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Nokia E90 vs HTC Advantage - the video rematch!

Following on from my bullet point comparison of these two flagship devices earlier in the week, I've been filming a video/illustrated version. Smartphones Show 31 is the result, with screenshots, close-up photos and plenty of video. Anyone interested in the Nokia E90 should also note that AllAboutSymbian will be taking this to pieces over the next few weeks in the same way that we hammered the Nokia N95. Watch this space.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 13:26, Apr 27th

Keeping out unwanted calls

Guest writer Attila brings us a review of another 'handy' utility. This time, keeping out unwanted calls, it's Handy Blacklist. Summary: works as advertised but could do with even more flexibility.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 11:38, Apr 27th

Touchscreens? The debate continues...

Following on from my own video rant, Ewan weighs in with his own balanced opinion of touchscreens on smartphones, arguing that, despite their limitations, they enable greater functionality and complexity.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 06:36, Apr 26th

Free Wi-Fi away from home

With more and more smartphones now including Wi-Fi, initiatives such as FON are very welcome indeed. See the E-series blog for an intro to the subject of free Wi-Fi wherever you are in the world and on how to get started.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 08:30, Apr 25th

Battle of the titans: Nokia E90 vs HTC Advantage

Never mind the quality, feel the width.... With both Nokia E90 and HTC Advantage in for review, it was time to pitch them directly against each other. Which flagship pulls off the 'laptop replacement' claim best? Which one's most usable as a mobile office while on the road?

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 05:57, Apr 25th

Nokia 6290 - a cutting edge smartphone at half the price?

In a superbly long and detailed review, Krisse reports on a few weeks spent with the very latest Nokia S60 clamshell, the 6290. Marketed as a feature phone, the 6290 shares many of the specs of its Nseries cousins. Are there any gotchas? Krisse also reports on the integration with Nokia Video Manager and on the new features in S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 07:12, Apr 24th

Sony Ericsson P990 Reloaded

9 months in the making, the Sony Ericsson P990 has finally reached a stage where its firmware can start to be taken seriously. Or so Asri al-Baker writes in his illustrated report, looking below at firmware R5A17. Major improvements are in RAM handling and transitions that can be switched off, though low media volume seems to be something of a drawback. Read on...

# Posted by Asri in News || Comments 11:26, Apr 23rd

The Nokia N95 and smartphones for the mass market

Podcast 21 is now live, by the way, with the Q&A that followed David Wood's talk at the Future Technologies conference last week. The question about whether smartphones were for the mass market fascinated me though - read on for some relevant photos of the current Nokia N95 marketing in the High Street and some thoughts...

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 06:14, Apr 21st

Nokia N95 - The Verdict

Is the Nokia N95 the perfect ultra-converged device or is it a jack of all trades and master of none? As you'd expect the answer's somewhere in between. Read the concluding part of our review of the Nokia N95, a true 'breakthrough device'.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 08:40, Apr 19th

Orange and Vodafone remove N95 VOIP - Truphone to lodge official complaint with UK authorities

The Register reports that VOIP company Truphone is to lodge an official complaint with the UK telecoms regulator OFCOM against phone network operators Orange and Vodafone, over the networks' crippling of the Nokia N95 to remove VOIP functionality. Truphone has a video of the N95's crippling here.

# Posted by krisse in News || Comments 19:08, Apr 18th

Symbian's David Wood at Future Technologies Conference

In case you haven't subscribed to the RSS feed yet, make sure you don't miss this one. I was at Forum Oxford's Future Technologies conference last week, where David Wood from Symbian (architect of Psion's EPOC and much of Symbian OS) was speaking on 'Browsers and Beyond'. Here's his talk, in AAS audio podcast 20, even more appropiate in the light of S60's Widgets announcement, of course. See also Tomi's blog post here and Russell's here, for more description of what went on at the conference, and see Smartphones Show 30 (out later this week) for video interviews and footage from the event.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 00:02, Apr 18th

A new mobile browsing home page alternative?

Carlo at MobHappy details a new initiative, Mowser (Mobile browser), with built-in transcoding of web sites as well as a built-in mobile-friendly directory. Well worth a look.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 17:36, Apr 17th

Nokia 6120 Announced

Nokia 6120 Thumbnail Looking for all the world like a non-descript mid-range candybar, the S60 powered '6120 Classic' has been announced by Nokia. There's nothing stunning here for long term Symbian users (2 megapixel camera with digital zoom; QVGA screen; quad-band GSM, WCDMA, HSDPA; microSD) but that's not the point. This is yet another step from the high-spec digerati toys of the last few years and is getting S60 and Symbian OS into the hands of regular users. This helps drive the numbers up, creates a much wider user base and provides more licensing revenue to Symbian. 2007 is clearly going to be the tipping point year of mass market adoption. Expect the device before Q3 2007 for an impressively cheap 260 Euros unlocked.

# Posted by Ewan in News || Comments 11:43, Apr 17th

Can you add a Nokia N95 tip?

Over on 3-Lib, I've put up a first cut at a Tips page for new Nokia N95 owners. Comments welcome, maybe you can help me add to it?

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 11:09, Apr 17th

Unboxing the production Nokia 6290

6290 Krisse gets the hardware honours this time around, with an unboxing and first comments on the Nokia 6290, the brand new S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 clamshell. Full review to follow next week, of course. (Krisse adds: If you have any questions about the 6290, please post them in the comments and I'll try to answer them.)