Err yes. Engadget Mobile is reporting that AT&T in the States, not content with calling the Nokia N75 by its Nseries moniker, have dreamed up the "Tab Top" name, referring presumably to the strip of icons across the top of the standby screen. What next? Suggestions on a postcard, to...
Showing that you really can't believe every stat you read without knowing the exact context, and remembering the attention some USA mobile browsing stats got when they announced that Apple iPhone browser use trumped that of any other device, I was interested to see stats from respected UK computer magazine/web site PC Pro, showing the top 5 mobile devices that had accessed their servers in 2008 so far. Read on....
With Ewan somewhere in America still, Rafe recording an Insight with me and then taking a well deserved long weekend break himself, it's been an odd 24 hours, centred around the big news from Cupertino and smartphone industry reaction to it. Read on for some analysis on this and other interesting weekend reading links.
Coolgorilla, a favourite of ours since they keep insisting on giving away everything for free, has launched the London Travel Guide, a 400 page mobile-optimised online 'book', with illustrations, maps and apparently even video. The content's kept updated and there are phone and web hyperlinks throughout. Guides are planned for other major cities in the near future. Press release below the break.
You may remember the original Space Impact from phones such as the 3310, but now it's back as a full commercial game called Kappa Base. All About N-Gage puts it through its paces in the latest Next Gen N-Gage game review. Is alien zapping as fun now as it was in the 80s and 90s? Click on the link to find out.
You'd think that I'd be satisfied with the hundreds of quality S60 3rd Edition themes out there? Nope, I was on a quest, a search for my 'ultimate' theme, and I had a long wish-list. In the end, I chose to commission PiZero to create it and 'Sunrise' is the result. Happy downloading and all comments welcome!
We've had applications to sync into Google Calendar for a while, notably GooSync. But Google just released an official set of Contacts APIs (hooks for programmers to use), meaning that full sync into this part of Google may be on the horizon. But, as the Google OS blog notes, the APIs link into a generic contact store and not necessarily a GMail contact set, meaning that there's probably some tweaking at the Google end set to happen in the future, to simplify contact handling.
midomi's been around for a while, but there's a whole new native S60 client for this music matching service. How well does it do on picks from the Litchfield family repertoire and is it anything more than a novelty? Find out in my review of midomi mobile...
You'll remember that we've looked at Epocware's Handy Weather before, giving both the original S60 3rd Edition version and that for UIQ 3 well deserved AAS MegaApp awards. And now they've gone and improved it again, adding weather maps and streamlining the interface. Still a MegaApp? You bet, it's still one of the stars in the Symbian OS firmament - here's my review of Handy Weather version 5.01.
No, we haven't gone raving mad - it's just that Ewan (currently on walkabout in the USA) has been tweeting from Twibble. Err... that's sending Twitter updates by SMS, in plain English. It's a useful Java application, that's for sure, saving time and bandwidth. Here's Ewan's review of Twibble.
James Cracknell, a double Olympic gold medalist, is rowing, cycling and swimming the 1,431 miles between the UK and Africa in a 'Cross-Continent Challenge' as part of the Sports Relief fundraising efforts. He's being guided by a Nokia N82 which he's also using to listen to music and send picture messages to his website.
The fine chaps over at Nseries WOM World are holding a get together at the Old Crown in Holborn (London) tomorrow (Wednesday 5th). Further details are available here on the WOM World site or on Facebook here. Festivities include camera tossing and a mysterious competition.
Mitsubishi is to close its loss making mobile handset business with employees being reassigned to other areas of the company. Mistubishi currently makes phones for Japan's NTT DoCoMo FOMA network; the handsets use the MOAP-S (MOAP on Symbian) software platform. Handset shipments to NTT DoCoMo will halt by September. And so we bid goodbye to another Symbian licensee. Read on for more details.
Following on from our textual preview of the Nokia N78, here's a comprehensive hands-on video preview of the device, covering all the major areas using video and pictures from MWC 2008. The N78, as the entry level Nseries device, looks set to replicate the sales sucess of its immediate predecessor, the Nokia N73. Video (podcast 27) below the break.
Nokia has announced at CeBIT that it will make Microsoft's Silverlight (think Flash clone) available for S60, as well as for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering 'next-generation' media experiences and rich interactive applications. Microsoft will demonstrate Silverlight on S60 during the opening keyote at their MIX08 conference on March 5 and availability to developers is intended to be later this year. Read on for more details and analysis.
