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Earlier this month, after Nokia declared that they would swallow the Symbian Foundation back into their internal organization, we knew it would only be a matter of time until the Foundation’s official website would go down. Now we have a date we can count down to while we sit in our offices waiting to pop…
Nokia Beta Labs launched a new application for the geek community – Nokia Connectivity Analyzer. Before you go “it’s not just for geeks,” let me assure you that an average mobile phone user doesn’t check the status of his or her network connection. At least that’s the way I see it – and I’m definitely…
Two of the latest Nokia smartphones, N8 and C7, are already the company’s most environmentally friendly phones released to date, both rocking AMOLED screens, with Nokia N8 even containing bio-plastics and C7 using bio-paints. However, that doesn’t mean they can’t get even greener – and that’s exactly what the Finnish giant and Telefonica are trying…
Nokia has been pumping out Symbian^3 devices at quite an impressive rate. First there was the N8, which was announced far too early before finally shipping, then there was the C7, and more recently the C6-01 and E7. All of these devices have one thing in common: they’re running the most up to date version…
Nokia’s age old and highly popular 5800 model was the first device to come out of the Finnish firm running a touch version of the Symbian operating system. While we didn’t care for it too much, a lot of people picked it up since they wanted to see what sort of “iPhone killer” the world’s…
Nokia has released a new update for the 5530 smartphone. We’re not sure what’s all included in the mix, but since it’s a 3.5MB heavy download, we’re sure some of the known bugs and issues have been fixed to further improve performance and stability. Web browser is one of the affected apps and it’s now…
Nokia has issued a new updated (firmware version 52.005) for its highly-popular E72 smartphone. It’s a small update, addressing few things like: Changes in timezones Adobe Reader updated to version 2.5.202 Default system start date changed (11/10/2010) Clock time font changed — after a previous update (v51) made it appear smaller Device Management fix Keypad…
Swype for Symbian beta is no longer an app for English-speaking Nokia touchscreen smartphone owners, only. Those speaking European French, German and Polish are now welcome to jump on board as well and type much faster on their smartphones. Before installing a new language pack, make sure that the main Swype application is installed first…
Nokia is looking to seriously get back in the game after a few execs announced their departure this year. Stephen Elop, the company’s new CEO, announced the hiring of Jerri DeVard as the company’s new Chief Marketing Officer. DeVard’s job, basically, is to make Nokia a reputable or cool brand again. Right now, we all…
Opera, makers of the desktop browser that goes by the same name, has just released the final version of Opera Mobile 10.1 browser for Symbian devices. If you’ve got a Symbian smartphone that you’ve purchased in the past 3 or 4 years, then chances are your handset will be supported. New features include the just-in-time…