Just a quick plug for the Symbian Q and A Knowledgebase, which I've doubled in size and categorised so make things easier to find. It covers common support questions for Series 60, UIQ and Series 80 Symbian smartphones. Hopefully worth bookmarking at the very least!
You have to admire the feature list from what looks to be a traditional 2d shooter that has "3 difficult mode from normal to hell" and an "extremely high quality graphic." I'm talking about Miss Siam from Chiang Mai Digital Works. It's available in the All About Symbian store, as are all the new releases!
When you hear about multi-million dollar gaming licences and massive global hits, it's hard to forget that there are hundreds of coders out there every day who get picked up by the mobile networks and showcased in their catalogues. It's the new 'mark of excellence' in a sense, and Irish Developer BitRabbit is slowly making a name with their arcade games Yukiko and Atomanix. The later has been picked up by Swisscom, who are following Orange UK's in signing up these titles for OTA distribution.
Not quite sure what's up with the name "Nokia Nseries N90 Blogger Relations Blog site" but here it is. Nokia's blog to link back to all the stories and comments the N90 receives has come online in sync with the US launch of the N90 handset.
TomTom have posted a big update (5.20) to their MOBILE 5 navigation system. Main changes are: "Support for more devices; Better support for 3rd party Bluetooth GPS; Increased number of POI categories to 40; Improvements in address search". Full details of how to update to 5.20 are given here
Zi Corporation's Zi Predictive Text Suite for Series 60 is available at no cost for a limited time. The suite contains both eZiText (for predictive text entry) and eZiTap (multitap entry) and both products are aimed at speeding up data entry. You can use the code AAE45F3 in our Handango store which will give a full discount off the $19.95 price. The code will work for the main program (English), and the Swedish, Spannish, French and German dictionaries. The code will expire in 2 weeks.
Released today is v4.0 of Fairway, the golf game for Nokia 9300 and 9500. Changes include modern opponent names, improved gameplay and visuals and even more realistic physics. Fully working shareware, details here.
Rafe gets a hands-on session with a prototype N92, Nokia's N series smartphone with built-in digital TV. It's a fiddly but intriguing design, with a few niggles to be fixed, but it basically works well.
Nokia has just announced the Series 80-based 9300i smartphone in New York. As previously rumoured, the main hardware changes are Wi-Fi (802.11g), a larger battery and predictive text input on the cover phone. There's a huge software bundle, mainly aimed at businesses. Read on....
The S60 Blog brings two interesting quotes regarding Skype, the VoIP king, coming to S60. The prediction is in the first half of next year, which neatly coincides with W-iFi enabled S60 devices such as the E60 and the slew of N-xx phones.
Rifts: The Promise of Power is huge. It's a long sought title for RPG fans, and its debut on silicon is on the N-Gage. Is it everything we expected? Yes. And then some. Ewan's review of Rifts goes into the world of Rifts to find out what all the fuss is about.
Janne Jalkannen has discovered a bit of a problem with Nokia's WebCore based browser on the E61 - when sites such as Google serve up mobile-optimised sites they've not twigged out that the E61 is a perfectly competent web browser that just has a smaller screen, but in the right aspect ratio. Can you switch over to get the full site? It doesn't appear so...
Ooh! Finally catching up on news from the October Press Briefing is Slashdot's rather negative coverage of Nokia's re-targeting of the N-Gage from a single handset to a brand covering the entire Series 60 portfolio. Worth a read to see just what Nokia's marketing department was up against before they had even launched. And also worth it for the comment that Nokia's so called failure has sold more units than all the Microsoft Windows Mobile Smartphone devices put together.
