Just unpacked a N95 8GB that was standing around. Before I used the "normal" N95 so there are only a few minor differences but they are pretty cool:

• Bigger Screen, but same resolution :-(
• Bigger Mem, 8GB, just like the iPhone
• Faster Cam, Probably because it can write faster to the memory, because it is built in.
• No SD card slot, how cool would it be if you could put 2 additional GB in, just like the iPhone.
  
• Full Spiderman 3 Movie pre installed. I somehow missed it and then was quite surprised to find it on the phone, the quality is awesome too.

Unpacking this beauty, little fat though.

mShell on N95 8GB

mShell works perfectly fine just like on the N95, but there's a bug with mVNC because of the bigger screen, the bottom part of the picture is kinda streched (see picture). I hope to get the GPS NMI working soon so that we can use this awesome built in capability. There are some cool apps out there like RotateMe or the Light Sabor that use the accelometer sensor, which detects motion of the phone. We hope to release an NMI for that soon too!

Anyhow, I'd say the N95 8GB is one of the coolest phones out there right now: Many sensors, good cam, great screen, etc. 

I've been diving into the Symbian platform lately. I already worked with it in some minor MIDP (Java) projects but the last few weeks have been filled with reading trough the documentation and checking out the example programs. Its interesting to see how Symbian has tweaked the C++ language quite a bit with strict naming conventions that are necessary for the compiler so that he knows what he ought to do. There is it's own kind of exception handling, etc. When you have finally compiled a program then you need to go trough a expensive and lengthy signing process in order to make the file distributable. 

All this makes mShell so cool because it gives anyone from kickass programmer to the beginner access to many Symbian features, leaving out the whole complicated developing process. We see people using it as a prototyping tool or implementing one of the many little programs that just gives you the feature your handheld computer is missing. But we also used mShell for quite sophisticated projects like distributed BT dispensers, where people could come up to a terminal, turn BT on and receive free content or other programmers that have taken it quite far like a full blown ICQ client or an FTP program.

Hey mShell community. It's my honor to announce the opening of a blog to the mShell site.

We'll use this platform to inform about the internal development process, our experience with mShell and Symbian and other fun stuff we come across. From now on, all news are published here about mShell and mVNC.

I personally (Luke) hope to get you closer to the mShell team and that you'll get to know better who's behind that smart and fast code :-)