To celebrate the Christmas holiday period, Symbian Themes has removed their 20 file per day limit, giving unlimited downloads of all their content for the 25th and 26th December. Happy holidays from the Symbian Themes team!
Rafe, Ewan and Steve each pick out their top 5 Series 60 games in this special Christmas selection. Whether you agree or not with their favourites, we're sure you'll pick up an idea or two to keep you entertained over the Holidays.
Ewan Spence is seriously impressed by his prototype of the upcoming Nokia E70 'gull winged' business smartphone. A full fold-over keyboard, high-res screen and Wi-Fi are going to make the E70 much anticipated.
An official S60 blog has revealed that S60 version 3 devices will be totally plug and play, in terms of connection through USB. No special drivers needed, meaning that you can connect up to any PC anywhere in the world without having to worry about PC Suite. About time!
Who remembers Nebulus, a game rightly hailed as brilliant when first released in 1987? Well it's back, thanks to Telcogames. Coded in C++ for S60 and Symbian OS, the original gameplay, animation and bonuses are all present. And congrats also to Telcogmaes for releasing this into the retail channel as well as to the networks. We don't all want to wait for our portal to decide if Nebulus is for us. Hardcore Gamers already know...
It appears it's McAfee's turn to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in the Symbian world. I quote from their press release: "By comparison, a mobile threat... could infect up to 200 million connected smartphones simultaneously because the majority of these devices do not currently have mobile security protection installed". What rubbish. Read on...
Thanks to Darla for spotting that Nokia has put up a Christmas gift for 6680 owners. Specifically, free downloads of either Sensor, Beach Race, Tunes Studio or Cirqx (qix). All they want in return is your phone number and email address, which seems fair enough.
Interesting reading over at OSNews.com, where they've interviewed marketing and programming people from Nokia about the creation of the next generation S60 web browser. Watch this space in the New Year for Ewan's AAS preview.
Steve Litchfield's discovered that Opera Mini's now alive and working and has been playing with it for a couple of days. Here's his review. Summary: it may change the way you browse on your smartphone - it will certainly chop your GPRS bill down to size...
Anyone caught out by bugs in PC Suite 6.7 might like to note that there's now a bug-fix available, see here, apparently fixing a clash between Windows XP SP1 and File manager. Anyone fancy being the guinea pig for this one?
Courtesy of Forum Nokia comes this little PDF How-to on making your video masterpieces available on the Web. The N70 and N90 produce VHS-quality footage, so why not share your clips?
Ewan goes in search of an Internet Relay Chat client that will work on all his Symbian smartphones and finds it in the free JmIRC. Here's the full review.
Thunderhawk, a web browser previously available on the Windows Mobile platform is now available for S60. Features include a unique split screen mode which divides the screen in two and allows for easier reading and page navigation and wider standard support. Thunderhawk enters an already competitive marketplace with both Opera and Netfront as contenders to replace your built in browser.
Steve Litchfield puts WMAPlus! through its paces and concludes that it's a welcome step towards Media Player compatibility, but that it needs serious work on its stability.
3-Lib's grid of mobile/smartphone solutions is now fully interactive! You can apply your own weightings for any smartphone functions and the grid will recalculate scores as needed.
