UIQ Technology has made available another of its 'official' UIQ 3 themes available. If you own a Sony Ericsson or Motorola UIQ 3-powered smartphone, grab UIQ Morning right now, it's a looker...
Which smartphones would some of the best known names in the smartphone world really recommend, if they were only allowed one device and had to stick with it for an entire year? Find out here, I've been asking around....! I found the answers interesting and I hope you will too.
In the fourth and concluding part of his review of the Motorola RIZR Z8, Rafe Blandford looks at the third party application scene, demonstrates potential areas of incompatibility, assesses the Z8's potential and then concludes with his verdict on this stylish and different (smart)phone.
Ah, the Motorola RIZR Z8 goodness keeps on coming... Rafe's Z8 review part 4 is just round the corner, rounding things off and summing the device up, but in the meantime, it's the UIQ 3-powered video star of Smartphones Show 37, out now on YouTube and in MP4 format. There's also a peek in the Litchfield gadget bag...
Although the Motorola RIZR Z8 has no Office support at all, Quickoffice has stepped into the breach with viewers for the Z8's brand of UIQ 3, albeit for an extra $20. The Motorola Z8 version of Quickoffice includes support for embedded tables and images. Read on for more.
It's..... AAS video podcast 17, in which I muse on the gulf between opposite ends of the smartphone spectrum, despair over trolling fanboys and look ahead to hardware coming up in the second half of 2007. If you want to get all our podcasts, here's the RSS feed.
Sony Ericsson P990 and W950 users will be pleased to hear that there will be another firmware update for their phones available shortly as mentioned in this SE Developer World Forum thread. The updates will be made available in August. Credit to Sony Ericsson for listening to their users in this matter.
Here's something useful for your summer travels and completely free. CoolGorilla have created a freeware talking phrasebook, available in half a dozen languages. It runs under Java, so should work with the majority of S60 and UIQ smartphones. Just pick the model in their list that's closest to what you have. It worked fine on my E90 8-) (Via MobHappy)
Using GMail in a web browser has always been a bit clumsy. Ewan's taken a shine to Google's dedicated Java-based GMail client on his Nokia N95. OK, so Java's slow to load and clumsy, but Google's mini app is well designed and has some lovely touches.
Following up his high profile piece on Psion, midweek over at The Register, Ewan caught up with long time Technology correspondent Andrew Orlowski in a London bar to talk about the article, and to go into a bit more depth on the topics raised. Ewan also wanted to find out what Andrew thought this meant for Symbian and the current smartphone market. And how could today not be complete with touching on the launch of the Apple iPhone in the USA? All this in AAS podcast number 27.
How could the latest Smartphones Show not include relevancy to the iPhone and try to get in first? - this is 'iDay' after all(!) So, with a truck load of Symbian news, a one minute(!) review of the Apple iPhone and a feature on things existing S60 users can learn from the iPhone's simplicity. Smartphones Show 36 is here in MP4 format, here on YouTube.
In the fourth and concluding part of his review of the Motorola RIZR Z8, Rafe Blandford looks at the third party application scene, demonstrates potential areas of incompatibility, assesses the Z8's potential and then concludes with his verdict on this stylish and different (smart)phone.
It's the bit you've all been waiting for. Rafe goes into detail in putting every aspect of the multimedia capability of the UIQ 3-powered Motorola RIZR Z8 to the test: camera, gallery, music, video - and finds plenty that's worthy and a few aspects which were disappointing. And then Rafe discovers two 'extras' which raise the Z8's game another notch.