"But for single user, home or semi-pro use, I really can't see much point in complicating your email handling by inserting a third party provider or service between you and your mailbox. Like many people, I standardised on a single GMail account last year and have been supremely happy. There's a GMail mobile client, but it's Java-based, which means slower startup, unnecessary RAM overheads (important on some devices), and a manual 'refreshing' of your inbox."

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"It's not often that I get to review an application that's nigh-on perfect in every detail. Yet Handy Weather is such a program - admittedly it only really does one thing (check the upcoming weather for a small number of locations) but it does it so smoothly and unobtrusively that it just had to earn a coveted Mega-App award. Available for almost every handheld platform in the world (really), Handy Weather impresses under S60, shown here, by not only working as a standalone application but also making its functionality available as a screen-saver."

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"10. Nokia 9500 (2004)

The 9210 (see below) had been established for a couple of years and the 9500 was the big facelift. Rolling in then-new technologies like Wi-Fi and GPRS made a big difference to connectivity, as did the smaller and more pocketable form factor. To this day there are a lot of hardened 9500 users who wouldn't swap their Symbian and Series 80-powered Communicator for the world."

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"The Breakout/Arkanoid genre has been around for almost as long as computer and video games themselves, and it's a one-player variation on good old Pong. Part of the reason is that it's so darn easy to program such a game, but perhaps another reason is that it's somewhat timeless, still surprisingly addictive after 25 years of existence." 

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You can see a gameplay video of Snowed In 6 over on the Unofficial Nokia Gaming Blog, and there are screenshots of all the Symbian versions below:

S60 3rd Edition

S60 1st & 2nd Edition 

UIQ3

UIQ2 

Series 80 

Nokia 7710 (Series 90)

"Yes, yes, you've heard plenty of old timers talk about the early days in the computer world, but bear with me. When I started out in the Aerospace business (1983), the hard disks used by our minicomputers were of the order of 10MB, they required an air-conditioned room, they weighed several kilogrammes, made an absolute racket and cost a fortune.

Contrast that to today, with hundreds of Megabytes being given away as freebies by newspapers and at conferences, with 8GB (i.e. 8000MB) now available in microSD form, on a solid state sliver of silicon that I can barely see and that weighs around a gramme.

So let's get this straight. In 25 years, I've seen capacity go up by roughly 1000 times while disk mass/volume has gone down by around 1000 times. So around a million times more efficient, then." 

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During the 1980s, it was extremely common to see Xmas-themed and Winter-themed computer games on 8-bit and 16-bit systems. This has somewhat died out lately, mainly due to the immense costs, long development times and global markets of console games. However, the Xmas/Winter game tradition is alive and well on smartphones, and there are seasonal games for every kind of Symbian.

We've divided up this article into flavours of Symbian: S60 3rd Edition, S60 1st & 2nd Edition, UIQ3, UIQ2, Series 80 and Series 90. Just scroll down to the section appropriate to your device."

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