Smartphones Show 7 is out, this time featuring a review of the Nokia 3250 S60 v3 music phone and a head-to-head between the Nokia N70 and Orange SPV C600.
Rafe Blandford's been living with the Nokia N70 for over four months now. Here's his detailed (and illustrated) report, covering both the basic device and (in his case) its Orange network makeover.
New to S60 smartphones and confused by all the icons and the way nothing's to hand when you want it? Steve Litchfield has just the 'How to' for you. Do browse through the rest of AAS's 'How to' section when you get a chance, there's lots you may not have seen.
More bold talk from Nokia, now the world's biggest camera maker, with 100 million cameraphones sold in the last year alone, and with Konica and others withdrawing from the standalone market. Next in Nokia's sights, unsurprisingly, are music players and camcorders.
Nokia is talking to developers about its next generation of mobile gaming at GDC in San Diego. The new platform, evolving out of the N-Gage, will be based on S60 and we can expect to see the first devices supporting it in the first half of 2007. Nokia is also showcasing its SNAP Mobile solution which enables online and community-based Java gaming.
Nokia's Tommi, over on his S60.com blog, has penned a neat showcase for the steps Nokia have taken to help both new users and those upgrading from older devices.
The S60 blog team have put up a few morsels on this new non-Nokia S60 device. Interesting stuff, even though I still refuse to buy any device who's name I can't remember...
The first Symbian OS 9.1 and first S60 3rd Edition phone have started shipping in the form of the Nokia 3250. The 3250 is Nokia's mid-teir music smartphone and costs 350 Euros. The Nokia N91 will start shipping in Europe in the first week of April, and follow in the Middle East and Asia in the second week of April. Shipping dates for the US market are not yet available. The Nokia N91 is Nokia's high end music phone and will cost 700 Euros
Add the programmer of a new Rapid Application Development system to some sample content from myself, plus a free weekend and you get a full working S60 application. No, really. Guest writer Francesco Aliverti-Piuri takes up the story, as part of demoing how his SoProMach system works.
In an interesting (but niche) development, Nokia has licensed content from the Discovery Channel for demoing on its forthcoming N92 TV handset. Darla's got the details...
SmartMovie, always a competent (though quirky) video conversion system for Symbian-based devices, has recently embraced the terrific CoreMP4 codec and boasts much better performance. Steve Litchfield reviews the result, tested in this case on the Nokia 9500 and N70.
The official support pages for the Nokia 3250 are now availble on the Nokia.com site. Material available includes an interactive demo of the functions and features of the phone, the user manual and some additional software for the phone. Nokia support pages usuaully appear just before the phone in question is shipped.
Nokia seem to be adding regularly to their impressive Flash-based N series site. Added recently seem to be this spotlight on the upcoming N80 and a similar multimedia fest for the clamshell N71. Good stuff...