With Nokia's impending reorganisation, I started wondering what I'd do about the devices and visions from the current different divisions within the company. What would you do when integrating three separate hardware divisions? Read on for some of my thoughts...
Some commentators have reported that the camera photo quality on a Nokia N95 that's been updated to v20 firmware is worse than on one that still runs v12 firmware - I disagree, and here's why: the N95's camera is now capturing an image that's closer to real life and not presenting an artificially sharpened view of the world. Read on...
You may remember Krisse's coverage of the addictive TibiaME, back in the summer - a massive multiplayer RPG for S60? Well, it's now had a big update, with wider J2ME compatibility, a new world, new features and over-the-air graphics upgrades. Krisse brings us a full report on what's new in TibiaME and what still needs work.
Smartphones Show 48 is out (in YouTube and H.264 MP4 form), the highlight of which is a real world head to head challenge between the two black and silver flagships, the Nokia N95 8GB and the Apple iPhone (on O2). Watch Matt Radford of AAS and I as we try and assess the devices on common, every day tasks. Oh, and here's the RSS and iTunes feeds.
Rafe and I look at Nokia's 'Refresh' of the Nokia E61i, in both text form and in AAS video podcast form - take your pick! The additional box contents will significantly help SMEs, as we explain in detail, although home users won't benefit significantly. Let's hope that 2008 brings a faster, FP1 E61-alike with much more RAM.
It's Out! Version 20.0.015 firmware for the Nokia N95 classic is now available via Nokia Software Update. This includes demand paging (!), so 30MB plus free RAM after booting, faster operation, N-Gage game store previews and portal stub, new camera software, integrated Search, new Welcome apps and more. Comments below!
It's AAS Insight number 2, also known as AAS podcast number 48... err... you are following this, aren't you? In this show, Rafe, Ewan and I discuss 3's Xseries services (on Nokia N95 and N73) and Skype on smartphones generally. If you haven't subscribed yet, here's the RSS feed!
We're called All About Symbian for a reason... never let it be said that we don't review everything that has Symbian written on the side of it - last month's Smartphone's Show gave me the best product from Symbian in a long time. Read on for Ewan's video review of this must have item.
In the final part of his review of the Nokia N81 Ewan looks at two applications that add a little something to the multimedia and music credentials of the N81: Podcasting and Visual Radio. Ewan then brings us some thoughts about the positioning of this music and gaming orientated Nseries device before coming to an overall conclusion.
Power users are always on the look out for ways of getting to information just that little bit quicker. In this review of SkyeQuiKey Steve examines one potential option. SkyeQuiKey is an utility application that integrates with the idle screen of S60 3rd Edition phones and offers quick matching against contacts and applications stored on the phone.
