Proving both that OPL development and the software scene for the Nokia Communicator aren't dead yet, AAS's own Arjen has come up with a spiffing version of the popular game Battleships, for the 9210, 9300 and 9500.
This S60 Blog page has some sample video footage taken on the Nokia N93 (warning: Quicktime, broadband and patience required!). Great clarity, though I'm not convinced about the claimed 30 frames per second yet - maybe they've not optimised the code yet?
Symbian Themes has announced it has now converted all of its existing themes to be compatiable with S60 3rd Edition. That means there are now more than 5000 themes available for the Nokia 3250 and other 3rd Edition phones (one for every day of the next 13 years). Symbian Themes has almost 10,000 customisation elements for your S60 phone ranging from themes, to wallpapers, operator logo and fonts.
Following last week's 48 hour poll to take a snapshot of the Symbian-powered smartphones you're currently using and your plans for the future, Steve Litchfield picks through the stats and draws out a few surprises.
In this feature article, Nokia N91 - Real World Usage, Rafe takes a closer look at Nokia's new music smartphone. In an addendum to our review he discusses the device from various usage stand points and concludes the N91 is the best converged smartphone music device currently available, but may not be for everyone.
Hey, listen up! There's a whole new release (1.69) of OggPlay on the loose for all S60, Series 80 and Series 90 users. So that's basically the whole Symbian world apart from UIQ users (who are still on 1.1). S60 3rd Edition users read on...
A bunch of AAS readers (including me) are trying to gather some data on write speeds to 512MB and 1GB cards of different makes, in an attempt to sort out why Kingston 1GB cards cause jerky video recording and lost application assignments. Can you help?
Here's this week's Carnival of the Mobilists. Some of the stories have already been featured in AAS news, but there's always a gem or three still to be discovered...
The inclusion of an N-Gage hot title in the N93's ROM didn't escape Ewan's beady eye. In this editorial he argues that with the N70 and N93 each containing an N-Gage game, Nokia's next generation gaming platform is well and truly 'in beta'.
Over on the MRKTNGman S60 blog Jouni gives some details of a forthcoming Nokia Podcasting Appliction for S60 3rd Edition. The program allows you to update podcasts on a manual, automatic or scheduled basis over a WLAN or 3G connection. The application will available in July and will be S60 3rd Edition only.
OK, Smartphones Show 8 is at last live, comments welcome if it doesn't play OK for you. No sign of the E61 or E70 reviews as neither device has actually arrived yet, and there's more of a Windows Mobile flavour to Show 8. Still, there's video of the Nokia N93 and a video version of my N70/N90 camcorder tips.
Calcazoo is a new application/service for S60 owners, with an application customised to your monthly network tariffs, keeping track of exactly how many charged minutes you've used and of your overall bill. The developers are looking for beta testers at the moment and it's currently free to download.
Following on from our first looks at the N72 and N93 Rafe previews the Nokia N73 the new all around multimedia Nseries S60 phone from Nokia. He concludes that as a modestly sized phone with a 3.2 megapixel camera, advanced music capabilities and backed by S60 3rd Edition it is a worthy sucessor to the Nokia N70.
Darla reports that there's a new version (1.7) of the popular ShoZu S60 photoblogging client. The main improvement is that "there's a cost-saving option to upload 'blog quality' photos, if desired, rather than full resolution images." Something we really, really missed from previous versions.
Kudos to Russell at MobHappy for daring to suggest that Java (J2ME) isn't a cure-all for development needs and the best thing since sliced bread. Interesting perspective and one which will resonate with developers and any users who've ever taken a huge RAM hit to run a program with a less than optimal interface.
