The hoo-ha about a new piece of malware 'for S60 3rd Edition' called 'Isexplayer' should be utterly beneath our contempt - it's a non-story and I'll simply link to Vaibhav, who also dispells any worry very succinctly. Move on, folks, nothing to see.
It looks like the promo season for the upcoming Nokia N96 is starting in earnest. "Face The Task" is an ultra-high-bandwidth Flash site promoting all the things you can do with the N96. In addition, it's announcing a limited edition ('96' will be made) N96 supplied in an Ash Tree box and with a supplied 8GB microSD card. Plus, view all the videos and answer a question to win one...
Dataviz have announced the immediate availability of Documents to Go Premium Edition version 4. The new version, among other features, brings full viewing and editing of Office 2007 documents to the UIQ3 platform. The full press release follows the break.
Nokia's Widsets have now opened up a number of tools for developers to get their hands on (writes the Mobile Games Blog). Where previously third party widsets were limited to RSS, the new SDK (v3) provides more tools, libraries and options.
Part rant, part apologetic, part FAQ, in this article I reply directly to a long and interesting email fired in by a Mac-owning, iPhone fan at my championing of the Nokia N95 (8GB) in Smartphones Show 62. Not your typical troll, Nikolay makes some good points in his missive but hopefully I make some equally good ones in return!
S60 Python Programmers should head on over to Croozeus, a new website and resource centre for developers using the scripting langauge. Pankaj Nathani, an active participant in the Forum Nokia community, and Bogdan Galiceanu are the team behind the site. Now to dig out my text editor and start tinkering with their tutorials...
There's a timely tips reminder over on 'My Nokia E65', presenting its 'Five Things You Didn't Know about S60 Web', well worth a glance over or printing out. It's surprisingly easy to forget some of these shortcuts, especially how useful the ones for Zoom in and Out are...
There's a new version of Mail for Exchange out. v2.5.3 introduces support for the Nokia E66 and Nokia E71, as well as fixing Exchange Server 2007 SP1 compatibility. (via Eseries)
Asri al-Baker reviews DreamLife, billed as a 'Life Information Manager' but essentially just Calendar and Contacts, done better and integrated to a degree. DreamLife is slickly programmed but in the light of the impending demise of UIQ has to be seen as something of a last gasp. Asri also makes sure to get the developer's view of the future, including news that DreamLife will now be ported to S60/Symbian.
UI Rendering Platform TAT Kastor has announced that TAT Kastor is now available on the S60 platform. TAT Kastor is a core system to provide designers with a lot of 'whizz-bang' effects in a UI; particle effects and3D rendered elements are two highlights in the plug-in based system. Of special interest to hardware designers, you can find out more at the product page.
Continuing our MOTO Z10 smartphone coverage, Motorola have been holding a competition to see who can create the best video entirely ON the phone itself - i.e. all shots and editing on the Z10. And here's the winner - the Z10's video quality isn't the best, but the editing software's certainly up the job, it seems. (via IM)
Ewan continues looking at the UIQ 3-powered Motorola MOTO Z10, and in part two of his review takes the PIM Suite apps out for a test. See also part 1 of the review. Future review parts will cover wider applications, music and camera.
Why is the mobile platform not being innovated on as heavily as the web? It's been bothering Ewan MacLeod over at SMSTextNews - and when I say bothered I mean full on ranting on the mobile scene, VC's, entrepreneurs and networks and the consistently closed world. Well worth reading this one over a nice cup of coffee and a digestive biscuit.
Guest writer Luke Barton has been trialling the new CoPilot 7 satellite navigation system for S60 3rd Edition - here's his full review after using it for several weeks on his Nokia 6110 Navigator. Summary? It has some usablity issues, plus laggy voice instructions, but there are plenty of compensating features which will appeal especially to small businesses.
Smartphones Show 62 is now up, with a hands-on review of the UIQ 3-powered MOTO Z10, plus my Top 5 (Smart)Phones for mid-2008 - a personal choice, with reasons!
