With Documents to Go and Road Sync, Dataviz have some of the most impressive apps for the mobile office worker on Symbian. Symbian One have a ncie profile about the company over on their website.
Steve Litchfield looks at a trend that started with the Psion palmtop, continues today with cutting edge Symbian smartphones and will end with true Internet-centric devices. Read on...
OK, so it's a slow news week (isn't everybody off at the beach?), but AllAboutSymbian is now showing up with a Google Page Rank of 7. This might not sound very impressive, but it's darned hard to achieve. (It took me 11 years to get enough content and genuine return links to get 3-Lib to PR7 and Rafe and Ewan have done it for AllAboutSymbian in around 3!) Thanks to everybody that continues to visit and recommend AAS!
No real surprises in the changes to Nokia's Board. Jorma Ollila is standing down as CEO but will remain on the board as a Chairman. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (the current COO) willstep up to fill the CEO role from within the ranks of Nokia. A solid move, although nothing startling, which should keep Nokia stable as it moves forward.
Steve tries out the Nokia Wireless Keyboard (SU-8W) with the Nokia 7710 and 6630 smartphones and finds it well made but ultimately a little disappointing. Read his review.
Just a quick heads up for all you people who really need to order something from Amazon when you've only got your mobile phone handy, a mobile version (Amazon Lite!) of Amazon is available at this URL. be warned, it's a biggie. What's wrong with mobile.amazon.com working?
Canalys have released the latest (Q2) sales figures for mobile devices. Read the full press release. Summary: smartphone sales double, PDA sales fall, 9500/9300 and Series 60 shipments strong, Symbian 63% overall worldwide market share!
There's lots of new content on the Smartphone Show web site, including a detailed breakdown of all the speakers and panels. The show is the annual 'Symbian bash' and is on 11th and 12th October in London's Docklands.
The Nokia 6630 has been out for around six months. In his long term review, Steve Litchfield finds it an impressively versatile smartphone that you can now pick up quite cheaply.
