Tag Archive for 's60'

Why I’ve switched back to Nokia’s ghetto smartphone OS (for now).

I’m not telling you to switch to S60 — or any specific mobile OS for that matter — just letting you know that Google doesn’t have to own your ass if you don’t want them to.

Nokia Messaging: the good, the bad and the ugly.

Honestly, if I wanted hosted email on my phone why wouldn’t I just buy a BlackBerry?

Symbian gets Swype… Finally.

I first wrote about Swype on these pages back in February; now, more than six months later, it’s finally available for a select number of Nokia touch screen handsets — like my Nokia N97.

One of Swype’s founders is also partly responsible for the T9 predictive text-entry system for number pad handsets. And like T9, Swype will shortly become the de facto standard for touch screen text entry. Just you wait…

Wikitude – AR for Symbian smartphones.

I was instantly jealous when I first saw a demo of the Layar augmented reality browser for Android smartphones. Now, a year later, AR has finally made its way to the Symbian OS.

The app that makes it happen is called Wikitude. Let’s have a look…

Tethering your Nokia to Ubuntu via USB.

After seeing firsthand the perils of using an open WiFi network last week I resolved to post about tethering a Nokia smartphone to an Ubuntu-powered laptop or netbook via USB, as a public service to those who didn’t know that they could. Count me among them — or at least among those who didn’t realize how ridiculously easy it is…