At long last, Nokia has finally released its Network Bridge patch, enabling Nokia 9300 and 9500 owners to use the 'IP PassThrough' function in their Communicators, to access their desktop's broadband connection via the USB cable. Shame you can't use Bluetooth, though...
At last there's a secure database that can import data from the popular Handy Safe for the Nokia 9210. RMRData proves a worthy contender in a crowded utility market in Steve's review.
Nokia have added Screen Export to their 9500 support page. From the description: "This enables you to show the screen of the communicator interface to a large audience with a compatible data projector, or other compatible projection system. The screen content is transferred to the data projector wirelessly using, for example, a Bluetooth connection."
Maintaining any website or intranet means moving files around - and Yellow Computing's FTP Tools have graced many a Symbian OS phone. Ewan reviews the latest version of yFTP for the Series 80 Communciators and finds a nice tool for the trade.
In a huge update to the original AAS case group test, Steve reviews two new 9500 cases from Krusell and adds an oldie-but-goodie. The group test's now hosted here.
Nokia have released PC Suite 6.5, with a multitude of improvements and fixes, including better synchronisation, better stability and an image/video auto-uploading system. 6.5 works with the 9300 and 9500, as well as many recent Series 60 models such as the 7610 and 6680. Highly recommended. You can find it here.
While the original RMRBank application (review here) for the Nokia 9210 happily ran on the 9300 and 9500, there were some areas where the new devices have slightly differnet configurations. So the latest release of RMRBank take care of the new devices, along with improved speed, support for OFX Open Financial Exchange protocols and a number of cosmetic changes.
NewTEL95 is a TELNET terminal emulator for the Nokia 9500 and 9300. It is based on the sucessful newTELnet9200 product series. The program also includes a PING and TraceRoute engine. It uses the phones TCP/IP stack and can use GPRS or WLAN connections. Aimed at sysadmins this is a powerful tool for the Series 80 line of phones.
Symbianware have released a version of their PowerDates program for the Nokia 9500 and 9300. The program helps you to organize and view anniversaries, birthdays and other special dates. There is a built in reminder and the program will sync with contacts and calendar. There are also several powerful import / export features.
W.A.Y.D (formerly What.Are.You.Doing) by Corisoft is another feature-rich application designed to replace the default S80 desktop/launcher. W.A.Y.D also offers an agenda view, a task manager, the use of hotkeys and much more.
ProfiMail from Lonely Cat Games is now available for Series 80. Profimail, previously available on Series 60 and UIQ, is an email client. Notable features include automatic syncronization (download) of messages from the server, support for IMAP folders, support for HTML messages, built in file manager, filters and rules for selective message downloading and more.
jDictionary Mobile have launched Mobile Factbook for Series 80. Carry around a constantly updating reference information for over 250 countries, including flags, maps, trivia and statistical information.
