... are just two of the short articles posted by AAS-friend Asri Al-Baker over on i-Symbian in the last day or so. Plenty to read and thanks to Al for giving us a heads up.
Ewan's had a Nokia N90 for a month or so and proudly presents his long term review of this camera-centric Symbian OS smartphone. Does it live up to the hype? On the whole, a big fat Yes.
Rafe Blandford sees the upcoming Nokia N80 'slider' as a solid echo of the original 7650. Lots of interesting technology insights in his detailed N80 hands-on preview.
Panasonic looks set to focus its effort around the Linux operating system rather than the Symbian OS. In a recent press release Matsushita announced they would be reorganising global R&D. It is accelerating development of the Linux OS, and closing the US R&D office where Panasonic's Symbian development took place. Read on for more and a status check on Symbian and S60.
The Register reports on a Microsoft and Palm rethink about how they get their operating systems, currently running at a far lower market share than Symbian OS, out to a wider market.
Steve Litchfield ponders the significance of reset holes and their absence from Symbian OS-powered devices. How much confidence do you have in your smartphone?
There's a new release of Nokia's all-singing, all-dancing PC Suite on the loose, v6.7, here's the download page. Version 6.7 adds the ability to manage your text messages and phonebook easily with File Manager, automatic notifications when a new version of PC Suite is available and improves the back-up and Image Store features. Support for the new Eseries and Nseries phones is also added. Read on for more information.
Now this could get interesting. These guys are working on S60 games in which the camera is used to track physical gestures made with the handset. Fight sequences in RPGs could take on a whole new meaning!
Thomas Boys investigates controlling his desktop with his Symbian smartphone and finds Salling Clicker just the job. Great for parties and presentations! Read his glowing review here.
Forum Nokia have just had their annual PRO awards, with Quickoffice winning overall. Here's the full press release. Other winners included Always-On Mail and 3G Fairy Quest.
Nokia's E61 had the Finns in a tizz, what with Symbian OS 9.1 and a brand new (for them) form factor. It's clearly aimed at the competition, so how does it look at this stage of its development? Ewan finds out.
The Nokia N90 has been receiving a lot of attention in the world of blogs recently partly thanks to the N90 Blogger Program we mentioned last week. There has been a whole range of opinion and some interesting discussion of the ideas behind the program itself which are well worth reading. Read on for a selection of the post from the Blogosphere on the N90 and some comment on the program itself.
Monday night's Gadget Show on Channel 5 in the UK (5 Dec 2005) hit viewers with a barrage of Symbian-powered smartphones. Topics covered by the show included getting online using GPRS/3G and TV on your mobile. The Nokia 7710 mediaphone, in particular was given a lot of close-up coverage, playing back video segments and shown streaming live TV. Also spotted were the Nokia 6680, 6630 and even the Series 80-powered Nokia 9300. Plus there was quite a bit of footage of Symbian's 'Smartphone Show'. What else did you spot? Comments?
Steve Litchfeld's been doing some direct comparisons of multimedia performance on cutting edge smartphone hardware from both Nokia and Orange/T-Mobile and is taken aback by how far behind Microsoft and their partners are in this area.
