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- Carnival of the Mobilists #84
- I have been very remiss in posting regular links to the excellent Carnival of the Mobilists newsletters and I'm sorry about that. I just read through the 84th Edition and thoroughly enjoyed many of the articles covered in this latest roundup of mobility writing. Articles posted this week are grouped...
- Tags: Smartphone, S60, Nokia, Mobile software, mobile services, iPhone, Carnival of the Mobilists
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Documents to Go update supports Palm Desktop for Vista beta
- We talked about Palm Desktop support for Vista in MobileTechRoundup show #106 and I just received an email from DataViz announcing that Documents to Go 10.001 now supports the beta Palm Desktop for Vista. Documents to Go is an essential application for Treo and Palm device users who need to...
- Tags: Smartphone, Palm, Mobile software
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Edit and create Word and Excel docs on S60 devices with OfficeSuite 4
- Nokia markets their Nseries mobile devices as "multimedia computers" and for the most part they do serve as excellent audio and video platforms. The Nseries also comes loaded with other productivity applications, like thw QuickOffice viewer application. Their Eseries line is targeted towards the enterprise user and comes loaded with...
- Tags: Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Review, Nseries, Nokia, Mobile software
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Nokia kicks off Mobile Rules! 2008 competition
- Symbian is the world's leading smartphone operating system and unlike the Apple iPhone manufacturers like Nokia actively support 3rd party application development. To emphasize and honor those developers who are out there working to design applications to make our live more efficient, fun, and rewarding Nokia is launching the second...
- Tags: Mobile software, Nokia, S60, Smartphone, Symbian
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Mail for Exchange available for Nokia Nseries devices
- I have a couple of Nokia Nseries devices for testing and evaluation from the Nseries Blogger Relations program and early last year I was able to use an older version of Mail for Exchange on them to sync with my hosted Exchange account. Versions after 1.3 broke this functionality on...
- Tags: Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia, Mobile software
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Forum Nokia developers actively support S60 devices
- I am a big fan of the S60 platform and in particular the Nokia N95, Nokia N73 and N93 and one major differences between these devices and the iPhone is the huge 3rd party development community. Michael Tangeman, from The Pen Group sent along a loaner Nokia N80ie loaded with...
- Tags: Smartphone, S60, Review, Nokia, Mobile software
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- First Look: TalkPlus Mobile S60 client
- There are some very good Voice 2.0 services available to help you be more productive and efficient in your work and one company that I chatted with back at CES in January is TalkPlus. I tried out their TalkPlus Mobile service late last fall and in the winter, primarily using...
- Tags: Voice 2.0, Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia, Mobile software, mobile services
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- 6 iPhone questions I need AT&T and/or Apple to answer
- Even after laying out what my personal costs to buy the iPhone would be and finding out the number is quite high I am still seriously thinking about camping out in line at my local AT&T store. I already called them to confirm they would be getting some and also...
- Tags: Wireless carriers, Smartphone, Mobile software, iPhone, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- fring VoIP now available for Windows Mobile devices
- Back in February I posted a blog entry on how S60 was in the lead for mobile VoIP and it seems that now Windows Mobile is catching up with the release of a new client. The excellent mobile VoIP application, fring, is now available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6...
- Tags: Windows Mobile, VoIP, Smartphone, Mobile software, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Opera Mini 4: who needs an iPhone for mobile web browsing?
- As we get closer and closer to the release of the Apple iPhone I think some people are finally taking a more in-depth look at what other choices there are already on the market and trying to understand if the iPhone is as revolutionary as Apple has stated. One area...
- Tags: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Review, Palm, Nokia, Mobile software, iPhone, BlackBerry
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- IM from your Nokia device with Gizmo Project
- A couple of days ago my Mobile Tech Roundup podcast co-host, Kevin Tofel, posted news that Gizmo Project added IM support for AIM and MSN Messenger. They even made it very easy to add your buddies to your Gizmo Project contact lists. You can also call people on Yahoo Messenger,...
- Tags: Mobile software, Nokia, S60, Smartphone, Symbian, VoIP
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Sync your Nokia mobile device media to your Mac natively
- As regular readers know I am a part of the Nokia Nseries Blogger Relations program and get the opportunity to review some very cool Nokia smartphones like the N95, N93 and N73. My primary home computer is a MacBook Pro and up until now I have always used the Nokia...
- Tags: Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia, Mobile software
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- How can you enter text on the HTC Touch?
- One of the weak points of the new HTC Touch is the lack of a good text entry system. There is a large option for the integrated keyboard, but even that is too small for using your finger and requires stylus input. I quickly loaded a couple of 3rd party...
- Tags: Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile software, HTC, Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Documents to Go 3 for Windows Mobile now supports Office 2007 formats
- Back in December I mentioned that Office 2007 native file formats were not supported on any mobile device or 3rd party application. I have been using Documents to Go on a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone and was confident that DataViz would probably be one of the first out to support...
- Tags: HTC, Microsoft, Mobile software, Smartphone, Windows Mobile
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- T-Mobile offers free Windows Mobile 6 upgrade to Dash owners
- T-Mobile launched the Dash Windows Mobile Smartphone back in October 2006 and I picked one up right away. Today, T-Mobile leads the way in the U.S. Windows Mobile market with the release of the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade. You can visit the T-Mobile Windows Mobile upgrade page on Friday, 4...
- Tags: Wireless carriers, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Review, Mobile software, Microsoft, HTC
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- S60 Summit: Seminar, Expo, and full Summit 07 coverage and image gallery
- I returned from Spain and finally had a chance to catch up on sleep (after passing back and forth through 9 time zones), celebrate my oldest daughters 13th birthday, and get back up to speed with a marine salvage case I started working on the week before I left for...
- Tags: Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia, Mobile software, mobile services
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- RoadSync 3 brings push email and Exchange 2007 support to S60 devices
- I just renewed my subscription to the 4SmartPhone.net hosted Exchange service after completing my first year of service. As a person who uses lots of mobile devices, a Windows PC, and a MacBook Pro I needed a way to keep all of them in sync with my important data while...
- Tags: Symbian, Smartphone, On the road, mobile services, Review, Nokia, Mobile software
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- MobileTechRoundup show #95, MacBook woes couldn't hold us back
- Listen here (MP3, 30.4 MB, 33:15 minutes) Subscribe to the show with this link RSS We are only 5 shows away from 100 and MobileTechRoundup show #95 took some serious effort to get out the door due...
- Tags: UMPC, MoTR podcast, Apple, Windows Mobile, Tablet PC, Symbian, Smartphone, Nokia, Mobile software
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- iambic releases Agendus for Windows Mobile Smartphone
- I am a huge fan of integrated PIM applications on my mobile devices since I am more efficient in managing my calendar, tasks, and contacts when they are highly intertwined and can be related to each other. My personal favorite for a couple years on my Palm Treo 650 was...
- Tags: Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile software
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Documents To Go for Palm supports Office 2007 file formats
- Back in December I posted the news that Office 2007 native file formats were incompatible with all mobile device operating systems. You could always have people save the documents in Office 2003 and earlier format and then email the document to you, but that isnt an efficient way to work....
- Tags: Smartphone, Palm, Mobile software, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
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