By Dusan Belic on Monday, September 18th, 2006 at 9:11 AM PST
In Devices, NSeries, Nokia, Symbian
Symbian Freak noted that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) released the firmware update for its flagship N93. The new update should improve the N93’s performance as well as fixing several known bugs and problems.
Some of the improvements include:
The complete list of improvements is available here.
By Dusan Belic on Saturday, September 16th, 2006 at 4:51 AM PST
In Devices, ESeries, Nokia, Symbian
E-series smartphone owners will be glad to know that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) recently released the update for their devices. I’ve already posted about the E61 update, now it’s available for the whole “E” range. – E50, E60, E61, and E70.
The first version killed some E70s, but the bug is fixed and E70 owners can now safely update their devices. Here’s the link.
By Dusan Belic on Saturday, September 16th, 2006 at 4:50 AM PST
In Devices, NSeries, Nokia, Rumors, Symbian
Potentially new Nokia (NYSE: NOK) smartphones is spotted. The rumor is that the device is Nokia N75, a new addition to the popular Nokia N-series.
Apparently, the device will have a clamshell form factor and the first picture indicates it will look very much like the Motorola (NYSE: MOT) RAZR phone. Other features include QVGA 240×320 display, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS support, 2 MP camera. At the moment it’s not known whether or not the device will sport the WLAN connectivity.
As far as I can tell, the device has all the attributes of the bestseller and I can’t wait to see it in action. 
UPDATE: I’ve made a typo in this post, as I’ve wrote “N95″ instead of “N75″. Sorry!
By Dusan Belic on Saturday, September 16th, 2006 at 4:47 AM PST
In Applications, Content, Mobile Web, Symbian
Phonescoop has an interesting post involving the new version of S60 web browser. According to Phonescoop, the biggest and the most important change is that the web browser is no longer a separate application from the WAP browser; they’re integrated now. You can view WAP 1.0, WAP 2.0, xHTML, and HTML pages all in one place.
Other updates include:
For the complete list check out the Phonescoop’s article.
By Dusan Belic on Friday, September 15th, 2006 at 10:36 AM PST
In Events, Symbian, Symbian Smartphone Show
Symbian Smartphone Show 2006 announced the full keynote programme:
Tuesday 17 October 2006
Wednesday 18 October 2006
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By Stefan Constantinescu on Friday, September 15th, 2006 at 10:03 AM PST
In Applications
Handango, the leading provider of mobile content, announced the winners of the Handango Champion Awards at the sixth annual Handango Partner Summit. Nominated by customers and judged by a panel of industry experts and media, the Handango Champion Awards were presented for BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM), Palm (NSDQ: PALM) OS, UIQ, S60 and Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC and Smartphone applications in the following categories: Best Application for Work, Best Application for Play, Best Application for Life, Best New Application and Best Industry Application. Read the full article »
By Stefan Constantinescu on Friday, September 15th, 2006 at 8:41 AM PST
In General, Symbian
New smartphone applications regularly reach out to touch unexpected areas of our lives – areas that we previously thought had nothing to do with smartphones. In his latest insight article David Wood EVP of Research at Symbian takes us through some of the exciting new services available, making it possible for everyone to do more: share more, achieve more, watch more, work more, listen more, play more, live more.
In each case, a relatively low-tech part of life is in the process of being subtly transformed by a relatively unanticipated new application or service on advanced mobile phones. For instance, David argues that smartphone could have its place in such areas of life as golf, TV recording, travel (checking into hotels), health, gambling.
Read the whole article by David Wood.
By Stefan Constantinescu on Friday, September 15th, 2006 at 6:37 AM PST
In Gaming
Atom Entertainment, Inc. (now part of Viacom) recently announced that its leading online games destination Shockwave.com unveiled a mobile games store offering a vast library of the best mobile titles from Shockwave.com each month. The new store offers around 40 games priced between $4 and $7 each, and includes mobile versions of Shockwave.com’s popular titles such as Jewel Quest and Diner Dash. Shockwave.com also announced that future games may be ad-supported and cost less (or even free!).
By Dusan Belic on Thursday, September 14th, 2006 at 1:46 PM PST
In Research
Only 12 months ago there were 2 billion mobile phones around the world. A year later, things have changed with half billion added, reaching the total number of 2.5 billion mobile phones in use.
A quarter of the growth is (of course) coming from China and India, two of the most inhabited countries. But the growth is also coming from Russia, USA, Pakistan, Ukraine, Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria and Bangladesh.
The cellular industry took 20 years to reach 1 billion connections, three years to reach 2 billion connections and is on target to reach its third billion in a period of just over two years.
Cellular news has a full story.
By Dusan Belic on Thursday, September 14th, 2006 at 1:45 PM PST
In Applications, General, Symbian
Any ideas? Apparently many of you guys and gals have two cents to add on the top of the existing functionality of the S60 devices, as Tommi’s Blog, part of the S60 Blogs, asked the same question and got some very interesting answers.
Not to bug you too much, here are the top five suggestions:
For the complete list with all the details check out the Tommi’s post. While you’re there make sure to subscribe to his blog.
