One thing that Symbian desperately needs is the ability for users to easily manage fonts. I’ve recently reviewed a few Samsung feature phones and all three had the option to choose from 3 different fonts already installed in the phone. Since Symbian is a smartphone operating system, it surely can’t be that difficult to add [...]
Since our Symbian-powered smartphones are capable of recording such good quality videos, surely we like to edit those videos, and tinker a bit. One of the more fun video editing tools available is called Chroma Key, also known as ‘greenscreen’. This technique requires you to record yourself in front of a solid color, and then [...]
One of the cool things about my job is that I get new phones constantly. I don’t get to keep most of them, but I do use them as my primary device throughout the review period, which allows me to legitimately review how a phone works and whatnot. One thing that I’m often asked is [...]
Yesterday we started out easy, taking a peek at the different PIM functions included in S60 5th Edition, using the emulator that’s included in the new S60 SDK, which is normally for developers to use. The emulator runs in a window on your computer, giving a view of the core OS. Today I wanted to [...]
The gang over at S60 has heard your cries that there needs to be a better way to introduce new users to the S60 user interface and has created some dead-simple walkthrough videos. There’s only three so far, covering different features of S60: Multitasking, Browsing, and Downloading Applications. They used an N95 for the videos, [...]
