Apparently, one of the biggest Nokia E90 competitors, the Windows Mobile-powered i-Mate Ultimate 7150, has now been axed without even making it into production. No idea whether this is due to the perceived market for such a clamshell or simply because i-Mate have other problems...
S60.com has just introduced a new feature called 'Wishlist'. It's an automated way of gathering together the niggles that bug each of us about S60 and want to see improved. Get involved and let's see what wishes become most requested. [update: link fixed]
Epocware has announced that they've completed the conversion of their SlovoEd multilingual dictionaries and ‘Handy’ line of utilities to both the wide-screened Nokia E90 and the UIQ 3-powered Motorola Z8. Example screenshots on the E90 and the full press release after the break.
A new firmware update is available for the Nokia N76. Continuing the trend set with other devices the update adds the A2DP and AVRCP Bluetooth Profiles for stereo audio over Bluetooth. The menu structure has also been rearranged and there are a number of stability improvements and bug fixes.
PDF viewing on S60 just got a whole lot slicker. Adobe Reader 2.5, using some of the very latest core Adobe Reader code, has been ported and released through Quickoffice's on-device Quickmanager module. Although the viewer is not now free, this collaboration makes a lot of sense, with the best of Adobe's latest code and Quickoffice's proven Symbian coding skills. Read on for review screenshots, links and the full press release.
Samsung looks set to release some interesting S60 devices in the future. A number of rumours concerning new devices have appeared on the web over the past few weeks. The Samsung i450 is a slim slider with HSDPA connectivity and 1GB of internal memory. The i550 is a bar shaped phone with a built in GPS and a 3.2 megapixel camera. The i570 is a slider form factor device with a full QWERTY keyboard on the lower slide. More details in the full story.
Nokia has issued a recall for certain BL-5C batteries made between December 2005 and November 2006. Most BL-5C batteries are unaffected. To find out if your battery is affected, please visit the specially set up Nokia battery recall website and scroll to the bottom of the page. The affected batteries were made for Nokia by Matsushita, but they only carry the Nokia branding. If you have an affected battery, Nokia and Matsushita will replace it for free.
SBSH Mobile Software has updated its replacement PIM application Papyrus to v1.3, claiming an initial optimization for the wide-screen Nokia E90, a completely re-designed Tasks view, a new "Reminder" item and more. Here's the download page. (via Darla)
So, you've got a 332 MHz top-of-the-range smartphone from 2007 with 3D graphics acceleration hardware and a 16 million colour screen. What do you do with that? Obviously, you'd use it to emulate 8-bit home computers and consoles from 1982! Another winning feature from Krisse...
Nav4All, the Java-based voice-guided navigation system that's free (well, until 2008, at least) is now Nokia N95 and 6110-friendly, able to use the built-in GPS. 'Test version' 7.4.1 is the one that'll get loaded up if you use the link below.
Steve Litchfield muses on the Java games scene and reviews two smartphone titles that have caught his eye, with FreeFlight, a full 3D flight sim and Odesys Backgammon Lite, a polished Backgammon implementation. And they're both 100% free. I take back everything (well, most of the things) I ever said about Java....
So, you've got a 332 MHz top-of-the-range smartphone from 2007 with 3D graphics acceleration hardware and a 16 million colour screen. What do you do with that? Obviously, you'd use it to emulate 8-bit home computers and consoles from 1982! Another winning feature from Krisse...