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Not surprisingly, 2007 now takes that accolade. There's been more activity than ever before and with new versions of UIQ and S60 on the horizon, ever increasing software and service options
and more external competition, I'm sure that trend will continue into 2008. In 2007 here, on All About Symbian, we published more than 1,750 unique pieces of content, and had our busiest year ever with 27 million human visitors (just under 15 million unique - depending on how you count them). We published more than 50 pieces of multimedia content which were, in total, watched around 1.5 million times. Thanks to all our readers - we would not be here without you.
And now here's a look back at some highlights from the Symbian and Mobile world in 2007 as seen through AAS:
January
January was one of the busiest months of the year. We started the year with Ewan's [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] - Sony Ericsson's first Walkman UIQ phone. It was the first Symbian phone to offer a large amount of internal flash memory - 4GB - setting something of a trend for later in the year. Meanwhile Steve was [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. At [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], with [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], announced two new Nseries smartphones, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] - a tweaked version of the N93, and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] - a slim flip phone in the vein of Motorola's popular RAZR line. Nokia also announced a collaboration with SixApart to allow you to b[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] from your Nseries phone. Also at CES was the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] . At the same time, Steve Jobs made something of a splash when he [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], but [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] - regarding it as confirmation of their strategy. Steve thought the iPhone show a [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] to follow while Ewan was [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] as Jobs claimed. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] proved to be one of the most popular of the year. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] charger arrived, which was a boon for travellers everywhere. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (PIPS is POSIX on Symbian) aimed at helping developers port applications more easily. In the middle of the month, Steve [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. DoCoMo [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] including the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (review later updated to 4.5 and then 5.0) and come away impressed. Steve also [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Rafe offered the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. To finish off the month we found out about [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...].
February
February was busy as ever, thanks to the usual run up to 3GSM and of course there was the event itself. At the beginning of the month, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] heralding something of a resurgence for the UIQ software platform. Rafe offered up his [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (which racked up 750,000 views in 2007). The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] was suggested to be September though this date was never official. Ewan delivered his [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], while Rafe [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] from the previous year. S60 announced the first [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and Steve looked at the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Nokia announced the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (based on Smart2Go), a free mapping and navigation solution. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. UIQ announced an [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. NTT DoCoMo, with its partners, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], including primary support for Symbian OS, on the SH Mobile G3 chipset. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] as one of its preferred software platforms. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] of its mobile browser. At 3GSM, with [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] in [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], Motorola returned to the Symbian fold with its [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], Rafe offered [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] of the attention grabbing phone and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Nokia announced the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], a DVB-H handset with moderate specifications. There was also the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], a slider phone with a focus on enterprise communication, but it also proved popular with consumers as a solidly built S60 phone. Also in the Eseries camp was the announcement of a tweaked E61, the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The biggest splash from Nokia was the announcement of the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...][Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] reception. The mobile phone group of Nokia didn't want to be left out so [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], a GPS equipped S60 phone that offered premium navigation features. Meanwhile LG [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Symbian announced that it had [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], taking the installed user based to 110 million. Sony Ericsson announced its intention to fully license UIQ to others and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Back from 3GSM, Rafe [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (Steve [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]) before moving on to the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (with Ewan's assistance).
which received a
March
March might not have been as busy as the first two months of the year, but there was still plenty going on, not least the release of a [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. We kicked off the month with an [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] to develop for the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] as did [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Krisse offered a long term review of the N800 Internet Tablet and the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and became more widely available. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] was posted on the N-Gage Blog. Steve [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The first version of [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] along with a [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] were heard. Rafe [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] Mobile TV handset. We looked at the winners of the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] developer competition. An alpha release of [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...][Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Rafe and Steve posted the first parts of their [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] to help create community documentation. To finish off the month Nokia announced the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] phone with its distinctive bottom twist.
was announced. Steve reviewed the breakthrough N95 on the
April
The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] to help provide sample photos from the N95 at the beginning of April as the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...][Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] in an AAS video podcast. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Nokia released [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] for a number of S60 phones. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] for their devices - Linux based. Nokia released [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] to help get videos on to its phones. S60 announced that [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], also known as widgets, would be a part of the next version of the platform. Nokia announced the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], reaching down to a new lower price point and market position. NTT DoCoMo [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Krisse gave us a [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. At the S60 Summit it was announced that [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Also at the Summit [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] - a slim and trim slider. Our coverage from the S60 Summit included a look at [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] along with a review of some of the demos from both [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Steve [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] in a head to head.
was made available via Forum Nokia. Steve demoed
May
May kicked on with [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] becomes widely available in the US. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], which is a departure from the traditional P- series flip design, but has a nice feature set, AAS delivered the usual [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] from the launch in London. Steve, continuing his communicator quest, looks at the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] capabilities. Symbian announces that [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. We take a closer [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] from Japan. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] - in the major cities of Finland. Krisse road tests the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (a rather spiffy advert). [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], which later gets canned.
June
We started June with a [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Krisse [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] music phone. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] with its 1.3.22 release. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] started to [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] was released in beta, it enabled Mac OS X users to get music, images and video on to and off their phone more easily. Krisse [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], one from S60 and one from Series 40. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and was available to buy in select stores. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], the second UIQ Walkman phone, and some [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. In a sign of things to come, Nokia offered a [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] Program. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] points to the way of the future. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] was made available. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] from January 2008. Steve [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], otherwise known as the Nokia N76. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] to do aerial photography. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...][Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Ewan [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and Steve talked about the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], which allowed you to order prints directly from your phone.
was improved, it helped keep map download costs down. Krisse
November saw the launch of the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The next generation [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] until December. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] including a cameraphone marvel from Sony Ericsson. Steve gave his [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Ewan [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Ewan published his [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] was released. Steve [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Rafe took a closer look at [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Nokia announced its [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] were said to be heading towards an S60 phone near you. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (version 2) had its first beta release. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] was released, with accompanying web site. AAN [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (our favourite bit of marketing of the year). We looked at the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Ewan gave us the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (from GPS or network cell). The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...].
December
[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] to start testing applications. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], a discussion based podcast, gets going. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] comes to the N-Gage. At the Nokia World keynote, we heard more details on [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Also at Nokia World was the announcement of[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] which looks set to shake up the music industry, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Italian operator [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Team AAS were [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. We recorded a [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and S60 devotees. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] becomes available through Beta Labs and Nokia Research Centre releases [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Nokia offers [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The improved version of [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] was announced. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] in trial form, but didn't. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], a detective game, was announced for N-Gage. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] was launched with Office 2007 support. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], a YouTube client application was made available as freeware. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. AAS helped its readers [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...].
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