Symbian in Motion

I’ve made no secret of my love for SkyeQuiKey. Hit one of those links if you haven’t heard of the app yet. If you have heard of the app, odds are pretty good that you’re using a copy on your handset. Good news! A new update was just issued today that covers much of the feedback I’ve been seeing about the app. Change log:

• Missing softkeys / idle screen ‘hang’ bug fixed.
• Closing slider can sometime cause softkeys to disappear from idle screen bug fixed.
• Improved history support added, smarter and faster.
• Support for adding new phone numbers added.
• Support added for S60 3rd Edition FP2 phones e.g. N78.
• Longer phone numbers now permitted (up to 32 digits).
• Interference with Bluetooth PIN entry and System Lock bug fixed.
• Improved support for emergency call dialling.
• Support added for creating new message (SMS/MMS/E-mail) from a manually entered number/email address.
• Improved support for defaults: Email, SMS and MMS defaults are now used with shortcuts.
• Pressing the green button from a list of options is now equivalent to OK.
• Support for pause and wait in dialled numbers e.g. +4420844223311p123p333w435.
• Improved interoperability with other 3rd party applications e.g. Google Search.
• Improved screen layout.

Get it!

Update: If you haven’t seen the app in person, here’s a great walkthrough from Mark at The Nokia Blog:

Great news! Just stumbled on the Mobbler Google Code Page and discovered that they have updated the application to version 0.2.1. Nothing much interesting in this release just a few bug fixes for the N73 and N80.

What’s exciting is the update on the previous version 0.2.0  - The first radio player version of mobbler.

Yes it now streams music from Last.fm and scrobbles tracks played on your handset to your Last.fm profile! I’ve just been playing with it for a few minutes now, there is a new interface with some extra controls and menu options, and you have the option of streaming via Wi-Fi or 3G as desired. The usual options found on the desktop clients are there!

Now this is truly a solution for streaming music for all S60 users.

Google Maps has been updated to include limited support for Transit directions. The service is available to a few selected regions around the world, for the full list of supported areas see the Google Transit site.
The latest version of Google Maps (2.2) is available for S60 (3rd Editions and later) and Windows Mobile (2005 or later) handsets as well as Blackberry devices which had this feature previously.

Users of Window Mobile and S60 will also get a few more features with this latest version, which include:

star-ratings for businesses will help you get a feel for what other people think, your search results show up faster than ever, and user-generated content will now surface in your search results — opening up a whole new world of geo content on your phone. Look for the blue result markers when you search for “ruins in london,” for example.

To get this latest version of Google Maps for mobile with Transit, simply point your mobile browser to google.com/gmm. Also note the new icon for Google Maps. Nice!

For more info check out the Official Google Mobile Blog.

Guess what? It works! :)

N78 updated, all data retained. Beyond the reported changes, the only other thing I’ve noticed is that the display can’t get quite as bright anymore. No worries though, well worth it just to confirm that it works with no loss of personal data. Sweet!

The recently announced and now available N78 has got it’s first OTA update (11.043), which includes many fixes to Bluetooth stability, music playback, optimized camera performance and navi-scroll sensitivity.

Finally it seems progress is being made with the S60 firmware upgrade and Nokia’s upgrade systems. S60 devices have had the ability to get OTA (over the air) updates for a while now, but so far we have yet to see any for the N95, N82, N81 etc…

To get the update you need to click Menu > Tools > Utilities > Device Manager. Select Options > Check for updates and follow the on-screen prompts. Remember that you can also use Wi-Fi to download the update. This update will NOT be available via the NUS application.

With the recent announcement of Diablo for the N810 and N800 which will also support OTA updates and a more seamless firmware update procedure (something many bloggers have been ranting about for some time) much like Apple’s iPod and Mac updates (seamless) it seems Nokia is finally making progress! This is another step forward for Nokia in making their products much more user friendly and easy to use and understand. If we can get more updates and frequent updates which fix and improve small little bugs and add enhancements to our handsets I’m all for it! This is how it should be done.

Nokia Europe [via Slashphone] [arjw]