Here’s another MobileHeist – providing our readers with amazing deals on great products for a very limited time. Our software store and its software partner, Warelex, are teaming together for an outstanding offer: first glance at the latest version of Mobiola Web Camera, version 3, for symbian-based phones and a 2-day promotional sale for $4.95. Mobiola Web Camera is one of the most popular applications for symbian-based phones, which turns your phone into a high-quality PC webcam and this latest version offers cool video effects. Offer your users an unbelievable deal on Mobiola Web Camera 3 for Symbian. This product retails for $19.95, but for 2-days only - this Thursday and Friday (June 12th & 13th) - we’re selling it for $4.95, which is 75% off the retail price!

To get the savings, you’ll only need to add the product to your shopping cart – no coupon code required.

Link: Mobiola Web Camera, version 3, for Symbian based phones - $4.95

As they say, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Being a geek that doesn’t tend to enter my mind when a new firmware for one of my devices comes out.

In my defence, the v20.0.016 firmware for the Nokia N95 8GB added auto-rotate functionality, something I wanted (at the time anyway) since surfing in landscape is great, right up until text needs to entered. Auto-rotating would make it a lot more convenient!

The upgrade went smoothly, and after loading a few apps (Mail for Exchange, Opera Mini, Gmail and Windows Live Messenger) and entering my Exchange settings, my phone was back in business, with the auto-rotate support! But, the firmware seems to have a very irritating bug that makes me wish I hadn’t touched it. While Judie has been fixing problems, I’ve picked up a very irritating one.

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I really like how Astraware has begun to introduce their games to platforms other than just Palm, Windows Mobile, and a few odd iPod titles. Bringing their flavor of fun to the Symbian S60 and UIQ platforms means that even more people can enjoy losing themselves in a really good game, and now we can add Hidden Expedition: Titanic to their growing catalog.

Alison has also passed along this bit of goodness for those of you with Symbian S60 or UIQ phones:

On a related note, we’re still recruiting volunteer beta testers for UIQ and S60. If you think your readers would be interested, please point them to our blog post here: http://www.astraware.com/company/blog.php?entry=88

Here are many more screenshots, as well as information about Hidden Expedition: Titanic…
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Can you believe that it has been ten years since HanDBase came out? This was one of the first business tools I bought to run on my Palm, and it was also an application that I eagerly added to my Pocket PC once they crossed platforms. Modern versions of HanDBase will seamlessly sync between Palm OS, Windows Mobile (for Pocket PC and Smartphone), Symbian Series 60 and UIQ, and BlackBerry smartphones, and can be run from either a Windows or Mac computer. Pretty slick, right?

So what is HanDBase and why should you care?

HanDBase is a light and fast relational database manager for desktops, PDAs, and smartphones which offers data entry, searching, sorting, filtering, printing and synchronization across a wide variety of desktop computers, handheld computing devices and smartphones.

With HanDBase, you can create database forms to keep track of everything and anything. If you aren’t up to creating your own personalized forms, you can also download ones that others have created from DDH Software’s extensive database repository - which currently has over 2,000 titles!

That’s where the competition comes into play:

To mark their 10th Anniversary, DDH is “reviving its “HanDBase Applet of the Year” contest, seeking the most innovative uses for its popular HanDBase mobile database program for PDAs and smartphones. The goal for this year’s contest is to demonstrate how easy it is for anyone to develop a mobile solution for either work or personal use. The company will reward the Best Commercial Applet and Best Personal Applet with “HanDBase Runtime” licenses (a US $1,000.00 value) which will enable the winners to turn their entries into commercially-available standalone mobile applications.”

Are you up to the challenge? Read on…

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Alison from Astraware, a woman who is always eager to offer a game-style diversion, has just forwarded news about their latest…and it is really different.

You see, it is not for Palm, Windows Mobile, iPods, or your desktop- it is their first ever release of a Symbian S60 or UIQ smartphones title. Hooray!

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The title is Astraware Boardgames, and it “features 8 classic boardgames including Reversi, Chess, and Backgammon, all designed with casual players and non-experts in mind.” I’ve got it loaded on Sarah’s N95, and I hope she’ll let me give it a try…eventually.

The gameplay and graphics are designed to evoke the feel of classic board games, played on wooden boards, with traditional playing pieces and satisfying piece movement. Astraware Boardgames includes Chess, Backgammon, Ludo, Checkers, Reversi, Nine Men’s Morris, Snakes and Ladders, and Tic Tac Toe.

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