Here's the webcast URL for the Nseries launches today - the broadcast is now archived there and can be played on demand as-if-live. I went to the London party and took some more photos and had hands-on time with the N95, more of which later in the week.
David Wood's latest Insight article on symbian.com looks at the weird and wonderful uses people are putting smartphones to. Golf swing improvement is just the start - washine machine cycle notifications, anybody?
So it's a slow news day - but still good to see the E61 being given various makeovers in black and pink. Definitely a market here, methinks, and also for the E62 over in the USA.
Giving Opera Mini a run for its money, I was interested to see that Bloglines Mobile, the web service that the AAS team tend to use on their smartphones to catch up on RSS-ed stories from round the web when out and about, has now had compression technology built into its core. If you're into grabbing news via RSS, check out the Bloglines announcement here.
Smartphones Show 15 has just gone live, with a video review of the Nokia N73 and a similar look at a similar 'candy bar' smartphone from the Windows Mobile world, the HTC MTeoR. You can view here on the web or subscribe to its RSS/iTunes feed here.
Eagle-eyed me(!) has just spotted public notice of this simultaneous four-city live event, Open Studio 2006, to happen next Tuesday. In fact, it's a lot more than four, as separate events are also scheduled by Nokia PR in many other cities. Rafe and Darla will be in New York, I'll be in London, to make sure you don't miss anything. Our best guess is a clutch of new Nseries 'multimedia computers', but you'll have to wait til Tuesday for any more....
I was interested to see Fosfor's camera phone shoot-out, featuring the Sony Ericsson K800i and the Nokia N93. They (understandably) picked the K800i as the winner, although there are a few points well worth commenting on. Read on for the link and comments....
The N93 just got more useful, as its VGA quality videos can now be handled properly at last. Adobe's bundled Premiere Elements is slow and buggy but at least now Ulead's VideoStudio 10 Plus is a viable and efficient option for video editing, thanks to this bug fix which makes it fully N93-compatible.
Thanks to this week's Carnival for pointing me towards one of the best articles on smartphone convergence I've read for ages, posted by Tomi in "The year the i-Pod died". Highly recommended reading.
There's a good how-to here, with example file links, on listening to streaming Internet radio using your Nokia E61 or any other S60 3rd Edition smartphone or communicator. Maybe you can help build the database of radio stations?
It's along time since I've laughed out loud when reading editorial about the mobile world, but Michael Mace has managed that this Friday morning, with a lovely piece entitled "Good Luck Naming Your Phones, Nokia." If you've always wondered about the byzantine naming structure of companies such as Nokia, then here's your answer. And keep reading to the very end, it's worth it.
There's got to be significance in Arto Holopainen's article on controlling your 'snake' in a S60 smartphone game using just your biceps, wired up directly to the handset. Impressive, though confusing stuff, although it would certainly kill two birds with one stone by letting you have a workout while improving your gaming skills.
