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Although things are looking dire for Symbian now that Nokia has taken over the reigns and effectively reduced the foundation to a token presence, Jo Harlow, Nokia’s senior VP of smartphones, has committed the platform to staying fresh, including a preloaded Swype gesture-based keyboard in the next update, and near-field communications in some existing devices…
Maybe the Nokia N8 didn’t strike your fancy, or you just can’t imagine a life without physical keyboards on smartphones. Either way, you’ll be getting a new option in terms of Symbian^3 devices from Nokia with the E7. We took a glance at this device a while back and we were impressed with the hardware.…
Last month we heard rumors that the Symbian Foundation might be closing up shop – giving the platform little to no hope of seeing life beyond the foreseeable future. Recently, we discovered SYMBEOSE, a consortium of companies devoted to enhancing the Symbian platform separate from the Symbian Foundation. It now appears that Nokia will also…
If you’ve ever been in a situation where you’ve wanted to tell the world about something, and Facebook or Twitter wasn’t the way you wanted to blast your thoughts out into the internets, then you’re probably a blogger. Chances are that if you blog, you use also WordPress. Their native application has been available on…
After the long delayed Nokia N8 shipped, the first smartphone powered by the new and improved yet ancient looking Symbian^3, the Nokia C7 quickly followed and now the C6-01 is also starting to make itself seen at a store near you. For those who may have a rusty memory, the Nokia N8 was announced back…
Recently, we learned that Apple is suing Nokia for patent infringements and was seeking to ban imports of the Finnish handset maker’s products. We really aren’t too sure specifically which patents Apple is referring to, and at this point it’s really hard to keep up. Nokia has also sued Apple for patent infringements in the…
Another month, another leaked Nokia device, this time in the form of a new QWERTY feature phone that’s being dubbed the X2-01. Earlier this year, in April, the Finnish handset maker launched the X2 and it was absolutely amazing in terms of the specifications you could get for just 85 EUR. The original X2 came…
Nokia gets a lot of heat from the press, analysts, and Wall Street for their smartphone lineup, but like Microsoft, who had a vision to put a computer on every desk, Nokia’s goal is to make a mobile phone that can go in everyone’s pocket. With the 5 billion mobile connection barrier having been broken…
With Apple’s iPad taking the world by storm, and with more operators signing on board to offer it to consumers, the tablet market has officially taken off. You know what that means, right? Competition. Samsung, with their Galaxy Tab, has tried to enter the spotlight, but reviews are mixed, especially since Google themselves are saying…
Symbian users who enjoy listening to podcasts on the go have typically had only one way to get their fix, and that’s with Nokia’s own built in client that for some reason or another enjoys being available on some devices, but not on others. A third party client called Symbian Podcatcher, which is based on…