Nokia's results are in for the last quarter of 2006, you can read the full press release here. In short: Nokia's sales are up to record levels, their market share has remained at 36%, S60 models are increasingly playing a part in the entire company's lineup, not just from its Multimedia division (who sold over six million Nseries smartphones in Q4 alone) but also the main Mobile Phone division (the 5500 and 6290 are mentioned in the report as highlights of the quarter) and the business-oriented Enterprise division (who make the Eseries).
OK, listen up. Rafe's been trying out the brand, spanking new Nokia N95 über-converged smartphone. In his comprehensive preview, he unboxes it, photographs it, tests the 5 megapixel camera, writes about the hardware design and demonstrates many of its new software features in text and pictures.
Pdf+ from mBrainSoftware allows you to view the increasingly ubiquitous Adobe PDF files on your Symbian phone. In his review of Pdf+ Steve finds a polished application and one that compares favourably to its competition.
HanDBase, a long standing PDA and smartphone database solution, with full PC interoperability, is now officially available for all S60 3rd Edition smartphones. In addition to creating and maintaining your own custom databases, there are thousands of ready made database 'applets'. See also Krisse's review. The full press release from DDH Software follows.
It's All About Symbian podcast number 11, in which Rafe chats to Ewan about his experiences at CES 2007 in Las Vegas, along with comment on the iPhone and a brief look ahead to 3GSM in three weeks time.
Interesting to note this story over on Symbian Freak about another real world use for a Python script - time lapse photography on a smartphone. Python seems to be coming on in leaps and bounds, look for a roundup of useful Python apps shortly.
Interesting post on the S60 3rd blog discussing a new, signed Vox Mobile app for video blogging, along with links on configuring it to run on any S60 device of any type or vintage. Of course, don't touch it with a brage pole if you're on an expensive tariff, etc. Via Darla.
If you're an OpenDocument fan, you'll already have heard of SEPT-Solutions freeware Mobile Office for S60 - it's now been back-ported to Series 80 for the Nokia 9500/9300. The press release and download links follow...
You'll have noticed Quickoffice 4 appearing on the front page side bar a day or so ago... Rafe and I have been trialling it on S60 3rd Edition for a few weeks now and here I present my Quickoffice 4 review. Summary: rock solid, great round-tripping and reasonable functionality, provided your office has a strict Microsoft-only policy.
Thanks to the E-series blog for spotting that Nokia Team Suite (an office contact manager/facilitator, previously only on the E50) is now available for free for other S60 3rd Edition devices through Nokia's over-the-air app system, Nokia Catalogs. Comments welcome on compatibility/availability with various devices...
At Nokia World Alastair Curtis talked about some of the concepts behind the Nokia Design philosophy. As a glimpse of the future he showed some concept videos, which Nokia has now made available via YouTube, exploring the potential areas for mobile hardware design and accompanying software might go to. Read on for more.
This was from a few weeks ago but we all missed it. According to Telephia, European smartphone use is now up to almost 9% of the whole phone market - Italians apparently lead the way, with one in five phones being a smartphone. Here's the full article. Via Nordic Wireless Watch
In case this isn't already bookmarked in your RSS reader, my video podcast the Smartphones Show now has programme 22 live, with a video review of the Sony Ericsson W950i, my thoughts and video of the Apple iPhone and a shortened version of Rafe's N76/N93i video snippets.
