Ewan's been living and breathing chess for the last week, pitting 'Chess' and 'Chess Genius' against each other. It turns out that it's not actually that fair a fight, for various reasons, although both games heavily impressed Ewan. Read on in his head-to-head...
Our resident game emulator expert krisse reviews MasterGear, bringing the old SEGA Master System and Game Gear and their titles to S60 3rd Edition. Summary: it works well and will bring the memories flooding back. Also, don't forget to check out our updated guide to S60 3rd Edition game emulators.
In his video guide to the Symbian Smartphone Show 2006 Steve offers a few video highlights, recorded using his Nokia N93, including a quick look at the new S60 phones, the LG JoY and Samsung i520, and video interviews with CoPilot, F-Secure, Sling Media, among others.
An apparently genuine Nokia document contains some interesting details about their Next Gen gaming platform, which is due to launch across a range of Nokia smartphones in the first half of 2007. In the document is a list of publishers which it claims are working on content for the platform, and which surprisingly includes Sony. The document also gives some details about the distribution channels and development kits. (To find out more, click here...)
Office suites were heavily represented at the Show, with Quickoffice previewing their all-new version 4 and Mobile Systems talking about a big Office Suite update in a few week's time. We're putting them head-to-head when the updates are available, but if you can't wait then check out Richard Hodge's comparison of the existing versions, together with the E61 built-in suite.
The ability to stream your own personal media content from a base station to a remote device is now coming to Symbian OS through the SlingMedia Player. Allowing you access to your set top TV cable box no matter where you are in the world, it will do wonders for the mobile executive looking for the latest episode of Battlestart Galactica, although the technology is clearly leapfrogging the legal issues in a number of territories.
Today at the Symbian Smartphone Show Nokia officially announed the availability of its new theme creation tool Carbide.ui. The tool allows for the easy creation of themes and other customisation elements for Nokia smartphones. The tool can be downloaded from the Forum Nokia website.
DataViz have announced the availability of the first beta of version 3 of RoadSync for S60 3rd Edition devices which includes support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. Based on the Exchange Server ActiveSync® protocol licensed directly from Microsoft, RoadSync provides secure, wireless and direct push synchronization of corporate e-mail, attachments, calendar and contacts.
Nokia today announced the winner of its S60 3rd Edition Challenge competition. The grand prize winners were QuickOffice, Foeca, InfoTalk and Augmentra. The global developer compeition was designed to encourage innovative development on the S60 platform.
Nokia and Orb Networks announced on Tuesday that the Orb MyCasting service would be integrated in the Nokia N80 Internet Edition out of the box (starting in the US market). Orb allows you to view images and other multimedia stored on your home computer from your mobile anywhere in the world.
As with many Symbian OS 9 devices, the Sony Ericsson P990i suffers from a chronic lack of RAM, but Swiss Manager Pro claims to be able to help by providing manual and automatic RAM management tools. Steve Litchfield puts it to the test.
Podcasting impresario Ewan Spence leads us all gently through our first steps in setting up a Wi-Fi-enabled S60 smartphone to gather podcasts - and where better to start than TPN Rock?
