Another Nokia N95-related link - I've just added it to my interactive smartphone-selector Grid. Plug in your personal preferences and see which are the most suitable devices for you. And if the N95 wins - well, you've only got another month or so to wait!
Just a note that I've now updated my big one-page S60 device comparison table over on 3-Lib to include this year's new Nokia S60 3rd Edition smartphones. As usual, comments and corrections welcome!
With less than a month to go until the closing date of UIQ Open, a scheme to promote UIQ 3 demos and new apps, Rafe interviews Sébastien Peirone, Developer Communications Manager at UIQ Technology. What's the competition about and what's up for grabs?
If you really want to overdose on N95 goodness and full-blooded Symbian enthusiasm, watch Symbian Freak (run by apocalypso from the AAS forums) over the next week, who has just taken delivery of his pre-production N95 and who promises 'not to sleep' during testing(!) His comments are especially interesting as it's all from a strict power user perspective.
Oh yes! The hugely respected cross-platform hypertext document reader iSilo has now entered open beta testing for S60 3rd Edition. Here's v4.33 - if you do install it, be sure to feed problems back to the developers.
If you're into trivia, pub quizzes or fact finding, note that my free Trivopaedia (... a trivia enecyclopaedia) has had a huge update and is now up to v2.2, with over 300 entries. It runs inside (the also free) Mobipocket Reader for all Symbian OS-powered smartphones. Comments welcome!
Don't ask us why it's taken this long, but you can now vote on the best articles of the month from August to November 2006 at the Carnival of the Mobilists website (just scroll down a bit, you'll see the four voting forms to represent the four months, and you don't even have to register to vote). All About Symbian has a nominated article in the October poll.
Two interesting Friday tech stories from the good old BBC: the advance of GPS into smart mobile devices (bringing us back to the Nokia N95 and its successors), and the takeover of the Internet by botnets, with 50% of all warez apps containing trojans (yes, the Beeb is mainly talking about PCs, but take note if you frequent the same sites and think twice before downloading cracked Symbian OS apps)...
Ways of getting a qwerty keyboard into a mobile device just keep getting stranger and stranger and more fragile - this (non Symbian) attempt is the HTC Athena. Here's hoping for a more elegant design from upcoming Symbian-powered devices at 3GSM in 3 weeks.
