Smartphones have replaced many of our everyday items, the wristwatch, the calculator, and even the Dictaphone. If the latter applies to you, then you’ll be interested in this review; especially if you think the Symbian (Sound) Recorder isn’t good enough for your needs. Recordoid Lite is a high quality sound recording application, but does it have what it takes to survive in the social media generation? Read on to find out.
WeatherBug is a big name in weather - just look at their apps for every other platform and browser known to man. And now it's on Symbian too, courtesy of the ease of app development that is Qt. For all Symbian^3 phones (and a few S60 5th Edition ones which you've been brave enough to install Qt onto), WeatherBug is a fairly comprehensive solution, whatever your forecasting and meteorological needs - and it's totally free, which always helps!
Remember the old kids game of patting your head and rubbing your tummy at the same time? And how frustrated you were that you couldn’t do it while your best friend could? I think that’s how Steve felt when he passed me Moto X Mayhem to review and I promptly labelled it as a fun, challenging but fundamentally a great game. “Too hard for me” said Steve, and he went back to taking pin-sharp pictures of shiny hardware while I started reviewing this great game title.
And now for something completely different. From the All About Symbian Friday Review Cupboard comes this, the Jelly Lens "Close up", claimed to help fixed focus-lensed camera phones shoot macro photos. It's ultra cheap and ultra low tech, but is it any good and will it help budding nature and still life photographers who own the EDoF-lensed Nokia C6-01, C7 and E7? I take one for the team and settle down to look at the infamous 'Jelly Lens'.
Nokia's C6-01 never seemed to catch the popular mood in the same way the E7 or the N8 has, but it has its dedicated fans. I'm one of them, and it's time to look back on the rise (and fall) of the C6 in my pocket, How did it get there, why did it stay there so long, and ultimately what pushed it out and into the “spare” pocket of my rucksack?
How to create the illusion of 3D without 3D (red/green or polarised) glasses? The Nintendo 3DS tries by using a 'lenticular' screen. Photo 3D on Symbian applies optical tricks, with a lot of help from you, to intelligently slice up your photos such that turning your display gives a slight '3D' effect. It does actually work, but the list of caveats and limitations is, it has to be said, pretty long.
Different Tack is a Twitter client with a twist, literally. If you’re longing for something more than linear menus, sick of scrolling, wishing things were more rotary? If so, you just might like this one. Different Tack is a new Qt app which has the most creative user interface I’ve seen. That’s all well and good, but how well does it work in practice? Read on to find out.
Need more Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and FourSquare from your phone? Nokia's Social Networking application not doing enough for you? Then have a look at Socially, a social network application that covers the main networks in a consistent interface on your Symbian smartphone. Having spent some time with it, it might be a touch idiosyncratic, but the interface is consistent, it gets the job done and it has a number of deep integration features which are innovative on Symbian.
