Top Applications for the Mobile Journalist
Ewan's topical picks...
Recent Features - S60 3rd Edition - Page 29
Conclusions from the back of beyond
Living near a big city (Reading in my case), it's all too easy to think of my phone/smartphone experience as being typical of the norm. During the course of a week away in rural Somerset (look it up on a map of the UK), I made several observations (hey, I'm just in an emboldening mood...) which show that we should never take 'our' mobile environment for granted or assume any level of capability in other mobile users.
And, along the way, managed to crash an 'iPhone' and get a couple of people to go all dizzy while explaining what I was doing with the N95 8GB...
Real World Testing For Geeks - the Nokia N95 takes on the iPhone 3G and AT&T Tilt (again) - in the Geek Smackdown of the Week
Ewan decides he needs to do his own device comparison round up.
Some light relief for the weekend?
Some Top Widgets For Your Consideration...
Lots of little tiny programs are ready to invade your S60 handset. The widgets are coming! The widgets are coming! Ewan takes a look at some of those he finds most useful. Rafe explains some of the technical details.
Smart in the Real World - the Nokia N95 takes on all-comers in a dozen common tasks
Looking at real world usability of the current (smart)phone flagships...
Have you seen what budget phones can do now?
Owners of smartphones have long looked down on budget phones with the assumption that cheap means nasty. However, budget phones have developed in leaps and bounds lately, and they may catch up with smartphones sooner than most people realise.
A letter from the iPhone world
Last week I received a long and polite, yet hard hitting, email from an iPhone fan, Nikolay Andreev, questioning some of my statements and opinions in terms of device advocacy, specifically me quoting the Nokia N95 8GB and E71 as being better than the iPhone 3G. Now, these sorts of debates and opinions are very common in the computer world, but in this case I thought the points that Nikolay raised were interesting and worthy of me taking time to respond publicly, for general interest. Although this is 'All About Symbian' and opinions and comments may well be a little skewed towards the Nokias, I'd still welcome comments about my comments.... if you see what I mean!
How to: Print photos using PictBridge
PictBridge compatibility is something often forgotten in Nokia's Nseries smartphones - here's how it works.
The Great Commoditisation of the Smartphone
Something we've heard over and over again recently is that Nokia and others have all recognised that the future belongs to 'services and software' and that the hardware has become 'a commodity'. This is all a bit jargonistic and I thought it would be useful to expand on these phrases in plain english.
The Symbian Foundation unwrapped
Rafe looks at the details of the Symbian Foundation and its possible implications.
