Nokia's all encompassing PC Suite vision took another big step today with the release of the free PC Suite 6.6. Changes include PC text messaging for smartphones, easier Internet connections, automatic image and video transfer. Fully compatible with most recent Series 60 smartphones, the 7710 and the 9300/9500. Nice one, Nokia.
Yup, it's all a matter of balance, and at least media coverage of Symbian OS malware threats is getting a little more sensible. Still, this piece over at The Register manages both to scare and then reassure at the end. As ever, it's an anti-virus vendor who's putting out the news release (hmmm....), although I suppose knowing how these things might theoretically spread keeps the rest of us on the straight and narrow...
Some Friday reading over at Laptop Magazine, where they ask Can Nokia Right the Ship? If you're the number one in a markt, there's only one way to go - down. With LG, Samsung and Motorola in the ascendency, what can the Finns do to keep their place at the top of the pile?
More goodbyes in the smartphone world today as The Feature closes down. With a heavy heart they declare "mission accomplished," but they will be missed. Some of the writers are heading over to MobHappy so of you want to keep in touch with them, reset your bookmarks.
Probably the technical guys at Sendo making damn sure this got out the door before the Administrators moved in, there's a big firmware update for all those people (like me) with a Sendo X, including far better camera performance. Read a short review of the changes over on SendoSmartphones.com.
Direct quote from the front page of Sendo.com... The affairs, business and assets of Sendo International Ltd, Sendo Holdings Plc, Sendo Telecommunications Limited and Sendo Limited are being managed by the Joint Administrators Simon Appell and Alastair Beveridge. The Joint Administrators act as agents of the companies without personal liability. We've no word on what will happen to the Sendo X2 (which was still being demo'ed to the press as of last week). Varioussources are now reporting that Motorola has acquired the Sendo R&D team (based in the UK and Singapore). We'll have more news when it becomes available.
Imre Kelényi and Balázs Molnár have released Symella, a download P2P client for Series 60 that talks to the popular Gnutella system. It follows the 0.6 build of Gnutella, utilising swarming and multiple concurrnet downloads to improve the experience. Those of you not on an unlimited data plan, take care!
From the makers of Sky Force and Explode Arena comes Super Miners, an arcade adventure set over 100 levels of fireball running, bomb escaping, jewel catching madness. Looks like a lot of fun, and we'll have a review on AAS early next week. Till then, go grab the demo!
MailX from Bitween now runs on UIQ devices. A different way to access your email, using either a Push-Email or Pull (Polling) style solution, MailX will help you stay in touch and on top of all your emails.
Epocware have updated Handy Safe (a password protected repository for all your valuable bits of information) for the Series 80 Communicators. As well as secure storage on your device, it now offers a PC Companion so you can sync and access the same data on your desktop computer.
Steve takes a good look at the latest version of Route 66 Mobile Britain for the N-Gage (and all other Series 60 devices). It's good, it's highly commendable, but it's not quite good enough to be top of the pile.
Nokia are particularly proud of this N-Gage title. Glamorous girls, fast cars and exotic locations all make up Glimmerati. But what does Ewan think of this arcade racer? Read his Glimmerati Review to find out.
The competitiveness of the two "Office" suites (Documents to Go and Quickoffice) in the Symbian OS world is intensifying. Documents to Go are offering a discount on their suite to users of the current version of Quickoffice on their website.
