Garmin, maker of standalone and other GPS-focussed devices, has launched Mobile XT, a complete microSD-based navigation solution for smartphones, priced at $99. Details of international availability are sketchy at the moment, but we've asked Garmin UK if they can get hold of a review sample for us to try.
At 'the definitive consumer awards event' last night, the Mobile Choice Awards, the Nokia N95 was voted the ‘Dream Handset’, ahead of the Apple iPhone, while Nokia's other flagship, the E90, was pipped to the post for 'Best Smartphone' by the Blackberry Curve. MEX has some analysis of the night and of some related industry trends.
Nokia has released a new preview version on its Share Online software via Nokia Beta Labs. Online Share allows you to upload photo from your Nseries phone to popular multimedia hosting services and communities such as Flickr. Version 3.0 of Online Share adds the ability to set privacy options (e.g. private, family only, or public on Flickr). A major addition is the ability to view feeds of photos and comments on them from within the Share Online application. Read on for more details and screenshots.
Nokia N95-toting professional photographer Henry Reichhold is being featured in an international gallery of his best N95-taken photos at the Royal Albert Hall at the end of this month. Well worth popping in, I think, some of the images are stunning. If you go, please report back to AAS! (via Nokia Creative)
Symbian has just added a number of new speakers to its Smartphone Show agenda, including a VP of Samsung, the SVP of Freescale, the president of RIM and a director of Vodafone. Full details here, but I think it's safe to predict that there's going to be plenty to see and hear. And if you get into town early, see our own meet!
This is the question I've been trying to answer in Smartphones Show 44, using a Nokia N95 and a Bluetooth keyboard cold turkey for a working week. Did the experiment succeed? Also, Rafe and I were at HTC's big launch two days ago in London. Non-Symbian, but still very interesting, show 44 includes my video report.
Talk about mad scientists - I just ran across Symbian Resources, an open source (i.e. free) set of S60 3rd Edition research projects, featuring a speaking clock, a snowboarding log(!), a car acceleration tester, a Nintendo Wii controller driver, a ski resort navigator, and more. Cool projects, guys, keep up the good work!
Quickoffice has just publicly released v4.5.25.0 of its S60 office suite, complete with brand new Mail for Exchange 2.0 integration, so you can pluck attachments from your company mail server, edit and return them quickly. They fixed quite a few bugs too, as I found out when compiling my revised review of Quickoffice 4.5, bumping up the suite's review score by one point to that crucial 90%. Read to the bottom of the review though, and you'll see how they can go higher...
It seems that some of the S60 tweaks assigned to the upcoming Nokia N95 8GB and N81 are making their way down to lesser and older devices - thankfully. The N76, with its greater free RAM, is a logical starting point, with v30.0.015 firmware now available through the Nokia Software Updater, featuring device and Internet search directly on the standby screen. (via WOM)
Nokia today announced that its has added new content parters to the Nokia Video Center. Nokia Video Center, an application which runs on the Nokia N95 and will be available on future devices, offers Nseries users a simple way to access video content (effectively it's a video podcast aggregator / catcher). New content partners include Sony Pictures (movie trailers), ROK (FreeBeTV) and CNN (news for the APAC region).
If you've owned a Nokia E70, N95 or N93, or a Sony Ericsson P990i, the chances are that, at some point, you've had a 'Memory' error, usually in the context of 'Low memory' or 'Out of memory'. In this How to, I explain the cause of 'Memory' errors, discuss ways to avoid them and point out a silver lining.
