T-Mobile USA has two new color options for the popular mid-ranger, Nokia 5310 XpressMusic. We’re talking about “White Aqua” and “White Silver” versions, both of which are identical to the original model in terms of specs. The music-ready device(s) should sell like hot cupcakes now when the Deutsche Telekom-owned mobile operator is offering them for…
S60 5th Edition SDK 1.0 now available!
Nokia has released the full version, 1.0, of the S60 5th Edition SDK (previously available was version 0.9). Available through Forum Nokia, the new version adds support for keypad-off display in the emulator, additional languages, a start-up progress indicator for the emulator. In addition, a number of bugs, issues and deficiencies have been fixed, and…
Nokia Makes Your Text Messages Artsy, Hard to Read
Man, Nokia sure has some neat stuff coming out of their labs. This Text Art app for the E71 takes your SMS messages and re-jiggers them for MMS format, so when you want to send a particularly important text, you can give it that little bit of extra expression. Artist Marius Waltz came up with…
Ovi Blue Symbian S60 theme looks simple, cool
Need a new theme for your Symbian S60 smartphone. Here’s a cool solution made by Nokia’s Ovi team, which will certainly make your device look “ready for the spring.” Yap, that’s the way I see it. The theme is called “Ovi Blue” and it looks clear and fresh — I can’t find better words to…
Windows 98 running on Nokia N95!
Seeing Windows 3.1 running on an already-aged Nokia N95 reminded us just how far we’ve come in the past decade, or so. Then there was that iPhone running Mac OS 7 (System 7). Mobile phones these days, smartphones especially, are jam-packed with more computing power than we would have thought possible before the turn of…
Nokia Places Bets on LTE, Device by 2010
James Harper, senior manager of technology marketing at Nokia, talked up their LTE plans in Texas recently, much to the chagrin of Sprint and their hopes for a successful WiMAX network. “WiMAX has some place in the market, but we do believe it’s a niche play,” Harper says. Some think Verizon is the one who…
Confirmed: Nokia “Coming With Music” to U.S. this year
Ars Technica is reporting that Nokia will be bringing its “Comes With Music” offering to the United States. In a recent interview, the company’s Senior Manager for North American Communications, Chris Morris, said that U.S. will be blessed with Nokia’s unlimited music offering “sometime in 2009.” Nothing to specific, but then again, enough to keep…
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic NAM firmware update to fix US 3G problems
Nokia’s US-launch of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and its S60 5th Edition-powered touchscreen has been anything but smooth. Following on rumors that some Nokia 5800 XpressMusic NAM handsets were failing to lock down a 3G wireless signal, Nokia pulled all 5800 XM NAM units from flagship store shelves and replaced them wtih European models. The…
Maemo 5 Alpha SDK is out!
It was back in December when we saw the pre-alpha Maemo 5 SDK being released. The platform is advancing, and now we have the full Alpha version released, bringing a whole new finger-friendly UI framework among other things. Although “Alpha” usually stands for “adventurous developers, only,” Maemo team says the new release is a good…
Nokia releases Qt 4.5, Qt Creator
A new version of Nokia’s cross-platform and UI framework, Qt 4.5, has been released. Along with it, the Finnish giant unveiled Qt Creator, a lightweight cross-platform IDE, which together with Qt 4.5 comprises the Qt SDK. As we’ve already mentioned almost two months ago, Qt 4.5 is released under very flexible LGPL, allowing developers to…