Roughly 10 days ago we reported about Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS smartphones v2.16. Well, now they’ve released a new upgrade to include support for the upcoming Nokia E51 and Sony Ericsson W960i smartphones. But, as usual – it’s not just additional smartphones that’s included in the new version. The latest version of…
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Symbian answers to Android threat: We’ve heard it all before!
Following Google’s announcement of their Android platform and the overall Open Handset initiative, media was interested to hear from other industry leaders their thoughts. Apparently, Symbian is not afraid of Google even arguing they’ve already seen this kind of initiatives taking place in the past. Commenting on Android, Symbian’s VP of strategy John Forsyth said:…
Sony Ericsson fans in UK will have to wait for the W960i till January 2008
While the rest of the world, excluding the U.S. I guess, will get a chance to try out the latest Sony Ericsson’s Walkman smartphone W960i this Christmas, mobile users of UK will have to wait a little bit longer. According to the Swedish-Japanese handset maker, it’s the Christmas season’s crowded mobile phones market people of…
Brief: Nokia N95 8 GB initial impressions
Just shot the unboxing video, will upload later today. I’ve had the N95 for a little under 24 hours now and initial impressions are fantastic. Build quality is out of this world for an Nseries device, on demand paging is literally a gift from god thanks to absolutely zero memory errors, battery life is amazing,…
Videos: Robert Scoble interviews and demos Taptu, a mobile search engine
Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at http://www.podtech.net/home/4517/the-best-mobile-search-engine In this first video Robert Scoble talks to Bob Lastt from Taptu about search engines on mobile phones. It is quite long so if you want to go straight to a demo of the Taptu service just watch the second video. Back…
Nokia is bringing bloggers to the motherland for an Nseries launch on the 13th
I wasn’t sure if this was supposed to be private information or not, but Mark from The Nokia Blog already let the cat out of the bag on Howard Forums. Nokia is sending a few bloggers to their headquarters in Espoo, Finland for an “Nseries Launch.” Could it be the N82 we have all been…
T-Mobile gives in, allows pro-rated early termination fees
Contract killing has never been so sweet. No, we’re not condoning homicide-for-hire, we’re talking about killing your wireless contract with your wireless carrier. AT&T already gave in to consumer demand, and Verizon recently jumped on the pro-rating bandwagon, so it’s not really surprising that our favorite US carrier is now offering a pro-rated Early Termination…
Sprint Arcade – subscription gaming for mobile phones, seriously
Poor Sprint. They’re always getting the short-end of the wireless-market-stick as the No. 3 national carrier. Their CEO is gone. They just had their WiMAX aspirations knocked down a notch with the recent WiMAX 3G standardization. The whole WiMAX deal is still on the table. So, now Sprint’s trying to regain lost ground in their…
Video: 25 minute of HTC Touch versus Apple iPhone, Fight!
I didn’t watch this because I don’t need 25 minutes to realize I don’t need/want an iPhone. You on the other hand might actually care. Chris over at Mobility Site said this is one of the best comparisons of the iPhone to Windows Mobile he has ever seen and that is good enough for me…
Video: Nokmote, when developers get creative with the accelerometer inside the N95
This French developer is highly creative and makes me wonder why Nokia took so long to tell people about the built in accelerometer inside the N95, N95 8 GB, soon to be N82 and hopefully more models down the line. Check it out: NokmoteUploaded by soueldi