CIOL (Cybermedia India Online Limited), an Indian IT-focused website, had a chance to interview Symbian’s CEO, Nigel Clifford. In a brief interview, he goes through recently announced POSIX libraries, feature phone market, Symbian’s clients, Symbian’s development facility activities in India, and more. As for the iPhone, Nigel commented: “Apple is following a trend that has…
Sony Ericsson Developer World: 2006 in review
Another year is now behind and Mikael Nerde, Head of Sony Ericsson Developer World, shares his thoughts on 2006 and his excitement about the plans for 2007. In an interesting article, aside from other things Mikael also discusses the UIQ 3 platform. He sees it as a very strategic for Sony Ericsson, and looks forward…
Samsung introduces the first truly double-sided LCD
Here’s another interesting technology we could see implemented in the future phones. Samsung announced the “world’s first” truly double-sided LCD, that can display two entirely different sets of information simultaneously on the front and back of the same screen. The 2.22-inch display is 2.6-mm thick and features a QVGA (240×320) resolution, support for 265k colors,…
Nokia N800 Internet Tablet
Ring Nokia’s Stefan Constantinescu found the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet unboxing photos on Flickr. The new photos clearly show-off the name of the device, living no doubt that the the next Nokia’s Internet Tablet WON’T be called “870” or “880”. No “WiMAX” or “GPR” sign on the box. Just hope it will feature a better…
Happy New Year!
Just a quick note to wish you all the best in the year 2007. May all your wishes come true. We are so happy to have you as a reader and are looking forward to serve you even better next year. We also wish to express our gratitude to our sponsors – Sugarpipe, BlueAnt, Popular…
REAL Skype client comes to Symbian!?
Skype is already unofficially available on Symbian platform through services such as Fring, SoonR and iSkoot, with the last mentioned using the Skype branding. However, the REAL Skype client for Symbian is something we are looking forward to use. Now, Swedish S60 Blog writes about the subject. According to them, the Swedish company Ocean Observations…
Astraware to enter Symbian software market!?
Palm OS and Windows Mobile / Pocket PC – based device owners are certainly familiar with at least one of the Astraware’s products. As a matter of fact, Astraware’s products are among the most popular software titles on the (mobile software) market today. It’s always a good news to find out that they are preparing…
CNN correspondent praises Nokia N90
Again, thanks to Ring Nokia we’ve found another story with journalist’s praise of a Nokia smartphone. This time it’s the CNN correspondent, Nic Robertson, who sees the Nokia N90 as “the future of live broadcast”. According to Robertson, the usefulness of the camera phones for journalists reflects itself in the simple fact that by having…
Samsung's "optical joystick"
Last week Samsung announced an interesting feature phone (SCH-V960) sporting what they call the “optical joystick”. In its press release, Samsung points out that the mention technology may revolutionize the way users interact with the menu and mobile handsets’ UI. Users utilize the optical joystick key by placing their finger and moving a cursor to…
Clyde Bentley: "Pocket journalism is coming"
Clyde Bentley, an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, who spent 25 years in the newspaper industry and now focus on online journalism, had a chance to try out the Nokia N93. Now, I’m sure that all you gays and gals know exactly how cool the N93 is, but this guy is a…