There's no doubting that Harald Meyer is the king of aftermarket Symbian hardware utilities. His CameraPro is what creates all the close-up videos in my Phones Show, while his PhoneTorch has been used by thousands here to provide LED illumination on the way home from the pub! And now we have his latest creation, CameraFX 2.0, offering real time image mangling of a pretty high order. Is it useful in any way? Not at all. Is it fun, cool and geeky? You bet!
There's some wonderful photography on the Internet, uploaded from anyone with a camera and an Internet connection. Flickr and Picasa are two of the biggest players in this area, and searching their content for keywords can bring up a treasure trove of images. Accessing them on your phone via a browser can sometimes be a clunky experience. This is where Pocket View steps in, allowing you to discover photos with a slick Qt user interface. But does it have everything? Read on to find out.
Here's something unusual - an application from Offscreen Technologies which, depending on the version you grab, isn't necessarily free! Video Poker Touch is one of their titles which is sold as a commercial app - which makes a review even more appropriate, as you need to know whether it's worth buying. In summary - possibly! - it depends on how hooked you are on the concept of video poker and how concerned you are about the relative 'flatness' of the game. As hinted at above, there is a free version, but only for Qt-compatible handsets and with in-game ads.
Just like the proverbial bus service, yet another unofficial Dropbox application has appeared in the Ovi Store. Last week, Rafe reviewed Cutebox, now we have DropML, another Qt-based application for accessing your files in the cloud. With a different feature set and user interface, how well does DropML measure up? Read on to find out.
If you've ever fantasised about blasting off into space and saving the the world, then Celestial Navigator might be the game for you. Be warned though, there's a rather twisted plot quirk. You play the game as a number of pilots from a world of Teddy Bears! Even more twisted is that you have to embark on a series of ill-fated missions where each Teddy inevitably dies. If you have the right stuff to avoid astronomical obstacles, and the grit see countless Teddies perish, then you might be who we're looking for...
Getting old is something that (hopefully) happens to all of us. Before that happens though, there's a fair chance that at some point in your life you'll have to look after an elderly relative. Can mobile technology help make the task any easier? That's what the makers of Elderly Care have tried to do with their application. If you're looking after an elderly relative, read on to see if this might help you.
It's rare that you trace the rise of a new genre of game to a single title, but that's what Firemint's "Flight Control" managed when it was released on the iPhone. It stayed in the iOS family for a long time, but it's now working through the conversions and onto other platforms, including Symbian. I was hoping for the Concorde of line-drawing games, but instead I feel like I'm the last person to board a Ryanair flight to London Prestwick.
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.
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.
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