There's an interesting clip over on WOM World by Mike Hodgkinson, the 'director' of the totally N93-shot Rob Dickenson music video. Impressive stuff, from shooting underwater, shooting with various home made tripods and shooting aerial shots from helium baloons... all from a smartphone.
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists, number 53, is hosted at C. Enrique Ortiz's Mobility Weblog. As usual the carnival rounds up writing from around the web on mobile issues. This weeks entries include comments on Nokia warranties, analysis of UIQ's acquisition by Sony Ericsson and news of W3C's Widgets working draft.
Ordance Survey Ireland will shortly make OSi Streetsmart for Dublin, an interactive mapping and information solution, available through its website. Streetsmart has been developed for Ordnance Survey Ireland (mapping) in partnership with Fáilte Ireland (point of interest database) by Augmentra, the same company who has developed the ViewRanger software.
Sun has open sourced various parts of Java under a GPL 2 license. Included within this is a build-able version of Sun's Java ME implementation. Also open sourced is the Java ME testing and compatibility framework. Sun are hoping to speed up the development and evolution of the Java platform and say that open sourcing the language will help drive down development costs and reduce fragmentation.
Admittedly it's not a huge list, but I've at least made a decent start at compiling a UIQ 3 version of my 3-Lib No Nags tables of freeware. If you can add to the list (not too much generic Java stuff, please) of software for the Sony Ericsson P990i et al, get in touch.
I've been watching Tom Cruise's latest on the ultimate geek platform, the Nokia N93. What's behind Nokia's venture into movie-themed smartphones and what sort of job have they done in terms of video quality? Here's my review.
Ex-PDA refugees who are still struggling with the relatively limited feature set of S60's Calendar might like to note that Calendar-replacement Papyrus has just scored another major release. There will be an official review along shortly from Ewan, too, watch this space.
Ganesh Sivaraman, from Nokia's S60 3rd Edition Web browser team, is the guest of the Voice of S60, with a 16 minute audio interview, mainly talking about the browser and what you can expect in the coming year or so. Why not listen in?
The S60 world's favourite utility, Screenshot, is now officially Symbian Signed and has an extra shortcut key, at long last. Is 2.45 the definitive version?
Nordic Wireless Watch have rolled up their sleeves and produced an interesting set of graphics benchmarks, mainly of Symbian OS smartphones. Almost inevitably the Nokia N93 wins by a country mile, but there are plenty of other interesting numbers here. Via WOM World.
Released today is Smartphones Show 18, with the main Symbian OS interest being my latest ratings of the 'top 10 smartphones', with the N93 coming in at number 1, plus video tips for the same device, in case you missed the YouTube link for this a week or so ago. The Smartphones Show can be viewed on any PC, Mac, PSP, iPod or Symbian OS 9 smartphone.
TomeRaider, a fabulous reference/database tool from the PDA world is now available for beta test, apparently, for S60 3rd Edition. Or would be if it would install - email the developers and we're sure this app will eventually make it fully onto S60. Via Shaun.
