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Bad news Symbian fans, as Symbian Foundation CEO Lee Williams will be leaving for nebulous “personal reasons” and he will be replaced by the foundation’s CFO, Tim Holbrow. We don’t know why Lee Williams is leaving but this cannot bode well for Symbian. Lee Williams came from Nokia and was tasked with making Symbian and…
Grandpa used to listen to AM radio, and you probably grew up with FM radio, but have you heard of DAB? It’s the newest technology to bring you sweet new music when you’re tired of the thousands of tracks on your iPhone or the millions of track that come with a premium Spotify subscription and…
Swype, the quirky way to input text whereby you draw a line from letter to letter when composing a word versus hunting and pecking for a particular key, is now available for Symbian^3 devices. There are only 2 right now, the Nokia N8 and C7, both started shipping recently, and both have identical specifications except…
Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg confirmed in a Q3 2010 earnings conference call that the handset manufacturer will drop Symbian and produce a Windows Phone handset. Nordberg failed to give any details but confirmed the Windows Phone handset would not be available for the holiday season. This 2011 launch window puts the handset manufacturer behind…
The popular mobile UI software SPB Mobile Shell for Symbian has been updated again to sing along the newly launched Nokia N8 and other Symbian^3 devices like the Nokia E7, C7 and C6-01. Moreover, version 3.7 also brings support for Nokia Homescreen Widgets. Those are the main new features of this release, but that’s definitely…
Nokia has just announced the C5-03, yet another member of the C5 family, and one more way to confuse consumers with product names that feature hyphens. What’s so special about it? Nothing. Really. It’s got a 3.2 inch resistive, yes, resistive, touch screen with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels, 5 megapixel with no…
The fact that the Nokia N8 costs as much as the iPhone 4 in terms of components is a little bit surprising given the disparity between the two devices. According to iSuppli, the N8 costs $187.47 to build, while the iPhone 4 is $187.51. Without a contract, the iPhone 4 goes for $599 for a…
After some development work from Nokia, location-based social network Foursquare has launched a Symbian application, complete with a home screen widget which displays the latest check-ins by your friends. Now Symbian users can check in to locales and share that spot with friends, as well as write up tips, line up to-dos, and create new…
There’s an unsubstantiated rumor floating around that the Nokia C7, Finland’s second Symbian^3 device to start shipping, the first being the N8, has NFC capabilities built in, but due to being rushed to market the software written to support said internal hardware wasn’t included. In the future however Nokia will issue a software upgrade that…
The Nokia C7 is now shipping to customers according to an official press release. This comes less than 2 weeks after the news that the N8 started to ship, meeting the planned deadline of “Q3 2010” by the narrowest of margins. Unlike the N8 however, the C7 was announced less than a month ago, on…