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New Google voice search for S60 phone.Tried on 5800 XM.  Its great .

http://www.google.com/mobile/products/search.html#p=nokia_smart

I have just developed ovi map search mozilla plugin  find places very easily.Currently just tested it locally using Ovi Api.It works gr8 .Here are few snapshots of Ovi Search plugin of Mozilla 

1:Ovi appears on your search bar .

2:Searched India Bangalore MG Road.

3:And here you are.

  Shared my code and plugin in Dibo.As Ovi Map Api is still in beta accessable to few   DiBo

 Few kool snapshots of symbian.org 

 Cool App Section  

   Device Section

 Check out  symbian.org

Nokia today released the first betas of Qt 4.6 and Qt Creator 1.3:

Great work by Qt team.

releases key themes:

• Allow Qt developers to target new platforms:  In addition to new support for Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6, Qt 4.6 introduces a port of Qt to the Symbian Platform with integration for the S60 framework.  Together with preliminary support in the Qt Creator IDE for Qt development targeting the Symbian platform, optimizations for the Linux/X11-based Maemo 6 platform and preview code for the newly announced Qt port to Maemo 5, this makes Qt a standard not only for desktop but now also for mobile development.

• Create new and exciting user experiences: Qt 4.6 adds advanced graphics effects, a new animation framework and support for gesture-based and multi-touch input methods.

• Deliver better application performance: Performance optimizations to key areas of Qt, a new JavaScriptCore based backend for QtScript as part of an updated Qt WebKit Integration, and new support for hardware-accelerated 2D vector graphics using OpenVG will make Qt 4.6 the best-performing Qt version ever.

N900 is built on the open source Linux-based Maemo platformand with Qt team announcing the support of version 4.6 on it.

Highlights:

• Native look & feel via Hildonized style
• Hardware acceleration with OpenGL ES 2
• Input method support (hardware keyboard and software keyboard)
• Global menu integration - QMenuBar will be mapped to Maemo’s global menu
• Online/offline support in libQtNetwork
• Standard Dialogs support (e.g. file dialog)
• Maemo stacked widget support
• Multimedia playback via Phonon

Download link for the source code: http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-x11-maemo-src-4.6.0-alpha1.tar.gz

Public git repository: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt-x11-maemo

Kde is a powerful Gui enviroment for Linux.By using OpenC and Qt now Kde could be part of S60.This is very good news as Kde has a kool User Interface.Kde enviroment has good number of application like

KOffice

Kaffeine 

KPdf ..plus more

If these could be ported then thats great news for the end user and the developers as lot of open source projects could come up.

Kde Screenshots

Here is the Kde  code. S60 Demo of Kde

SF Project Links Because_we_can_-_Projects

A  team at ST Ericcson, and ARM have the operating system now running on a highly capable SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) configuration.

The hardware platform is up and running with all interfaces working, including CPU, caches, trace, dual display, memory controller, power management units, modem and RF. The SMP version of Symbian, with what is the same code base that has been checked in to the Foundation source code repository, runs on the dual core, and they have validated the L1 and L2 caches as well as cache coherency and synchronization between the 2 cores.

Kool video from SF ..seeing all the creature alive and kicking

Which can accommodate features and functionality such as :

o HD 1080p camcorder and video
o Up to 18 Million pixels camera
o ~100 hours audio playback time
o 10 hours HD video playback time
o Simultaneously TV out over HDMI
o Video and Imaging accelerator
o HW accelerated 3D Graphics  supporting OpenGL ES2.0
o 2xWVGA (960×854) displays
o Touch UI on 2 displays

This is really kool

Lee Williams said that multi-core handset can accommodate features such as high-definition video and hardware accelerated 3D Graphics supporting OpenGL.

More Reading:http://blog.symbian.org/2009/06/04/silicon-heaven/

world’s first toaster running the Symbian^2 operating system.

This is just the start of new era of Symbian .Hope to see much more .

More Reading :

http://blog.symbian.org/2009/04/01/symbian-based-toaster-announced/

Hope Symbian Foundation team is not trying to Fool us as it is 1st of April. 

So here Qt for S60 "Garden" pre-release  is out . 

Few sanpshots

Qt on 5800 

Getting Started

Download:http://pepper.troll.no/s60prereleases/

 Cheers  Happy Qtting .. 

   Kamal  

More Reading :

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/03/10/the-latest-qt-for-s60-pre-release-is-out/

Qt 4.5 will be the first Qt release to be offered under a more open LGPL ("Lesser" or "Library" General Public License) licensing option, alongside existing commercial and GPL license options.

Qt Software sums it up best when it says that Qt developers "can now build their proprietary applications on top of Qt without paying a licensing fee."

What's new in Qt 4.5

To show developers just how much faster they are supposedly tuning their applications, the company has provided a new "QtBenchLib" performance benchmarking library. Various benchmarks from the library are shown in the following charts.

Raster drawing benchmarks (Source: Qt Software)

Mass updates and moves benchmarks. (Source: Qt Software)

Drawing images benchmark (Source: Qt Software)

These are just few.For more details http://www.qtsoftware.com/

 This  result suggest that we can excpet more good  features from the upcoming release of Qt for S60.Just keep finger crossed 

  Download link:http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads