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Tizen 2.1 Beta source code and SDK available |
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Tizen 2.1 Beta source code and SDK are now available. As a minor release, Tizen 2.1 Beta contains several new features and performance enhancements. Visit tizen.org for more details and to download the new releases.
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MoonCalc Pro and Biorhythms ported to BlackBerry 10 (Z10) |
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I've just finished porting MoonCalc Pro and Biorhythms from MeeGo/Symbian to BlackBerry 10 (Z10) and got them approved by RIM for distribution in the AppWorld store. The remaining applications will be released for the Z10 within the next two weeks, followed by Sailfish OS versions for the upcoming Jolla smartphones.
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Jolla strengthens its board and management |
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Jolla enters the next phase in its development and prepares for the sales start in the second half of this year. The number of personnel has grown to 70 and the team extends to a wide network of collaboration partners. To ensure the successful market entry and further growth, the company is strengthening its board and management structure.
The Jolla Board continues to be chaired by Antti Saarnio, one of the Jolla founders. The other board members are Steve Lau from China Fortune, Mohamed Boukerche, a representative of a private investor, Ari Jaaksi, an industry advisor and a long time expert in open source development, and Stefano Mosconi, CTO of Jolla and one of the company founders.
Jolla is appointing Tomi Pienimäki as the new CEO as of May 6th. Tomi joins Jolla from Itella Corporation, one of the largest logistics operators in the Nordic countries. At Itella, Tomi has gained extensive experience in business management and managing large technology organizations. He also has experience from the start-up world in the role of a board member in several companies and having co-founded Done Solutions, an IT company, in 1999.
This appointment allows Marc Dillon, who has been Jolla's CEO as of October 2012, to fully concentrate on the development of Sailfish operating system as Head of Software Development. Marc has been in charge of Jolla's software development right from the start and his strong focus on this will be crucial in the months leading to the market entry of the first Jolla phone and the company's success when the sales starts.
"Jolla is a great company with an exciting and promising future. I truly believe we can make a difference and bring something unique to the consumers. My task is to listen very closely to our customers and further build the collaboration network. I also want to ensure that our team can fully concentrate on the most important task: bringing the first device to the market this year," says Tomi Pienimäki, the new CEO of Jolla.
"Tomi brings a great combination of expertise in leading large technology organizations and understanding of the world of growth companies. He is an excellent addition to the Jolla team and will offer valuable insights into the company operations," says Antti Saarnio, Chairman of the Board. "I warmly thank Marc for his inspirational leadership in the CEO role during the past months. Marc continues to lead our Sailfish OS development, and his drive and talent continue to be crucially important for us, when we navigate towards the launch of our first device," Antti Saarnio continues.
"I am really excited to get an experienced executive such as Tomi on board so that I am again able to give 100% attention to what I love – working on the product with the Jolla team. An important part of my role will also be spreading the news on Sailfish OS to the world and further grow the movement we currently have supporting and co-creating it," says Marc Dillon.
Jolla will showcase its first device in May. A pre-sales campaign is expected to start after mid-May, and the actual sales start will take place during the second half of 2013.
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Jolla's first smartphone to be unveiled in early May! |
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A truly good news for all those (including myself) who had been so disappointed about having to wait until late 2013 / early 2014 (as previously announced) for the first Sailfish OS smartphone from Jolla: it will be announced in early May (!) with pre-orders to start soon after that. Money obtained from pre-orders will be then used to cover the manufacturing cost of the first batch of phones.
But wait, there's more! Jolla will offer custom software configurations (probably application sets, UI customization) to choose from (with different price levels) and those pre-ordering the phone will be able to choose what suits them the most.
I guess it's time to quickly port all my applications to Sailfish OS (which, BTW, is a quick, easy and very pleasant process).
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SunCalc PREMIUM for Nokia N9 / N950 |
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 SunCalc PREMIUM is a much enhanced version of SunCalc - an application to track the Sun's position in the sky and calculate times of all Sun related events (sunrise/sunset, dusk/dawn, day/night length, twilights, transit, etc). In addition to all features offered by the standard version, SunCalc Premium provides the following enhancements:
- storing three favourite locations and switching between them (in addition to coordinates obtained from the GPS receiver)
- entering coordinates manually or selecting your locations on a map
- Altitude Limit function to monitor when the Sun gets above/below user selected altitude and how long it stays above it each day
- Shadow Calculator and Shadow Compass to calculate Sun shadow's length and direction for any time and location, for an object of user-selected height
- Day Length Graph - an interactive graph showing the length of day (sunrise-to-sunset and dawn-to-dusk) and night for the entire year
- Sun's azimuth and elevation is calculated and shown for each hour - along with Sun Compass this allows quickly checking where in the sky the Sun will be at any date/time
- advanced settings to choose how to calculate day length (sunrise to sunset or dawn to dusk) and sunrise/sunset times (for the center of Sun's disc or its upper limb touching the horizon, with or without atmospheric refeaction accounted for)
- time zone setting for each location - graphs and data are calculated in local time of the destination
- real-time calculation of Sun-related astronomical data (azimuth, elevation, distance from Earth, hour angle, right ascension, declination, ecliptical latitude and longitude, apparent diameter, obliquity of the Ecliptic, etc)
- and more...
With SunCalc you can easily plan all your activities depending on day length and sunlight intensity, schedule your trips and vacations to get the most of Sun light and the longest days in the destination of your travel, photographers can use the program to choose the time and location of the best Sun position and shadow length/angle for their scenes, it can help you set up your solar panels... or simply keep you well informed about everything related to solar illumination and daylight.
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Sailfish OS SDK for Windows and Mac |
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In addition to the Linux build released in February, Sailfish OS SDK is now available for Windows and Mac OS X as well. Visit http://sailfishos.org to download your version.
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I am a VERY happy Blackberry Z10 user now :) |
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My long awaited BlackBerry Z10 has just arrived and it looks like something that *CAN* replace my N950 and N9! More importantly, now I've got everything needed to port all my applications to the BB10 OS. More impressions and a proper, detailed review (mostly from an N900 / N950 / N9 user perspective) coming soon!
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Sailfish OS SDK now available |
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As promised, Jolla has just released the SDK (Software Development Kit) for its upcoming Sailfish OS. The SDK is currently available for Linux (in 32- and 64-bit versions), with the Windows and Mac OS X versions coming soon. Visit the just updated SailfishOS.org website to get the SDK and to check the guidues about gestures, user interactions, the UI framework and more. Stay tuned for more information.
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Tizen 2.0 Magnolia SDK and Source Code available |
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Tizen 2.0 Magnolia SDK and source code are now available at https://developer.tizen.org/downloads/sdk. This release includes many new features and improvements over Tizen 1.0 and Tizen 2.0 Alpha. As a Tizen 2.0 developer, you will find strong HTML5/W3C APIs and a new native framework. Highlights of this release include:
- Enhanced Web framework that provides state-of-the-art HTML5/W3C API support
- Web UI framework, including full-screen and multi-window support
- Additional Tizen device APIs, such as Bluetooth and NFC support, and access to the device's calendar, call history, and messaging subsystems
- Web Runtime framework supporting new configuration elements for specifying the required features and privileges, and providing the basic runtime environment for NPRuntime plugins
- Native framework supporting full-featured application development and providing a variety of features such as background applications, IP Push, and TTS (Text-To-Speech)
- Core and native reference applications including Calendar, Contacts, Gallery, Phone, Settings, and Video Player
- Enhanced Web IDE providing WYSIWYG design environment, Chrome-based JavaScript inspector, and JavaScript log viewer
- Native IDE providing a project wizard, WYSIWYG design environment, unit test tool, and dynamic analyzer.
Go to https://source.tizen.org/release for more information on the release.
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 Biorhythms Pro is a mobile personal biorhythm calculator providing features missing from other apps of this kind currently available for the N9/N950: storing two persons' data (birth dates and names) and switching between them with one tap, biorhythm interpretation (textual explanation of what the current state means) and scrollable graph to quickly and easily change the date for the biorhythm reading, critical days warnings, information about history and explanation of the biorhythm theory, and more.
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 SunCalc provides all important Sun related information for any location and date: times of sunrise, sunset, dawn, dusk, transit & altitude, various twilight levels (civil, nautical, amateur, astronomical), day and night length (also vs. previous day and solstice), shown both numerically and on a real-time updated, intuitive graph. See Sun's path through the sky on any day at a glance, be informed about all events. Supports both GPS and manually entered coordinates. The most advanced Sun app for the Nokia N9 / N950.
If you're interested in astronomy, also check StarFinder and MoonCalc.
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Samsung to release a series of Tizen phones in 2013 |
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 Samsung revealed today that this year it will ship multiple smartphones based on the Tizen operating system. "We plan to release new, competitive Tizen devices within this year and will keep expanding the lineup depending on market conditions" Samsung wrote to Bloomberg in an e-mail statement. No device specifications were revealed at this point.
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 Stellarium-N9 has been updated again to version 0.3.3 offering new stuff like starlore and mount mode selection, some bug fixes and a new custom filtering algorithm for free-look (live view). Please provide the developer with your feedback in this thread on our discussion forums.
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More than 2000 Harmattan apps now listed |
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Our Harmattan Software Catalog now contains more than 2000 Nokia N9 & N950 applications and in our Harmattan Downloads you can find nearly 2100 files, which makes it the biggest existing Nokia N9 software directory.
... and we just can't wait to start cataloguing Jolla's Sailfish OS applications once they start coming out.
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Marko Srebre has posted an updated version 0.3.2 of Stellarium-N9 fixing some issues present in the previous version. For more details and to provide the author with your feedback, please visit this thread on our Harmattan discussion forum.
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Stellarium-N9 is a free open source planetarium software for the Nokia N9 that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It is a port of the awesome Stellarium (version 0.11.4), optimized for the Nokia N9 and taking advantage of its hardware sensors (accelerometer and magnetometer) to provide a 'live view' of the sky, unlike the other existing port.
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Jolla will make Sailfish available for the N950 and other devices |
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Jolla has officially confirmed on their Twitter that they will release the code making it possible to build Sailfish OS for a number of existing devices like the N950. They won't support the N9 directly but there is nothing that could prevent the community from porting Saifish to the N9 as well. The N950 or the N9 won't provide the performance or user experience that Jolla's own hardware will bring in 2013, but it is a great news especially for developers as it will make it possible to test applications ported (or newly created) to Jolla on a real hardware before any actual Jolla phones become available.
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Jolla announces the MeeGo-based Sailfish OS |
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 Today, at the Slush conference in Helsinki, Jolla has announced its Mer-based Sailfish platform. A lot of information was dislosed, so quickly go ahead to the newly launched official Jolla sites and enjoy it:
http://jolla.com/
https://sailfishos.org/
Many of the questions you might want to ask have been answered in this Sailfish QA so don't forget taking a look there.
And as a (moving) picture is better than 1000 words, just take a look at this Jolla Sailfish UI Hands-on Preview video, Presenting Jolla clip and even more on Jolla's official YouTube channel.
The SDK will be released soon for Windows, Linux and OS X. If you can't wait by then, you can now follow the guide available at merproject.org and build one (for Linux) yourself.
The first Jolla phone will be announced in Q1 2013, and available before Summer 2013. The platform will launch with support for ST Ericsson's Novathor chipsets and other chipsets will also be supported in the future. It will offer full multitasking directly through the home screen, new "Pulley menu" (containing functions to e.g. share photos or videos to social networks), and Android compatibility. Native software development will be Qt-based, just like on the Harmattan platform. HTML5 support is also planned through Cordova Qt.
For more details, please check our Jolla Discussion forum.
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Jolla's Sailfish OS to be announced tomorrow |
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As promised, the announcement of Jolla's new MeeGo-based Sailfish platform will take place on Wednesday, November 21st, 11:15 FIN/EET (10:15 CET, 9:15 GMT) at the Slush startup conference in Helsinki. Stay tuned!
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1900+ Harmattan applications |
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My-MeeGo Software Catalog, the biggest and most complete Harmattan software directory, now lists 1900+ applications and games for the Nokia N9 / N950. And in our Downloads you will find almost 2000 files, downloaded so far nearly 500,000 times.
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Jolla's MeeGo-based OS and UI to be unveiled next month |
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The Finnish based company Jolla formed by ex-Nokians has confirmed that it will announce its new MeeGo (Mer) based mobile platform code-named Sailfish at the Slush startup conference in Helsinki, Finland, on November 21-22. The first device from Jolla will be announced before Christmas, along with developer support and the SDK.
Jolla has also recently announced the launch of a Hong-Kong based alliance which will license the MeeGo-based mobile operating system to other device manufacturers and service developers beginning spring 2013. In the core of the alliance is the MeeGo based mobile operating system which Jolla calls "Sailfish". The data center of the Sailfish alliance will be located in the Cyberport techonology center in Hong Kong. In addition Jolla will set up its own research and development center in mainland China, probably Shanghai or Beijing.
Jolla will be hosting a separate, in-depth session during the Slush event to showcase the user interface, and a press Q&A session. The Jolla user interface will be incorporated into the previously announced Sailfish alliance software. Jolla has been working on the scalability and user experience based on MeeGo in order to be able to support multiple different device categories. This development has now reached a point that Jolla can showcase the user interface, its differentiation from the existing mobile UI's and its possibilities as part of the Sailfish alliance.
Jussi Hurmola, CEO of Jolla, said: "I'm thrilled to finally be able to show the user interface we have been working on, and it will be exciting to open the developer story with SDK and applications to the public."
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StarFinder 2.0 now also supports Solar System objects |
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 StarFinder Pro is an application making it possible to quickly and easily track and locate celestial objects in the night sky (just turn according to the indications shown), and serving as a handy database of astronomical data.
In its new version 2.0, in addition to tracking/locating stars, constellations, deep sky objects, asterisms and meteor shower radiants, the program now also supports all planets (+ Pluto), the Sun and the Moon, and calculates in real time a lot of astronomical data, such as rise/set/transit times (and transit altitude), apparent magnitude and diameter, distance from the Earth and Sun, hour angle, elongation, illumination/phase, right ascension and declination, phase angle, and more.
If you're interested in astronomy, give it a try - it's the only such advanced astronomical application made specially for the N9 / N950.
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MoonCalc - an advanced Moon tool for Harmattan |
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 MoonCalc is an advanced Moon tool for the Nokia N9 / N950 providing rich set of real-time updated data, including coordinates (right ascension, declination, ecliptical latitude and longitude), moon phase, age, illumination, apparent size, moonrise and moonset times, azimuth, elevation, current constellation, perigees and apogees, new and full moons, and even a Moon Compass to quickly locate the Moon on the sky. Various views (daily, monthly, yearly) make it easy to check for the upcoming perigee, or full moon. If you're a Moon observer or photographer, this tool will provide you with everything you need.
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Tizen 2.0 Alpha SDK and Source Code now available |
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Tizen 2.0 Alpha source code and SDK are now available. Start working with these new features and functionality and provide feedback that can be used to improve Tizen during the final stages of its development.
Tizen 2.0 Alpha has additional features, tools, and other improvements, including:
- Enhanced Web framework that provides better HTML5 / W3C API support and more Tizen Device APIs
- Multi-process Webkit2-based Web Runtime which provides better security and reliability for Web applications
- Advanced HTML5 features such as video subtitles and captions, battery status API, screen orientation API, and more
- New Tizen Device APIs for file transfer, notifications, and power control
- Advanced IDE & SDK for Web application development
- Install manager support for snapshot-based network installation
- Enhanced support for OpenGL ES
- New Platform SDK that helps platform development based on OBS.
More information on on the release can be found here. Documentation on development and tools can be found here.
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