Proporta have announced the availability of their Bluetooth keyboard. Priced at £70 or €100 the keyboard includes drivers for both UIQ and Series 60. The keyboard is unusual in that it has a full row of number keys, making typing a little bit more like a full sized keyboard. Proporta also carry a number of cases for various Smartphones.
MGS Jewel Impulse 2 is the latest puzzle game powered by MGS and brought to you by MobileMe. Jewel Impulse 2 consists of three different games with 100 levels each. There's also multiplayer available via Bluetooth games.
Symbian Themes, one of our sister sites, has now been relaunched with a new look and more features than ever before. You can download themes for your Series 60 2.0+ device (6600, 7610, 6620, 6670, 6260, 6630), as well as wallpaper, operator logos and smart lanucher themes for all Series 60 devices. There's a dedicated form for discussion of phone customisation too. Congratulations to jw and the team!
F-Secure is reporting news about a new trojan that is affecting Series 60 devices. The trojan is being distributed as software titled Extended Theme Manager by Tee-222. Do not download or install this software. The program icons are replaced by skulls and the programs will not work. The phone may also fail to boot. More information from F-Secure.
mtvoid have announced an update of their ControlFreak program which allows you to control various aspects of your PC (via Bluetooth) from your phone. You can control your music player (WinAmp), the PC mouse and keyboard and view your computers screen on your phone.
Lonely Cat Games have updated their excellent Series 60 e-mail client - Profimail - to version 1.10. The program now supports entry of text by T9 and interfaces with the phones address book which mean the two negative omissions from the first release are fixed.
New to the All About Symbian writing team, David Keppler has reviewed the Nokia 6260 Flip Phone. If you don't want to read it, David thinks it's the best Series 60 phone out there. Why? Well for that you'll have to read it!
Orange have confirmed the Nokia 6630 as one of their Signature phones for their 3G services launching in the UK and France before the end of 2004. See Ewan's preview of the 6630 for more details about the phone. Orange have also selected Motorola as a WCDMA phone supplier, but neglect to mention the phone model(s), we can but hope they've chosen the A1000.
For me one of the nicer items of news from the Symbian Expo was the announcement that Vodafone would sell the Sendo X in the UK. Priced from £70 on low cost tariffs, £30 (Anytime 200) and free on higher tariffs. The dummy phones I've seen in the shops look nastier than the real thing, so get a hands-on demo if you can.
More news from the NMC, as Nokia announce an update to Lifeblog, taking it to v1.5 (reports Christian Lindholm, of the Lifeblog team). Most of the features requested by users of the beta 1.0 versions are now included: easy back-up, batch editing and the ability to right click entries. Finally, it now supports ATOM and Typepad.
Nokia announced that the 6630 officially started shipping today, so it should hit the stores very soon. You can read the All About Symbian preview of the Nokia 6630 here.
Nokia have announced a new series 60 smartphone the 3230. Notable features are a 1.3 megapixel camera and stereo radio and MP3. Full technical details are available on the Nokia 3230 page in our Devices section. Full press release is in the comments.
