Hearing that my long-suffering wife, Fiona, was off for a day jaunt to
'somewhere she'd never been before', I wondered if she'd like to get
help from some smartphone technology and try out one of the new
features of Nokia Maps 2.0 - namely the explicit pedestrian navigation
mode. She agreed and handed over her Nokia E51 for me to preload it
with the latest beta and the UK maps. I also stuck a pocket GPS in her
jacket and guessed it would see enough of the satellites from there.
Here's her Maps 2.0 report.
Continuing his quest to find great time fillers for his transatlantic trip, Ewan's been looking at another Java game, Silver Ball. It's presented well and has classic gameplay, but it's let down by clumsy sound control and some overlong screen transitions.
Oh, those inventive marketeers at WOM World. Today (Friday), at a live event in Rome (anyone able to make it?), their made-up (in more ways than one) genius of 'position art' will recreate the logo or scribble of your choice using a Sports-Tracker-ed Nokia N82. See www.theworldismycanvas.com for the full audiovisual Stavros experience, for quite a few laughs, to submit your own geo-scribbling and to find out more about the event. [Update]The recreation is now live, here.
In conjunction with DDH Software, AllAboutSymbian is giving away three copies of HanDBase 4.0 for S60 smartphones. The draw is now closed, the three winners are listed below, along with all the rest of the submitted entries.
If you're anything like Ewan and myself, you'll enjoy a good brain-stretching, language-challenging word game - and these have been few and far between on smartphones. However, the appearance of Scratchy, reviewed here by Ewan, has helped a lot, keeping him entertained on his American travels. It's Java-based and basically works on anything, by the way.
The Nokia Nseries PC Suite (v2.0) has apparently 'graduated' from Nokia Beta Labs, effective from today. It's not clear whether today's download contains any further updates, so comments welcome if you're feeling brave. The download shown is only 8MB, so presumably this is just a stub that then grabs the rest. Anyone care to review it?
Good to see Nokia continuing to care for the E90 (though where's the new firmware??), with the availability (via Amazon Germany, at least) of the new "Nokia Carrying Case CP-285" – "made from high
quality polyurethane helps protect your device while giving you access
to its buttons, ports and speakers." Photo below the break. (via Symbian World)
The makers of the free Xmas game Snowed In have come up with a similar Easter-themed free game called Eggstreme: Sizzler Supremacy. It's available for every Symbian platform (S60 3rd, S60 1st/2nd, UIQ3, UIQ2, Series 80 and Series 90). The S60 3rd version supports all screen resolutions including the N80 and E90. You can download the relevant game file by going here, and you can get the free unlock code by going here.
Only Rafe and I this time round, here's AAS podcast 64, a.k.a. Insight 16, in which we talk about the new Nokia S60 devices for Vodafone and T-Mobile, the recent announcement of Silverlight Mobile for S60 and the issues surrounding the changes at Symbian Signed - how can the current debacle be resolved?
The Nokia Music Store is now available in Finland and Germany. Nokia Music Store works on both the PC (Internet Explorer only) and a selection of Nokia mobile phones. Compatible S60 devices include the N95, N95 8GB, N82, N81, N91 and the N76.
Bery95 has spotted a new N95 edition, set to hit the streets in Germany in April. All very mysterious though - the published specs all refer to microSD and attributes of the N95 'classic', yet the photo seems to show an N95 8GB. The new edition is touted under the label 'Navi', which could either mean a free navigation voucher or an extra software bundle. Wish my German was better...
