The whole point of buying a Symbian OS smartphone like the 9500 is that its multitasking lets you keep loads of things running at once. Starting up applications takes three seconds a time, so you don'...
Get the largest memory card that you can comfortably afford. When manipulating very large files (e.g. short video clips), it's helpful to get yourself a USB card reader/writer, so that you can copy th...
Whether you've received a Microsoft Office file by email or perhaps copied it onto your communicator using PC Suite, it's often best to work using Symbian OS's native Word and Sheet formats rather tha...
Yes, yes, you know your 9500's got 'Wi-Fi', but if you haven't got this (or broadband) at home, or if you're often away from base, don't despair. Wi-Fi (effectively wireless Internet) is becoming more...
Never, ever forget that this Symbian OS is a powerful multi-tasking Operating System. Here's a terrific example. Why not grab your email in the background? In Messaging (properly set up, I hope, with ...
Calendar on the Nokia 9300 has a pretty unusable Day view, with lots of up and down scrolling needed by default to see appointments at both ends of the day, meaning that some will get missed. Go to 'V...
The rebadged Opera in Nokia 9500 needs a lot of RAM to work in. Luckily the 9500's got quite a bit. But it also needs a reasonable size disk cache, so go into 'Settings' and set 'Maximum cache size' t...
For those upgrading from a Psion Series 3 or Series 5/Revo palmtop, the absence of DATA (or even Jotter) is a blow. Quite apart from names and addresses (which are now in Contacts, of course), DATA wa...
You might think that the version of PC Suite shipped with your Nokia Device is quite adequate and that any versions posted online will be simple bug fixes - but you'd be wrong.. Nokia has been adding ...
If you're not using File manager every day, then you're not getting the most out of your 9210 or 9500 Communicator. It's that important, and it's a bit like the old Psion Series 5 System screen. Unlik...