If you owned a Psion palmtop back in the late 1990s, you'll have heard of the Psion-sponsored PocketInfo web site, with useful spreadsheet 'applications' and documents. It has now been relaunched, with a large proportion of the content now available in native Nokia 9300 and 9500 Communicator format. More over at PocketInfo.
ScummVM has been released for the Nokia 9300 and 9500. ScummVM is an opensource program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games (such as Monkey Isalnd), provided you already have their data files.
Ewan gives Jewelrumble a good workout in his review and finds a Bejewelled clone that's well implemented, has some bonus features and is compatible with a large number of Symbian smartphones.
Ewan reviews WorldMate for Series 80 and is struck by the slick integration and the way everything just works. Hats off to Mobimate for this truly global application.
According to the latest (Q3) figures from Canalys, Nokia shipped over seven million Series 60 and Series 80 smartphones in the recently finished quarter, with over half the worldwide PDA/Smartphone market. Sales of standalone PDAs declined markedly again and Sony Ericsson's nowhere to be seen, though that should change when the P990 starts to become available.
Steve presents a long term review of the Nokia 9300 'smartphone'. How has it been working out in the real world? Major like: the overall size. Major dislike: still can't get used to that joystick.
Every 6 months Orange run a developer event which is a mixture of technical sessions, networking and fun. Rafe reports back from the most recent event at Opio, France on what the Camp offered to the attendees.
Documents To Go for the Nokia 9300 and 9500, announced recently, is now actually available for download on the DataViz web site and from our Software Shop. Documents To Go consists of Word to Go and Sheet to Go which can open, read and write their Microsoft Office equivalent without losing any formatting or content information.
Flush from the lightning talk at the AAS Pub Meet, Zingmagic have a number of Series 80 based card games avaialble. The bundle of Hearts, Spades and Euchre are probably the best bet value wise, but don't forget Homerun, which has graced pretty much every Symbian powered device since the early ninenties.
The story of the Smartphone Show is that this year developers and their needs are to the fore. After the announcements of the new multi platform developer tools in the new Nokia Carbide series, and the UIQ Developer program and tools, Symbian have announced a range of their own initiatives. These include free developer certificates, a free Symbian Signed route to market for freeware and opensource, free Symbian Signed testing tools and memebrship of the Eclipsse Foundation.
Symbian in conjunction with Forum Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and UIQ has announced the Symbian Signed Freeware Route to Market, sponsored and paid for by Symbian and the supporting companies.
Andrew Orlowski over at The Register reports in on their long term test of the Nokia 9300, and seems to find it in good favour. Check it out over at El Reg.
