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You might be thinking to yourself, “Why would I want Swype on my Nokia N8?” The real question is – why wouldn’t you? The text input software is hugely popular with Android users given its simplicity and ease-of-use. After all, the world record for the fastest text messages cranked out were done using Swype software.…
Growing up my father always used to say “mens sana in corpore sano” which translates to “a healthy mind in a healthy body”. Those are the two things, probably the only two things, you need to lead a fulfilling life. In reality it was just a fancy way of him telling me to get my…
As if the past few weeks haven’t been enough for Symbian in terms of bad news, it looks like its market share is slipping and may soon take a back seat to Android. While Symbian still has the lead at 36.6% of the world’s smartphone OS market share, it has slipped from 46.6% last year…
Samsung should consider itself one lucky company to have such a dedicated hacking community for one of its products. The product we’re talking about here is the i8910 HD, which by some standards is still the best Symbian S60 device out there — for instance, it has a bigger screen than the Nokia N8 and…
As spotted in their leaked Q4 roadmap, the Nokia N8 has landed on Rogers and is available today for $79.99 on contract. The Nokia N8 is a multimedia beast, whose crowning specification is a 12 megapixel camera with Carl-Zeiss lens, Xenon flash, autofocus, 720p HD video recording, and all of the balance settings you could…
The popular Shazam app is now available for the GetJar independent app store, so Windows, BlackBerry and Symbian users can now get the music-tagging app for free. If you’ve never used the Shazam app, you should feel free to head on over to GetJar.com and try it out. If there’s a song playing, you simply…
Although things are looking dire for Symbian now that Nokia has taken over the reigns and effectively reduced the foundation to a token presence, Jo Harlow, Nokia’s senior VP of smartphones, has committed the platform to staying fresh, including a preloaded Swype gesture-based keyboard in the next update, and near-field communications in some existing devices…
NetQin Mobile launched a new version of its anti-malware software for Symbian smartphones. Version 4.0 promises to deliver a new level of security for S60 3rd and 5th edition device owners, protecting users not only from viruses, Trojans and spyware – but also preventing information leakage and backing up contacts. Moreover, there’s the “anti-lost” protection…
Maybe the Nokia N8 didn’t strike your fancy, or you just can’t imagine a life without physical keyboards on smartphones. Either way, you’ll be getting a new option in terms of Symbian^3 devices from Nokia with the E7. We took a glance at this device a while back and we were impressed with the hardware.…
Last month we heard rumors that the Symbian Foundation might be closing up shop – giving the platform little to no hope of seeing life beyond the foreseeable future. Recently, we discovered SYMBEOSE, a consortium of companies devoted to enhancing the Symbian platform separate from the Symbian Foundation. It now appears that Nokia will also…