With appallingly-advised sites around the Internet spreading unnecessary fear and alarm, Steve Litchfield issues a plea for sanity over on 3-Lib. it's far, far harder to contract a Symbian OS virus than a desktop one. You're more likely to be hit by lightning or an earthquake. Just say No. And shame on the computing press around the world for all the scaremongering.
Now the final article is posted, you can all enter our festive competition to win an unlocked N-Gage QD, along with seven of the latest MMC Games (including Asphalt: Urban GT and Colin McRae Rally 2005. The entry form, links to the articles and more details are on the An N-Gage Christmas Homepage. Thanks to Allack, N-Gage User and Nokia for their support. We'll draw the winner on the 5th January 2005.
The final part of our N-Gage Christmas (and yes we know it's a bit late... blame the festivities!) is Ewan's 5 Point Plan for 2005. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the N-Gage? Can it survive the DS and PSP onslaught? Ewan thinks so, as long as nothing goes wrong.
You know all those virus/trojans that are heralding the death of Symbian? Well, most of the peope who have any sensible knowledge of whats going on will realise it's all based on one bit of code with the name changed and a new procedure. So watch out everyone, because it jsut went Open Source (reports The Register). Lots of wacky names, strange things going on, and all preventable if you just leave bluetooth off till you need it, and don't load strange apps from warez sites.
Mobile Innovation do a lot of behind the scene coding for the Symbian ecosystem. They've started to release some of their tools for developers and Erik Thauvin has taken a long hard look at Codescanner to see how it measures up. Can it really help the Symbian C++ coder?
After two years of marketing hype, Steve Litchfield still finds himself struggling to understand the appeal of push email. Surely the whole concept of email (or indeed mail) is that it's a non-real time medium, to be read at the recipient's convenience? Read on...
Just what some of us wanted! Now you can add different font styles to your 6600 and 7610. Thanks to Zedge who offer an excellent tutorial for the process. Please note this is an irreversible process so it is noted to back-up the phones memory to your MMC. There are 4 different font styles available. The fonts can be downloaded here
Nokia are really happy with Pocket Kingdom, their 'massive' multi player online roleplaying game. Ewan's not so sure, and you can find out why in his review. It's a strong genre game, but is that enough to appeal to everyone? (part of An N-Gage Christmas)
In the final part of our look at the 9500 Communicator, Ewan rounds up some of the smaller applications that may not make the same impression as the Web Browser, but can still contribute to the success of the 9500.
In what could be seen as a sign of the times, the Sony Ericsson Software shop will remove all applications which have not went through the Symbian Signed process of verification. While this has been noted (quietly) to be happening for some months, the fact that a Handset Manufactuer has finally taken this action will get a lot of Operators looking seriously at the idea of locking down phones. Symbian Signing an appliction currently costs in the region of $250 and upwards per installation file, plus a one time registration cost of $350 for the author. Thanks to NewLC for the link.
