Having debuted their SettingWizard on the Nokia 6630, around six months ago, Nokia has been quietly rolling it out for other current smartphones and all Series 60 v2 and Series 80 v2 devices are supported. There's a new home page for it too. Fast and easy GPRS and email setup, well done Nokia.
Nokia 9300 and Nokia 9500 owners might like to this big update to the 'Top Tips' page. Hopefully there's something new here for even hardened power users.
Blogging's not just for us strokey beard computer fans, you know. Mobrio is slowly carving out a space in the white label mobile blogging engine market in the UK, and the launch of My Kinda Blog, a free blogging system using the My Kinda Place Brand only proves it. They're still a company to watch.
The Guardian reports that Psion simply can't spend the money it got from selling its stake in Symbian. Looks like the investors are quids in, for a change.
It's now been a year or so since Symbian OS malware became a reality. Since then, it's largely been a non-issue for many people, despite various scare stories in the media. If you've been infected by a Series 60 'trojan', we'd love to hear from you. How you became infected, what symptoms you saw and what you did to get rid of the 'nasty'. Please email 'steve@allaboutsymbian.com' with your stories and we'll collate and report back in full.
Over at SymbianOne, Penrillian have a little Q and A interview that the more technically minded of you may be interested in. - especially if you wanted to hear more about the Penrith based company after we profiled them previously.
It's easy to spot a vested interest (I write the Symbian content for it) but anyone interested in some quality PDA/smartphone reading in paper form might like to note that issue 11 of Palmtop User magazine is out this week.
For those following my 'Grid' of current day mobile computing solutions, I've added the Treo 650 and O2 XDA IIs, bringing things more up to date. The Nokia 9500 and 9300 still win by a country mile though 8-)
The Register report that Motorola is pushing carriers to carry its Push To Talk software on their Symbian OS handsets. Don't hold your breath though....
Any Symbian fans who want to play with the machine that started the whole EPOC/Symbian OS multi-tasking thing might like to see a new article detailing How to run a virtual Psion Series 3a under Windows XP. Aside from bringing back a few memories, this may also be useful in opening up old Psion files.
