It might have missed Windows Mobile, funny enough, but Microsoft’s Silverlight runtime has surprisingly come to the Symbian platform. Of course, we all know it’s going to hit Windows Phone 7, as it should, but unlike WP7, Silverlight on Symbian will allow those runtime-based apps to work in or out of the browser. While my…
Symbian PDK 3.0.0 Released by Symbian Foundation
Symbian, the most widely used mobile operating system in the world (but for how long?) has just announced that the product development kit, or PDK, for 3.0.0 is now available for download. The PDK is for Symbian^3 now that the OS has reached Functionality Complete on June 16. It has a full build of Symbian^3…
Skype for Symbian Gets a Refresh with Version 1.1
We all love us some Skype for mobile, but more specifically, Skype for Symbian. After all, the aging platform is still the largest mobile operating system in terms of market share worldwide. What better way to chat with your international friends for free with services like Skype? Although it has been available for a short…
Virgin Mobile to offer special “V” versions of the Nokia X6 and 5230 in the UK
As part of its “V” Festival promotion, Virgin Mobile UK will be offering special “V” versions of two Nokia smartphones – the X6 and 5230. Specs wise, both devices remain unchanged. There are, however, differences in terms of the pre-loaded content: Shazam is part of the firmware – so you can detect a song while…
Nokia C5 hits India; Could be yours for $175
There are no doubts in my mind Nokia will move quite a few C5 units. It’s an entry-level smartphone with an impressive feature set for the price. And now it’s hitting India where interested folks could grab it for 8,200 INR, which is about $175. Bare in mind that’s the price of an unlocked device…
Nokia Bots updated with location-aware Contact Bot
Nokia Beta Labs has updated one of the bots included in the Nokia Bots app. It’s Contact Bot which will now work in a similar manner as Shortcut Bot, learning your favorite contacts throughout the day. The idea is to differentiate between “home” and “work” contacts to show users people they talk to the most…
Nokia Video Cuts allows users to skip boring parts of a video
Thanks to the smart folks of Nokia Research Center in Beijing, China – Nokia touch-enabled smartphone owners got a new app for enjoying video clips while on the go. The existing media player that comes pre-loaded with any S60 5th Edition still works just fine, but if you want to skip certain scenes it can…
Symbian-Guru is dead, are there any Nokia advocates left?
Ricky Cadden is one cool cat, and a guy who I consider to be a friend. We both started blogging in November 2006. He had Symbian-Guru.com, and I had RingNokia.com, and while we did go through our initial stage of bitter rivalry, it ended quickly soon after realizing we had a common passion. No, it…
Nokia X6 32GB gets the V20 firmware
I’m not sure I understand why it took so much for Nokia to release the firmware update for the 32GB version of the X6 (when we know the X6 16GB got the same firmware update in April). Whatever the reason behind this strange move is (which effectively made the X6 32GB buyers suckers), the good…
Nokia to push apps – ‘it’s no longer about selling devices’
Nokia is still the world’s largest smartphone seller by a wide margin but the company is often considered behind Apple and Google in the mobile space. The company is often ignored in the tech press because of its minuscule presence in the United States but it’s not just regional bias, as Nokia has also been…