As noted by severalbloggers and originally discovered by Kevin Tofel on jkOnTheRun a viral marketing website has appeared hinting at a mobile phone / media player product announcement on the 29th August. The smart money is that this may be previewing the much rumoured Nokia N81.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group, the more than 8,000-member strong trade association responsible for advancing Bluetooth wireless technology, today announced the adoption of Core Specification Version 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), with advances in security, simplified pairing, power consumption and Near Field Communications. The full press release is shown below...
Nokia has released in Q2 financial results today. The overall results are positive with increased second quarter earnings driven by strong sales and an increase in market share. Notable numbers for S60 devices include sales of 2 million Eseries devices and 9 million Nseries devices in the second quarter. Individual device highlights includes sales of 1 million E65's and 1.5 million N95's in the same period.
Yeah, they're Java games, but EA have been adding to the Nokia Nseries Download! selection in the last week. See below for a sample catalog screenshot, but the games now include "Fight Night Round 3", "Dakar 2007", "Need for Speed Carbon", "FIFA Street 2", "The Sims 2 Pets", "Scrabble", "Orcs and Elves" and "Medal of Honour".
The Nokia N95 (just like the N93/N93i) has a TV Out ability which lets you plug the device into any television set. If you add a full-size Bluetooth keyboard, you get something resembling a desktop computer, both in appearance and function. In the first of a series of articles, Krisse looks at whether the N95, or indeed any smartphone, can replace the PC.
I think I've worked out why the missing keypress bug in the v12 firmware occurs and how to avoid it. But I need some more data points from AAS readers. Read on for more.
CoolGorilla, whose free Java talking phrasebooks we reported a month ago, have now managed to shoehorn the same audio/text functions into a mobile-focussed web version, ostensibly aimed at the iPhone but which works perfectly in all recent S60 smartphones, for example. Type www.coolgorilla.com/iphone into your smartphone's web browser.
Proving that Flash Lite is being used by at least some developers for real world projects, mobiExplore Croatia is new freeware for all versions of S60. Don't worry, the application itself is apparently all in English!
Just in case anyone reading this doesn't already own several Bluetooth GPS accessories, news has filtered through that the FCC has passed the 'Nokia LD-4W', a TomTom lookalike...
Olive Tree have updated their free Bible reading software for S60 3rd Edition to v3.67. New features include extra search options, two smaller font sizes, a new menu structure, a 5-way verse chooser and combined storage card and main memory locations into one library. Here's the Bible Reader download page and here's the most popular free modern Bible.
Steve Litchfield has been getting twitchy feet over his reliance on Outlook as the PIM partner to his smartphones and he's overjoyed to find a Web-based PIM that's totally cross platform, that supports just about every smartphone ever made and which is completely free! In this walkthrough, he explains how to set Mobical up and start syncing.
My (well, 'our' really, since Rafe provided both review machines and all the direct bandwidth!) Smartphones Show 39 is now online, with hands-on video reviews of the Nokia 6120 Classic (the 'smallest smartphone in the world') and the brand new Sony Ericsson P1i. Here's the direct MP4 link, the YouTube link and the RSS feed if you decide you like the show etc.
The Nokia E90's free 3D driving game Global Race: Raging Thunder is rather splendid and makes use of the E90's 3D acceleration hardware. But as many blogs (including iGadget and Symbian Freak) have recently pointed out, the game also works near-perfectly on any S60 3rd Edition phone with a 3D chip, which currently means the N95, N93 and N93i. You can download Global Race completely free from Nokia's E90 software support page.
Steve Litchfield pits the spanking new Sony Ericsson P1i against its main competitors from the Symbian world, the messaging-focussed Nokia E61i and the media-focussed Nokia N95. How does Sony Ericsson's latest measure up? Find out in the grand P1i, N95, E61i head-to-head!
Steve Litchfield pits the spanking new Sony Ericsson P1i against its main competitors from the Symbian world, the messaging-focussed Nokia E61i and the media-focussed Nokia N95. How does Sony Ericsson's latest measure up? Find out in the grand P1i, N95, E61i head-to-head!