So I've been fiddling with the scores in my (now rather huge) Grid, plus I've added the Nokia E61. Which is the perfect mobile solution for you? For me, it came up with the Nokia N70, with i-Mate K-JAM as runner up. Interesting stuff, hopefully!
Not to be confused with my own Smartphones Show (see how I slipped that little plug in?), I've spotted hard dates for Symbian's annual (free) Smartphone Show. It's on 17th and 18th of October and is highly recommended. Almost as highly recommended as the annual AllAboutSymbian meet, which will be the evening before (i.e. the 16th) in Central London. Details to follow!
We've been adding to the AllAboutSymbian Support section. It's now got hundreds of well-crafted(!) entries and is well worth a trawl if you hit a problem with your smartphone. All Symbian OS-powered platforms are covered.
There's a new release of Opera Mini now available. Version 2 of the most popular mobile browser in the world adds favourite-speed-dial, better navigation and extra search engine selection. The full press release follows.
Proving both that OPL development and the software scene for the Nokia Communicator aren't dead yet, AAS's own Arjen has come up with a spiffing version of the popular game Battleships, for the 9210, 9300 and 9500.
Following last week's 48 hour poll to take a snapshot of the Symbian-powered smartphones you're currently using and your plans for the future, Steve Litchfield picks through the stats and draws out a few surprises.
Hey, listen up! There's a whole new release (1.69) of OggPlay on the loose for all S60, Series 80 and Series 90 users. So that's basically the whole Symbian world apart from UIQ users (who are still on 1.1). S60 3rd Edition users read on...
An unofficial All About Symbian poll. What do you currently use and what are you planning on using in 6 months time? Please help us aim our articles, reviews and support at the platforms that matter to you by answering one question in our poll. Thanks.
Ooh, ooh, there's a whole new PC Suite release on the loose, v6.8, with an upgraded Nokia Music Manager, various multimedia related improvements and a simplified interface. Thanks to the S60 Multimedia blog for the heads-up.
SEPT-Solution has released new versions (2.6) of its Mobile Search utility for Series 80 v2 devices and for all Series 60 devices. Improvements are faster Calendar search, searching of Calendar entry notes and locations, plus searching in iDesk notes on the 9300/9500.
In an attempt to flesh out my dismissal of the need for a separate third party firewall utility for Symbian OS, I thought a little testing was in order. I grabbed the nearest S60 phone (a Nokia 6630) at random, pointed at the Internet's leading port tester/prober and sat back and watched. How did Symbian OS do? Updated: also tested Nokia 9500 over W-LAN.
Nokia UK has announced the Finnish giant's first online shop, for purchase of SIM-free hardware and accessories. The URL is www.nokia.co.uk/shop. This should set the cat among the pigeons among mobile phone retailers in the UK and is perhaps long overdue.
Thanks to the eagle eyes here, who have spotted that Nokia has released a World clock update for all their Series 80 v2 devices. The countries mainly affected are Brazil, New Zealand, Israel and Australia.
Looks like we missed this one back in March, but the Open Source SSH client for S60 (including S60 v3), S80 and S90 devices has been updated to v1.4. Download from here, and the Sourceforge homepage is here.
Opera Mini, the proxy browser that I declared in my review would 'change the way you browse, the sign of a killer application' seems to be going from strength to strength, according to Opera's latest press release and observing a number of industry deals, ranging from added-value branding and support from Onspeed Mobile to a variety of redistribution deals. Opera Mini currently serves up over 4 million pages a day to mobile and smartphone users.
