You'll have noticed from the prize table at the AAS pub meet that we were fans of Proporta's Mobile Device Charger. It seems that we're not the only ones. It just got voted Best Accessory at the PDA Essentials Awards 2007 in the BAFTA Theatre in London. Oh, and here's my original review.
On Monday Forum Nokia revealed the new look to the the Community parts of its site. The new section brings together the previously disparate discussion forums, blogs and wiki into a single site. There is a 'lobby' page which summarises the latest updates across these sub areas and adds a personal touch with video and podcasts from Forum Nokia staff.
Phone Guardian, perhaps the ultimate security utility for anyone paranoid about losin their phone, has just been given a major new upgrade. V2.0 introduces security fixes over the previous version and adds new SMS commands for instant thief tracking, full lock and turning on and off the siren. The press release and screenshots below...
Opera has launched a new Link service to keep your mobile and desktop Opera browsing in step, with synced bookmarks, speed dial sites and personal bar. It has also launched a new beta (3) of the upcoming Opera Mini 4, point your browser to mini.opera.com as usual. The Opera Link press release follows...
More from the Smartphone Show last week. In AAS podcast 39, Ewan talks to Scott Lowe from eLeader about the ways they can help businesses keep their sales forces equipped and communicating through the use of special add-on S60 applications.
For completeness, S60 fans should note that I've updated my reasonably comprehensive S60 smartphone reference to include the new Samsung devices, as well as the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic and a new GPS column. As usual, if you can help fill in any of the remaining blanks....
Web portal, proxy service or online RSS reader? Sometimes the boundaries can get a little blurred. Ewan takes a detailed look at Mippin, launched yesterday, and finds it surprisingly useful.
Next Monday, the day before the Symbian Smartphone Show, is the All About Symbian Pub Meet. It is a completely free and open event and everybody is very welcome to come along and join in. We'll be giving away a Sony Ericsson W950 and a Nokia E61i along with a raft of other prizes. There's also going to be two lightning talks, one from the people behind WOM World (about what they do) and one from Robert Harmsen (Trends in Mobility).
I have to confess to not being that excited by Nokia's MOSH - yet another social network, albeit this time with a dedicated S60 client. Phil from S60 has been chatting to MOSH's Communications Manager, James Waterworth. What were the thoughts behind MOSH, what can you do with it, and where's it going?
Walking around this year's Smartphone Show in London, one thought suddenly struck Steve - where were the 'anti-virus' vendors? Is it possible, Steve dares to hope, that the virus hype from developers has finally, finally gone away? Has this part of the Symbian OS world finally grown up?
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.