Ho yes. A huge dollup of Nokia E75 goodness for mid-week here on All About Symbian. Firstly I'm happy to present part two of our big Nokia E75 review, this time looking at its multimedia capabilities - I reckon it has the best camera ever put into an Eseries device. Then Ewan pops up with the fifth part in his E75 video blog, embedded below, this time reporting on it live from Eurovision in Moscow, highlighting its quick and unobtrusive nature, along with just about every feature being 'above average'.
If you're the sort of person who's organised enough to record every financial transaction in meticulous fashion (I'm not!) and want to way to bring your data from Quicken or another banking app with you onto the Nokia 5800 and S60 5th Edition then the recently-updated JabpLite might be just want you're after. Don't let the fact that it's written in Java put you off - link and some screenshots below.
In All About Symbian Insight 70 (AAS Podcast 128) Rafe, Ewan and Steve talk about the recently released Nokia E52, the N96's firmware upgrade to version 20, the newly released Pandemonium and the N97's processor and specifications. Rafe also reports on UI changes proposed for Symbian^4. You can listen to AAS Insight 70 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.
Over the weekend the news arrived that a beta of Ozone, a WebKit based web browser, had been released for S60 3rd Edition. Ozone, previously available for UIQ 3, claims better standard compliance and faster performance that the built in S60 browser. In the full news story we take a closer look at some of Ozone's features and include some illustrative screenshots from both S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition.
Just a quick note that, as per the headline, the Download option has now started appearing again for BBC iPlayer programmes on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic with v21 firmware, see the screenshot below, taken just now. I'm guessing the right person's elbow was nudged at the Beeb and the appropriate amendment made in the 'Send them a download link' table...
Last week’s Developer section feature article took a look at FleaC, an easier to use API for Symbian C++ developers. Also, Forum Nokia releases a utility to make the Sensor API (JSR-256) available for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic devices. Read on for more.
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is tightly integrated with a number of media-sharing sites, including Ovi Share, Flickr and Vox, and you can upload your photos and videos to these sites directly from the 5800's camera and gallery applications. In the latest (somewhat epic) tutorial in our beginners series, Tzer2 leaves no stone unturned in explaining how to get going and imparts a number of tips along the way.
Those folks at Vesuvius Software have been busy in the last few weeks, cranking out more useful little Java-powered freeware applications for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and S60 5th Edition. Brand new and screenshotted below, with hyperlinks, are Musician's Swiss Knife, Soft Touch Stopwatch, Karao60 and ScratchMMS.
Not a flagship game for N-Gage by any means, Pandemonium brings 2D gameplay to a 3D world and ends up delighting Ewan, who recalls earlier versions of the game on N-Gage Classic and platforms from the 1990s. It hasn't changed much over the years, but at least here it's crisply presented, with cutscenes and extras that had to be omitted from the N-Gage Classic implementation five years ago.
For those of you interested in Ewan Spence's continuing travels, he's currently away for just over a week, in Moscow, helping commentate on the Eurovision Song Contest. No, really. He'll hopefully be using his mobile tech to fire in photos, tweets and the odd app review and anyone interested can also, of course, follow his main blog for other miscellany.
Ozone is now available for S60, at the same beta 0.9 version that appeared for UIQ 3 last year. Ozone is a web browser that "not only delivers advanced features such as client-side database support, application cache, zooming and multiple windows, but also provides the best web-standards compliant experience that's available". The beta download is at www.o3mobi.com. Comments welcome if you've tried Ozone.
