Nokia Research Centre has made available, as a technology demonstrator, Activity Monitor for the Nokia N95 and N95 8GB. It uses the accelerometer built into the phone to count the number of steps you take in a given period of time. It then uses the collected data to display various statistics including energy consumed, steps taken and distance travelled. Activity monitor is therefore best thought of as an intelligent 'super' pedometer.
Now that Adobe's Flash Lite 3 has been 'released', ways of accessing YouTube on a smartphone are starting to leak out. Following a really convoluted method, there's been the commercial demo of Mobitubia (mini-site and 9 minute brand new video with appallingly funny English!), and now RotateMe wizard Samir brings us FLVPlayer - although it's currently hard wired to a few test videos and needs further development. Throw in an updated version of Web and it can't be long until the Holy Grail becomes possible, surely?
Milestones passing and arriving on the Smartphones Show. It passed the half a million viewings mark a few weeks ago, and is approaching its own half century, with Show 49 going live today, in the last show of 2007. This programme has a look at some smartphone bargains, an overview of the HTC Touch and Touch Dual, plus a review of all the add-on keyboard utilities, a demo of using a S60 smartphone as a wireless modem for your laptop and a brief look ahead to N-Gage.
Yes, yes, it's just another 'news headlines and content' reader, but Nokia do seem to have some high profile content partners for this free venture, so worth giving Channels a try. Of note is that Channels auto-rotates the screen if relevant, i.e. it's accelerometer-aware on the likes of the N95 and N82 - as the blog entry notes , 'this is a sign of things to come'.
The Italians may have a few things that aren't exactly perfect in their economy, but boy do they have style. Following on from my rave write up of PiZero, here's your theme for today, 'Everything Burns' , from P@sco.
The hands-down best S60 theme ever created, PiZero's 'Gold' has had a big upgrade, to v2.0 ! How can you have an upgrade, with bug fixes and version numbers, all for a simple theme? Because this is no ordinary theme and, like most of PiZero's other creations, it's implemented in meticulous detail. Oh, and if you like Gold 2.0, drop him a few PayPal dollars - I did.
I know quite a few N95 and E90 owners have been waiting for this (I gave in and bought a 6GB microSDHC last week!), but it seems that the official SanDisk 8GB microSDHC cards are now available in the UK . The price is £55 inc VAT.
Ah yes, Krisse does like to roundup Christmas/wintery games each year, with a couple of new entrants this time round. There are games for all Symbian platforms, most of them are free, and at the very least they should keep you going until Nokia decides to throw the switch on their N-Gage store...
With a huge number of partners, licencees and developers around the world, Symbian announced a partnership with the PGP Encryption Platform to protect the contents of Symbian laptops, desktops and email exchanges around the world; specifically the IP of Symbian and their partners. After all, one lost laptop with details on a prototype device getting into the wild would not be a nice scenario for anyone involved. I 'm just wondering if there's a mobile client for Symbian staff's smartphones, and if that will ever be available to the public?
