DataViz has announced that until the end of August it will make its Document to Go viewer available to Motorola Z8 users at no cost (the normal cost will be $20). Documents to Go allows you to view Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. A version with editing capabilities will be available later in the year.
UK phone regulator Ofcom is taking a long look at issues around number portability in the UK, and has presented a document for discussion. There's a call for comments as well - although in light of previous VoIP discussions it goes into some nice background of the current state of play for the British market.
Now this is interesting. Ratza in our forums has determined that the Nokia E70's camera (the same as that in the likes of the N70 and a dozen other S60 smartphones?) is optimised to focus at 1 metre, rather than infinity, as was previously presumed. He's even knocked up a Python script to prove the point.... More in the forum thread!
It is inevitable, and with the launch of a closed beat for mobile AdSense, the market for advertising on smartphones is going to explode over the next few months. Looking ahead, eMarketer is predicting that roughly 17% ($2.4 billion) of the world's advertising budget is going to be via mobile devices come 2011.
Yesterday saw the Royal Court in London place a temporary injunction on T-Mobile to force them to conenct T-Mobile Customers to users of the Truphone VoIP service. The reason for the dispute? Termination fees. This is the amount that Truphone would charge T-mobile when a T-Mobile user calls a Truphone user.
WOM World has been asked to pass on the following warning from the Healthy Computing Volunteer Group to Rafe, myself and anybody else thinking of using the Nokia N95. Video link...
S60.com do like giving things away. This month it's PhotoLocker, for Series 60 2nd Edition devices like the Nokia N70. PhotoLocker is a way of keeping certain images safe, password protected from prying eyes...
Steve looks at the under appreciated Download! application, here highlighting some of the semi-exclusive content arranged by Nokia for the Eseries communicators. Download! is also available on most new SIM-free S60 phones and offers a variety of downloads including fully licensed applications, themes, add-ons and trial applications. In the article, a UK-based E61i is used as an example of what is available (content varies by phone model and market).
Created for users of Three’s Xmobile data package of phones and data (X-Series), but available to all on the web (http://next.three.com/) and on mobile devices (http://3next.mobi/), 3neXt is a newly opened portal designed to highlight online services, mobile compatible websites for end users. Launching with seven recommended pieces of software, including Jaiku and Shozu.
How do you case the world's best selling smartphone? Not easily, as Steve finds out in his latest in-depth, real world case trial, looking at accessories for the Nokia N95. Comments welcome if you've found something better!
