I’ve been thinking about this for some time, and now I’ve decided to share my thoughts with you folks. Don’t know about you, but I simply love the Motorola Q’s form factor. Don’t get me wrong, Motorola hasn’t invented the full QWERTY keyboard equipped smartphone with the Q. Rather, the American handset manufacturer made it…
Video: NiiMe, using a Nokia N95 accelerometer to act as a mouse
The Matrix is close to being a decade old, but it doesn’t stop people from using the soundtrack when making a demo video. NiiMe is a python application written to take advantage of the built in accelerometer inside the Nokia N95 (and probably N95 8GB and N82) to emulate a mouse. I’m wondering if this…
8 new music oriented S60 themes
If you subscribe to the S60 Newsletter you’re bound to get an email once in a blue moon offering you some free themes. I’m not comfortable with the way these particular S60 themes were marketed, as being for the Samsung i450 only. The whole point of S60 is to have a platform that transcends device…
Rick Dangerous ported to Symbian S60; Old Commodore 64 users rejoice!
Don’t know about you, but I’ve spent countless days and nights playing Rick Dangerous “back in the days.” And now, after it was previously released for Windows Mobile, the famous title is available for Nokia and other Symbian S60 based smartphones. The storyline is simple – armed with pistol and dynamite, it’s up to you…
30 million Symbian smartphone shipments in Japan up until the end of November 2007
Symbian Limited, the company behind the market leading mobile OS – Symbian OS, has just announced that over 30 million phones based on Symbian OS have shipped in Japan up until the end of November 2007. According to the company’s numbers, Symbian OS marketshare of the NTT DoCoMo FOMA market grew in one year from…
Motorola Z10 gets the FCC nod
Motorola’s recently officially unveiled Z10 Symbian UIQ smartphone has been spotted while passing the FCC hurdle. The about-to-be-released device comes with quad-bend GSM/EDGE radio, meaning it should work on T-Mobile and/or AT&T in the U.S. and whole of in Europe. There’s also UMTS/HSDPA, 3.2 MP camera, and the brand new UIQ 3.2 interface. Can’t wait…
Test: Qik on my phone
This a test of Qik, a service that allows you to stream video straight from your handset rather easily. I’m playing with it, want to see what the embedded channel looks like. With Mobile World Congress coming up I’m looking for the most no nonsense way to get video up on the net and share…
Video: Sony Ericsson M610i prototype review
Thank you Mateusz Kurowski for your review and email!
iPhone web traffic to Google outpaces all other smartphones
iPhone, Safari, web-browsing. There’s not much that needs to be said about the iPhone’s web-surfing prowess. We’ve lauded the Apple phone’s web-browser time and time again, and it seems the iPhone-owning population is really putting it to work. The New York Times is reporting that iPhone web-traffic to Google has surpassed that from BlackBerry and…
Nokia N95 8GB North American Edition hitting Nokia flagship store, online e-tailers this quarter; Could be yours for $749 unlocked!
Finally, Nokia used CES as an opportunity to officially confirm what we already know — they will be launching their flagship N95 8GB Symbian S60 based smartphone to the U.S. market. The right HSDPA frequencies (850/1900 MHz) are there, and the device should hit Nokia flagship stores in New York and Chicago, as well as…