uses FAT-32 file system). It

supports other file system implementations through a plug-in style

interface. It supports several different file systems , like FAT 16 & FAT

32, NTFS etc.

Networking :

Symbian OS supports TCP/IP networking as well as several other

communication interfaces such as serial , infrared and Bluetooth.

Memory Management :

Although Symbian OS does not use (or have the facilities for ) mapped

virtual memory , it organizes memory access in pages and allows for

the replacement of the pages, that is , bringing pages in, but not

swapping them out.

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