This week's Carnival of the Mobilists, number 53, is hosted at C. Enrique Ortiz's Mobility Weblog. As usual the carnival rounds up writing from around the web on mobile issues. This weeks entries include comments on Nokia warranties, analysis of UIQ's acquisition by Sony Ericsson and news of W3C's Widgets working draft.
Admittedly it's not a huge list, but I've at least made a decent start at compiling a UIQ 3 version of my 3-Lib No Nags tables of freeware. If you can add to the list (not too much generic Java stuff, please) of software for the Sony Ericsson P990i et al, get in touch.
Ex-PDA refugees who are still struggling with the relatively limited feature set of S60's Calendar might like to note that Calendar-replacement Papyrus has just scored another major release. There will be an official review along shortly from Ewan, too, watch this space.
Ganesh Sivaraman, from Nokia's S60 3rd Edition Web browser team, is the guest of the Voice of S60, with a 16 minute audio interview, mainly talking about the browser and what you can expect in the coming year or so. Why not listen in?
Nordic Wireless Watch have rolled up their sleeves and produced an interesting set of graphics benchmarks, mainly of Symbian OS smartphones. Almost inevitably the Nokia N93 wins by a country mile, but there are plenty of other interesting numbers here. Via WOM World.
Released today is Smartphones Show 18, with the main Symbian OS interest being my latest ratings of the 'top 10 smartphones', with the N93 coming in at number 1, plus video tips for the same device, in case you missed the YouTube link for this a week or so ago. The Smartphones Show can be viewed on any PC, Mac, PSP, iPod or Symbian OS 9 smartphone.
TomeRaider, a fabulous reference/database tool from the PDA world is now available for beta test, apparently, for S60 3rd Edition. Or would be if it would install - email the developers and we're sure this app will eventually make it fully onto S60. Via Shaun.
It is time for the 52nd Carnival of the Mobilists (CotM) and as it enters its second year it continues to swing. This week we have the usual round up of writing on mobile issues from around the web. CotM aims to raise awareness of writing on mobile issues outside a site or blog's regular readership and subject areas.
Thanks to those who emailed in about GooSync, a free service that uses SyncML to synchronise your S60 or UIQ Calendar with your Google Calendar. Looks pretty simple to use, too.
The number one request I hear from new users of S60 3rd Edition devices is for a better Calendar, something which the Papyrus project aims to fix. There's a major new version (1.2.04) just released and worth trying if Calendar is a frustration for you. There'll be a big, formal review along at some point too...
Following the release of Search, thanks to Daniel for pointing us towards Nokia's release of a new WLAN Wizard for S60 3rd Edition. Although it doesn't do much more than the WLAN bit of the existing Connection Manager, it has a shortcut through to Web and so should help new users get online through Wi-Fi more quickly.
More Nokia N93 goodness, this time on the way in the next few days, according to the 'ear to the ground' people at Symbian Freak. The firmware for the N93 jumps from v11 to v20 in one fell swoop, apparently, with extra applications, functionality improvements and bug fixes (including picture noise improvements) by the dozen. It's off to Nokia's Software Update for me, I think, next week!
Nokia's official Podcasting utility for S60 3rd Edition has been formally released, it's now a big fat v1.0. Here's the main download and here's the blog entry with details of how to preserve already downloaded content and settings when upgrading from a beta copy... Thanks, Darla.
