Nokia has completed its acquisition of gate5 AG, which software is integrated in the recently announced Nokia N95. The acquisition of gate5 is an important step in developing the new product category of multimedia computers that offer people multiple ways to connect to information, entertainment and other people.
Smartphone Radio
One week ahead of the Symbian Smartphone Show, Symbian is inviting you to tune into Smartphone Radio to hear Mike Southon, best-selling business author and technology commentator speaking to some of the industry’s leading mobile visionaries. Mike has interviewed some of the most influential proponents of the smartphone industry to unearth their views on how…
Top 15 Nokia N91 Tips and Tricks
Nokia Nseries N91 Blogger Relations Blog site has a great compilation of 15 tips for Nokia N91 music phone. Here are the tips in brief: Always use the latest PC suite Use Nokia Audio Manager Keep your N91’s firmware up-to-date Use SMS accelerator Maximize the battery life by turning off WCDMA, WLAN and 3D screen…
The unexpected convergence
New smartphone applications regularly reach out to touch unexpected areas of our lives – areas that we previously thought had nothing to do with smartphones. In his latest insight article David Wood EVP of Research at Symbian takes us through some of the exciting new services available, making it possible for everyone to do more:…
What would you change about built-in S60 applications?
Any ideas? Apparently many of you guys and gals have two cents to add on the top of the existing functionality of the S60 devices, as Tommi’s Blog, part of the S60 Blogs, asked the same question and got some very interesting answers. Not to bug you too much, here are the top five suggestions:…
Symbian BlackBerry!?
New report from the leading Japanese financial services group, Nomura Holdings Inc., indicates that Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) could soon start to produce its flagship BlackBerry devices with Symbian OS. That’s still very speculative, but the fact stands that as the demand of the customers grow, RIM’s platform won’t be able to handle such…
Nokia Design Contest
I find it interesting to speculate how will mobile phones look in the future. Nokia Design Contest is the place for designers where they can present their ideas for the exactly such cellphone. To be more specific – the goal was to design phones that would hit the market in 2015. Daniel Meyer of the…
Holiday time with Nokia E61
The modern business environment is so hectic and pressured that work-life balance is vital if you want to stay sane and healthy. So why on earth would you want to take your handheld device from work with you? Nokia For Business website has a great article justifying such move. The device they are mentioning in…
dotMobi will auction off premium names
mTLD, the company that administers top-level domain name .mobi, has made available a 149 page long list (PDF) of premium site names. The mentioned document is a compilation of commonly used (“generic”) words and phrases which mTLD has set aside for equitable allocation using other than a traditional (aka – auction) first come first serve…
The making of a Nokia (smart)phone
“In its nine (soon to be 10) factories around the world, mobile-phone giant Nokia will churn out approximately 325 million handsets this year alone. That’s 10 phones per second, every hour of every day, all year long.” BusinessWeek brings us a great article titled “Nokia’s Magnificent Mobile-Phone Manufacturing Machine“. The author of the article discovers…