Here's a little tip for those of you who use different kind of GPS enabled software development tools. You can use ExtGPS to provide live GPS information for your development purposes.

On Android development kit, there is a special text based protocol over TCP port 5554 which can set the GPS position used for Android applications. ExtGPS (and any other GPS) can easily be setup to feed emulator with live GPS data. Well, at least if you are on a UNIX based system.

On OSX, to use live ExtGPS data with Android emulator, just connect ExtGPS normally (there's instructions link on the right navbar). Start Android emulator and run this command line on shell (single line):

cat /dev/tty.E90-SymarcticExtGPS | sed -e 's/^/geo nmea /g' | telnet localhost 5554

On Windows, it might be possible to get same results by creating a BT serial port and using PuTTY's plink command to read the serial port, but there's no built-in sed command to format the data...

Thank you all Symabook alpha and beta testers for your comments and ideas. The beta test phase of Symabook has ended and Symabook 1.0 will be released soon.


Congratulations to all S60 3rd Editioners! Symabook now supports your phone. We pushed the S60 3rd Edition to its limits but we succeed to deliver the most compelling user interface to the platform so far. Symabook beta offers the best mobile user experience for the Facebook.

We did not forget the S60 5th Edition users either. There are new features and improved stability for that platform as well.

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Symabook - Friends Connected Everywhere

Thank you all, who has been testing our Alpha releases of Symabook application. Your comments and ideas has been great support to our development team.

Currently we are pushing to the Beta release with S60 3.x support for 320x240 and 240x320 screen resolutions. For the S60 5th Edition users, the Beta release will include some new features and improved stability. Stay tuned for updates!

- Symabook Team

We heard you! We made much anticipated upgrade to the Symabook, now titled as alpha 2, which includes lots of improvements here and there. Support for landscape orientation, comments feature and improved character support just to name a few. We were very delighted of your feedback for the previous version. We aim to give that same delightful feeling back to you by the release of this Symabook alpha 2. Give it a try and let us know.

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Symabook - Friends Connected Everywhere

We have received feedback from the users of Symabook Alpha. Thank you all for the feedback! We are addressing issues reported to us. We have had some nice reviews also:
- App Preview: Symabook – “Best user interface seen on the N97 ever!”
- Nokia 5800 App Review: Symabook Alpha by Symarctic Solutions.

There is also video displaying the Symabook Alpha on Samsung Omnia HD. Symabook section starts from the middle of the video.