There's a fascinating half hour podcast from the Voice of S60, with an interview with Charlie Schick, who helped create and shape Series 60 from the days of the 7650 until recently. Lots of insights and anecdotes and a must-listen.
Having seen Nokia's Series 90 interface get subsumed into S60, and with Series 80 seemingly well on the way, I've been busy over at 3-Lib and present my thoughts on what the Nokia Communicator of 2007 will look like. Comments welcome on whether I'm on the ball or way off the mark!
The next generation of the secure database 'Handy Safe for S60' is now available, and it's significant because version 5 is now fully syncable with the Handy Safe Desktop and Note fields are finally supported. Thanks, EpocWare, you've just made me a happy man! The new version also adds 3rd Edition compatibility.
The recently announced Nokia N72 started shipping today. The Nokia N72 is a variant on the N70 and is intended as a fashion focused smartphone for emerging markets. It is a tri-band GSM (with EDGE) phone with a 2.0 Megapixels camera, FM Radio, Music Player, and 20MB of on board memory (expandable via a RS-MMC slot).
Nokia have announced an update to their excellent Mobile Search application. Local search support has been added for Denmark, France, Italy, Norway and Spain (in addition to the UK, Finland and Sweden). Nokia Mobile Search is available as a free download for both 2nd and 3rd Edition phones.
The clever folks at the Internet Radio for S60 project have now finished a version for all S60 2nd Edition smartphones. Details and links courtesy of the S60 Multimedia blog. The usual disclaimers over GPRS bandwidth apply, of course!
The well known 24/7 sites, which focus on Windows Mobile and Palm PDA/smartphones recently published an initial look at the Nokia E61 inthreeparts. Shaun found himself pleasantly suprised by the E61 and declares that the E61 is the 'best Smart Phone I have ever used. From its build quaility, through to the operating system and finally its flexibility it stands head and shoulders above the rest'.
The Blackberry Connect software for the Nokia E61 is now available via the Nokia Business site. This means the E61 can now replace any Blackberry device while retaining the Blackberry email and calendar experience. The software adds a Blackberry Mail account to the Messaging application and allows you to receieve push email from your Blackberry server.
At the S60 Summit last week, Rafe got some serious hands-on time with the Nokia E50, the very latest (and diminutive) S60 3rd Edition smartphone. What can it do and who's it aimed at?
The good news. As previously news posted, Nokia has licensed Golf Pro 2, Synergenix's next-generation golf game, for some of their 3rd Edition smartphones. The bad news. It's horribly flawed in its current incarnation. Read on to find out why.
There's a new S60.com blog on the scene, only this time it's a podcast as well. AAS's Rafe Blandford is the main subject of the second show, available now. Listen especially to the middle section of his interview, as it sets out exactly where S60 needs to go. Very, very interesting. Show 1 features Darla Mack and is also worth a listen (persevere past the 'diva/pink' intro section and through the awkward transatlantic phone pauses).
OK, so we missed the original announcement of Theme Studio 3.0 a few weeks ago, but not to worry because it's been tweaked again (though still calling itself '3.0'). The new release of Theme Studio has bug fixes for installing to 3rd Edition smartphones, plus support for morphing themes and animated highlights. Here's the download page.
More from those Mobile Review Russians, seemingly on business in Paris, in this latest exciting installment of their Nokia N93 review. This one includes plenty of sample photos and video from the N93's absolutely cutting edge optics. Interesting difference in quality over the N80, too.
PC Suite has been tweaked again, for all Nokia smartphones. It's now at 6.8.22 and the changes include security and installation fixes. Bullet point changes below the break... There's also a cool and user-friendly set of Flash animations, most of which are here, to get across its purpose.
At the S60 Summit last week, Rafe got some serious hands-on time with the Nokia E50, the very latest (and diminutive) S60 3rd Edition smartphone. What can it do and who's it aimed at?