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Kik Messenger launches Symbian app
Kik Messenger, one of the more popular group messaging apps we talked about in the past, is going for the slowly dying Symbian community, which still counts impressive number of users. Their free to download application is now available in the Nokia Ovi Store and it [app] allows those of you with Symbian smartphones to keep-up with other users of Kik Messenger, whether they use the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone smartphone. In other words, Kik now supports the top five mobile platforms in the world. If you haven’t … Read more
Dusan Belic
Samsung holds on to top mobile manufacturer spot in U.S.
comScore has just released some numbers relating to the U.S. wireless market in the three months leading up to October, and Samsung is still on top, claiming 25.5% of all mobile subscribers (among smartphones and otherwise). The numbers haven’t changed too much since their September survey, so there aren’t a lot of surprises. LG was nexddt up, with 20.6%, followed by Motorola with 13.6%, and Apple with 10.8%. RIM’s handset market share predictably dropped -0.8%, while platform market share dropped 4.6%. Of course, the survey is only taking place in the U.S.; … Read more
Simon Sage
Symbian Carla and Donna to be the next versions of Nokia’s dying operating system
At a Nokia developer event that took place earlier this week in Mexico, one of the presenters had a slide up that revealed the next two versions of Symbian and what makes them standout. Similar to how Google names Android versions by using dessert names in alphabetical order (Donut, Eclair, Froyo, etc.), Nokia is using women’s first names. After Symbian^3 there was Symbian Anna, then Belle, and now we know about Carla and Donna. Carla is set to introduce a new version of the Nokia browser, version 8, which we … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Rumor: Nokia to release a Symbian based flagship camera phone in Q2 2012
Say what you want about iOS, Android, or Windows Phone, and how each of those platforms have their respective strengths and weaknesses. For those folks who simply want the best camera phone on the market, Nokia’s been targeting that audience since the N90 started shipping in Q2 2005 thanks to the combination of the company’s total control over Symbian and their use of Carl Zeiss optics. Over time the competition has gotten better, we don’t deny that for a minute, just look at the images that Samsung’s Galaxy S II … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Opera Mini 6.5 now available for iOS, Symbian, J2ME, and BlackBerry devices
Our Norwegian friends at Opera Software [Disclosure: Photo above from an event last month that they invited me to and paid for both my flight and hotel] have just released a new version of Opera Mini for devices that run Symbian, Java applications, the Apple iPhone, and RIM’s BlackBerry lineup. With version 6.5 the most notable feature is the introduction a data meter. It shows you not only how much data you’ve consumed while using Opera Mini, but how much data you saved because of Opera’s compression technology. Here’s how … Read more