When your application is blacklisted because it duplicates the functions on the phone, something has gone wrong. Ewan considers the issue of a single monolithic app store, and why he thinks the Symbian way is better.
In part 1 of a new series, Steve Litchfield looks at exposed camera glass on some phone models and investigates whether scratches really make a difference.
Part 2 will investigate the pros and cons of LED/dual-LED/Xenon flashes in camera phones, while Part 3 will investigate the fabled 'Megapixel myth' with an objective eye...
Steve is impressed by a couple of examples of joined-up applications from the iPhone world. Can the Symbian ecosystem compete?
Why are phones always bigger and better than the last one? Because otherwise people like Ewan would get upset because that's what we've come to expect.
So the N85 looks like the N81 looks like the N96 looks (a bit) like the N78. Good, that means the market is maturing and growing, which is exactly what we want to happen. Ewan Spence explains why.
Ewan Muses on Nokia's launch strategies....
Until now commercial software has generally been based around the traditional business model of selling a product directly to the user. Piracy is seen as a threat to this business model, and many commercial publishers have responded to this with various kinds of DRM, but are there alternatives to the model which could make piracy irrelevant? All About Symbian takes a look at some candidates...
Steve Litchfield reports back from a week of family holidays, enlightened by plenty of chances to learn more about using a smartphone productively.... Seven days away and seven things learnt!
Steve tries to explain the lure of Apple's iPhone. How does the Symbian world compete?
Continuing this series of 'Mac virgin' articles, I look at a range of things which PC Suite offers (under Windows) and ask if there's a workaround that might work on the MacBook....
Previous articles in the series:
| S60 and Mac - from first principles - part 3 (Video) |
| S60 and Mac - from first principles - part 2 (Images) |
| S60 and Mac - from first principles - part 1 (Connecting/sync) |
