Looking Back On The Symbian Smartphone Show
Ewan recaps the show for posterity and for anyone who's been living under a rock for the past fortnight...
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The New Executive Director - Lee Williams and the Symbian Foundation
At the Symbian Smartphone Show last week, Lee Williams was announced as the Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation. Right after that, he sat down with Rafe and Ewan to talk in more depth about the plans for the Foundation, and to discuss what he brings to the table.
Why can't my S60 phone do that?
It's all very well standing there smugly with your new Nokia N or Eseries phone, knowing that it's functionally superior to your friend's Apple iPhone. But when you both turn on your devices, it's the iPhone that people gather round, partly because of the larger screen (covered here - The Pull of Real Estate, Intensity and Interaction), but also partly to watch its party tricks. Watching these you might well ask: 'Why can't my S60 phone do that?'
Old hands may know the answers, but just in case you know (or are) a relative S60 beginner...
Nokia E90 vs Asus EEE PC 900 - The Microlaptop vs the Minilaptop
The EEE PC portable computer range has received a lot of coverage over the past year partly due to its low price but also partly due to its small size. How does Asus' minilaptop compare to Nokia's microlaptop, the E90 Communicator? All About Symbian is about to find out...
Desert Island Desktop, with James Whatley
Ewan starts a new series of personal articles looking at how different people set up their S60 smartphones...
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.
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...
