Just in case you've not been following young Texan Stefan Constantinescu's one-way emigration to Finland in order to be closer to Nokia, here's the latest instalment, detailing his day out at Nokia HQ.
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...
Gah. Trust MobiMate to scupper my perfectly good Eseries Download! editorial that was in-progress. It turns out that WorldMate isn't an Eseries exclusive anymore, but is now a general free download for any S60 3rd Edition smartphone. I'm only joking, MobiMate, thanks for the great freebie.
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.
First time poster in this week's Carnival of the Mobilists, as Symbiano-Tek takes the reins and points towards a number of interesting pieces around the world last week, including... Mobile IM Payments, The UI Difference and why people want change, a look at some Apple discussion, and this week's best post is flagged up as a premier article on mobile software. Congratulations all round!
Y-Browser supremo, Jukka Silvennoinen, just keeps coming up with the freeware goods for S60 3rd Edition users. There's now a proper web site for his utilities, a new version of the popular file manager/viewer Y-Browser (v0.82, with an added Bluetooth send function) and a whole new application, Y-Tasks, an 'internals' utility for the uber-geek(!)
After a hugely detailed and comprehensive beta phase lasting over a year, Python for S60, or 'PyS60' is finally finished, ending up at v1.4. I'm sure there will be further minor updates, but in the meantime, it's stable, signed and complete. I even got spurred on into revisiting my Musician and making it work on far more S60 3rd Edition phones.
Mere hours after I plead in the AAS video podcast with Nokia to release the v12 firmware for the Nokia N95, it appears! On Nokia Software Update now, v12.0.013. Changelist to come below in a mo'. Thanks to WOM World for nudging me ahead of my daily NSU check!
In the interests of science, I thought I'd try out the updated Smart2Go (also known as Nokia Maps) MapLoader, v1.1g, in conjunction with the now fairly old Smart2Go beta on the Nokia E61. I was in for one delight and one huge surprise....
