To be filed under 'Hey, S60 Web uses the same core code as the iPhone's browser', come these links: pages of Javascript-hosted quick games and the entire text of the King James Version of the Bible (with the 'thees' and 'thous', etc). The latter works fine in Web but some of the games are a bit hit and miss. Comments?
Ah, it's not just me that wants to also use my smartphone as a torch. Ever since the N93, I've wondered why this isn't a built-in feature. All In One Torch is a Python hosted script that offers pulsing of the camera LED in the likes of the N95 and E90, along with always-on white main screen. The only downside is that you have to go through a silly Rapidshare system to actually get the download. Shout here if you can't grab it. The usual warnings about knackering your LED hardware apply, of course. And familiarity with running a Python script will help (via Symbian blog)
If you've wanted to set multiple alarms in Clock but don't want to have to pay to upgrade to a S60 3rd Edition FP1 device just to get this feature, then note that coding wizard Jukka Silvennoinen's latest beta is YAlarms for bare S60 3rd Edition smartphones. Here's the YAlarms info and link page, give him some feedback! Also interesting seeing him use Nokia's MOSH for the project...
The UK communications regulator Ofcom has opened a consultation on (amongst other things) easing restrictions on the 900mhz mobile phone frequency in Britain. The most significant effect of this would be to allow 3G on this frequency, at the moment it's only used for 2G. The reforms could also help increase signal coverage. Anyone who lives in Britain can make their own opinions known by visiting Ofcom's website. (via BBC News)
As a Nokia E90 user, I was tipped off by a reliable but unnamed source that new firmware that includes Assisted GPS and (I think) Quickoffice 4.5 is due out in the first week of October. I wonder what else they'll throw in? There are a few bugs in Calendar and Web that I'm keen to see cleared...
Interesting post by Vaibhav Sharma on his Symbian blog detailing improvements he thinks are needed in S60. Some of them I'm not sure I agree with but as a wishlist it's a good read. See what you think.
Being something of a keen (though not that good) player, I couldn't resist loading up both ZingMagic's Backgammon and Odesys Backgammon on the Nokia E90 and N95. Both played a strong game, but there were plenty of differences between the two. One of them was native, one was Java; one of them was quirky and the other took the gaming experience to a whole different level...
Official developer site Forum Nokia has published its detailed tech spec pages for the Nokia E51 and the Nokia N95-3 NAM, aka the American N95. Amongst other things, it reveals that the E51 has 96 megabytes of RAM (with 50 MB free for user applications), while the N95-3 NAM has 128 megabytes (with 81 MB free for user apps).
Woo! Nokia has launched a new application, Conversation, offering SMS sorted by contact (think 'threaded'). Conversation appears standalone and as a tab in S60 3rd Edition's Contacts. Feedback to Nokia on Conversation should be directed through Beta labs' Tommi's blog post.
More and more online data storage services are becoming available, letting you access anything from emails to video through the web rather than storing it on any particular device. But will they work if people don't trust these services to keep their data safe? Following up our review of SoonR, Krisse asks if we really want a Ken Dodd Internet?
It's that time in the fortnight, another Smartphones Show goes live, this time with video from the Nokia E51 and iPhone UK launches, a preview of the Symbian Smartphone Show in London (in less chatty form than the last AAS video podcast) and a review of the UBiQUiO 503G - no I don't hate Windows Mobile, but this is a classic example of how badly it can be implemented. Read on for show links.
I don't know him personally, but TV/media star Stephen Fry and I have been seemingly bumping along through the Psion/Palm eras together. And now he's started a blog, with a huge and interesting essay on smartphones. He looks at the HTC Touch ('thundering nuisance'), the Sony Ericsson P1i (less responsive than 'a dead walrus') and the Nokia E90 (a 'good product'), before loving but finding flaws in the iPhone.
Being something of a keen (though not that good) player, I couldn't resist loading up both ZingMagic's Backgammon and Odesys Backgammon on the Nokia E90 and N95. Both played a strong game, but there were plenty of differences between the two. One of them was native, one was Java; one of them was quirky and the other took the gaming experience to a whole different level...
