Some of you may remember the delicious scoop Symbian Freak got on the Nokia N82. He claimed 2 things that did not happen and thus tarnished his credibility. One of them was naviwheel support, the other was USB charging. Here is an official Nokia video that indeed shows the naviwheel being used to rotate the…
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irRemote for S60 3rd edition released; Turns your phone into a universal remote control
Remember Psiloc’s irRemote from the days of Series60 2nd edition? Well, it has been finally ported to work with the latest Nokia and other S60 3rd edition based smartphones. By now you probably understood how the application works. By using the infrared port (unfortunately the Nokia N82 lacks one), it turns your smartphone into a…
iNES NES/Famicom emulator ported to UIQ 3 Phones
Symbian UIQ3 based smartphone owners, here’s some good news for you. Now you will be able to enjoy all the NES games “back from the days” and revive the memories from your childhood. Earlier, we saw other platforms (S60, iPhone, etc) getting their share of the NES action and finally the wait is over. So…
Jamster now offers free iPhone content
One of the leading providers of mobile entertainment, Jamster, has recently unveiled its iPhone offering. Users simply need to visit www.jamster.co.uk from their iPhone and grab all the cool content — including music, music videos, amusing videos, movie trailers, and bonus material for selected films — for free. In addition, Jamster will be also providing…
Verizon and Vodafone create a new service for multi-national organizations
Vodafone and Verizon have created a new service to appeal to the multi-national organizations and their “worldy” needs. The new “best-in-class” offering is designed to provide customers with a “consistent approach to products and pricing” under a single contract for the whole world. The way I see it, the two carriers will ship as many…
Nokia’s Romanian factory complete, set to begin producing phones January 15 2008
A story that hits a little close to home, Nokia’s factory in Cluj is complete ahead of schedule. There are still a few problems concerning feeding the building enough power and the roads to the plant need to be built, but Romania and Nokia are confident that work can begin in the middle of January.…
The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown now available
Like Simpsons? Yeah, you do. Well, now thanks to EA Mobile you can play with Homer and save the day. The goal of the game is to prevent a meltdown at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, while interacting with Bart, Mr. Burns, Apu and some other Springfieldians. Naturally, not all citizens of Springfield will be…
YouMail partners with Salient Media to provide comedic voicemail greetings from Katt Williams
I don’t know have you heard about YouMail. They have created a service that (among other things) recognizes people who call and allows users to record a different greeting tailor-made just for them, either by the user or chosen from YouMail’s archive of thousands of pre-recorded greetings. And now, they’re announcing their first premium content…
Papa John’s Pizza goes mobile
Apparently ordering a pizza can be a hassle for some people, hence Pizza restaurants are turning to technology to remove (almost) any human contact with their customers. Just kidding, I guess it’s the convenience Pizza restaurants wants to provide to their customers. Following Domino’s Pizza, we now have Papa John’s restaurants accepting orders by text…
Video: Nokia singing about Web 2.0
TechCrunch found a video Nokia just put up about Web 2.0 that is quite interesting to say the least. They talk about Facebook, Youtube, and … I’m not going to spoil it, just watch below. The comments on his blog echo what is going on inside my head: Wow that was really horrible. that was…