Not quite Symbian, but kicking up a fuss is the Nokia 770 Linux Tablet. Nancy Gohring has posted a review on the demo units over on Mobile Pipeline (summary, it;'s a bit slow), and Matt Croydon, who's been doing some public conversion work on Linux apps to Maemo, comes to the Tablet's Defence (summary, it is early in the production cycle).
Skulls (you know, that program that politely asks if it can infect your phone before installing itself) pulls a classic ploy straight out of "The A-Team" and reports that it is an application called "F-Secure Antivirus" (reports The Register). Naturally F-Secure aren't too pleased about this, and are reminding people to only download their application from their own server, or the short link that refers to them phoneav.com.
Some light weekend reading from Carlo Longino over at The Feature. While Symbian and it's licences sit around talking about the OMA DRM system, Carlo looks at some of the fun thing that could happen if Microsofts Plays for Sure DRM makes the penetration into mobiles.
I invented answering a call on a hands-free by pressing a button, says Jari Lahtinen (reports Engadget). Which means I'm going to sue Nokia for doing something so obvious, only I would register it with the Finnish patent office... Sometimes I despair of the human race.
The popular web page compression proxy has just had a big update, with better page size reduction, a cleaner interface and a new mobile directory. See http://www.skweezer.net/ if you want to try Skweezer out in your Symbian OS browser.
Eirik Solheim has put together a nice guide to listening to Podcasting on your mobile phone, using an MMC card, Card Reader and Windows Media. Worth a look, if only to keep up with Rafe and Ewan's Mobiles Podcast.
Yes we all know that Psion ruled Europe, but over in America, The First PDA War was fought out as Apple vs Palm. Palm being the eventual winner, and the Apple Newton doomed to $5 ebay transactions. But the Newton did have goals and aspirations, check out this Historyof the Apple Newton as a ncie Friday diversion.
Wired Magazine Online looks at Nokia's hope of becoming a big player in this festive season's MP3 market with the Nokia N91. Worth a quick read to see where they are going, but having 40 million smartphones that can play MP3 files does not equal 40 million MP3 players - form, quality and if the person actually listens to music all contribute as well.
For those, really impressed by TomTom's recent Symbian OS efforts and wanting to invest, they went public today on the stock exchange. See here for details.
Things got dotty on Friday May 13th, when the Tonight Show with Jay Leno featured a message sending/receiving contest between a mobile phone text messaging team and a morse code team. Click Here for video.
Nokia's 7710 (running Symbian OS) is the smartphone of choice for this mobile TV trial in Australia. Visual radio? Mobile TV? Yet more convergence and the way of the future...
Controversial, probably, but I've updated my Grid of 'real world mobile computing solutions', which now includes the new Nokia 7710 and the fairly new Nokia 6630. All comments welcome!
