In part 3 of his extended review of the Nokia N81 8GB, Ewan experiments with music synchronisation, using both Nokia's music system and Microsoft's Media Player, before moving on to test the integration with Nokia's new Music Store. In summary, things went pretty smoothly, with a few caveats. As a music-focussed smartphone, the N81 8GB seems to be faring quite well.
...just...can't....resist...posting.... these links. The famous Light Sabre has been upgraded to 1.3, with auto-activation on slide opening and much more. See Ricky Cadden's blog for details but here's the download link. Vrmmmm!!!
Yes, you know all about S60 games and you know about the upcoming N-Gage titles, but what about all those games tucked away in publisher folders inside your Download! application? Medal of Honour, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07, etc? In the interests of experimentation, I bought a batch and here report back on J2ME games via Download! Your comments welcome, as always!
Red Five Labs has just announced that their Net60 product, which enables .NET applications from the Windows world to run unchanged under S60, is now available for beta testing. By the way, if you don't know what a .NET application is then you don't need the product!
I've been mulling over an editorial looking forward to the (hopefully imminent) Nokia N95 firmware upgrade but was stopped in my tracks when Vaibhav Sharma, who has perfected telepathic theft, managed to raid my mind and get it all down for the world to read first(!) Kudos. Nokia, please take note of this list of things you need to fix and add. Users, enjoy - I wonder how many of these we'll see in the real world?
Psiloc's irRemote has been one of the most eagerly awaited utilities for S60 3rd Edition and Symbian In Motion reports that it's now finished. Assuming your S60 smartphone has an infrared port (quite likely), your smartphone can then be a valid backup in case a genuine TV or a/v remote goes missing.
S60.com do like to license and give away free utilities every now and then. This month, they've just put up Aglaya's Call Filter (normally $9), as the name suggests a piece of software to filter through just the calls you want, according to rules that you set up. It's compatible with all S60 3rd Edition smartphones. Grab it while you can! (you do need to 'sign in' for the link to work)
In this news post we have rounded up some information from today's N82 launch including a summary of the virtual event and numbers on the reduced lag and latency time on the N82's camera. We have also rounded some initial commentary and media from around the web. Read on for more.
It's not every day that a reader points out a utility that I've never even heard of. In this case, thanks to Garvin for pointing out LightNotepad, a freeware plain text editor for S60 3rd Edition. It works on any device, but is especially useful for editing HTML, javascript and other text-based languages on keyboard-equipped devices like the Nokia E90 and E61i. Grab it now! What's that? You can't speak Finnish? You need the English page then 8-)
The latest Nseries, the Nokia N82, has been formally announced. The N82 features a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and a Xenon flash, an assisted-GPS. The N82 boasts and impressive ray of connectivity options: quad-band GSM, WCDMA with HSDPA at 2100 MHz, WiFi and Bluetooth. The N82 is available immediately in key markets and sells for an approximate, pre-tax, unsubsidised price of 450 Euros (£315). Read on for more.
Ewan continues his look at the Nokia N81 8GB by loading up his music collection and trying the device for size in the real world, with a variety of 3.5mm stereo headsets. Here's his N81 8GB review part 2 - it's all about the music.
