Google Reader is a blogger's best friend. For Symbian, the most accessible methods of access have been the various modes of its mobile website. However, noted Qt developer Tommi Laukkanen has been working on a Google Reader application called NewsFlow, which he has written in QML and Javascript. Read on to find out how well it can feed your news needs.
One of the signs of the coming together of a mature software platform and a powerful hardware platform has always been that a decent guitar tuner will turn up, adding another practical convergence feature to the ubiquitous smartphone. Enter Tunerific 2.0 for Symbian, which has replaced my standalone guitar tuner and chord book in one fell swoop. With bells on.
Cloud storage (web based file hosting) has become an increasingly popular way to backup and share documents, images and other files. Accessing such services from your smartphone clearly makes a lot of sense: either for mobile access to essential documents or for easy file backup and retrieval. One of the best known of these cloud storage services is Dropbox, but unfortunately there's no official Symbian client version. However, help is at hand in the form of cuteBox - a slickly implemented third party Symbian^3 client for the Dropbox service.
You might think that The Impossible Game is yet another running and jumping game, where you have one control (in this case tapping on the screen) to make your character avoid the obstacles. On a superficial level you'd be right, but as the game speed increases there's simply not enough time for "an older reviewer" like me to react to the terrain and decide the correct course of action. But there's more to it than reaction time.
At the end of last year David reviewed Coming Next, an application which provides an agenda like view for calendar entries and an improved Calendar widget for the homescreen. In this follow up mini-review we're going to take another look at the application, highlighting an extra set of functionality, which is available if you download the application from its own website, rather than the Ovi Store. Additionally, this also gives an opportunity to provide a quick look video review of the application.
One of the most popular widgets for the homescreens of Nokia's Symbian phones is the shortcut widget. It provides quick access to up to four applications, games or web bookmarks. However, using multiple instances of this widget can fill up valuable widget slots. This is where the Favourite Apps widget comes in. Taking up just one widget slot, it provides quick access to fifteen shortcuts.
Are you feeling protective, but that you need some space in your life? Then you might be the ideal candidate play Alpha Wave, and protect our moon base from that impending meteor shower. Yes, that meteor shower, up there! We love classic game genres and Alpha Wave seems to be taking on two at once, by combining Space Invaders with Asteroids. Read on to find out how well the combination works.
Following my review of the comprehensive (but very expensive) OtterBox Commuter case, I thought it only fair to round off 'accessory week' with a look at its vastly cheaper sister case, the Impact. Living up to its name, it provides significant drop protection and is superbly constructed - I think we may have a winner, especially in the value for money stakes.
Eurovision is nearly here, and everyone is asking who is going to win (my money, literally, is on Iceland by the way). Marvellous have a polling application, The People's Panel, which is going to try and answer that. Unfortunately, the public are just as fickle on their smartphone as they are on voting in the Song Contest itself.
Accessory week here on AAS rolls on.... (at least for me!), with the Trexta-made and Nokia branded CC-3002 'Hard cover', available in grey, red or blue. Could this be the perfect low profile N8 in-situ case or will this too fall at the last hurdle?
