Earning a well deserved AAS MegaApp award is Nokia's free Lifeblog, re-reviewed in 2007 in the light of the price point(!), potential integration with the likes of Vox and Flickr, and compatibility with powerful devices like the N95. Here's Ewan's review of LifeBlog 2.5.
The number of applications appearing for free from obscure Nokia outlets, ostensibly for a select range of S60 devices but working fine on many others, seems to be accelerating. Today's scoop belongs to the N95 Blog, which has found a great and configurable answer phone utility, MobiGenie, on Nokia's UAE site.
I'd been hearing some very good things about the new beta client for Jaiku for S60, but the beta was closed and I seemed to have missed the boat. Well, it seems to be fully public and open again. Sign up and grab the free S60 beta of Jaiku here.
A new firmware, 7.24.0.3, is now available via the Nokia Software Updater for the Nokia E90. Details of some of the updates are in the comment thread, please add your own. In other E90 news Nokia has also recently added support for the Nokia E90 to its iSync page (also available for most other S60 phones).
Keeping a close eye on the goings on at Smart2Go (now Nokia Maps, to all intents and purposes), it seems that MapLoader 1.1 is now online and is allegedly ten times faster than the old version. But the Maps software itself is still showing only a tiny compatibility list. If you do chance a version on an 'unsupported' handset, do please report back, etc.
Kudos to Nokia's S60.com lifestyle site for constantly coming up with interesting freebies. 'SMS Export' for S60 3rd Edition is this month's limited edition download, plus there are new themes to grab and more. Note that you do need to register on the site, but it's free.
It's probably worth pointing out that the VoIP and Multi Platform IM application Fring is now available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 (The Register). Given Windows Mobile already has a Skype client expect a lot more focus on the VoIP angle in the coming months, which of course will have a nice knock-on effect with the Symbian version!
The beta of Opera Mini 4 is now available from the Opera website. The new version renders a full page overview from which you can then zoom in to read the page (very reminiscent of S60's browser overview / minimap mode). Other new features include the introduction of a mouse and power scrolling making it easier to move around pages and a quick access context menu. Read on for more and screenshots.
Projekt, the only genuine 'outliner' for Symbian OS, recently hit S60 3rd Edition. Now that it's available for both current Symbian-based platforms, Asri al-Baker reviews the UIQ 3 version of Projekt and shows how it can be used for everything from project management to shopping lists... And in the second part of a UIQ 3 double bill, Asri explains his top 10 wishlist for UIQ 3 - any developers fancy a challenge?
[Updated] Smart2Go, in beta for months, is 'final', or as final as a first version can be. Although we were told that it's not available yet, the Smart2Go web site seems to show it. See the comments below, for example. Listed in the full story are most of the improvements, applicable to both the generic version and the 'Nokia Maps' brand within the N95 and E90. Lots that's new - I've made a few screenshots below...
Just a little Friday taster... You'll remember the popular freeware Y-Browser for S60 3rd Edition? There's going to be a companion utility, YTasks, for those interested in the tech details behind how S60 and Symbian OS are working. A download page for it hasn't been created yet and YTasks is still in beta, but some Nokia E90 screenshots are shown below, to whet your appetite.
UIQ Technology announced the addition of Esmertec, Penrillian and Scalado to its UIQ Alliance program. The UIQ Alliance program provides pre-approved and pre-integrated services and programs to potential UIQ licensees enabling UIQ Technology to offer a more complete platform offering.
Krisse provides a super, in depth assessment (as usual), this time rating the new Nokia 6110 Navigator, which comes with a new version of Route 66 in its firmware. The review's especially interesting since this was Krisse's first experience of in-phone GPS and as a result presents a good viewpoint for other new users.
