Still pressing for recognition of the significance (for some) of qwerty keyboards on mobile devices, Steve has a chance conversation in London and is shocked how narrowly many people seem to still use their smartphones. Here's his subsequent musings.
I was interested to see this blog entry reviewing one of the cheap add-on macro lenses that you can buy for standard fixed-focus smartphone cameras. Good stuff - but I can't find anywhere that sells them online - over to you guys in the comments?
This weeks Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Matthew Miller at the Mobile Gadgeteer. He rounds up the best writing about mobile from around the web.
David Wood's latest Insight article on symbian.com looks at the weird and wonderful uses people are putting smartphones to. Golf swing improvement is just the start - washine machine cycle notifications, anybody?
Maybe it's because I still feel S60 3rd Edition device owners are starved of good games that I've gotten excited over the release of the freeware S-Tris 2 by Elements Interactive. It plays well, doesn't use up huge amounts of RAM and is available for every other mobile device under the sun...
Giving Opera Mini a run for its money, I was interested to see that Bloglines Mobile, the web service that the AAS team tend to use on their smartphones to catch up on RSS-ed stories from round the web when out and about, has now had compression technology built into its core. If you're into grabbing news via RSS, check out the Bloglines announcement here.
Smartphones Show 15 has just gone live, with a video review of the Nokia N73 and a similar look at a similar 'candy bar' smartphone from the Windows Mobile world, the HTC MTeoR. You can view here on the web or subscribe to its RSS/iTunes feed here.
Ewan's been a fan of Wi-Fi on a mobile device for some time and he's been musing on just what makes Wi-Fi so darned useful. Especially so on the Nokia E61, E70, N91 and N93, which he uses in his three example uses.
Neuros very kindly sent over a sample of their MPEG-4 Recorder 2 set-top units, and I've been putting it through its paces. Essentially it's a tiny gadget designed to record video directly onto your smartphone's expansion card, for playback on the move. Here's the full review.
Thanks to this week's Carnival for pointing me towards one of the best articles on smartphone convergence I've read for ages, posted by Tomi in "The year the i-Pod died". Highly recommended reading.
In support of the international 'talk like a pirate day' (no, really), AAS's own krisse explores the world of ScummVM, the emulator that makes classic games like Monkey Island possible on any Symbian OS device, and reviews a couple of the most legal games.
Time to get the diaries ready, as the All About Symbian Pub Meet time and date are confirmed. It's the same venue as last year (The Cross Keys Weatehrspoon in the City of London), and as always, it takes place on the Monday night before the Smartphone Show, so that'll be the 16th. We'll be there from 6.30pm, and the programmed events start at 8. More details here .
It's along time since I've laughed out loud when reading editorial about the mobile world, but Michael Mace has managed that this Friday morning, with a lovely piece entitled "Good Luck Naming Your Phones, Nokia." If you've always wondered about the byzantine naming structure of companies such as Nokia, then here's your answer. And keep reading to the very end, it's worth it.
