Missing the days when you could create a simple blank database to store whatever information you like in it? Steve is, so he's been reviewing YData for the Nokia Communicators. He ended up impressed.
Apologies for linking through to my 3-Lib site again(!), but any UK users interested in stuff like Roman, Pictish, Iron Age or Prehistoric sites might like to note that I've just added these to my Mapper/GB project.
Smart vCard from Symbianware provides an industry standard way of getting information into and out of your address book using the vCard standard. Definitly recommended.
RMRLock from RMR Software is a small utility for Communicator owners, which will provide a password protection system when you close, open, or leave your smartphone unattended.
Epocware have started up the beta program for the full Handy Safe system (i.e. PC client syncing with Communicator app) for the Nokia 9300/9500. Even better, using their standard import/export format, you can move across all your old Nokia 9210 Handy Safe data, with 100% success rate. You can join in the beta here.
"Where are the emulators?" asked Switchbalde (and others) after Steve's Playing Games on the 9500 article. Well, tell us about these emulators... so he did. Here's Switchblade's review of Super GoBoy on the 9500, WildPalm's Gameboy emulator.
It may well be pitched as a business platfrom, but the Communicators can keep you entertained more than you think. Join Steve Litchfield as he takes a whistle stop tour of the Series 80 gaming world. No, don't laugh...
ZingMagic's second version of Chess for Series 80 devices has been released. There are modes allowing you to compete against the Communictor, someone else on the same device, or play by SMS, it's packed with the usual chess program features as well. More details and downloads direct from Zingmagic.
The Visual Basic and C# based runtime environment for Symbian OS (and others) have made a runtime available for Series 80 devices. Version 5.6.1 feature built in synchronisation, database connectivity, and others. More from Appforge.
Su Docu, written in OPL, is a version of the increasingly popular numbers puzzle game, So Doku, in which every 3 x 3 grid and every 9 long column and row must have the numbers 1 to 9 in it. You will need the OPL run time installed in order to use the game. Also by the same author is a version of Japanese Crossword and the Game of Life.
OggPlay debuts for Series 80. It's Open Source, it's free, it give you 45 CDs worth of stereo music on your Nokia 9500 MMC, what more could you want? More on the OggPlay page.
Steve spends a couple of days driving around with TomTom MOBILE 5 in its Series 80 guise. Although not quite achieving AAS Mega-app status this time, it's still a ground-breaking addition to the platform's application catalogue. Read the review here.
SymbianWare have launched SBasic, letting you develop simple applications and games using standard BASIC commands. You can find details, screenshots and program examples here.
Courtesy of WildPalm. You can now enjoy thousands of classic Sega and Nintendo games, on your Series 80 (Nokia 9300 and 9500) device, thanks to WildPalm's two new emulators; Super GoBoy and SonicBoy.
