Twitter is all the rage at the moment, and is certainly this year’s social media phenomenon, as it allows you to stay in touch with the world in 140 character snippets. Twitter has come to the Nokia 5800 in the form of Stew, an app that has been designed specifically for the S60 phone.
This is the top story in our Nokia community today, with other stories affecting the neighbourhood involving end of Qt Java support and getting the most from your Nokia’s built-in camera. Read more about these stories after the jump…
If you don’t know about Twitter, it’s an online service that uses your phone allowing you to send and read others posts (or tweets) of up to 140 characters at a time. It's a great way for people to stay in touch with others and a great way of getting quikc snippets of news and gossip.
Stew has been brought to our attention by the Symbian Guru, who points out that it works over Wi-Fi as well as on the cellular network. The interface is easy to use and the app is basic but well thought-through. There is even a neat walkthrough video on YouTube showing you how Stew works.
One of the flaws with Stew at the moment is that it’s limited to posting and receiving other posts and won’t let you reply to contacts posts. As the Guru points out ‘I don’t know if this is a limitation in Stew or a limitation in the S60 widget implementation, but either way, it certainly limits the usefulness of Stew.’
We’re all accustomed to having a camera built into our phones these days but do we really make the most of them? Over at All About Symbian, the guys there have taken the last six months picking apart all aspects of living with your phone’s camera. They’ve finally reached the conclusion with part twelve. It’s a great catch-all piece discussing everything from the Megapixel Myth to getting to grips with video editing. Get the Nitty Gritty on your camera.
In the flurry of device and Apps Store news that was last week’s MWC, it was easy for smaller new stories to slip through. One such has been picked up by Ars Technica concerns Nokia ending its support for Jambi, a Java port of the Qt framework and widget toolkit.
Nokia is releasing Qt Jambi 4.5, making this the final version it’ll support, handing future development over to the Nokia community. Nokia will continue hosting the development infrastructure, to help the project stay alive and kickingRead more about Qt Jambi 4.5.