E-series smartphone owners will be glad to know that Nokia recently released the update for their devices. I’ve already posted about the E61 update, now it’s available for the whole “E” range. – E50, E60, E61, and E70. The first version killed some E70s, but the bug is fixed and E70 owners can now safely…
Nokia N75!?
Potentially new Nokia smartphones is spotted. The rumor is that the device is Nokia N75, a new addition to the popular Nokia N-series. Apparently, the device will have a clamshell form factor and the first picture indicates it will look very much like the Motorola RAZR phone. Other features include QVGA 240×320 display, GPRS, EDGE…
S60 Web Browser 2.0
Phonescoop has an interesting post involving the new version of S60 web browser. According to Phonescoop, the biggest and the most important change is that the web browser is no longer a separate application from the WAP browser; they’re integrated now. You can view WAP 1.0, WAP 2.0, xHTML, and HTML pages all in one…
Symbian Smartphone Show 2006 Full Programme Announced
Symbian Smartphone Show 2006 announced the full keynote programme: Tuesday 17 October 2006 10.00 Welcome to the Smartphone Lifestyle – Nigel Clifford, CEO, Symbian 10:30 Conquering the Twiglight Zone – How to Shrink a Laptop into a Phone – Mats Lindoff, CTO, Sony Ericsson 11:00 Mobile User Requirements – An Evolution in Process – Steve…
The unexpected convergence
New smartphone applications regularly reach out to touch unexpected areas of our lives – areas that we previously thought had nothing to do with smartphones. In his latest insight article David Wood EVP of Research at Symbian takes us through some of the exciting new services available, making it possible for everyone to do more:…
What would you change about built-in S60 applications?
Any ideas? Apparently many of you guys and gals have two cents to add on the top of the existing functionality of the S60 devices, as Tommi’s Blog, part of the S60 Blogs, asked the same question and got some very interesting answers. Not to bug you too much, here are the top five suggestions:…
Nokia E70-2 – the E70 for the U.S. market
Gearlog spotted the Nokia E70-2, the version of E70 with support for GSM 850 networks, made for the US market. The Nokia E70 (and E70-2) comes with the unique split QWERTY keyboard and looks pretty much like a regular phone. Nevertheless, it works under Symbian S60 3rd Edition platform and sports such features as integrated…
AppForge releases Crossfire 6.5
A leading mobile solutions company, AppForge, Inc., yesterday announced Crossfire 6.5, the latest version of its famous mobile application platform optimized for developing and delivering customer-facing mobile applications. Responding to a rapidly changing customer environment, AppForge has significantly enhanced Crossfire’s unique ability to put applications on the widest array of mobile devices, regardless of language…
Free S60 Mobile snacks from Somusar
Mobile snacks are Somusar’s multimedia mobile applications (sort of mobile encyclopedias) with pictures, audio, text, or a combination thereof.
Oxygen Phone Manager now supports S60 3rd Edition devices
Oxygen Software just release the new, 2.11 version, of their flagship Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS smartphones. Here’s what’s new in this version: Software certification. Phone agent v3.1 successfully passed Symbian Signed Certification for S60 3rd Edition smartphones Added support for Nokia 5500 and Nokia E50. Calendar. Added support for Nokia Series 60…