Steve tests Mobile Search for Series 60 (and 80), for finding specific text strings in your PIM data and file system, and finds that it's now quite usable, with more promised from the developers in the future. Here's the review.
Programme 5 in the popular TV-style Smartphones Show is now online, with a feature on what makes smartphones smart and cool things to do with them, a look at the competition, in the form of the Orange SPV C600, video from our Rafe from 3GSM and some basic Symbian UIQ/generic tips.
RMR Software continue their high quality Series 80 applications with the launch of RMR VacTrac, the Vacation Tracker for employers. It's also useful to work out when your writing staff are jetting round Europe and the world to various conferences...
Steve Litchfield explores the goodies that Google Local for Mobile brings to any Symbian (or Windows Mobile, come to that) smartphone. Free mapping, aerial photography and route planning for anywhere in the world? Yup, but watch your GPRS bill...
Providing a single device for a phone inside your office, and when out and about, is now possible on Series 80 thanks to Avaya's Communications Manager application now being made available for Series 80. Full Press Release from 3GSM follows.
Forum Nokia has announced the first few members of its Forum Nokia Champion reward program. The Forum Nokia Champion reward program is an invitation-only program that honors Forum Nokia members for their activities and contributions to Forum Nokia and the mobile industry. Benefits include rights to the title, showcasing their achievements in Forum Nokia channels and twice yearly meetings.
Neatly transplanted from 3-Lib and enhanced significantly, AllAboutSymbian is proud to present its new Support Knowledgebase (click the link or use the menu tab above).
As it's a slow news day(!), here's a link to a new German version of my TimeLog utility for Nokia 9210/9300/9500. Yes, I know most Germans speak great English, but now they've got the option of the program in their own language(!)
Ewan's had the newest in the Nokia communicator line, the 9300i, for a while now. Here's his real-world-tested full review. Summary? Solid and stable, but slow in places and the less said about the joystick the better...
3D Tracking is an innovative service which allows you to see where you (or rather a suitably set up mobile) has been. The service allows you to view current and past routes and positions. It uses information from a Bluetooth GPS to send location information (via a small piece of Java software) to their servers and display the results overlaid on Google Maps or Google Earth. The service is available at no charge.
The Smartphones Show programme 3 is now online. The 20 minute videocast features a preview of the Nokia 9300i and has a real world run through of TomTom MOBILE 5 in action on a Series 60 smartphone, plus other features.
Opera Mini, the java midlet based version of the popular mobile browser, is now officially and freely available worldwide from the Opera Mini website. We've previously reviewed the free browser and gave it the thumbs up. Full Press Release Follows
Rafe Blandford looks into his crystal ball and looks ahead to the world of Symbian in 2006. He also takes a wistful look back at how his predictions for 2005 fared. Also, a sneak preview of the cover of the December 2006 issue of 'Symbian Magazine'!
Arjen Broeze writes: I have just released iDesk version 1.45. This version fixes some bugs that existed in the previous version and also adds a small number of new features like virtual cursor support, searching for buttons, finding unassigned applications. This version also fixes the problem with increased CPU-usage... which should result in longer battery-life.
Steve Litchfield explores the goodies that Google Local for Mobile brings to any Symbian (or Windows Mobile, come to that) smartphone. Free mapping, aerial photography and route planning for anywhere in the world? Yup, but watch your GPRS bill...