Just a note of congratulations to AAS friend Darla, the Mobile Diva, who has just completed 1000 posts on her mobile/smartphone blog. Here's to the next 1000!
Nokia have added a number of user agent profile files to their website including ones for the as yet unannounced Nokia E61i and Nokia E65 models. Careful reading of the user agent profiles reveals that both devices run on S60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS 9.1. The E61i appears to be a tweaked version of the E61. Changes from the E61 include the addition of a camera and a change to the MicroSD memory card format. Read on for more.
It's Yet Another Nokia N95 Preview - from the 'Mr Brown Show', and filmed on an N93 (though they go for too many out of focus close-ups.... FX: Steve wanders off, muttering....) Five minutes long, and in MP4, WMV and YouTube formats, too....
Rafe previews the Nokia 6290 (in video/audio this time!) and I review the Nokia E60, a plain looking business smartphone that packs more of a punch than most company buyers will suspect. It's all in AAS video podcast 4.
I've a feeling I could be spending quite a bit of time on S60.com's latest official blog, Mobile Security, by Neil Barclay. Welcome to the blogosphere, Neil! And, on the subject of the S60 blogs, the latest Voice of S60 is now up, featuring AAS favourite Tommi Vilkamo.
Rafe Blandford had to chance to test the new 6290 recently. Here's his detailed preview, with lots of photos. Summary: a very capable and attractive clamshell smartphone at a surprisingly low price.
Nokia have publicly said that Nokia Software Updates to the N93, down since November 3rd, will remain suspended until 'early 2007'. This is due to technical issues with using NSU with the next-gen N93 processor, apparently. The new v20.0.058 firmware is now well established at all main Nokia service centres though*.
In audio podcast no.8, Ewan Spence interviews PsiLoc and Bitween, two long time developers working in the Symbian OS world. Applications featured include Remote Control, Wireless Presenter and Mobile Fax.
First Symbian start up the Smartphone Radio audio podcasts (though no updates since the launch, I note), and now we have an official video too, also probably a one-off, a three minute, whistle-stop tour of the Smartphone Show itself. Bang in the middle is a glimpse of AAS's own Ewan Spence. And note that this is nothing to do with my Smartphones Show... Confusing, isn't it?
Well, that's saved you an air-fare and taxi/hotel. All the presentations from the whole of the Nokia World event are now online in PDF form. Some very interesting stuff here and you get to view content from all the streams, not just one. Here are the PDFs for day one and day two.
Thanks to E61Life for pointing us towards a series of posts on The Creative Life, in which they compare video footage from the Nokia N93 with that from a Canon MV630i camcorder. Rather impressively, the N93 won convincingly, in the first 'good light' tests, at least.
SEPT-Solutions have now released their Mobile Office for S60 2nd Edition as freeware. The application can be downloaded from http://www.sept-solutions.de/officeS60.sis. Mobile Office is a viewer for OpenDocument err... documents.
Never mind GPRS, 3G, Wi-Max, etc. The comms technology we're all waiting for is now officially Ultra Mobile Broadband, which maxes out at an utterly staggering 280Mbps, or almost three hundred times the speed of the average home broadband. You'll have to wait at least three years though..... (via GeekZone)
After years of saying 'No', top handheld games producer Astraware has finally admitted that Symbian OS is on its radar, planning to produce at least a handful of titles for S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3 in 2007. Let's hope it's earlier rather than later.
