Many AAS regulars will know my preference for clean and simple themes without annoying and distracting backgrounds. Kudos to the guy behind the E60 Blog for this super-clean White theme. Why not make your screen brighter and clearer?
A lot has been talked about the video recording improvements in the Nokia Nseries of smartphones - in this brief article, I screen grab videos from four of Nokia's smartphones from the last 3 years, so you can see the difference for yourself.
If you're an N-Gage or N-Gage QD owner, you might like to know that the N-Gage Gameshop has slashed the download price of Nokia's acclaimed 3D martial arts game ONE to €14.95 (about £10). This follows on the heels of their equally acclaimed arcade game Mile High Pinball, which remains at last month's sale price of €9.99.
So there I was, gearing up for writing a tutorial on taking better pictures with your smartphone, and I spotted the About Nokia blog, which has just done it for me, covering all the same things I was going to say.... Recommended reading.
Nokia have announced the availability of the Nokia N93 Golf Edition. In addition to usual N93 offering the special edition includes the Pro Session Golf application, and golf instruction CD. The Pro Session Golf application allows you to capture your golf swing using a golf specific video capture mode. The captured swing can then be compared with others using a split screen, played back frame by frame and analyzed with easy to use drawing tools.
ArcoDesign Technologies have released software that puts the Bible on your S60 3rd Edition smartphone. There are two versions, one for the King James Version translation ($8) and one for the NIV translation ($30). Features include fast search, subject index and keypad navigation.
Good Technology announced that its Good Mobile Messaging (previsouly GoodLink) product is now available for the E61. Good Mobile Messaging allows two-way pushed based wireless synchronisation of email, calendar items and contacts between the phone and Microsoft Exchnage or Lotus Domino servers. The solution joins Mail for Exchange, Blackberry, Visto and Seven as push email systems supported by the Nokia E61.
Or, more to the point, dare you consider a Flash Lite game that sees you exploring The Castle to disprove the theory that ghosts exist> Join me as I continue to explore some of the Flash Lite titles available for Symbian.
There are now Nokia E70 and N93 video reviews in Programme 13 of the Smartphones Show video podcast. I admit I was a little crazy thinking I could demo and sum up the N93 in only 12 minutes of footage, but hey, at least you get to see me fondling it...
The Carnival of the Mobilists moves on to Judy Breck's SmartMobs. Just the ticket if you fancy some thought-provoking mobile-related reading material...
A hard date at last for the long, soooo long awaited Sony Ericsson P990i, with Expansys quoting this Friday for its arrival. £600 SIM-free though - anyone brave enough to order one?
Rafe and Steve have been trialling the Nokia N93 for a week now and report back in part one of the AAS official review. This part covers camera, camcorder and other unique multimedia features and includes plenty of screenshots, plus sample photos and videos. Does the N93 live up to its billing?
With the arrival of the Nokia E70 and N93, it's been a busy week at AAS towers.... The first part of our N93 review should be live on Monday, but until then here's what you missed if you fell asleep in the sun for the last seven days...
Tommi, over at the S60 Applications blog, adds his tuppence worth (or should that be two Euros?) to the great applications/sales debate, with an interesting cartoon. But Tommi, have you missed that AllAboutSymbian has its own software shop too? (Note for newbies - buying through it helps support this site)
