Reading between the lines of various posts around the Internet and scanning the very helpful FCC-hosted user manual, it seems that the Nokia 9300i 'smartphone' is only a couple of days away, with clever money being for an announcement on Monday. Main changes are Wi-Fi (of course, including 802.11g), 1100mAh battery, predictive text input on the cover phone and a rich Instant Messaging client. More details as and when Nokia make things official.
Ewokki on the AAS Forums has pointed me to his MIDP based winamp controlling software for the Nokia Communicators. Winamp Remote controls the MP3 playback application on your PC, while Winamp Remote Search allows you to look through your PC and build playlists and find tracks to load into Winamp's playlist. Still in beta, so you'll need to roll your sleeves up, but it looks to be worth it.
New over on 3-Lib is a big update to my media gallery archive for anyone needing high-res photos of Symbian-powered mobile devices, especially in lifestyle situations. Many recent devices are now covered, as well as long-lost images from Psion days.
One of AAS's biggest friends, Arjen Broeze, has completed a big update of his free iDesk utility, which (and I quote) "provides customizable hotkeys for every internal function, application, file or folder, and contains a built-in task manager, task switcher, password manager and note taker". And it's all written in OPL, which is amazing. More info here.
Steve is tickled by the latest trends in the mobile device industry towards qwerty keyboards. He just knew the rest of the world would come round in the end... Read on...
Steve's been busy on some OPL applications again (that'll be the 'rapid' in rapid application developement), and has brought his Lifeguide app over to Series 80 - it's a freeware bible-based guide to 'life' based on the sections you usually find in the front of Gideon hotel bibles.
Arjen Broeze released RSCEdit, an application that allows OPL programmers to create language resource files on Series 80 devices for use in OPL applications. Up until now, creating a multilingual application in OPL was a very cumbersome process. The entire process of creating a multilingual application can be done directly on your Communicator. RSCEdit maintains all the different languages you want to support (up to 15) in a single database and generates true Symbian resource files with the press of a button. RSCEdit will also automatically generate a file containing all the constants needed for using the resources in your OPL application. More information about RSCEdit is at http://opldev.broeze.com/.
Shameless self promotion (though it's only donationware), but I've ported my Hangman game for kids over to the Nokia 9300 and 9500. Great for long journeys. Here's the download page 8-)
OK, so last week's re-launch got hit by the server going into meltdown and hardly anyone being able to get in... Hopefully, it's a lot faster now, so (drum roll) may I (re)present PocketInfo, with lots of free spreadsheets and documents for all Nokia 9210, 9300 and 9500 Communicators...
Steve rolls up his sleeves and determines once and for all to find out the best way to get video footage on your Nokia 9300 or 9500. Here's his review of the latest version of SmartMovie.
As part of a new series in brief tutorials, Rafe's penned this how-to showing you how Mass Storage Synchronizer can be used to copy music from iTunes to a memory card (which you can then put in your Symbian smartphone).
A regular pop-up in the news here, but my Grid of mobile devices has been updated again, over at 3-Lib. Gone is the Sendo X (still crying over that one), new is the Orange M2000 and clones. Suggestions for additions to the Grid are welcomed!
In which Steve realises that your smartphone should always help and never get the way of real life, performs a subtle U-turn and muses the fact that there's really no such thing as the perfect mobile device for everybody. Read the editorial...
