If you're a Google user on the move, then their newly launched personalised Mobile Home Page could prove usful. There's more details at Search Engine Watch and MobHappy, and the page itself is either autodetected or point your browser at www.google.com/ig/mobile.
Steve's been taking a long look at the Nokia N70 and is confident enough to label it as the phone currently on top of the pile. Among shipping smartphones, anyway. Find out exactly why in our big Nokia N70 Review.
PC Pro magazine (in the UK), whose March 2006 edition is now on sale, has a group test of 'PDA phones', featuring the Nokia 9300 and 9500. As you'd expect, given that PC Pro has always been very pro-Microsoft, neither win an award, although they liked the wide screens and PowerPoint editing facility.
There's now yet another free way to take Series 60 screenshots, for use in tutorials, guides and (yes) web pages. Best Screen Snap is here, and looks pretty comprehensive.
piAccess Link adds AT command support to Symbian phones for SMS and phone book retrieval. This allows you to access text messages and contacts over Bluetooth from a PC with standard AT command software (such as piAcess Mail). Features include support for both incoming and outgoing Bluetooth serical connections, reading and deletion of all SMS (sent or received), reading of contacts and access to additional phone information such as the IMEI.
3-Lib has added extra weightings, future-proofing and software catalogue attributes to the big, free, Grid. Which is your perfect smartphone? Let the Grid decide!
All together now (again): "Why does the N-Gage get all the best games and when can we have them for our generic S60 smartphones?" Ewan's been playing High Seize and is quite impressed, there's strategy and atmosphere galore in this N-Gage swashbuckler. Here's the review.
Nokia has put up lots more goodies on its web site concerning the new 9300i smartphone and (indirectly) its older sisters, the 9300 and 9500. Thanks to Brent Laursen over on my-symbian for the heads up. Here's the 9300i user guide and some extra applications.
There's been a huge amount of talking on the net about the S60 Yahoo! Go! client. Christian Lindholm's blog has a great post, although given he previously worked at Nokia and is now with Yahoo! maybe that much would be obvious. Tarek has a huge number of screenshots from his installation and first experiences, while CNet points out that the client will be pre-installed on Series 60 devices in ten countries (but handily doesn't say which ones).
TWT SMS reader claims to give you access to text messaging without needing to see your smartphone screen. Steve puts it to the test and finds it surprisingly clear, even if it does fail to handle simple text abbreviations.... Here's the review.
[Huge personal plug alert] Programme 1 in a new 'TV' series looking specifically at smartphones has aired. The show covers all software platforms and is currently free to download online. Read on for details...
The company behind the ultra small java midlet internet apps Webviewer and Mailviewer, Reqwireless, is now part of Google. Google announced the news late last week. That'll explain why it's not been possible to buy these apps for the last few months. No mention of the price paid or any other details, but there's sure to be speculation on what the technology is going to be used for, given the rumours of Desktop Thin Client Software coming from the Big G in 2006.
There's a veritable flood of Internet-borne 'services' that you access on your smartphone coming out of America (and specifically the CES show) but what they're announcing makes no sense whatsoever in most of the rest of the world. Read on...
Expansys (Germany) have started listing the Nokia 9300i, quoting February 6th. Here's the link (in German, obviously). If you spot other appearances round the world, use the Comments, please.
