I just thought I'd announce that The Phones Show (born The Smartphones Show) has just reached programme 100, which just went live. This latest show contains my attempt to bust some 'Mobile Myths', along with a Blackberry Top 10 and some heavily-Symbian-centric (it seems) user stories.
Read on in the full article.
Hey guys,
Loved your show on my PC - But while it is selectable on nokia podcasts list - I didn't managed to play it on my Nokia 5800 - any solution for that ?
It should play fine on the 5800. The feed in Nokia Podcasting is the QVGA version, which plays fine on all recent phones. Including the S60 single-chip ARM designs.
Suggest you triple-check you're subscribed to the QVGA version (show 100 is 56MB) and also try restarting your phone?
Just an FYI, the full fat VGA version plays just fine on the HTC HD2 (and looks really good).
Hi Steve, I thought I'd chip in on the myths about smartphones. You mentioned two very common myths about touch-screen devices:
1. You need touch screen
2. You need capacitive touch screen
..both of which I agree with, but I thought you should add:
3. You need multi-touch touch screens.
Whenever a new touch-screen device comes out, not supporting iPhone-like multitouch, this is seen as a negative. In my time using touch-screens, these are the only cases where multitouch is useful:
a) In a photo viewing app, to zoom in and out
b) In a maps app, to zoom in and out
c) In a web browser, to zoom in and out
d) For gaming on a key-less device.
For a-c, double-tap-to-zoom is equally functional, if not as cool. In fact, in most web browsers (including iPhone's multitouch one), double-tap automatically zooms to fit a paragraph, which is more useful than manually pinching to get there.
And in case d: if we really want a future with mobile games that require more advanced control than tap, flick and tilt, then we would want a device with physical keys anyway. The original NGage form factor beats iPhone for gaming any day.
- Lesiki
or for typing on a virtual keyboard. Multi-touch lets you go a lot faster!
Regarding push email needing a 'carefully set-up IMAP server': I've found that Gmail works perfectly, receiving emails pretty much instantly on Nokia Messaging. I guess that Google might just have good IMAP servers, but surely it's not such a niche setup if one of the major webmail providers supports it?
@seft: no, no, I'm talking about using IMAP GMail directly, NOT through a third party service like Nokia Messaging. 8-)
@Steve: Surely that's quite a different message from "it [push email] only really works if you have a Blackberry or a very carefully set up IMAP configuration or Exchange server. The majority of so-called push email systems are a bit of a con; they merely check your email box every few minutes and then they send you what they find".
I have push Gmail set up through IMAP IDLE on my N95 by using Profimail.
I usually get my emails within a few seconds of them being sent.
but wheres the picture?🙄