Thanks to a post on the Eseries blog, it seems that the E65, E61i and E90 are now supported by Nokia Media Transfer, the imaging and music connection suite. Cool.
I was most interested to hear Andrew Orlowski's comments on the Nokia E90 Communicator in last week's podcast, but felt that I just had to jump and defend what dubbed the 'Cargo Cult' communicator. Here's my analysis of the E90's interface and raison d'être...
Ewan demonstrates, with a little help from his Yahoo HackDay project, how easy it is to edit together a video presentation on the Nokia N95. Incidentally, note that many other Nseries devices have the same editor built-in. Open up an image in Gallery and look in 'Options', etc.
You'll remember that Best TaskMan, a 'system' utility for peeking under the hood of your S60 smartphone, had some issues in its S60 3rd Edition version? Well, it's back, fixed and with a truck load of extra features, including proper hotkey support and a Windows-like alt-tab system. And it's only $10 (£5), which is pretty impressive. Here's the Best TaskMan product page in our software shop.
Here's something useful for your summer travels and completely free. CoolGorilla have created a freeware talking phrasebook, available in half a dozen languages. It runs under Java, so should work with the majority of S60 and UIQ smartphones. Just pick the model in their list that's closest to what you have. It worked fine on my E90 8-) (Via MobHappy)
Krisse has the scoop and the review on the Nokia 6120 Classic (and its 6121 stablemate) - the smallest and lightest smartphone in the world, and with the lowest S60 3rd Edition launch price so far. Is this amazing value for money, or cheap and nasty? Oh, and Krisse also launches a brand new unit of smartphone size comparisons - the AEM...
We've tried not to overdo the iPhone coverage and comparisons, but I couldn't resist linking to Paul Whitaker's nicely done mini-movie, shot on the N95, as he and a friend stalk the line of iPhone 'waiters'...
According to a report on Pocket Gamer, the mysterious Project White Rock for the Next Generation N-Gage platform will be a cross-platform game playable on both the PC and selected Nokia S60 3rd Edition smartphones. Pocket Gamer goes on to say the title has "over a thousand lines of recorded dialogue" but is not an RPG.
Yup, it's a first cut at a Top Tips page for the Nokia E90 Communicator, comments and additional tips welcome, now that the device is starting to creep out into the real world!
Big screen, large keyboard, the Palm Foleo has put the idea of a two-box solution back into the smartphone marketplace. Steve and Stefan aren’t so sure that this is going to be viable in the real world, as their two-head discussion on the Foleo elaborates …
It seems Nokia is starting to roll out Mail4Exchange for its Nseries devices now, with the system appearing within Download! on the N95, according to Symbian Freak. Nothing shows up on my N93 yet, and of course non-corporate users won't be interested anyway, Exchange being a business thing....
Using GMail in a web browser has always been a bit clumsy. Ewan's taken a shine to Google's dedicated Java-based GMail client on his Nokia N95. OK, so Java's slow to load and clumsy, but Google's mini app is well designed and has some lovely touches.
After numerous (ok, four) emails, and looking ahead to Proporta's up and coming holster for the Nokia E90, below the break you'll find some exclusive photos. The case will be available in a week or so, I believe.
Following up his high profile piece on Psion, midweek over at The Register, Ewan caught up with long time Technology correspondent Andrew Orlowski in a London bar to talk about the article, and to go into a bit more depth on the topics raised. Ewan also wanted to find out what Andrew thought this meant for Symbian and the current smartphone market. And how could today not be complete with touching on the launch of the Apple iPhone in the USA? All this in AAS podcast number 27.
Krisse has the scoop and the review on the Nokia 6120 Classic (and its 6121 stablemate) - the smallest and lightest smartphone in the world, and with the lowest S60 3rd Edition launch price so far. Is this amazing value for money, or cheap and nasty? Oh, and Krisse also launches a brand new unit of smartphone size comparisons - the AEM...
