Schmap website offers a very useful and free service, providing digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to Pc and mobile users

The innovative technology behind Schmap Guides lets end users publish schmaps (to share trip itineraries, local reviews and more), and powers a popular range of Schmap Widgets, syndicating more than 6 million maps a month – together with content and event schedules for travel, sports and concert tours – to a fast-growing network of websites and blogs.

Schmap is also optimized for S60 devices: accessing their website from you Nokia Phones makes you available a wide range of maps and services. Just enter your destination, and will have a list of all the services available in the city.

Schmap Staff is looking for Beta testers of their services.

To use the Schmap guides on your Nokia phones, just visit http://www.schmap.com for your phone browser.

The questions, regarding the beta testing of the services, are:

- Did you encounter any bugs?
- Was there anything that confused you?
- Do you have any ideas for improving Schmap for Nokia?
- Please note the name/model of the Nokia phone used to view the guides.

You can express your thoughts here by leaving a comment, you you can send your feedback directly to Schmap’s staff, sending an email to donald.mcmillan@schmap.com  including your bug reports.

 Visit Schmap Website here

He was among  the first customers to buy a Nokia N85 (some days ago). Today, Pietro from Jaspp.net wrote his personal review of the new Nokia N85.

Pietro has no doubts: the N85 is the best Symbian phone available today, as it offers speed, stability and a rich software suite. The N85 also has a new OLED screen that impressed him in an excellent way, and has one of the best build quality seen in a Nseries.

The only thing that is missing is the DVB-h, as implemented in the N96, but this feature utility depends on the user needs.

After the review’s publishing  on Jaspp,  Steve Litchfiled reported the news on All Ablout Symbian. Here, an user called Umberto kindly translated and summarized the whole review in English.

Click Here to read the original review (External Link, in Italian)

Click Here to read the translated review in English (External link)

The upcoming Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone will be the first handset to feature the new generation of Symbian Os, bringing Touch support, and other improvements over the 3rd edition series.

The Nokia 5800, formerly known as the "Tube" will be on stores probably on early 2009. However, some very lucky bloggers already have the possibility of trying it. One of those is Eldar of Mobile-Review.com, a Russian mega-website offering previews, hands-on and reviews of nearly every mobile phone in the market.

Eldar wrote, some days ago, a great article showing in-depth the new Symbian 5th edition interface. Here, he analyzes all the aspects of the upcoming 5th edition Symbian. And the article is really worth looking at, as the are a lot of screenshots, and some videos, taken from the 5800 Symbian interface.

 (Click to view in full size!)

(and notice, the new official Symbian Theme seems to be inspired to a well-known thememaking  style!, even if personally, I don’t find it fantastic at all. I think I could have done better )

Go to the article (external link)

It’s Called Autothemes, and lets you change your theme with another at a fixed hour you choose or with a specific profile. It’s fully customizable. To know more about it, go here.

Someone may think that such an application is not very useful, but in fact I found out it to be very smart.

For example, I programmed three different themes during the day:

One for the morning, with bright background and black text for great readability under the morning sunlight.

Than one for the afternoon, for having a little change after lunch another one with quite bright background.

Then, when the sun goes down, I planned a more “fashion” theme, to show up my new creation to my firends (in the dark, it’s better).

What are the 3 themes?

Morning:

No Name (white)

Afternoon:

Blue Bubbles (you already know it, or at least you should!)

Evening & Night:

Royal

What? you want the first and the last?

To have them…….

….just wait, and come back here soon!