Gift vouchers for feedback
Just a quick link: Nokia Beta labs want feedback on their Communication Center product and are giving away Amazon gift vouchers for some of the respondents to their survey. (via the Guru)
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SyncML services reviewed
These roundups are never 100% definitive, because there always seems to be at least one favourite service excluded (in this case, Ovi) and also because of the nature of the game - the goalposts are always moving. But still, there's a useful SyncML service review roundup over on Mobile Royale today, including several services that I'd never heard of - worth a read.
Developer input into Symbian Foundation
There's an interesting interview here today in which Richard Bloor talks to Antony Edwards, Vice President, Developer Product Marketing at Symbian, discussing how developers will be able to contribute to the Symbian Foundation, the challenge of software distribution and how the Symbian Foundation's developer program is shaping up.
Carnival 145
Carnival of the Mobilists 145 is over at mjelly this week and well worth a look, with interesting mobile-related reading plus some splendidly bizzarre carnival imagery....
Camera Nitty Gritty - Flash Colour Spectrums
In part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5 of this series, Steve Litchfield looked at specifics of camera performance in the phone world. Now AAS guest writer Dirk Snoyt takes up the theme of camera phone flash research and gets all technical on the theme of colours. If you'd like to suggest a topic for us to cover next in the series, please comment!
All About Symbian Wins Best Mobile Blog 2008
Mobile Industry Review have just announced the winners of their 2008 Awards, and in the incredibly competitive Best Mobile Blogger category, the All About Symbian team have come out as winners. While Rafe, Steve and myself were named in the show, we couldn't have managed it without all our other contributors and readers throughout the year. This one really is for you all.
MySlopes goes Mobile
Myslopes.com has been launched as 'the first mobile skiing portal', with snow reports and weather forecasts on any mobile-web-connected phone. m.myslopes.com is the address to use and coverage is for the top-10 European ski-hosting countries.
Insight 43 - S60 5th Edition and Nokia Software Updater
In All About Symbian Podcast 96 (Insight #43) Steve, after an E90 firmware update, asks why he can have a better experience than Nokia Software Updater. We also talk about about recent content on All About Symbian before moving on to some thoughts and reflections on S60 5th Edition with some special attention for backwards compatibility.
All About Symbian Says "Find Us"
Sometimes technology is all about the spec sheet, sometimes it's something a little bit more artistic. Announced on Friday in London, and starting at midnight Sunday, the campaign based around the threat of Extremely Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis will be seeding clues around the web to physical items distributed around London. All these items, when viewed on a map, will reveal a picture. The team behind the project includes UK based Moblog, and they asked if All About Symbian would highlight the project... which we're more than happy to do.
The Bluetooth naming experiment
AAS reader Mirko Corli is setting up a social experiment about how people name their Bluetooth-enabled phone. It's based on Google Maps. If you'd like to get involved, see Mirko's Tumblelog or look directly on Google Maps
Not just me, Dotsisx tries out some Mac lovin'
You may remember my own four part article series looking at connecting an S60 phone to an Apple Mac? Symbian Guru's Dotsisx has written up her own experiences along similar lines and with similar 'Nokia, must do better' conclusions, here (part 1) and here (part 2).
Kyte.TV Mobile Producer - Released and a real Competitor
Ewan back-fills our review section with a detailed look at the third major product in one of his specialist categories: live video streaming. Kyte.TV Mobile Producer impresses from the start and in some ways is the most polished of the three (Kyte, Qix, Flixwagon). [Gentle warning: viewing this review will require you to get up close and personal with Mr Spence.... :-) ]
Nokia E90 vs Asus EEE PC 900 - The Microlaptop vs the Minilaptop
The EEE PC portable computer range has received a lot of coverage over the past year partly due to its low price but also partly due to its small size. How does Asus' minilaptop compare to Nokia's microlaptop, the E90 Communicator? All About Symbian's Tzer2 is about to find out, in an article with somewhat predictable outcome but plenty of interesting insights along the way, including Download! being held up as a relatively good example of how to do things - for a change.
Mozilla 'a few weeks away' from a Mobile Browser Alpha release
While the desktop computers got their 'browser war' in the nineties, it never really took off in the mobile space. Not that we're restricted to one browser - Opera, Skyfire, WebCore/Safari and various proxy powered java browsers are all available to us – it's just that there was never a bloodbath or legal threats. Anyway, Mozilla may be joining the browser party sooner than we think, according to reports in The Mercury News (via MoCoNews).
Mobile Google Docs and News both almost ready for the prime time
Although nothing's been officially announced yet, I've noticed that both Google Docs and Google News have had their mobile sites overhauled recently. Some screenshots below, including WYSIWYG views of documents and spreadsheets.
