You probably know that every S60 smartphone comes with Adobe Reader built-in. But this is v1.5 and there's a brand new v2.5, released by the guys behind Quickoffice. In my review of Adobe Reader 2.5 I look at the story behind the application, test it on my E90 and work out who should upgrade and who shouldn't.
Kudos to Darla Mack for scoring a prototype N95-3, the official USA model with 80MB free RAM and beefed up 1200mAh battery. More editorial to follow from Darla, no doubt.
You'll have heard of WOM World for the innovative ways they spread news and opinions of Nokia Nseries smartphones. But did you know they've got a Flickr stream? Start here, with their current coverage of Tropfest in the USA and work back to see how many famous bloggers and err.... shady AAS staffers you can spot!
The Next Gen N-Gage platform is due to go live some time in November, so we still have a fair while to wait until our gaming main course arrives. However, to whet our appetites, All About N-Gage has been serving up some Next Gen hors d'oeuvres, looking at the best S60 games that are compatible with Next Gen N-Gage phones and are available right now.
To be filed under 'Hey, S60 Web uses the same core code as the iPhone's browser', come these links: pages of Javascript-hosted quick games and the entire text of the King James Version of the Bible (with the 'thees' and 'thous', etc). The latter works fine in Web but some of the games are a bit hit and miss. Comments?
Ah, it's not just me that wants to also use my smartphone as a torch. Ever since the N93, I've wondered why this isn't a built-in feature. All In One Torch is a Python hosted script that offers pulsing of the camera LED in the likes of the N95 and E90, along with always-on white main screen. The only downside is that you have to go through a silly Rapidshare system to actually get the download. Shout here if you can't grab it. The usual warnings about knackering your LED hardware apply, of course. And familiarity with running a Python script will help (via Symbian blog)
If you've wanted to set multiple alarms in Clock but don't want to have to pay to upgrade to a S60 3rd Edition FP1 device just to get this feature, then note that coding wizard Jukka Silvennoinen's latest beta is YAlarms for bare S60 3rd Edition smartphones. Here's the YAlarms info and link page, give him some feedback! Also interesting seeing him use Nokia's MOSH for the project...
As a Nokia E90 user, I was tipped off by a reliable but unnamed source that new firmware that includes Assisted GPS and (I think) Quickoffice 4.5 is due out in the first week of October. I wonder what else they'll throw in? There are a few bugs in Calendar and Web that I'm keen to see cleared...
Interesting post by Vaibhav Sharma on his Symbian blog detailing improvements he thinks are needed in S60. Some of them I'm not sure I agree with but as a wishlist it's a good read. See what you think.
You probably know that every S60 smartphone comes with Adobe Reader built-in. But this is v1.5 and there's a brand new v2.5, released by the guys behind Quickoffice. In my review of Adobe Reader 2.5 I look at the story behind the application, test it on my E90 and work out who should upgrade and who shouldn't.
With Nokia's flagship coming in for a lot of (justified and unjustified) criticism in recent weeks, I've been exploring some of the accusations in detail and acting as counsel for the Nokia E90's defense. What should Nokia put into upcoming firmware, what did they do right already without people 'getting it' and how are they doing on supporting the E90 hardware?