As predicted in AAS's review of the 5500, Nokia has announced a music edition of the phone. It's got a copper/black/orange colour scheme and is exactly the same hardware and sales package as the 5500 (headphone adapter with music controls, headphones, clip-on phone holder) but it includes a 512mb microSD memory card (which seems rather small, the 5500 can officially use up to 1gb and unofficially up to 2gb) and a bicycle phone holder. You can see official pictures of it here.
Tom Coats has a wonderful guide on setting up his S60 phone to geo-tag pictures on Flickr with a BT GPS and Yahoo's Zonetag. Now Tom is an employee of Yahoo, but if the service is available to you, this is probably the best how-to I've seen in a long time.
Yes there may be a lot of video news, but you can't beat a good book, or some classy British Sci-Fi. So thank the makers that the BBC have brought the two together for the 21st Century. A number of the BBC Novels of Doctor Who are now available to read online or download as eBooks (Mobireader compatible). New fans should start with The Well Mannered War , while Lungbarrow resolves the Cartmell Masterplan. Which means something to a few people...
It's autumn, it's time for the Symbian Smartphone Show, which means it must be time to wheel Symbian Signed back out in the open! Developer Sampo Suvisaari has been writing about why Symbian Signed means less choice for end users and proposes a simple and brilliant change to the system.
Podcasting impresario Ewan Spence leads us all gently through our first steps in setting up a Wi-Fi-enabled S60 smartphone to gather podcasts - and where better to start than TPN Rock?
Quickoffice today announced the release of the new versionof its office suite for Symbian phone - Quickoffice 3.1. The new version now supports all S60 3rd Edition devices such as the E61, N73, N80 and N91. The viewer component of the program is provided for free. The major new feature is the addition of the Quickmanager component which allows the download and purchase, in application, of program updates and new mobile applications.
Orange are holding their annual European Partner Camp in 10 days time. With speakers from Orange, Symbian, UIQ and S60 the event offers broad coverage of the Symbian World. There is also a developer centre and plenty of on-hand advisors to help you make the most of your time. We've got one free pass (worth €595) to give away - read on for more details.
Steve takes a listen to ALON MP3 Dictaphone, to find how the addition of a record function benefits the end user and wannabe podcaster, in this audio application. Rough around the edges it may be, but it is a workable solution to recording better audio on your smartphone.
Nokia have announced an updated version of Python for S60. New in version 1.3.11 are keycapture and topwindow modules, support for SVG images (3rd Edition only) and support for both S60 2nd Edition and S60 3rd Edition in one release.
Shooting professional-looking video on the Nokia N93 isn't as simple as it looks. Over on 3-Lib, Steve Litchfield has prepared the definitive guide on what to do and what not to do in shooting your mini-masterpieces.
Today at 4pm BST (but also archived for later playback) Symbian are running a developer webcast focusing on the Accredited Symbian Developer (ASD) program /exam. ASD is an accredited exam program designed to test the skill / knowledge base of developers. After the exam has been taken a report is provided that allows you to quantify and individual or group's underrstanding of Symbian fundamentals.
krisse explores the wonderful world of emulators, running on your S60 smartphone and allowing you to run up classic old games and applications designed for previous generations of computer and games console....
For anyone that likes to read about life on the cutting edge, here's this week's Carnival of the Mobilists, always interesting. Especially Alfie's rant at the end - spot on!
Ahead of their annual Smartphone Show, Symbian has released a number of in-depth podcasts, with interviews with many of the leading managers in the smartphone industry. All are in MP3 format, you can download them here.
