Opera has announced Opera Mobile 8.60, their native browser for S60 smartphones, which is now compatible with S60 3rd Edition devices such as the Nokia 3250, N91, etc. Highlights of 8.60 include auto-completion for URL entry, password manager for easy logins, improved smooth scrolling, a new skin and the ability to read and bookmark newsfeeds. Full press release after the break...
There's a new release of Opera Mini now available. Version 2 of the most popular mobile browser in the world adds favourite-speed-dial, better navigation and extra search engine selection. The full press release follows.
Proving both that OPL development and the software scene for the Nokia Communicator aren't dead yet, AAS's own Arjen has come up with a spiffing version of the popular game Battleships, for the 9210, 9300 and 9500.
Symbian Themes has announced it has now converted all of its existing themes to be compatiable with S60 3rd Edition. That means there are now more than 5000 themes available for the Nokia 3250 and other 3rd Edition phones (one for every day of the next 13 years). Symbian Themes has almost 10,000 customisation elements for your S60 phone ranging from themes, to wallpapers, operator logo and fonts.
Hey, listen up! There's a whole new release (1.69) of OggPlay on the loose for all S60, Series 80 and Series 90 users. So that's basically the whole Symbian world apart from UIQ users (who are still on 1.1). S60 3rd Edition users read on...
Over on the MRKTNGman S60 blog Jouni gives some details of a forthcoming Nokia Podcasting Appliction for S60 3rd Edition. The program allows you to update podcasts on a manual, automatic or scheduled basis over a WLAN or 3G connection. The application will available in July and will be S60 3rd Edition only.
Calcazoo is a new application/service for S60 owners, with an application customised to your monthly network tariffs, keeping track of exactly how many charged minutes you've used and of your overall bill. The developers are looking for beta testers at the moment and it's currently free to download.
Darla reports that there's a new version (1.7) of the popular ShoZu S60 photoblogging client. The main improvement is that "there's a cost-saving option to upload 'blog quality' photos, if desired, rather than full resolution images." Something we really, really missed from previous versions.
SEPT Solutions has announced a new version of Mobile Search that will work on S60 3rd Edition devices. We still think this function should be part of the OS, but until that day, this is a good stop-gap.
The new Nseries devices (N93, N73 and N72) will all have built-in support for Yahoo's! Flickr service. No details as yet on the exact nature, but given other S60-based Flickr apps, and the press release comments of having the facility in the Gallery application, I'm expecting an extra 'Send to Flickr' on the menu options. Following up the recent S60 YahooToGo! application, this is a great bundling service for Flickr.
Just to prove that there's plenty of life left in your old UIQ 2.x smartphone, Steve's been reviewing Flip Extender, a terrific way of accessing full UIQ functionality with your P900/P910 flip closed, while Ewan reviews Clarissa, a reminder utility that pops up notes when making or receiving calls.
Blockeroo is an excellent freeware puzzle game. It is a multiplayer game played over Bluetooth. It does have a single player practise mode, but even better it also has an AI mode, which means you can play against your phone in multiplayer mode.
Ooh, ooh, there's a whole new PC Suite release on the loose, v6.8, with an upgraded Nokia Music Manager, various multimedia related improvements and a simplified interface. Thanks to the S60 Multimedia blog for the heads-up.
SEPT-Solution has released new versions (2.6) of its Mobile Search utility for Series 80 v2 devices and for all Series 60 devices. Improvements are faster Calendar search, searching of Calendar entry notes and locations, plus searching in iDesk notes on the 9300/9500.
Just spotted this entry on Antony Pranata's blog, announcing the availability of a Series 60 3rd edition screenshot utility. It's a port of his existing app and it's still freeware. Kudos to him for getting it out so quickly and AAS will find this very useful in making our upcoming reviews even prettier.
