The popular GPS and accelerometer enabled activity tracking tool Sports Tracker is now in version 4.0. I’m not sure such a big leap forward in terms of the version number is needed as only few things have been improved, but what do I know. On the other hand, it’s good to see Sports Tracker folks…
Android has taken the smartphone crown away from Symbian in Asia
The smartphone market is terribly small compared to the total mobile industry, with roughly 1 out of every 5 handsets sold having some sort of advanced mobile operating system running inside. That figure was provided by Gartner earlier this month; they also said that 33% of those smartphones were using Symbian and 25% used Google’s…
The Angry Birds Peace Treaty didn’t turn out so well
Angry Birds has found itself on millions of handsets between the iOS, Android and Symbian platforms, and after all the death and destruction, a peace treaty was called to resolve the great avian/swine war. With all the talk of crashing through wood, glass and concrete and eggs being stolen, the birds and the pigs met…
Nokia E7 available for pre-order in the UK via Expansys
And I thought the Nokia E7 will hit the market (or at least select markets) by the end of this year. That still may be true, but it seems not all retailers (and I guess not all carriers) will get it at the same time. Take Expansys for instance – one would think they will…
Swype for Symbian S60 5th edition phones gets a small update
Good news for the Swype lovin’ Nokia S60 5th Edition smartphone owners. The popular text input application has been updated and is now more stable than ever. This release comes with few important changes, including: Several crashes have been resolved including those related to backspace Spanish keyboard now properly displays national characters Performance relating to…
Skyfire to shut off their servers at the end of 2010 and kill support for Symbian + Windows Mobile
When Skyfire first hit the scene a couple of years ago, we welcomed the competition that it would bring Opera who until that point in time was the only company making a mobile web browser that utilized server farms in distant lands to compress web pages before delivering them to our devices. Things have changed…
iPhone optimized GMail mobile site packaged as a web application for Symbian
In a perfect world there would be no need to code the same application to run on multiple platforms. Developers could spend their time and energy towards building new features, or make the features their application already have easier to discover. Sadly, that’s never going to happen. It was supposed to with HTML5, but it’s…
Head of Nokia PR for France says C7 will get NFC capabilities in new firmware due early next year
Nokia’s Symbian^3 powered C7, which was announced on September 14th of this year and started shipping less than a month later on the 11th of October, has a little secret. Buried inside is a chip that is capable of interacting with other devices via near field communication (NFC), but due to schedules that failed to…
Nokia Battery Monitor: Find out what’s killing your battery and discover how you really use your phone
These days it doesn’t matter how smart your smartphone is, when the battery dies it’s absolutely useless. It’s why RIM is so popular with the business crowd, it’s why the mainstream stayed away from the first generation of Android devices, and it’s why Apple iPhone owners buy those bulky slip on cases that have an…
Nokia’s Gig Finder updated with new features, more countries and devices
Nokia has updated its Gig Finder app to make it sing along more devices, including those that run the latest version of Symbian (Symbian^3 – like the N8 and C7) as well as those running S60 3rd edition FP2 and above — yap the non-touchscreen phones are on the list, too. In addition, the new…