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In early November at the 2010 Symbian Exchange & Exposition in Amsterdam, Jo Harlow, Executive Vice President of Smart Devices at Nokia, said: “In early 2011, there will be things like split-screen text entry, portrait QWERTY and Swype integrated into the UI, as well as a new browser and a new browsing experience that is…
Nielson released some new information regarding how smartphone data usage has changed in the past year and it shows that usage has gone up even though prices haven’t. It’s no doubt that the amount of smartphones in the market has increased dramatically and this is all thanks to the growth of Android and the iPhone…
Need more shortcuts on the homescreen of your Symbian^3 device such as the Nokia N8, C7, C6-01 or E7? No problem thanks to the app called Favourite Apps. Available as a free download, it extends the default shortcut widget (which can handle 4 apps) by providing total of 15 spots for your favorite apps. Not…
Nokia may have pointed a gun to Symbian’s head and forced the aging operating system to commence a 2 year death march, but that hasn’t stopped the engineers at the Finnish handset maker to try and come up with innovative new features. These days most people begin their web browsing experience with a query typed…
Millennial Media, a market research company, just released its Mobile Mix report for the month of May to give us an idea of how the market is being split between all the major platforms. Wednesday, they released this chart showing us how Android and iOS are currently doing against Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry OS and…
I’m making the rounds in Finland to survey its mobile tech scene (disclosure: FinnFacts paid for my trip) and it was somewhat surprising to hear that the country’s software industry may see Nokia’s shift to Windows Phone as a big opportunity. I say it’s surprising because there has been a lot of (deserved) doom and…
If you own some of the older Symbian S60 touchscreen smartphones such as the Nokia N97, N97 mini or C6-00 – you may’ve noticed that adding an RSS feed on the homescreen isn’t as straightforward as it should be (or at least me thinks so). On the other hand, it’s not an impossible task and…
For some reason Nokia is shipping select Symbian^3 smartphones with text auto-correction turned off. Nokia C7 comes with the feature enabled by default and the E7 has a full QWERTY keyboard so it doesn’t need it. The two “problematic” devices are the N8 and C6-01, making typing on the virtual keyboard a pain. Luckily there’s…
IDC released their latest forecast today, claiming smartphone shipments would reach 472 million this year (versus 305 million in 2010, marking 55% growth) and skyrocket to 982 million by the end of 2015. IDC’s forecast of Windows Phone overtaking iPhone and BlackBerry market share by 2015 holds steady, along with their prediction that Symbian growth…
Back in October 2008 Nokia acquired a Canadian company called OZ Communications with the goal of putting their instant messaging client on all future Nokia handsets. Roughly 2.5 years later you can see bits and pieces of OZ’s software on Nokia’s low end feature phones, but devices running Symbian^3, the latest version of Symbian, only…