Nokia has put an interesting Flash version of the E61 user manual online, which will give you a rough idea of how it will work, although there are very few images to help out. Thanks to Michal for the heads-up. Ewan's full E61 review is coming soon, by the way!
Ever helpful, Ewan has prepared a quick reference guide to the brand new Symbian OS powered smartphones that are specifically aimed at music playback, with comparison to the ubiquitous iPod. Food for thought, though don't forget that almost any recent Symbian OS device can also play back stereo music too...
Nokia's iconic LifeBlog system is now available in 2.0 guise for all Nseries smartphones, here's the main download and info page. Thanks to Tommi for the heads-up.
Our Darla, a hacker? Not exactly, but she's written several techy tutorials for S60 over on her blog. Here's her summary post, worth bookmarking to save yourself having to find this via Google later on....
In a further Insight article at Symbian.com, David Wood deconstructs the myth of a mobile Operating System being a commodity, the all-conquering Linux-Phone, and how (naturally) Symbian OS has addressed these problems. As Wood points out, the arguments he is hearing sound similar to the debates about how search was solved and no innovation was needed... just before Google launched.
Looks like we missed this one back in March, but the Open Source SSH client for S60 (including S60 v3), S80 and S90 devices has been updated to v1.4. Download from here, and the Sourceforge homepage is here.
Nokia's Open Source Research Centre has a reference implementation for Streaming Audio from your S60 phone, and supports the ShoutCAST standard. It's not a polished app, but Nokia are hoping that it helps stimulate audio application developmenton S60 v3. Now, I'm away to set up the N91 as a pirate internet radio station...
Steve mulls over his favourite theme, convergence, and tries to spot where it's all going to end. If all phones are smart, there's no real point in talking about smartphones...
It's the now weekly Carnival of the Mobilists - always worth a read for anyone interested in all things mobile. This week it's at Helen Keegan's place.
Simon Judge, a freelance mobile developer, has released the first piece of (native) freeware for S60 3rd Edition. SExplorer (available in beta) is a file explorer utility. Features include the browsing of all drives (but not the folders protected by the Symbian 9 security model), creating, moving, and renaming of folders and files and opening files according to their file type.
As reported by the S60 Multimedia Blog the support pages for the Nokia N91 are now available. The support pages includes the manual and interactive demonstrations to help you get the most out of the phone. Also available is the Nokia Music Manager Plug-in for iTunes on the Mac which allows you to sync music between your N91 and Mac OSX.
It may not be the number one object of lust for the Nokia fanboy, but the N91 is one of the best consumer targetted Series 60 phones around. With S60v3, gorgeous build quality, and a 4gb Hard Drive to go with the dedicated music controls, it's all the entertainment you could need. Isn't it? Read Ewan's Review on the N91 to find out...
Another blast from the past, perhaps, but if still have any old Psion 5mx, Revo or Series 7 netBook palmtops, note that Opera has now been made freeware for each of these. See PScience5 for the appropriate ZIPs and instructions.
Those mobile Ruskies have done it again - here's their detailed review of the upcoming UIQ 3-powered Sony Ericsson M600. It's in halting English again, but hey, I can't speak Russian, so...
Opera Mini, the proxy browser that I declared in my review would 'change the way you browse, the sign of a killer application' seems to be going from strength to strength, according to Opera's latest press release and observing a number of industry deals, ranging from added-value branding and support from Onspeed Mobile to a variety of redistribution deals. Opera Mini currently serves up over 4 million pages a day to mobile and smartphone users.
