Following his earlier article – “Emulators for S60 3rd Edition phones“, Marat Fayzullin just released iNES for Symbian mobile phones running the S60 3rd edition devices. The new application runs games written for Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom, and Famicom DiskSystem consoles, and can open files with “.nes”, “.nes.gz”, “.fds” and “.fds.gz” extensions. Using iNES…
N95 news wrap-up
Following the N93, we decided to wrap-up the news for Nokia N95. Here comes: Forbes Magazine ranked Nokia N95 as the first of “ten must-have” gadgets Stuff, UK-based gadget and gear magazine, featured “the best phone ever” on the cover of its December issue The Nokialist and SymbianFrance reviewed the Nokia N95 More N95 photos:…
Ruby for Symbian OS released
Symbian is releasing Ruby for Symbian OS to the Open Source software developer community. Ruby for Symbian OS brings the power of the Ruby programming language to the Symbian ecosystem More info: http://developer.symbian.com Download : http://developer.symbian.com/main/downloads/files/S60_Ruby_3rd.zip Source: Caffo’s VOX Dilemma Now I know I’ve heard the term Ruby before, it’s frequently used by marketing departments…
It's iSkoot not Skype for 3's X-Series
This week’s announced X-Series from 3 also featured Skype among the partners. However, Skype has not completed its own solution for Symbian handsets and the company has chosen iSkoot to deliver a solution to mobile operators. 3 is the first mobile operator to launch this new service and will preload the iSkoot’s Skype-branded solution on…
First music video created on the Nokia N93
This week, Nokia premiered the first music video created solely on the Nokia N93 device. Rob Dickinson’s “Oceans” is the second single off his debut solo album, entitled “Fresh Wine for the Horses”. Director of the video, Mike Hodgkinson, said: “The great thing about the Nokia N93 cameraphone is that we were able to go…
Handy Essentials bundle pack released
We’ve already posted information about Epocware’s Handy Essentials family of products. Now, they decided to put them all into a bundle pack. The new package consists of Handy Alarm, Handy Keylock and Handy Taskman, and is available for Symbian S60 2nd and 3rd Edition based devices. To remind you, Handy Essentials applications are developed to…
Black Nokia E50
Just when we wrapped-up E50’s reviews, it seems that Nokia decided to make a black version of its “smallest of Eseries” devices. To remind you, the E50 is Nokia’s lightweight low-cost smartphone, powered by Symbian OS v9.1 and S60 3rd Edition. It also sports the 1.3 MP camera (no autofocus), 70 MB of internal memory…
100 million Symbian smartphones shipped
With 100 million Symbian smartphones shipped to over 250 network operators worldwide since Symbian’s formation, today Symbian reached an important milestone. “Hitting the 100 million mark with over 100 different models currently shipping from 10 leading handset vendors is a phenomenal achievement for Symbian and a strong indication that more and more people are embracing…
F-Secure Mobile Security launched
F-Secure announced the launch of its latest mobile product, F-Secure Mobile Security, which now features a firewall to guard against mobile malware threats and intrusion attempts. The new package is the first full mobile security product for Symbian S60 3rd Edition-based devices, and is an an important step forward for the level of protection available…
AquaCalendar 5.1 for S60 3rd Edition devices
Pocket Torch’s AquaCalendar is one of the best PIM applications for Symbian devices. Current, built-in calendar lacks many features, and 3rd party application developers use this to their advantage. For instance AquaCalendar sports such features as: Contacts with T9 search Today view with tasks and messages Categories, templates and icons support Scalable fonts and zooming…