Now this could get interesting. These guys are working on S60 games in which the camera is used to track physical gestures made with the handset. Fight sequences in RPGs could take on a whole new meaning!
Thomas Boys investigates controlling his desktop with his Symbian smartphone and finds Salling Clicker just the job. Great for parties and presentations! Read his glowing review here.
DataViz are offering a limited time discount on Documents to Go for Series 80. You can read our recent review of Documents to Go here and download a trial of the program here. Use the code 4526B4F8 in the basket or this link to add to the discount directly to your basket. This offer expires at the end of December.
Via the UIQ Developer website comes news of an opporunity for developers to beta test Carbide.c++. Caribide.c++ is the next generation of Symbian OS development tools and is built on Eclipse, the open-source IDE framework. The UIQ Developer site also provides the opportunity to get everything you need to develop for UIQ 3, inlcuding support from experts via its forum.
Forum Nokia have just had their annual PRO awards, with Quickoffice winning overall. Here's the full press release. Other winners included Always-On Mail and 3G Fairy Quest.
Nokia's E61 had the Finns in a tizz, what with Symbian OS 9.1 and a brand new (for them) form factor. It's clearly aimed at the competition, so how does it look at this stage of its development? Ewan finds out.
The Nokia N90 has been receiving a lot of attention in the world of blogs recently partly thanks to the N90 Blogger Program we mentioned last week. There has been a whole range of opinion and some interesting discussion of the ideas behind the program itself which are well worth reading. Read on for a selection of the post from the Blogosphere on the N90 and some comment on the program itself.
It being a slowish news day, I've been updating my (now huge) Grid of mobile devices, taking a selection of current hardware and rating them against each other in gory detail. New devices covered include the Nokia N70, the T-Mobile MDA Pro and the Orange SPV C600. Plus there are two new rating categories, for video recording and software stability.
Ewan tells how he relies on the Nokia 9500 Communicator for email, telephony, blogging and just about everything else while travelling the world. Does the Communicator live up to its name and what tips can he pass on for others?
Monday night's Gadget Show on Channel 5 in the UK (5 Dec 2005) hit viewers with a barrage of Symbian-powered smartphones. Topics covered by the show included getting online using GPRS/3G and TV on your mobile. The Nokia 7710 mediaphone, in particular was given a lot of close-up coverage, playing back video segments and shown streaming live TV. Also spotted were the Nokia 6680, 6630 and even the Series 80-powered Nokia 9300. Plus there was quite a bit of footage of Symbian's 'Smartphone Show'. What else did you spot? Comments?
Steve Litchfeld's been doing some direct comparisons of multimedia performance on cutting edge smartphone hardware from both Nokia and Orange/T-Mobile and is taken aback by how far behind Microsoft and their partners are in this area.
Steve Litchfield reviews DVDPlayer as part of his quest to find a really decent video player for the wide-screened Series 80. With an OpenSource PC-hosted front end, DVDPlayer comes closer than any other solution yet to a video picture that fills the screen.
