Think you're a football nut? Well, as new seasons start the world over, Sport Trivia's Football Trivia might be just the thing to turn you into the Stats God on the terracing. Our US friends might be better off with the Baseball version, even though it's just a game of Rounders with padding. Update:
Agile Messenger is switching to a small monthly subscription fee, reports Agile Mobile. At three euros a month (taken out your mobile bill), it's not a huge amount for what is a very slick piece of software, but I suspect a lot of people are going to feel a bit aggreived. Richard puts it a bit more into perspective over at his blog - basically they had to start making money at some point!
HanDBase is a popular database application for Palm and POket PC devices, and it's now coming to Symbian. With a desktop client to allow you to enter data before moving it to your Series 60 to enter data and manipulate on the site. More on the homepage.
Steve tries out the Nokia Wireless Keyboard (SU-8W) with the Nokia 7710 and 6630 smartphones and finds it well made but ultimately a little disappointing. Read his review.
Bowling Master is a lovely looking game of ten-pin bowling for your Series 60 devices. With one handed (even one key) play and realistic physics, you can while away your time knocking things over. Perfect.
Just a quick heads up for all you people who really need to order something from Amazon when you've only got your mobile phone handy, a mobile version (Amazon Lite!) of Amazon is available at this URL. be warned, it's a biggie. What's wrong with mobile.amazon.com working?
Lonely Cat Games replacement email applciation ProfiMail has been released for the Nokia 7710. We've reviewed the Series 60 version previously and it was a good replacement for the built in email application for heavy duty users. The Series 90 email client is a lot more power-user friendly, but you'll still find a look at the trial version of ProfiMail useful.
RMR Software have updated RMRData to v1.1. The new update for the secure data storage applicaiton includes an option to duplicate an entry, alphabetical sort option, better choice of colours, and more icons to help categorise your entries at a glance.
Ah the craze for Sudoku continues, and ZingMagic have made their play for the electronic market. It looks to be the best so far, with choice of tilesets, colours, auto generated grids, a puzzle solver, great interface, and available for UIQ, Series 60 and Series 80 Communicators. We'll have a review in a few days.
Canalys have released the latest (Q2) sales figures for mobile devices. Read the full press release. Summary: smartphone sales double, PDA sales fall, 9500/9300 and Series 60 shipments strong, Symbian 63% overall worldwide market share!
Instant sis (For UIQ and Series 60) allows you to beam programs between two Symbian OS devices. It takes the SIS installer stub left behind on installation to rebuild a SIS file on the fly, and send that. Great when you're out and about with friends - and developers should note that registration details are rarely in a SIS file so this is, in effect, viral marketing the shareware demos.
Ever wondered how the other side live? Epocware's HandyDesk now has a Palm OS Garnet skin so you can fool all your friends that the new Sony Ericsson phone is running Palm OS and not Symbian.
Arjen Broeze has updated the OPL powered iDesk for Series 80. It creates a desktop of shortcuts to files, folders, applciations and URL's in a simple folder structure. There is also customisable hotkey support for most of the internal functions, a task manager, and password storage area.
No matter if it's a Mac, Windows or Linux box, you can get a VNC Server (Virtual Networked Computer) for your desktop. All you need now is a client to log on from another computer to drive your desktop. Now, with MochaVNC for the 9500, your Communicator acan show you the screen, be the keyboard, and acat as the mouse no matter where you are in the world. Just get an internet connection and it's like sitting at your own desk.
