There's another DVB-H mobile TV pilot scheme going at the moment, in the four biggest German cities (home of the World Cup, of course), using the Nokia N92, rather than the 7710, as previously in schemes across the world. Press release follows.
Steve's been exploring a way of saving up to half a megabyte of RAM and making yourself more productive at the same time, with a simple choice of S60 theme. As ever, comments welcome on the themes you find most helpful!
I must have fallen asleep in the S60 world somewhere around the introduction of the Nokia 6630, as it seems S60 2nd Edition FP2 onwards contains a nifty way of backing up all contacts to vCard format (and an extra to mass copy them from one device to another). Well, it was news to me! See S60Tips.com for the details. Nice one, Antony.
Despite our review from a couple of days ago, you don't need a separate application to keep track of World Cup events online - in this overview, Ewan describes the links to use to get the same information within your browser for an even lower cost in terms of GPRS data.
This week All About Symbian is proud to host the Carnival of the Mobilists. The Carnival gathers writing on mobile from around the web and is guaranteed to find you interesting opinions and new sites to add to your daily reading list.
Best Taskman from SmartphoneWare, a über-utility, is now available for S60 3rd Edition (and also available for S60 2nd Edition and UIQ). Features include the ability to view information about currently running applications and processes, view information about installed applications and manage memory.
Smartphones Show 11 is now available, with a 12 minute video review of the Nokia N71 clamshell smartphone, plus a round-up of mobile golf games. The Smartphones Show is a video podcast and playable on PC, Mac, S60v2 FP3-onwards smartphone, iPod or PSP.
ViewRanger, reviewed positively recently on AllAboutSymbian, has now been compiled for S60 3rd Edition, with full support for the higher resolution screens and different orientations. Press release follows.
Symbian luminary David Wood has published his latest official 'Insight' article, taking the theme of security. This one's a little technical but especially worth printing and/or bookmarking, as it strongly echoes what we've said all along about the innate security of Symbian OS. This Insight piece should reassure smartphone users everywhere and provide some concrete rebuttal material for virus-hype-addicted journalists.
Nokia has made all its current gen first-party N-Gage games available for purchase via a download service. The games are paid for on Nokia's Software Marketplace website, downloaded to the user's PC, then transferred by the user to a MMC memory card, after which they work exactly as if the games had been bought at retail. This is strictly for the currently available for the original N-Gage and the N-Gage QD. It's not related at all to the Next Gen gaming platform (or any NSeries devices) due to appear in the first half of 2007.
Not that this will come as much of a surprise to regular AAS readers, but Nokia has commissioned research into mobile phone use and found that almost half the respondents/interviewees already use their mobile as their main camera and over two thirds want their mobile to be their music player as well. Full press release below...
Yes, it's all kicking off (literally) in a couple of days time and now even complete smartphone newbies can take the World Cup with them. Ewan reviews Resco's World Cup Mobile for S60....
Steve reviews the N71, Nokia's S60 3rd Edition clamshell. He finds a device with some foibles, but a unique form factor. With the first S60 portrait QVGA screen, clean and stylish lines, good camera and both Snakes and Quickoffice viewers built into the ROM, Steve is impressed. It might not be the media darling of the Nseries, but it packs a powerful mobile punch.
