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Fresh from his hands-on with the spanking new UIQ 3-powered Sony Ericsson P1i in London last night, Rafe brings us a full gallery of P1i photos and helpful comments . There will be a full text preview along shortly!# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 07:55, May 9th
Zensis' Theme DIY utility gets put under the microscope by a rightfully picky Krisse. How useful is it and what are the limitations?# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 07:05, May 8th
Ah yes, the Carnival of the Mobilists comes around and around. This week it's at my 3-Lib site, the usual selection of miscellaneous-but-always-interesting writings on the world of mobile ...# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 16:27, May 6th
Guest feature writer and UIQ enthusiast Asri al-Baker describes his experiences getting through an entire day's smartphone activity using nothing more than the Sony Ericsson P990i's flip-closed one-handed interface . He's trying to prove a point, of course...# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 19:01, May 4th
We don't normally highlight individual Support items, but this one's worth bookmarking. If, like Rafe and I, you've wondered how on earth to get album art on your N95's Music player without having to rework/alter every single file over on your desktop, this entry details the (fairly painless) steps needed .# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 10:10, May 4th
Rafe continues his comprehensive coverage of last week's S60 Summit, with a round up of the most interesting demos and concept applications . Look out for the S60 car parking sensor!# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 07:13, May 4th
Following Vodafone's lead, Orange has now brought in their own PAYG mobile data changes, with a range of daily and weekly options, e.g. a week's flat rate mobile data for £5. Pretty impressive, I think mobile data on high end phones and smartphones is going to take off in a big way in 2007.# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 15:06, May 3rd
Rafe reports further from last week's S60 Summit, with a look at all the hardware-related announcements and demonstrations . Be amazed at an S60 device that can boot up from cold in 5 seconds...!# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 06:49, May 3rd
Thanks to Tommi for pointing us to a new blog by a Nokia colleague of his on the specific (and much needed) topic of making Apple Macs and S60 smartphones work together in harmony. The author's name is Sami Lempinen and it's well worth bookmarking .# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 14:55, May 2nd
Rafe reports on the key messages coming from operators Telefonica and T-Mobile at the S60 Summit last week and considers the current position of S60 in the software platform race .# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 05:37, May 1st
The first major firmware update to the production N95 is now online via Nokia Software Updater. v11.0.026 is a 113MB(!) download. Once you've upgraded, please comment with observed fixes and changes.# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 12:03, Apr 30th
Rafe was at the S60 Summit last week, of course. Here, in the first part of our S60 Summit coverage, he presents a compehensive roundup of Samsung's plans for S60 smartphones, including a look at the new i400 , plus a general media gallery of photos and comments from the Summit .# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 11:21, Apr 30th
Thanks to Stefan for putting all the presentations from this week's S60 Summit online . As ever, simple slides can't convey everything that was presented, but they give a jolly good flavour. He's also now covered the main talks with thoughts, key points and photos . Good work!# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 05:57, Apr 30th
New AAS writer Luke Beaman has put together the definitive review of SmartMovie for S60, comparing its performance with that of Nokia's free Video Manager . He also looks at the interface and performance of the SmartMovie player and the built-in S60 RealPlayer, all tested on the Nokia N95 but all also applicable to other recent S60 devices, of course.# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 20:56, Apr 29th
Ewan's a regular traveller and he was sent a series of iAudioguides, MP3 and PDF companions to major cities. Here's his review .# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 11:32, Apr 28th