On one hand, it’s completely illogical. Â Why would they support other phones? Â Why not just drive more users to the iPhone?
On the other hand, it will increase the reach of the iTunes Store, resulting in more sales. Â Anything to drive more sales to the store must be a good thing, right?
I tend to agree with NokNok that this won’t really happen, but you never know. Â Here are a couple of teaser screenshots for you:
A new browser is now available for your S60 phone (N95, etc), and it’s promising the world — Skyfire. It sounds similar to Mobile Safari (pan, zoom, etc), but supports Flash and Ajax. All in all, it looks to be a pretty powerful piece of software.
The Symbian Blog has a great review of Guardian, software written to help protect your phone from unauthorized usage. For most of us, that means trying to get it back if it’s been stolen. Once configured, you can send an SMS to the phone and it will silently send back a wide variety of information.
Among other things, it can:
Password protect various applications in the phone.
Auto-send an SMS to another phone if the SIM card is replaced. The message includes the new phone number of the device.
GPS. It can access the GPS device in the unit, and send an SMS with the latitude, longitude an a Google Map of the current location of the phone.
Alarm. You can send a message to the phone that will force a very loud alarm to go off, regardless of what profile is active.
Logs. It can send you the call/sms/contact logs.
Fake SMS. You can send an SMS to the device, but pretend that it’s from someone else. The example shown is an SMS from “the Police”.
The only catch is that the thief can’t flash the phone, which any smart thief would do. However, if they fail to flash it, then you’ve got some great tools on your hands to try to track it back down!
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