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New OggPlays all over the place
It seems those sneaky(!) OggPlay developers have been coding without telling anybody. While everybody's links have been to the project home page, there have been lots of updates going onto the downloads page. Why not upgrade your S60, S80 or S90 version of OggPlay now?Posted by Steve Litchfield at 9:21 UTC, February 24th || 2 Comments
A surprising A-list choice and a bang up to date Grid
I've updated the 3-Lib smartphone comparison Grid again - see which device it recommends for you! Also updated is my A list page, with a surprising winner. At least I give my reasons...Posted by Steve Litchfield at 20:36 UTC, February 22nd || 12 Comments
THE most essential utility for the Nokia 7710
Interesting to see quality software still being developed for Nokia's somewhat orphaned Series 90 platform. Best TaskMan is something of a must-have for 7710-owners because of the lack of built-in task switching/reporting.Posted by Steve Litchfield at 11:31 UTC, February 21st || 0 Comments
Smartphones Show 5 now live!
Programme 5 in the popular TV-style Smartphones Show is now online, with a feature on what makes smartphones smart and cool things to do with them, a look at the competition, in the form of the Orange SPV C600, video from our Rafe from 3GSM and some basic Symbian UIQ/generic tips.Posted by Steve Litchfield at 10:13 UTC, February 21st || 0 Comments
The Entire Earth (almost) In Your Pocket
Steve Litchfield explores the goodies that Google Local for Mobile brings to any Symbian (or Windows Mobile, come to that) smartphone. Free mapping, aerial photography and route planning for anywhere in the world? Yup, but watch your GPRS bill...Posted by Steve Litchfield at 7:59 UTC, February 20th || 3 Comments
Internet-based Smartphone TV Show Airs
[Huge personal plug alert] Programme 1 in a new 'TV' series looking specifically at smartphones has aired. The show covers all software platforms and is currently free to download online. Read on for details...Posted by Steve Litchfield at 13:43 UTC, January 9th || 9 Comments
How To Find Out Where To Go Under The Ground
MetrO is a freeware tube routefinder that works for many cities around the world, on all Symbian-based smartphones. Steve's been putting it through its paces on his Nokia 7710 to let us know what it's like.Posted by Ewan Spence at 15:14 UTC, January 5th || 0 Comments
Opera Mini arrives - Exclusive Review
Steve Litchfield's discovered that Opera Mini's now alive and working and has been playing with it for a couple of days. Here's his review. Summary: it may change the way you browse on your smartphone - it will certainly chop your GPRS bill down to size...Posted by Steve Litchfield at 14:22 UTC, December 19th || 9 Comments
Future proof IRC and for free
Ewan goes in search of an Internet Relay Chat client that will work on all his Symbian smartphones and finds it in the free JmIRC. Here's the full review.Posted by Steve Litchfield at 12:05 UTC, December 16th || 0 Comments
Smartphone Grid now interactive
3-Lib's grid of mobile/smartphone solutions is now fully interactive! You can apply your own weightings for any smartphone functions and the grid will recalculate scores as needed.Posted by Steve Litchfield at 8:59 UTC, December 15th || 1 Comment
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