Whether motivated by a desire to be 'green', whether you have a real need to be self-sufficient while trekking, or whether you simply don't want to waste all this sunlight, you'll be interested in Steve's review of the GoSolar charger.
Despite our review from a couple of days ago, you don't need a separate application to keep track of World Cup events online - in this overview, Ewan describes the links to use to get the same information within your browser for an even lower cost in terms of GPRS data.
This week All About Symbian is proud to host the Carnival of the Mobilists. The Carnival gathers writing on mobile from around the web and is guaranteed to find you interesting opinions and new sites to add to your daily reading list.
Smartphones Show 11 is now available, with a 12 minute video review of the Nokia N71 clamshell smartphone, plus a round-up of mobile golf games. The Smartphones Show is a video podcast and playable on PC, Mac, S60v2 FP3-onwards smartphone, iPod or PSP.
Symbian luminary David Wood has published his latest official 'Insight' article, taking the theme of security. This one's a little technical but especially worth printing and/or bookmarking, as it strongly echoes what we've said all along about the innate security of Symbian OS. This Insight piece should reassure smartphone users everywhere and provide some concrete rebuttal material for virus-hype-addicted journalists.
Not that this will come as much of a surprise to regular AAS readers, but Nokia has commissioned research into mobile phone use and found that almost half the respondents/interviewees already use their mobile as their main camera and over two thirds want their mobile to be their music player as well. Full press release below...
The sessions reports from the recent Orange Partner Camp are now available on the Orange Partner website (registration required). Sessions ranged from the technical (Developing for UIQ 3) to the informational (S60 Business Update). Read on for more.
We were supposed to be going on a Links Of Interest diet, but how could I pass over this week's Carnival of the Mobilists, when it's hosted by Darla and when we're hosting it ourselves next week?
Ewan's been mulling over the arrival of .mobi, a domain extension dedicated to mobile access. .mobi has its fans, but it appears that Ewan's not one of them, arguing that it'll cause confusion and fragmentation.
Steve compares the important, but often ignored, metric of standby time between a i-mate JAM (Windows Mobile 5) and a Nokia 9500 (Symbian OS 8). He comes away with an interesting result which may bear on purchase decisions for true mobile warriors.
Ewan's been snuggling down each night with a copy of David Wood's 'Symbian for Software Leaders' and found it to be both comprehensive and readable, mainly for developers but with lots of anecdotes of interest to anyone interested in Symbian's history. Here's his review.
There's a new S60.com blog on the scene, only this time it's a podcast as well. AAS's Rafe Blandford is the main subject of the second show, available now. Listen especially to the middle section of his interview, as it sets out exactly where S60 needs to go. Very, very interesting. Show 1 features Darla Mack and is also worth a listen (persevere past the 'diva/pink' intro section and through the awkward transatlantic phone pauses).
This week's edition of the ever popular Carnival of the Mobilists is here, including a rant by one blogger about the Sony Ericsson M600i. Lots of good reading, as always.
