Mobile Email and how to recieve it is an area which a lot of companies are working on, with mobile data and email being seen as the best area for growth in 2006. Visto are now asserting that "Microsoft has infringed upon multiple patents Visto holds regarding proprietary technology that provides enterprises and consumers with mobile access to their email and other data," and have started legal proceedings against the Redmond based Microsoft, who see email as a central plank to their mobile platform. Three patents are specifically mentioned in the full press release which follows.The issue of mobile email is a very important issue, as can be seen by Visto's other announcement of a licencing deal with NTP.
Porting arcade games is tricky, but SkyForce has been a big hit on both Series 60 and UIQ, which arguably have the form factor for an up-the-screen shooter. So a conversion to Series 80 was always going to be tricky. Steve reviews the Communicator version of Sky Force and finds a twist makes this a classic.
Taking pictures when on the go and then posting to the web is something most people are going to look at. Splashblog is a popular solution as it provides the whole service, from the uploading software, to hosting and web site space for your pictures. They've just released the public beta of the service for UIQ users.
Ewan gets back to his arcade gaming roots in his review of Atari Legends Volume 1, for the Nokia N-Gage platform. Great conversions, but it's not quite the same as standing in front of a large-screened coin-op, is it?
Thomas Boys investigates controlling his desktop with his Symbian smartphone and finds Salling Clicker just the job. Great for parties and presentations! Read his glowing review here.
DataViz are offering a limited time discount on Documents to Go for Series 80. You can read our recent review of Documents to Go here and download a trial of the program here. Use the code 4526B4F8 in the basket or this link to add to the discount directly to your basket. This offer expires at the end of December.
Steve Litchfield reviews DVDPlayer as part of his quest to find a really decent video player for the wide-screened Series 80. With an OpenSource PC-hosted front end, DVDPlayer comes closer than any other solution yet to a video picture that fills the screen.
You have to admire the feature list from what looks to be a traditional 2d shooter that has "3 difficult mode from normal to hell" and an "extremely high quality graphic." I'm talking about Miss Siam from Chiang Mai Digital Works. It's available in the All About Symbian store, as are all the new releases!
Zi Corporation's Zi Predictive Text Suite for Series 60 is available at no cost for a limited time. The suite contains both eZiText (for predictive text entry) and eZiTap (multitap entry) and both products are aimed at speeding up data entry. You can use the code AAE45F3 in our Handango store which will give a full discount off the $19.95 price. The code will work for the main program (English), and the Swedish, Spannish, French and German dictionaries. The code will expire in 2 weeks.
Rifts: The Promise of Power is huge. It's a long sought title for RPG fans, and its debut on silicon is on the N-Gage. Is it everything we expected? Yes. And then some. Ewan's review of Rifts goes into the world of Rifts to find out what all the fuss is about.
In addition to the already established freeware SkinInstall, for automating skin switching on the Communicator, there's now Skin Wizard S80, also freeware, for creating your own skins in the first place. The Nokia 9300 and 9500 will never have looked so good!
