Symbian
All articles about Nokia’s smartphone platform of choice: Symbian
February 10, 2011
I was a fan of Symbian before Android even was announced and touchscreens had become a standard feature of smartphones. The Symbian powered Nokia N73 which I bought in 2006 was my first phone that felt like a little computer, and some of my favorite handsets since 1998 have been manufactured by Nokia. But the [...]
Posted in Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged Burning platform, CEO, Memo, Microsoft, Nokia, Stephen Elop, Symbian, Windows Phone 7, WP7
May 25, 2010
Alongside Touchflo 3D by HTC, SPB Mobile Shell has been one of the most popular user-interfaces for Windows Mobile devices for many years – and justly so. It makes Microsoft’s in many ways archaic OS more slick and up-to-date, and back in October last year, I recommended version 3.5 of the UI that had just [...]
Posted in Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 3.5, 5th Edition, Hands-on, Nokia N97, Review, SPB, SPB Mobile Shell, Symbian, Symbian^1
April 22, 2010
I have quite a lot of ringtones and notification sounds on my phone, and also sound files from the adventure games that I play with ScummVM – all of which I do not want to show up in Symbian’s native music player on my Nokia N97. These miscellaneous tracks are not a problem when you [...]
Posted in Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 3rd Ed., 5th Edition, Default, How to, Music Player, Native, Nokia N97, Remove, Songs, Sound files, Sounds, Symbian, Tutorial
April 17, 2010
Learn how to play 90s DOS adventure game classics on your phone with ScummVM, like Sam & Max, Simon the Sorcerer and Monkey Island.
Posted in Games + Emu, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, Adventure Games, Emulation, FAQ, Full Throttle, Guide, Instructions, LucasArts, N97 Mini, Nokia N97, Ports, Retro, Sam & Max, SCUMM, ScummVM, Sierra, Symbian^1, Tutorial
April 5, 2010
Ah, MS-DOS, you old command-line interface rascal. Those who are old enough will probably remember this OS fondly, that ruled x86 based PCs up until 1995. I knew all its commands by heart, and few people [...]
Posted in Games + Emu, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, Abandonware, DOSBox, Emulation, Games, Guide, How to, Instructions, MS-DOS, N97, N97 Mini, Nokia, S60v5, Symbian^1, Tutorial
March 15, 2010
Last week, I decided to give my Nokia N97’s TV-out feature a try and see what it would look like when I played some retro games on the television. I was pretty geeked out when I realized how well it worked [...]
Posted in For Fun, Games + Emu, Symbian, Videos | Tagged Adventure Games, DOS, Emulation, Game Boy, GBA, Lucas Arts, NES, Nintendo, Nokia N97, Ports, Quake, S60v5, ScummVM, Sega, TV-out, vBag, vBoy
March 10, 2010
One of my major beefs with Symbian^1, is the fact that it lacks proper threaded text messaging. On any other modern smartphone platform, messages are threaded and displayed as conversations, which is [...]
Posted in Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 1.08, Download, Fifth Edition, Free iSMS, Review, Symbian^1
March 9, 2010
I know it’s a bit silly, but for some reason I enjoy having the standard, original wallpapers that come preloaded on various smartphones. Even though I see no point in trying to make my phone behave or look like another mobile platform (there are plenty of themes, mods and apps with that purpose), using wallpapers [...]
Posted in For Fun, Symbian, Wallpapers | Tagged Backgrounds, Default, i8910, nHD, Original, Preloaded, Samsung Omnia HD, Standard, Wallpapers
March 8, 2010
This is certainly not the first guide to running Quake and Quake 2 on the Symbian^1 powered Nokia N97, but hopefully it will compensate for its lateness by being one of the most thorough and comprehensive.
Posted in Games + Emu, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, Emulation, Guide, Hinkka, How to, Nokia N97, Port, Ports, Quake, Quake II, S60v5, Symbian^1, Tutorial, Video
March 5, 2010
A guide to playing classic Sega Mega Drive/Genesis games on your Symbian^1 powered phone, like the Nokia N97 and N97 Mini, using a nifty little emulator called PicoDrive.
Posted in Games + Emu, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, Emulation, Guide, How to, MasterGear, N97 Mini, Nokia N97, PicoDrive, QWERTY, S60v5, Sega, Symbian^1, Tutorial
March 4, 2010
Three upcoming user interfaces for Android, Symbian and WinMo that is worth keeping an eye on: TAT Home, TouchXperience and SPB Mobile Shell 5. With demo videos.
Posted in Android, Symbian, WinMo | Tagged Android, Spb Mobile Shell 5, Symbian^1, TAT Home, TouchXperience, UI, User-interfaces, Windows Phone, WinMo
February 21, 2010
Learn how to play all Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo and Super Nintendo games on your Symbian 5th Edition device with a hardware QWERTY, like the Nokia N97.
Posted in Games + Emu, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, 8-bit, Emulation, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, GBA, GBC, Guide, How to, Mini, N97, NES, Nintendo, S60v5, SNES, Super Nintendo, Symbian, Tutorial, vBag, vBoy, Video, vNes, vSun
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