I must have fallen asleep in the S60 world somewhere around the introduction of the Nokia 6630, as it seems S60 2nd Edition FP2 onwards contains a nifty way of backing up all contacts to vCard format (and an extra to mass copy them from one device to another). Well, it was news to me! See S60Tips.com for the details. Nice one, Antony.
Despite our review from a couple of days ago, you don't need a separate application to keep track of World Cup events online - in this overview, Ewan describes the links to use to get the same information within your browser for an even lower cost in terms of GPRS data.
This week All About Symbian is proud to host the Carnival of the Mobilists. The Carnival gathers writing on mobile from around the web and is guaranteed to find you interesting opinions and new sites to add to your daily reading list.
The UIQ Developer Program is offering everyone a chance to win a Sony Ericsson M600i. Other prizes include a year of professional membership of the developer program and five vouchers for technical support tickets. To enter the competition you need participate in their feedback survey which is available on the developer.uiq.com site. The survey is also an excellent opportunity to give your feedback and help shape the UIQ developers program.
Best Taskman from SmartphoneWare, a über-utility, is now available for S60 3rd Edition (and also available for S60 2nd Edition and UIQ). Features include the ability to view information about currently running applications and processes, view information about installed applications and manage memory.
Smartphones Show 11 is now available, with a 12 minute video review of the Nokia N71 clamshell smartphone, plus a round-up of mobile golf games. The Smartphones Show is a video podcast and playable on PC, Mac, S60v2 FP3-onwards smartphone, iPod or PSP.
According to Expansys, you can order the Sony Ericsson M600i UIQ 3 music smartphone today and it'll be shipped in 4 working days. Let's hope the P990i isn't far behind (Expansys quotes 'Early July' for this).
ViewRanger, reviewed positively recently on AllAboutSymbian, has now been compiled for S60 3rd Edition, with full support for the higher resolution screens and different orientations. Press release follows.
MandalaIT have announced a new version of their powerful notebook/outliner application for UIQ. Mandala Notebook is a flexible and powerful tool for organising tasks and projects, it allows you to store notes, appointments, tasks and drawings in one central application. The new version improves the user interface and adds an optional encryption element allowing you to store data securely.
SymbianWave has announced the availability of Magic Message Manager for Nokia 9300/9500, adding much needed functionality to the built-in Messaging application. It can filter emails, SMS and MMS messages, faxes and beamed files using a variety of options (e.g. sender's name, text in message).
Symbian luminary David Wood has published his latest official 'Insight' article, taking the theme of security. This one's a little technical but especially worth printing and/or bookmarking, as it strongly echoes what we've said all along about the innate security of Symbian OS. This Insight piece should reassure smartphone users everywhere and provide some concrete rebuttal material for virus-hype-addicted journalists.
Nokia has made all its current gen first-party N-Gage games available for purchase via a download service. The games are paid for on Nokia's Software Marketplace website, downloaded to the user's PC, then transferred by the user to a MMC memory card, after which they work exactly as if the games had been bought at retail. This is strictly for the currently available for the original N-Gage and the N-Gage QD. It's not related at all to the Next Gen gaming platform (or any NSeries devices) due to appear in the first half of 2007.
Not that this will come as much of a surprise to regular AAS readers, but Nokia has commissioned research into mobile phone use and found that almost half the respondents/interviewees already use their mobile as their main camera and over two thirds want their mobile to be their music player as well. Full press release below...
