Symbian^1

Review of SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 For Symbian^1

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 | Leave a response

Play Classic LucasArts Adventure Games on Your Symbian Phone With ScummVM

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 | 7 Responses

How to Play DOS Games on Your Symbian^1 Device (Nokia N97)

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 | 34 Responses

Review: Free iSMS 1.08 Brings Threaded Messaging to Symbian^1

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 | 20 Responses

How to Play Quake and Quake 2 on Symbian^1 (Nokia N97)

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 | 47 Responses

Sega Emulation on the Nokia N97, N97 Mini & Symbian^1

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 | 40 Responses

Three User Interfaces to Keep an Eye on

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 | Leave a response