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The Bergamot Project - Open Source for UIQ Symbian
As of July 2008, it is clear that UIQ will not be a significant platform in the future, and has been all but abandoned by handset makers. Following this, I am considering moving the Bergamot Project over to the S60 platform, which will become the basis of the future Symbian Platform. This would include an S60 port of Escarpod.
Escarpod for UIQ will still be kept updated for the near future, but we will not start any new UIQ projects within the Bergamot project.
Teknolog
About the Project
The Bergamot Project produces high quality free and open source software for the UIQ mobile phone platform used by Sony Ericsson and Motorola.
At the moment the interesting stuff is the Escarpod Podcatcher and Swim, an automatic SyncML trigger.
Call For Help
We would be very grateful for any help with Symbian projects. The day only has 24 hours, and what with working and sleeping and drinking beer there is not much time to spend. If you want to help out in any form, please send an email to my Gmail account teknolog, or join the Bergamot discussions directly.
News
- 2008-07-17 - The Bergamot mailing list is now members only due to immense spam problems. You can ask to join on the Groups page, and I'll add you to the list.
- 2008-07-11 - Escarpod 1.0 now has over 4000 downloads!
- 2008-06-08 - Escarpod 1.0 has over 2000 downloads! Insane!
- 2008-05-21 - It's here! Version 1.0 of Escarpod! Read the full Announcement.
- 2008-05-01 - Added a list of good podcasts, and a list of free to download audiobooks! Help me add more!
- 2008-04-29 - The last pre-release version of Escarpod, version 0.99, is out.
- 2008-04-11 - Escarpod is featured as the application of the month over at UIQ Technology!
Archive of Older news.
Active Projects
This is stuff we work with at the moment.
Future Project Ideas
There are many programs that need to be written for or ported to UIQ. Some ideas that come to mind are:
- A port of S60 Internet Radio (as part of Escarpod?)
- Archive manager for zip, rar etc.
- SymTorrent for UIQ
- UIQWebKit - a port of S60 WebKit to UIQ.
- IM client for MSN, ICQ, AIM etc.
- iPhoneish SMS bubble chat (kinda stupid, but people seem to like it)
- E-book reader
- A decent media player
License
All the code provided by this project is licensed under GPL version 3. Some programs may also have a second license.