Desert Island Desktop, with James Whatley
Ewan starts a new series of personal articles looking at how different people set up their S60 smartphones...
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How to: Keep your data and survive a repair or firmware upgrade on your Nokia S60 phone
Steve Litchfield explains perhaps the all round best way to keep your data safe and your disruption to a minimum when it comes to repair, replacement or firmware upgrade time. He also proposes it as a possible way to restore operation to a 'broken' phone.
Is Comes With Music The Worst Idea In The World?
All you can listen to, including Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell! Comes With Music is here and it's time to bring out the Cassandras and explain why it's such a bad idea. We don't have any Cassandra's to hand though, so Ewan will have to suffice.
Camera Nitty Gritty - part 5 - the best smartphone camera in the world?
In part 1 of this series, Steve Litchfield looked at exposed camera glass on some phone models and investigated whether scratches really make a difference. In part 2, he investigated the pros and cons of LED/dual-LED/Xenon flashes in camera phones - does Xenon or dual LED flash make that much difference? In part 3, he investigated the fabled 'Megapixel myth' with an objective eye. In part 4, he focussed on the difference between good and poor optics (at the same camera resolution). Here in part 5, he looks at the very best camera-equipped smartphones in the world - which one comes out on top from a photographic point of view? Note that we're also planning on adding some extra technical camera-related articles later on, courtesy of AAS regular Dirk Snoyt.
The Nokia N85 and OLED screens: Not perhaps the Holy Grail
Steve Litchfield has been playing with the Nokia N85 (prototype) and presents some more thoughts on the new screen technology used.
Find Legal and Free Music Online for your Smartphone
With your smartphone having more and more storage, filling it with music online needs either a large investment in digital music stores, or a walk on the wild side of the internet. Or does it? Ewan has a look at free alternatives to loading up tunes to your phone without having to bother with those tiresome silver CD thingies...
Camera Nitty Gritty - part 4
In part 1 of this series, Steve Litchfield looked at exposed camera glass on some phone models and investigated whether scratches really make a difference. In part 2, he investigated the pros and cons of LED/dual-LED/Xenon flashes in camera phones - does Xenon or dual LED flash make that much difference? In part 3, he investigated the fabled 'Megapixel myth' with an objective eye. In this, part 4, he focusses on the difference between good and poor optics (at the same camera resolution). Note that we're also planning on adding some extra technical camera-related articles later on, courtesy of AAS regular Dirk Snoyt, plus an 'Ultimate S60 camera phone' review feature.
Am I The Very Model of a Modern Mobile Blogger?
Nokia still haven't fixed their Download! service. Is it time for a third party to step in?
Nokia's Download! service is a built-in app shop on most S60 handsets, and represents a potentially brilliant way to get S60 software to S60 users, increase sales of Nokia phones and generally make a lot of money for all concerned. Unfortunately Download! is a really badly organised shop with a very poor choice of software, and the phrase "massive wasted opportunity" hangs over it. Will a third party now take up this opportunity and offer a proper app shop?
How S60 is declaring independence from PC Suite (and from computers in general)
If you have an S60 smartphone then you've almost certainly connected it to a PC at some point. But how long will this carry on? Will there come a time when PCs are no longer needed at all by smartphone users? Tzer2 investigates...
