You'll remember that Symbian launched two major new technologies at their Smartphone Show? Both have now gotten Flash video explanations on the Symbian web site. Here are the links to the pages for ScreenPlay and FreeWay. Good stuff and both technologies are now a whole lot clearer.
Six weeks ago, I previewed the upcoming O2/Apple iPhone, putting it head to head with the upcoming Nokia N95 8GB. Now that I've had the latter for over a week, it's been time to revise my initial head to head. For completeness, if this is a comparison that you're interested in, here's the N95 8GB vs iPhone page to read/print/link to...
SanDisk has started shipping 8GB versions of its microSD and M2 cards, for the current generation of S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3-powered smartphones, taking possible capacity of these devices to 8GB while maintaining the flexibility to swap cards or transfer data in this way. MyMemory, (e.g.) have these coming soon at £60 inc VAT)
With the rise and rise in YouTube video, is another nail knocked in the coffin of the digital mobile TV? With the Nokia N92 that never arrived and with the N77 still yet to put in an appearance in most countries, what does the future hold for phone-borne video? What will be the limiting factors and which technology will dominate? Some Friday musings below, comments welcome!
Opera has launched a new Link service to keep your mobile and desktop Opera browsing in step, with synced bookmarks, speed dial sites and personal bar. It has also launched a new beta (3) of the upcoming Opera Mini 4, point your browser to mini.opera.com as usual. The Opera Link press release follows...
You'll remember I wrote a few weeks ago about McDonalds plan to roll out free Wi-Fi in all their UK restaurants? Well, they seem to have done it already. Below is my illustrated report on how this works out in practice. Summary: it lives! - but perhaps not that convenient for lightning quick access...
Although not a specific Symbian OS item, many people use GMail. And they just added IMAP support, giving you another way to access your GMail on your smartphone with even more options. Just enable it in (On the GMail site) 'Settings|Forwarding and POP/IMAP'.
Two incidents in the last few weeks really exemplified why Motorola and Sony Ericsson just don't 'get' publicity or the press/blogosphere, in the same way that Nokia 'do'. And which of the big three is running away with all the attention and market share?
More from the Smartphone Show last week. In AAS podcast 39, Ewan talks to Scott Lowe from eLeader about the ways they can help businesses keep their sales forces equipped and communicating through the use of special add-on S60 applications.
In AAS video podcast 24, I talk to Phil Spencer from Quickoffice about the upcoming Quickoffice Premier v5 and I then collared Stuart Collingwood from SlingMedia to get a demo of the new Nokia N95 client, with a number of new features and better performance.
'Windows Live and Hotmail' has now appeared in the 'Internet' section of Download! for most Eseries smartphones and communicators (this was previously Nseries only). The blurb says that Windows Live is currently free but that there may be a charge in the future. Or you could just use Google and GMail instead 8-) (via Eseries)
Six weeks ago, I previewed the upcoming O2/Apple iPhone, putting it head to head with the upcoming Nokia N95 8GB. Now that I've had the latter for over a week, it's been time to revise my initial head to head. For completeness, if this is a comparison that you're interested in, here's the N95 8GB vs iPhone page to read/print/link to...
You'll remember I wrote a few weeks ago about McDonalds plan to roll out free Wi-Fi in all their UK restaurants? Well, they seem to have done it already. Below is my illustrated report on how this works out in practice. Summary: it lives! - but perhaps not that convenient for lightning quick access...
