All About Symbian - NewsNews Headlines from All About Symbian (Full Feed)Having trouble controlling Pro Series Golf Here are a couple of tutorials...- July 5, 2008 If you've purchased the rather good Pro Series Golf (which All About N-Gage will be reviewing very very soon), you may feel a bit confused by the controls as they're not really explained within the game itself. The method for choosing a club for example is far from obvious. However, help is at hand from two sources: the game's producer has posted a general how-to on the official PSG forum, and N-Gage Arena member ShadowSpawn has done a more extensive illustrated tutorial concentrating on swings.http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7603_Having_trouble_controlling_Pro.php PC Suite, Flixwagon and N81 updates!- July 4, 2008 Typical - I take a day out to play golf (on the N95) and some updates I've been waiting for all happen. Nokia PC Suite v7 is now official - here's the download page. No huge changes, but plenty of detailed improvements and it always pays to stay up to date. And Flixwagon just went public and has a vastly improved S60 client. In addition, Nokia N81 users just got a firmware upgrade via Nokia Software Update. v20.0.056 brings the N81 bang up to date with demand paging and Flash Lite 3, among...http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7602_PC_Suite_and_N81_updates.php Should We Have Fixed Price Mobile Contracts- July 4, 2008 Ewan's on a train speeding down from bonnie Scotland but he's still found time to set up a Friday rant. Ewan reckons there's a gap in the market for a network operator to set up a 'no surprises' all inclusive 'flat rate for everything' plan. Your comments welcome, this one could run and run. How much will your mobile phone bill cost you this month Or next month You've probably got a rough idea in your head, but it's never going to be precise. You might decide to spend an hour on the phone to...http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7600_Should_We_Have_Fixed_Price_Mob.php Files on Ovi now available in beta- July 3, 2008 Files on Ovi, which provides access to files on remote computers, is the latest Ovi service and is now available in beta form. After installing a software 'connector' on your PC you can then access files on your computer from any web enabled device (e.g. another PC or your phone). Files on Ovi is the results of last year's acquisition of Avevnu by Nokia. Browsing the files on my PC from my phone. Files on Ovi acts as a bridge allowing you to access files on your own PC from any remote...http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7594_Files_on_Ovi_now_available_in_.php Big Box of Blox misses out on greatness- July 3, 2008 Astraware keep turning out superbly polished S60 games - and Big Box of Blox is no exception. Ewan's been playing it and in his review points out a few aspects (difficulty, blox detail and orientation handling) that, while not showstoppers, stop the game achieving true greatness.Read onhttp://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7593_Big_Box_of_Blox_misses_out_on_.php Telenor goes Ovi- July 3, 2008 Telenor and Nokia today announced a cooperation on mobile services using the Ovi service platform. Specific Nokia devices will be customised with services such as Nokia Maps, N-Gage, Telenor Music Store and Mobile TV with more to come in the future. Ovi services will be launched in the second half of 2008 and will be offered to Telenor customers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Hungary.The Telenor follows on from similar announcements from Vodafone, Telefonica, TIM, Orange and T-Mobile. It is...http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7591_Telenor_goes_Ovi.php Live videocasting explained in detail- July 3, 2008 If you've been left a bit bemused by geeks twittering on (literally) about live videocasting with Qik and the specifics of getting an audience, then take 10 minutes to watch Steve Garfield explaining it all very well on the DV show, using a Nokia N95 (of course) as his live video tool of choice.http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7590_Live_videocasting_explained_in.php Beta Labs - help shape future of Drive in Nokia Maps- July 3, 2008 The Nokia Maps team is conducting research on the Drive car navigation feature within Nokia Maps 2.0. They are looking for London, Berlin and Madrid based users (both novice and expert) to take part in their research. This is an opportunity to help shape the car navigation functionality in the next version of Nokia Maps. More details are available on the Beta Labs blog.From the Beta Labs blog: Over the next few weeks Nokia Maps team will conduct a piece of research for the Drive car navigation..http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7589_Beta_Labs-help_shape_future_of.php CTO.Nokia.com talks mobile futures- July 2, 2008 The Office of the CTO (OCTO) at Nokia is a key stone in Nokia's innovation and vision efforts (self described as a network of researchers and though leaders). CTO.nokia.com is a recently launched site which is intended to help to spread OCTO's vision of the mobile future and engage the outside world. It is a sister site to research.nokia.com and will feature editorial content from Nokia and selected third parties.There's already some insightful content on the site, the first topic is a look at..http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7586_CTONokiacom_talks_mobile_futur.php Nokia's Navteq deal gets go ahead- July 2, 2008 Nokia today announced the European Commission has given unconditional approval for Nokia's planned acquisition of Navteq. Nokia has now received all the necessary regulatory approvals and expects to close the deal in the next 5 days. Nokia is acquiring Navteq for $8.1 billion.Nokia has said that Navteq will operate independently as a separate unit within Nokia in order that 'current and future customers continue to have a dedicated and strengthened unit serving them' (in other words being able..http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7585_Nokias_Navteq_deal_gets_go_ahe.php |