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Camera Nitty Gritty - Flash Colour Spectrums
In part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5 of this series, Steve Litchfield looked at specifics of camera performance in the phone world. Now AAS guest writer Dirk Snoyt takes up the theme of camera phone flash research and gets all technical on the theme of colours. If you'd like to suggest a topic for us to cover next in the series, please comment!
CommonTime's mSuite5 mobilises Lotus Notes
CommonTime recently announced an upgraded version of its mobile solution for Lotus Notes, today it announced support for all S60 3rd Edition devices. mSuite is a solution, similar to Mail for Exchange, which allows enterprise users to access Lotus Notes based email, contacts, calendar and tasks from a mobile device.
Desert Island Desktop, with Alfie Dennen
Next up in Ewan's series of Desert Island Desktops, taking a look at people's standby screens - this time, Alfie Dennen of Moblog (www.moblog.net) shares his home screen while Ewan applies his degree in mobile psychology to work out what makes Alfie tick...
An official AAS MegaApp - but with a non-Nseries caveat
Resco Photo Viewer has been evolving over the last three years and has paralleled the development of Nokia's own Nseries Gallery in some ways. Which makes it unnecessary for anyone with the latter, but a downright 'MegaApp' must-buy for anyone struggling along on the 'old' S60 Gallery. With a Nokia E90, Steve is hit more than most by a sluggish Gallery and has found the speed of the third party Resco Photo Viewer a revelation. And it's got other tricks up its sleeve too....
Insight 43 - S60 5th Edition and Nokia Software Updater
In All About Symbian Podcast 96 (Insight #43) Steve, after an E90 firmware update, asks why he can have a better experience than Nokia Software Updater. We also talk about about recent content on All About Symbian before moving on to some thoughts and reflections on S60 5th Edition with some special attention for backwards compatibility.
Nokia Email hits new beta, Ovi Share gets Map View
If you've been following the saga of Nokia's new next-gen email system, note that there's a whole new shiny beta of Nokia Email available, writes the Beta Labs team. There's more localisation, wider compatibility and plenty of minor bug fixes and detailed improvements. There still seem to be some issues regarding Google services though - indeed, the very Email home page doesn't render at all in Chrome, which didn't bode well for me.... In other news, Ovi Share has added a decent Map View so that you can see all your photos in a channel and where they were taken in a single glance.
BBC clarifications over iPlayer don't make sense?
The BBC have kindly responded to posts about iPlayer for S60, claiming that they only support the N96 because of the better way it handles passing an Internet connection through from browser to RealPlayer - and yet Nick Anstee reports that the N96's RealPlayer setup is the same as on other S60 devices, in that you have to manually pick a streaming access point in RealPlayer's settings. Update: the comments below shed light on this confusing situation.
Not just me, Dotsisx tries out some Mac lovin'
You may remember my own four part article series looking at connecting an S60 phone to an Apple Mac? Symbian Guru's Dotsisx has written up her own experiences along similar lines and with similar 'Nokia, must do better' conclusions, here (part 1) and here (part 2).
The first production N85? Head for Italy!
Somewhat annoyingly (for those of us outside the country), Italy seems to be the very earliest recipients of production Nokia N85s - here, p@sco brings us a traditional unboxing and test photos. See also Rafe's N85 hands-on for more on what makes this device special.
Kyte.TV Mobile Producer - Released and a real Competitor
Ewan back-fills our review section with a detailed look at the third major product in one of his specialist categories: live video streaming. Kyte.TV Mobile Producer impresses from the start and in some ways is the most polished of the three (Kyte, Qix, Flixwagon). [Gentle warning: viewing this review will require you to get up close and personal with Mr Spence.... :-) ]
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