Here's an image from a trip to London, correctly addressed by Ovi Share and correctly mapped:

Is there a way to display all media from a trip overlaid on a larger map? If so, please forgive my naiveity and share the info!

Steve Litchfield

This isn't surprising, given the move to easy access on mobile versions of many of the big Web 2.0 sites, as well as a general feeling in web circles that your data should be accessible no matter where you are, no matter what device you're on. Any social network launching today that decides to target mobile will be welcome, but unless it has a strong back end accessible from both a desktop PC and perhaps even existing services (such as Twitter), then it's not going to get a lot of traction, fancy Location Based Services, geo-tagging pictures and 'where are my friends right now' features notwithstanding.

More at MoCoNews.

Look out for a report from the actual launch event and more analysis in a couple of days.

The Sony Ericsson W960 is a great looking smartphone with plenty of top-notch features to offer. However, the user interface and touch implementation make it difficult to get around, and frustrating to use.

...the flash is either on, or it is off. There is also no 'auto' setting, which makes things ever more frustrating, as it takes a minimum of 6 clicks to toggle the flash on or off.

One of the key features of the W960 is the Walkman music player interface, 8GB of internal storage, and dedicated, touch-sensitive media playback keys. Given that, I found it odd that the handset requires an additional adapter to use 3.5mm headphones. The Walkman music player application is certainly full of eye candy, and offers the ability to browse through your music by artist, album, playlists (created on the PC or device), and mood. I was very disappointed to not see the 'genre' option listed, as that's how I typically listen to my music.

The full review is at Mobile Burn.

I'm still VERY wary about those light up keypad legends - didn't Nokia learn ANYTHING from the horrible white on silver labelling system on the N82?? What happens when you take the N78 outdoors into the sunlight? Shudder.

Read on

Users can now search and watch YouTube videos directly on our UIQ 3 smartphones using CorePlayer Mobile latest version (1.24), there’s YouTube support which, during my test, worked beautifully (on 3G and WiFi connection).

This is one of the most requested functions from the UIQ 3 community and, although there is no support to play YouTube through the internet browser yet, the current function is useable and makes my P1i a true mobile workhorse and entertainment device. Commenting on the new release, Dan Marlin (aka Betaboy), CEO of CoreCodec, in his email to me said that this is only the beginning. “In future versions we are adding full YT support that includes video uploading, account login, related, more, email link, bookmarks. So this is really just the beginning of what our ‘Channels’ page will be…. Channels will list our current ‘HOT’ websites (like Veoh)”.

Here are some screenshots of CorePlayer Mobile's YouTube browser in action on my Sony Ericsson P1i :

Here's the changelog of the new version :

Version 1.2.4 build 4204 (4187 for Symbian) (20080509):

- FIX: YouTube seeking issues
- FIX: YouTube navigation on small screens
- FIX: Busy indicator on Palm and Symbian
- FIX: Revision3 RSS reading (watch out for the huge bandwidth needs)
- FIX: Keyframe issue on some rare AVC streams
- FIX: OS X: fix some display issues
- FIX: OS X: Conversion of some UTF16 strings
- FIX: Symbian: TCP/UDP connections are less blocking and more stable
- FIX: Symbian: Audio handling is more robust
- FIX: Symbian: UIQ3 backlight issues
- FIX: Symbian: Possible crash when playing MP3 and AVC
- FIX: Win32: File association on Vista
- ADD: FLV playback support (no VP6)
- ADD: F4V file extension
- ADD: Get the duration from RSS feeds
- ADD: Option to keep the screen on when playing audio files (too)
- ADD: Reading cover art from Zune folders
- ADD: Symbian: Keep the preferred access point in the preferences
- ADD: Symbian: Show the currently selected item in enums

Here's the CoreCodec announcement. And read my review of CorePlayer HERE

Asri al-Baker, All About Symbian

So far the platform is available on the N81, N81 8GB, N82, N95 and N95 8GB, with support to be added to the N73, N93 and N93i very soon.

New phones will also be added to the platform as they're released, for example the 5320, N78 and N96 are all due to be N-Gage compatible.

Comments on battery life while running welcomed! Compatibility is obviously limited to just those devices with accelerometers...

We're very excited about this. Russell Beattie and Mike Rowehl are both very talented mobile gurus and they'll be joining the dotMobi team to help us do cool things with their technology. We did this deal because Mowser fits really well into lots of our current projects.
James Pearce

This is great news - Miker and I got pinged by a surprising number of people and companies interested in Mowser, but we went with dotMobi because they were first, enthusiastic, and we felt they would provide a good home for our work. While we didn't get rich on the deal by any stretch, I've been able to pay off a bunch of debts (and not worry about stuff like rent and food) which has been a huge load off my mind.
Russ Beattie

They're already hooked up with folks looking to go mobile and in a unique position to offer the service without the hurdles Russ and I had in reaching motivated site owners. Like we discussed at the last Mobile Monday in Silicon Valley, one of the most important aspects of planning out a mobile business is to have the right partnerships in place to give you a strong market channel.
Mike Rowehl

Congrats all round, nice to have a happy ending for the end of the week.