Handy Desktop is a desktop type application for Sony Ericsson P800 / P900, like Desktop on PC. There you can place shortcuts to your favorite applications, files, folders, URLs, contacts, and even calls, SMSs, and etc. You can have several pages (folders) with shortcuts.
VITO have released a free for personal use theme editor for the P900. The software enables you to design your own themes for the P900 in an eay to use Windows UI.
Anyone interested in meeting other Symbian users and general PDA owners might like to check out http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/meetings.htm. The meeting is at the end of the month, in Reading, Berks, UK.
Is Red Faction any good? The first person shooter is an established genre on the home consoles, does the N-Gage's first attempt at this style work? Sometimes, thinks Ewan, in his review.
This Infosync World article suggests that palmOne may be considering alternative operating systems other than PalmOS for its future devices. It even says that the European palmOne head Vesey Crichton has a fascination for Nokia's operating system and user interface (presumably Symbian & Series 60?). Anyway, smoke or fire? Draw your own conclusions.
Nokia have revised their N-Gage release schedule, pushing Sega Rally back to April and Marcel Desailly Pro Soccer to March. Plus there is still no sign of Taito Memories. A possible explanation of why there is nothing to be launched January & February is that Nokia are increasing the security of their copy protection. The UK N-Gage release dates look as follows:
The 4th Photo Contest has now come to the Voting stage. The category was Animals and was chosen by forum member Gadget17 (Me) (Who Won 3nd Contest (I promise I was no cheating was invovled). You now have 25 photos with which to pick you favourite. Good Luck to all who entered. *View Photos Here**Vote by Clicking Here*
According to the latest Canalys report over 2 million Symbian devices shipped in Q4 2003. Nokia is still in the number one spot with 77.9% of smartphone sales and 50.2% of the combined market with handhelds. It was also a good quarter for HP who took 32.9% of the handheld market 11.7% of the combined, well up on Q4 2003. The main looser was Palm who suffered a fall in sales. Sony Ericsson and Motorola also showed good growth.
Guilliaume Binet has updated his GPL drivers for the wirless IR keyboards (Pocketop and Palm Wireless). The new version supports US, FR and DE layouts (and there's a promise of more to come), cut copy paste are now also supported, along with
MobileClipper is a new service that was announced this week. It allows you to create personalised web clips of web pages and then view them on your phone.
Appforge have announced the shipment of their Crossfire development product. Crossfire enables Symbian (and other) development with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (VB.NET with C# to follow later this year). MobileVB (the runtime) is contained within the Crossfire license and download.
eBooks are one of the unsung applications for Smartphones - here's the All About Symbian / N-Gage Guide to eBooks, showing you what eBooks are, what applications you can use to read them, and (more importantly) where to get them.
