Heck, maybe I should just start a PiZero fan club or something - his latest theme is Leopard (yes, that Leopard) - see below for a majestic screenshot taken on the Nokia E90. The theme wasn't really designed for such a wide screen, but it looks like it can adapt to anything!
To kick off our Nokia N78 coverage we have an in-depth gallery, with commentary, featuring the latest Nseries phone (UK retail model). We'll have further coverage of the Nokia N78 on the site shortly, but please let us know in the comment thread or by email if you have any N78 questions you would like to ask and we'll do our best to answer them.
Sony Ericsson have slipped to fifth place in the handset sales market (reports SMSTextNews) with LG replacing them. The report, from Gartner, puts LG on around 8% of the market for sales during Q1 of 2008. Nokia are still number one, with 115.2 million phone sales, and there's also a global increase on all handset sales from Q1 2007 of 13.6%.
Digia has announced it has developed a new browser for the UIQ 3 platform - Digia @Web. The browser is based on a port of the open-source webkit browser engine (as used in S60's Browser) and be controlled using finger touch. Features include page control with finger, four zoom levels, intelligent bookmarks, URL auto-completion, full screen browsing and screen rotation. A beta of the browser will be available later in June and will be available for all touch enabled UIQ 3 devices.
As part of last week's S60 Summit, S60's Saara Bergstrom - who now runs The Voice of S60 podcast - sat down with our very own Rafe and Ewan to chat about the event, the platform and the smartphone world in general. Here are the MP3 and eAAC+ links for you to grab and listen to.
As you'll have noted from the recent post about the new features in the released Nokia Maps 2.0, cell-id-based location has been added to the existing GPS support. Andrew over at London Calling has a definitive set of musings as to where this has come from and on how big a deal it will be to keep this extra ID database up to date. (via this week's Carnival of the Mobilists)
Think you missed out by not being invited to the S60 Summit? Are you interested in the whys and hows of how the smartphone industry works and where it's going? Then check out Rafe's comprehensive slide gallery from the two days in Barcelona, complete with comments as appropriate. More content from the Summit to follow....
Now here's interesting for the trend spotters. Use of the 'mobile' web goes up at weekends compared to the working week. And on top of that, the sites being visited aren't the same as those from the office connection. Business Week has more on the cyclical habits of the browsers.
Jamba is a well known name in mobile games, and the strength of their distribution channel means that their in-house games development team, working under the Ojom banner, is no longer required to keep the flow of content in the stores (reports MoCoNews). This doesn't change affect any other in-house team, including their ring-tone creation business.
Everybody's other favourite theme designer, p@sco, has knocked up a re-creation of the theme used in the Nokia N78 and N96, for installation on other, older devices. If you're into pretending, this is a free way to do it!...
Just a quick note for those that hadn't spotted the differences in the screenshots in my free-nav article above. Google Maps for Mobile 2.1 for S60 has just been released, with a selection of improvements. Read on for details.
In AAS Insight 27, the latest All About Symbian podcast, we talk about some recent firmware upgrades for a number of devices before moving on to a wide ranging discussion from topics out of last weeks S60 Summit. Areas covered include the future of user experience, Samsung and the S60 platform, the future of software development and widgets and WRT.
MobileTechNews is reporting that Swisscom has launched its mobile television service, 'Bluewin TV mobile', in Switzerland to become one of the first European providers to offer DVB-H mobile TV to its mobile customers. The only handset supported is Nokia's S60-running N77 smartphone, though you can bet that other future Nseries devices (such as the N96) will also come on board. (via Engadget Mobile)
This is 2008 and, being away from home, I wanted to revisit some of the free satellite navigation applications that I'd previously played with over a year ago - surely one of them had developed into something that could get me home? Or is successful real time navigation still the preserve of the commercial applications like Nokia Maps, Wayfinder, CoPilot, etc.? Here's my attempt to find my way home using amAze, Nav4All and Google Maps for Mobile...
I know quite a few of you rely on my definitive pub-quiz-helper, Trivopaedia. It's now been brought up to 2008 levels, with up to date stats for v2.3 . It's available in Mobipocket reader and iSilo formats (i.e. compatible with any portable device or any platform), in addition to being fully online as well - and of course it's still free.
