Steve Litchfield shares a little of his sat-nav experience, hopefully of help to anybody suffering from slow GPS locks, especially under S60 and Nokia Maps, and frustrated by the apparent 'unreliability' of mobile navigation software.
Nokia is rather proud of their efforts with Web Run-Time, a system for developing applications for S60 using web technologies. Ewan takes a look at why they are so proud, and what it means for the developer experience on S60.
This is 2008 and, being away from home, I wanted to revisit some of the free satellite navigation applications that I'd previously played with over a year ago - surely one of them had developed into something that could get me home? Or is successful real time navigation still the preserve of the commercial applications like Nokia Maps, Wayfinder, CoPilot, etc.?
Steve Litchfield looks at the state of the market in terms of location-based search software and services. A bit of a mouthful, that - what we're talking about is ways of asking 'Where's the nearest hospital (or ATM or hotel) and how do I get to it?' That sort of thing.
Guest writer 'Snoyt' takes us expertly through the wonderful world of music compression, to explain how you can get thousands of music tracks on your smartphone, efficiently and in CD quality, using the eAAC+ codec rather than bog standard ol' MP3...
In a tutorial for beginners, Steve Litchfield looks at some practical photo-taking tips for your smartphone when conditions are less than perfect... and explains that adjusting the photo later in software is cheating - but often helps a lot.
Ewan takes a look at setting up the relatively simple, yet very useful, UPnP utility 'Home Media' on the Nseries Symbian devices, and connecting it to your music collection via Windows Media Player.
Nokia's Sports Tracker has always been a useful free utility for your GPS-equipped smartphone. With the addition of Nokia's new companion widget for your web site, it just got downright essential.
Hardened Nokia N95 'classic' fan Andrew Galpin has just spent a week with the black, 2.8" screened 8GB version. What were his impressions and conclusions?
