Nokia has licensed Synergenix's reworked Golf Pro Contest (you may remember that their S60 2nd Edition version was a favourite of Rafe and myself) game for their Eseries smartphones. Here, for example, is the E61 download page. Screenshots below the break (no pun intended!)
..."Stop this, it's getting silly!" The normally reliable Darla reports that there's a 'new Symbian virus on the loose', quoting that 'Symantec announced today the presence of a new trojan attacking Symbian devices'. This is self-serving FUD gone mad. Read on...
According to Nokia's E50 webcast yesterday, the E70 is now shipping and its support pages are up. Thought you'd like to know that. Anyone seen one in the wild yet?
Nokia today announced a new S60 3rd Edition Eseries smartphone - the E50, a small (70cc) quad-band phone with (optionally) a 1.3 megapixel camera, a music player, up to 6 hours of talk time, business applications, support for remote device management and integration into existing enterprise PBXs and all major push email solutions.
You've got to admire these Russians, even if this 'review' of the Nokia N93 (which doesn't even get released for another three or four months) does give away some of their secrets, showing them hands-on at a press event. Still, they weave brief hands-on experience together with hard facts and opinions pretty well, albeit in the usual slightly broken English.
Researching the DVB-H pilots, I spotted that there's now a flash video of the upcoming N92 in action on Nokia's main Mobile TV web site. Lots of other interesting articles to peruse too, if you're interested in how all this is actually going to work.
The software to enable Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync on Eseries devices (E60, E61 and E70) is now available via Nokia's Business site. The software is available as a free download and adds the ability to connect to a Microsoft Exchange server and sync contacts, calendar entries, and mail.
Suddenly a lot of things that we've been watching over the last year or two have fallen into place in regards to Nokia's mobile gaming strategy. Why did Nokia persist with N-Gage for so long? Why did they spend so much money on their E3 stand? Ewan analyses their strategy and comes up with a compelling argument for N-Gage-compatible smartphones outselling PSPs and the like in the next 12 months.
Darla's got the scoop on the relaunch of S60.com, the main Series 60/S60 platform site. Actual content in most of the two new prime areas, 'In your life' and 'Doing business' seems very light at the moment, it's very much aimed at S60 beginners, although there's a big push towards selling third party applications from the NSM. What do you think of the new site?
If you're into gory pictures of the insides of smartphones, there are loads here of the newly FCC-approved Nokia N93 (the one with 'DVD-quality' video recording). There's also the obligatory (and more useful) user manual. Thanks to My-Symbian for the heads-up.
Rafe's had his hands on the Nokia 5500, the latest S60 phone from Finland. Targetted as a feature phone (as opposed to a smartphone), the 5500 has the angle of being a great sports companion phone, with lap times, clocks, pedometers and a robust construction. Read on for a phone that will take S60 into a whole new market.
Power users of S60 smartphones look away now. The rest of you, here's my tutorial on getting started and productive with Nokia's S60 predictive text system. If you're already a T9 wiz then why not print it out for your partner, colleague or mum, or anyone else still clutching on to multi-tap input and afraid to take the leap?
Just in case you miss these, there are some great promo and blog videos here (make sure you're on broadband, obviously). Plenty of 3rd edition device clues, with seemingly the whole of the N-Gage game back catalogue about to be available on all 3rd edition smartphones. Plenty of sequences involving over-the-air trials and purchase, multi-player gaming, and so on. Set aside an hour and have fun watching.
I just stumbled across the Nokia NseriesCast, apparently a video podcast shot entirely on a Nokia Nseries smartphone. Only thing is, the web page is all in German and the dialogue might even be in Finnish. Can you help shed light on this? Please comment!
