Necessity is the mother of all invention. Google Voice is great service but without a native app for Nokia phones placing a call through the Google Voice number was a major hassle. In addition, I needed a proof of concept app for developing and deploying an app with the 1.9.x PyS60 runtime. The end result [...]

As I said in the previous part, the N97 sound playback is very good. There is no distortion, no hissing or cracking during playback. Even when you use the equalizer there is no audible distortion as long as you stay within sane limits.

Most of the time I transfer songs to the device in mass-storage [...]

Let me state upfront that this is not a typical phone review. Rather it’s the first part of series of articles written from a developers “point of view”. I will try to go over how it is to develop on this phone, the experiences while using it and of course the issues I encounter.

I am [...]

Recently I have installed and started experimenting with N97SDK 0.5. One of the first things I noticed that the emulator window is huge(due to the 360 x 640 phone resolution) and will be partially off-screen on mylaptop with its low resolution of 1280×800.

Creating the actual skin configuration file and the bitmap for the N97 is [...]