Shazam updated its mobile application for Nokia Symbian^3 devices. The Qt-based application comes with an improved user interface which is both cleaner and easier to navigate, making the app look and feel similar to its Android counterpart. If you own the Nokia N8, C6-01, C7 or E7, you’ll definitely want to update. The basic Shazam…
EU cancels plans for the SYMBEOSE project, no one really surprised at the decision
Back in November 2010 the Symbian Foundation announced SYMBEOSE, which stands for ‘Symbian: The Embedded Operating System for Europe’, with the goal of making Symbian an OS that could be used across a wide variety of devices and be supported by a large number of chipset vendors, software developers, and even academic institutions. Trouble is…
Nokia Oro: For yuppies who want a gold plated C7 with sapphire and leather
Earlier this month we wrote about a leaked Nokia handset called the Oro, and today it’s been made official. For 800 Euros, or more than $1100, you get the 7 month old C7 with 18-carat gold plating, a back made from Scottish leather, and a special home button made from sapphire. Oh and you also…
Mobile market grew 19% year over year in Q1
Gartner has posted their report for the first quarter of 2011, which shows predictably solid growth in smartphones, and re-establishes many trends we’ve been seeing all along. Nokia’s hardware market share has dipped to 25%, Samsung is down to 16%, and LG to 5.6%. That leaves Apple with 3.9% market share (up from 2.3% last…
T-Mobile’s 2011 roadmap leaks out – Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone 7, Oh, my!
Move over, Sensation 4G and Hercules, T-Mobile’s 2011 roadmap has just leaked, and it’s bringing a horde of new devices and a hotspot to the table. From new Android devices to BlackBerrys, Magenta’s upcoming portfolio is sure to impress. All dates are subject to change, of course, but there’s no doubt that the carrier will…
Nokia E6 and X7 available for pre-order in Finland, Germany; X7 in Portugal
Two Nokia Symbian Anna smartphones, E6 and X7, have started appearing for pre-order across Europe. After Three UK, which at the moment has only the X7 on its “Coming Soon” page, Finnish retailer Markantilo started taking pre-orders for the two devices. From their website we learn that the E6 will ship on June 10 and…
Fujitsu LOOX F-07C Dual-Boots Symbian and Windows 7
NTT DoCoMo has recently announced what some may call a Frankensteinian perversion among smartphones; the Fujitsu LOOX F-07C is a landscape slider with 4-inch 1024 x 600 display (!), HDMI-out, 5 megapixel camera, 1 GB of RAM, 1.2 GHz processor, and 32 GB of storage. The real kicker? It dual-boots into Symbian or the desktop…
Nokia X7 hitting Three UK in June
Nokia X7, which is the Finnish company’s gaming and multimedia-focused Symbian smartphone announced alongside the E6, is heading to Three UK. Not that we didn’t know that before — after all it was the carrier’s marketing team that leaked the device prior to the official announcement — it’s just that this time we have a…
Official LinkedIn App Launched on Symbian
Nokia has just announced an official LinkedIn app for Symbian handsets, just in time for the platform to be phased out. With it, users can conduct searches on the professional social network, send and recieve status updates, check direct messages, manage connection requests, and use reconnect to find folks you probably know on the network…
Apple tops Nokia for smartphone market share in Western Europe
Apple is slowly-but-surely rising to greater heights worldwide as it just took Nokia for its top spot in smartphone market share in western Europe. The shift is significant because that is Nokia’s stomping grounds. If there is any name in mobile technology trusted and respected in that part of the world, it’s Nokia. However, without…