You'll have heard of Ajax and Mobile Ajax, in the context of enabling more interactive functionality on mobile web sites. A little bit developer-y, but credit to Ajit and others at Horizon for producing a comprehensive Mobile Ajax FAQ.
Apologies to those of you who read my recent review of the BH-501 Bluetooth stereo headphones, I made a large error. It turns out that they CAN automatically connect to a paired phone, but (unlike some Bluetooth headphones) you have to press their main button a second time after using it to switch them on. For more details, and an improved score, see the updated BH-501 review.
Just in case you're not subscribed (and if not, why not?), audio podcast 24 is now up. Ewan chats about the future of gaming on S60, I chat about the Nokia E90 and Ewan then slips in a sneaky thought on the Palm Foleo....
Scottish Games Biz is reporting the purchase of casual games studio I-Play by Oberon Media for an undisclosed sum. Good news for the industry all round, as the casual gaming market is probably the best place for regular sales; with users happy to spend £10-£20 a month on a new game when they take their fancy. And congrats to I-Play as well.
It seems that smartphone maker Sony Ericsson has joined the hundreds of other companies already in the WiMAX forum. Looks like this high speed data technology could finally take off in the next few years. And it certainly beats wandering cities in search of temporary Wi-Fi hotspots 8-) (Via IM)
Yes, not Symbian, but an interesting new concept for smartphones and their working environment. The Foleo seems to be a dumb clamshell that piggybacks onto a smartphone's connectivity. I think it's a dumb idea as well, but comments welcome. Could this sort of idea catch on?
One to flag up to the mobile browsers here, but the new version of the blog search engine, Technorati, features a very clean and easy to use mobile interface (http://mobile.technorati.com/). One for the always mobile user to bookmark I think - and for everyone else when Technorati runs a bit slow.
Hampus Jakobsson and Andreas Constantinou at VisionMobile Forum hosts this weeks Carnival of the Mobilists. They have selected the top 10 submissions for a round of the best writing on mobiles issues from around the web.
Over at the New Yorker, they have a video presentation made at their conference "2012: Stories From The Near Future." It's from Nokia's Insight and Innovation team; in it Younghee Jung talks about what we can expect from Nokia's future phones. A nice talk for your next coffee break.
Smartphones Show 33, now live and on YouTube, has a hands-on review of the WinMob-powered HTC S710, plus a video feature looking at ten things current smartphones can do that the otherwise cool Apple iPhone can't. The ten are demo-ed on current S60 3rd Edition hardware, but many also apply to other Symbian OS-powered devices.
Hmm.... Geekzone reports that Google Calendar is now available in beta for mobiles. Interesting, and I hadn't tried this before. Here's the link for your smartphone web browser: http://www.google.com/calendar/m - it didn't seem fully functional to me. Comments?
Power users and long time AAS diehards, look away now. For everyone else, here's a walk through of how to get your Nokia N95 (or any other S60 or UIQ-based smartphone) hooked up to a Bluetooth wireless keyboard. Ever wanted to enter text at 60 words per minute on your smartphone - well, now you can!
