Steve's been running in depth tests on the multimedia performance of the Nokia N70 and N90, in comparison to the Windows Mobile-powered competition. Here's the group review.
Ewan takes a good look at the free beta of ShoZu, a utility to aid uploading of your photos to a photo blogging service, and concludes that it's technically impressive but that it doesn't yet have all based covered in terms of functionality.
Steve's been hankering after an active standby screen for his Nokia 6630, and Best Desk seems like a very capable contender. Here's his review. Summary: very configurable, very capable, but also very new.
A curious use for the traditional Nokia Series 60 Standby screen, courtesy of Steve Litchfield and a bottle of Hardy's. Inspired thinking or Irritating art? You decide, comments welcome.
There's a veritable flood of Internet-borne 'services' that you access on your smartphone coming out of America (and specifically the CES show) but what they're announcing makes no sense whatsoever in most of the rest of the world. Read on...
Darla's spotted yet another outbreak of buck-chasing virus paranoia, this time from AhnLab. Read on for some priceless marketing quotes. And if you're worried about the threat of mobile malware then don't be. Read on...
Rafe, Ewan and Steve each pick out their top 5 Series 60 games in this special Christmas selection. Whether you agree or not with their favourites, we're sure you'll pick up an idea or two to keep you entertained over the Holidays.
Ewan Spence is seriously impressed by his prototype of the upcoming Nokia E70 'gull winged' business smartphone. A full fold-over keyboard, high-res screen and Wi-Fi are going to make the E70 much anticipated.
Rafe Blandford sees the upcoming Nokia N80 'slider' as a solid echo of the original 7650. Lots of interesting technology insights in his detailed N80 hands-on preview.
Panasonic looks set to focus its effort around the Linux operating system rather than the Symbian OS. In a recent press release Matsushita announced they would be reorganising global R&D. It is accelerating development of the Linux OS, and closing the US R&D office where Panasonic's Symbian development took place. Read on for more and a status check on Symbian and S60.
Steve Litchfield ponders the significance of reset holes and their absence from Symbian OS-powered devices. How much confidence do you have in your smartphone?
Ewan tells how he relies on the Nokia 9500 Communicator for email, telephony, blogging and just about everything else while travelling the world. Does the Communicator live up to its name and what tips can he pass on for others?
Steve Litchfeld's been doing some direct comparisons of multimedia performance on cutting edge smartphone hardware from both Nokia and Orange/T-Mobile and is taken aback by how far behind Microsoft and their partners are in this area.
Steve is tickled by the latest trends in the mobile device industry towards qwerty keyboards. He just knew the rest of the world would come round in the end... Read on...
Thomas Boys weighs in with a sorry tale of caution and offers some wise words advice to would-be smartphone buyers and sellers on eBay. Read his tale of woe.
