AAS's Steve Litchfield has long been very sceptical about touchscreen-based phones, but the iPhone's new technology touchscreen and User Interface have wholeheartedly converted him to the concept. However, he's not impressed by the iPhone's lack of features and immature Operating System, and thinks this is where Symbian has the upper hand. Click on the link to read Steve's vision of a future where smartphones combine the best of both worlds, with iPhone-style interfaces and Symbian-style cutting edge features.
Well, that's the theory anyway. See here for details. Apparently, v1.05(4) is a customised version of Google Maps for Mobile that takes your position from Vodafone's cell network. Except that it did nothing for me. Comments welcome if you manage to get it working on your Vodafone SIM-ed smartphone....
According to The Register, phone giant Motorola has now slipped into third place behind Nokia and Samsung, after a loss-making Q2 2007. El Reg thinks Moto should make more high end handsets, so would that mean more Z8-style Symbian UIQ3 models?
Now this is interesting. Ratza in our forums has determined that the Nokia E70's camera (the same as that in the likes of the N70 and a dozen other S60 smartphones?) is optimised to focus at 1 metre, rather than infinity, as was previously presumed. He's even knocked up a Python script to prove the point.... More in the forum thread!
WOM World has been asked to pass on the following warning from the Healthy Computing Volunteer Group to Rafe, myself and anybody else thinking of using the Nokia N95. Video link...
AAS regular and committed P-series fan Asri al-Baker takes Sony Ericsson's latest R6D23 firmware update to task, although he admits at the end of the day that it's still a worthwhile step, thankfully with less new bugs than fixes for old ones.
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.
Which smartphones would some of the best known names in the smartphone world really recommend, if they were only allowed one device and had to stick with it for an entire year? Find out here, I've been asking around....! I found the answers interesting and I hope you will too.
AAS's Steve Litchfield has long been very sceptical about touchscreen-based phones, but the iPhone's new technology touchscreen and User Interface have wholeheartedly converted him to the concept. However, he's not impressed by the iPhone's lack of features and immature Operating System, and thinks this is where Symbian has the upper hand. Click on the link to read Steve's vision of a future where smartphones combine the best of both worlds, with iPhone-style interfaces and Symbian-style cutting edge features.
