DataViz have announced a new version of RoadSyc. RoadSync allows secure, direct push synchronisation with Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007 servers (push email, contacts and calendar). The big addition in version 4 is support for full HTML email, but it also adds a number of usability improvements, and support for task and Contact photo synchronisation.
The latest in my continuing voyage of discovery in the world of camera-toting smartphones, I look at the difference optical zoom makes and ask the question "Is it better to have optical zoom or can you get away with just much higher resolution?" I illustrate my points with test shots from the Samsung G810 and INNOV8, plus a guest appearance by the Nokia N93, which also has an optical zoom lens.
More video from our coverage of the London Smartphone Show 2008, in which I chat to Phil and Tanya from Quickoffice about their new v6 office suite for S60, plus Sari from S60 waxes lyrical about S60 5th Edition.
Sheesh. First Rafe is all over Mobile Industry Review's video podcast and now Ewan's on camera, pontificating about the state of the Symbian world. He was caught at the London Smartphone Show, of course. Oh, and regarding his book - the main reason why it's probably not appropriate to buy it any more is that [very sadly] OPL itself doesn't run on modern devices. Unless you want to buy it anyway and help Ewan out with some royalties?....
There have been quite a few new games announced in connection with today's Nokia Games Summit, including FIFA09, Need For Speed Underground, Spore Origins, Monopoly Here & Now World Edition, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, Boom Blox and The Sims 3 from Electronic Arts, Tomb Raider Underworld and Pandemonium from Eidos, Nokia's own Dance Fabulous, and Gameloft's Asphalt 4: Elite Racing and Real Football 2009. You can find out more about all of these by heading over to our sister site All About N-Gage.
Today, at the Nokia Games Summit in Rome, Nokia announced the forthcoming availability of Dance Fabulous, a new firsty party game title for N-Gage. It is a dancing / rythmn game where you create and customise a dancer (avatar) and then lead it through dance moves. The games has built in community and sharing features and comes with a set of music created by Dave Stewart and sung by Cindy Gomez.
As evidenced by Rafe's Gallery yesterday, we've got a LG KT-610 at AAS Towers, and I've been trying it over the last week. Cheaply put together in almost every respect, the price is sadly the only impressive thing about this qwerty clamshell. Nice idea, but shame about the implementation - here's my full KT-610 review.
The long-awaited 3D fighting game ONE is out now on the N-Gage platform. Go to the Showroom section of the app and select the Update Now option to see it. For more info see All About N-Gage's ONE game page, and the official trailer is visible below.
Last week, at the Symbian Smartphone Show, the Samsung Mobile Innovator developer program opened its doors for developer registrations. The program provides support, both technical and business, for mobile developers creating applications across the entire range of Samsung S60 devices. As part of the launch Samsung are offering to put to 300 applications through the Symbian Signing process for free. Read on for more.
At the Symbian Smartphone Show last week, S60's Lee Williams was announced as the Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation. Right after that, in an exclusive interview for All About Symbian, 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.
WorldMate has announced that they now have over a million S60 users of their free (and optionally paid for) service. I've included the brief press release below, also partly because the company promises that the next generation of their software, WorldMate Live, is 'currently in development'. The 'Live' version incorporates social elements such as itinerary sharing and contact discovery via overlapping travel plans.
Nokia's marketing department continues to think outside the box. In fact, outside the building altogether. It has created a set of musical park benches, each equipped with three phones and sets of headphones, to be plonked down in city parks across the UK. All the crazy details and a photo here. (Thanks, Matt)
As a trailer for Steve's forthcoming LG KT610 review, which will be available later this week, here is an image gallery featuring LG's second S60 phone (following on from the KS10). The KT610 has a rather unusual clamshell form factor with full QWERTY keyboard which does makes it stand out a little from the S60 crowd. If you have any specific questions about the phone then leave a message in the comment thread and we'll do our best to answer it in the review.
I can't be the only one wondering at the claims of one of the Smartphone Show's demos at exhibiting 'zero shutter lag' on a phone. Here, courtesy of the official show blog, are the details - looks like this could be in each of our phones within a year or two! Of special interest is that the developers claim that it's even possible to present photos from before you press the shutter button. Spooky or Super?
During the Symbian Smartphone Show last week we spent some of our time uploading images from the show floor. Here's the resulting Symbian Smartphone Show 2008 gallery along with a few additions and some extra commentary. Read on for a few highlights from day two of the show that you may have missed first time round.
