Yes, I know it's a slow news week, which is why we're streaming in a bigger than usual quota of original content. Here Ewan reviews the brand new and very shiny PicoBlogger for S60 3rd Edition (and also for 2nd Edition devices). Summary? Very Web 2.0 and very effective.
Steve's been driving around with the very latest version of TomTom's satellite navigation application for (most) S60 3rd Edition smartphones. Here's the full review.
Good to see that Symbian are proud of their past, see these twophotos snapped at the Smartphone Show in London this month. The tags indicate footage for Newsnight - has this been aired yet?
Carnival Of The Mobilists 51 has appeared, so go and read it! CotM is a roundup of the week's best writing on mobile device topics, which moves from site to site with each new edition (hence the "Carnival" name). The next installment will be hosted right here on AAS.
Steve compares the (Symbian OS, S60-powered) Nokia E61 and the (Windows Mobile 5-powered) Palm Treo 750v, both with qwerty keyboards and a full office and online application set. Is the 750v a cut above the rest of the Windows Mobile competition? Find out in his latest head to head.
Shame on Symbian Freak for even giving column inches to Kaspersky Lab's latest 'report' on Mobile Malware, though at least S-F has the sense to add a one-line rider in the form of an image caption. 'Highlights' of the report include the mesmerizingly misinformed "Data shows that the number and scale of mobile worm outbreaks is rapidly increasing" and "Today's mobile viruses can do very much the same things as (desktop) computer viruses". Eh? The same? Worms? Utter madness. What about all S60's Platform Security measures? Just say no.
Now that hard resetting a S60 smartphone is next to impossible, what do you do about your Calendar when it's time to pass the device on to someone else? The people behind Papyrus have come up with a dedicated (and free) Calendar-clearing utility, reports E61Life.
John Forsyth, over on his Symbian blog, does a good, reasoned job at defending (or at least wisely discussing) Nigel Clifford's vision of the smartphone taking over from the PC. Smartphones probably won't be able to fulfil every role, but they might do more than the PC in your home in a few years time.
We've seen lots and lots of Nokia N95 previews, but nothing this detailed. Thanks to the WOM people for pointing us towards this translated Russian article. Worth it for the dozens of gorgeous screenshots!
PRBlogger.com has compiled a list of the most influential UK blogs. All About Symbian, even given our international focus, ranks as eleventh, ahead of Nevillie Hobson , Strange Attractor and, thankfully, MP Boris Johnson . It's all super subjective, but nice to be recognised as being in the same league!
Ah. How to sum up 3 months with the N93? Embracing the very good and the very bad? Why, in poetry, of course. Apologies in advance to anyone with any artistic discernment, I present my Ode to the Nokia N93...
The Nokia 3250 has been added to the list of devices supported by Nokia's Software Update service, presumably with the first available firmware updates for this music-oriented device. Via Symbian Freak etc.
Ewan's been living and breathing chess for the last week, pitting 'Chess' and 'Chess Genius' against each other. It turns out that it's not actually that fair a fight, for various reasons, although both games heavily impressed Ewan. Read on in his head-to-head...
