Rock Your Mobile! has announced the availablity of Movie Tones a Windows application which allows you to create video ringtones for your S60 smartphone from a variety of video and audio file formats. Once you have installed the Mobile Player you can select your created video ringtones as you would any other ringtone.
Mobimate today announced the forthcoming availability of a free version of it's best selling WorldMate application. WorldMate Free Edition will incorporate mobile advertising (provided by a partnership with Amobee Inc.) to provide a revenue stream for MobiMate. WorldMate is a travel information application providing weather forecasts, currency exchange, world clocks and more.
TomTom, developers of the MOBILE 5 satellite navigation software for all Symbian platforms, havs brought out a special Plus! pack aimed at football fans travelling into Germany for the World Cup, with POIs, voices and map themes. I think it's all fully MOBILE 5 compatible - anyone care to try it and report back?
The onslaught of major S60 titles ported over to Symbian OS 9 and S60 3rd Edition seems to have started in earnest. With v3.20, the much-recommended SmartMovie is now fully 3rd Edition-compatible, as well as fixing rebooting problems on Series 80 and 90 communicators.
Steve's the GPS fan in the AAS offices, and he's been trialling ViewRanger to find out how GPS and navigation works when you're away from the road network. ViewRanger gives an annotated panorama of the hills and valleys in front of you. Read why Steve was so impressed.
Nokia's first invitation-only 'S60 Summit' gets underway this afternoon, in Nice, at the Acropolis Congress Centre. It's basically loads of speeches, demos and expos from all working in the S60 community. Rafe's there for AAS, don't worry, he'll be posting on Wednesday with news and insights.
Hey, Megasoft2000 have just produced the very first 3rd party software for UIQ 3 (the game Bowling). Kudos to them. Now we just need some actual smartphones to run it on! It has now been seven months since the P990 was announced and there's still no sign of it on store shelves. Patience is a virtue!
Comeks is an innovative application that allows you to create comic strips on your phone. You can use images stored on the phone or take new ones with the phone's camera. You then speech and thought bubbles, icons and frames to your images and arrange them into strips (multiple frames) as you go. Your finished creations can be shared via email, MMS and Bluetooth. Comeks works on all S60 2nd Edition phones.
Nokia has released two white papers (illustrated guides) helping you create content for the Flash Lite runtime in the new generation of S60 3rd edition smartphones. Here are the PDF links for the overview/intro and style guide.
At long last, the respected mobile musings found in the Carnival of the Mobilists have found a home. Here you'll find links each week to the Carnival, plus archives and FAQs for anyone wanting to write for (or host) the Carnival. Good stuff.
Forgive another pointer to my 'Calculate your perfect smartphone' Grid, but a Javascript error was spotted, meaning that neither 3rd party software not Cost was being included in the final scores. You might want to try the grid again when you've got 5 minutes to spare...
Ewan and I have battled firmware updates, Internet outages, hard disk failures and the vagaries of digital video to bring you both this huge Nokia E61 web review (now updated with loads of screenshots!) and this 15 minute video review (MP4 format, 42MB) (right-click and choose 'Save as', if you want to carry on surfing while it downloads).
Nokia has licensed Synergenix's reworked Golf Pro Contest (you may remember that their S60 2nd Edition version was a favourite of Rafe and myself) game for their Eseries smartphones. Here, for example, is the E61 download page. Screenshots below the break (no pun intended!)
