The latest on smartphones (and other gadgets)

I am back using my Nokia N97. Why you may well ask. Why not rather use my new HTC Hero, or my new Palm Pre, or my Touch HD, or Blackberry Bold, or E90, or or or. Who knows, I definitely don’t. The Hero got taken off me by my son, who had been eyeing it for weeks. Anyway the N97 is not bad. I updated it with the latest software update, and it now does kinetic scrolling which gets it a bit closer to the kind of finger scrolling possible on the Hero and iPhone. The slide-out keyboard is also nice. Definitely beats typing on the Hero’s on-screen keyboard. Actually there is a lot to like about the N97: the widget based home screen, the browser, Gravity twitter client, nice size screen, and so on. The one area where it still fall short is the built-in email client which still doesn’t support html in rich text format. Tried the free Nokia Messaging client which is better but still not as good as it can be. I especially dislike the way in which the menu buttons use way too much screen real estate. That left me with no other choice but to once again install Profimail. It is not free, but it is good. Check it out at www.lonelycatgames.com