Sony Ericsson has made available updates for two of its smartphones, W950i and P990i. The W950i update is minor, and brings better speed dial previews, new payment transactions menu, and more free RAM. On the other hand, after the P990i works like a charm. There’s more free memory and many things work faster, including menu…
Make something awesome with Nokia’s Open C and get $10,000
Open C is a feature of the S60 operating system that makes porting applications written in C ridiculously easy. Read more about it on Forum Nokia: Symbian recently introduced four of the basic POSIX libraries on Symbian OS. With Open C, S60 is implementing five additional C libraries built on open source projects including OpenSSL,…
Pictures: Evening with S60 Helsinki
“TheBlueNile” attended Nokia’s third Evening with S60 event, the first two being in NYC and Chicago. He enjoyed the vibe and says the party was more about getting to meet the people behind S60 than the actual hardware. I’m glad this is the case, people never appreciate the hard work employees put into making the…
Video: Review of the Jaiku Beta client for S60
This kicks Twitter in the balls and then makes love to its mother. Jonathan Greene takes a stab at reviewing the latest beta of the S60 Jaiku client and he does a great job, but if you’re going to watch the video you should definitely read his editorial about why the aggregation features make this…
Truphone 3.0 is almost here
If you’re a Nokia smartphone user or one of our readers, you’re probably already familiar with Truphone VoIP client. The main advantage of this app is that it automatically uses wireless networks where available, thus provides users with as seamless as possible usage of their serve — and what I mean is that Skype is…
Image of the new N Gage platform surfaces
Symbian France took a picture of a Nokia N95 hooked up a plasma television showing off the new N Gage platform. It looks like Nokia is trying to take the best of XBOX Live and make a mobile version of it. What do you think?
Nokia E90 vs E61i: Which should you buy?
Steve from All About Symbian takes a look at Nokia Enterprise Divison’s flagship E90 and the ever popular E61i. I’m biased since I own an E61i, but I’ll sell a kidney for the E90. 3.2 megapixel camera, 800 pixel wide screen, the thing is brilliant. The keyboard however is a little less than desirable, the…
Review: Private Jaiku beta for Nokia’s S60 platform
Jaiku is the Finnish version of Twitter, except smarter. Ken Camp takes a look at the invite only beta version of the S60 Jaiku client and it is definitely shaping up to be the most advanced microblogging platform out there. What I like is the ability to import rss feeds of all the other social…
AVG Mobile Security BETA released for Symbian UIQ 3 smartphones
I’m not aware of any existing virus for Sony Ericsson Symbian UIQ 3-based smartphones. Yet, the company that develops the popular AVG security software Grisoft announced AVG Mobile Security BETA for the mentioned devices (Sony Ericsson M600, W950 and P990). They want to scare us or what? Symbian v9.x that runs under the UIQ 3…
3 launches their X-Series in Italy with the Nokia N95
Bellissimo! 3, the European operator that is pushing people to use their mobile in whatever way they want, has just launched in Italy with none other than the Nokia N95! As much as I like what 3 is trying to do I’m going to have to recommend that people buy an unlocked or unbranded headset.…