Nokia has released a new firmware update (version 20.0.005) for its low-end touchscreen smartphone – 5230. Here’s what’s new: Kinetic scrolling is included in the main menu Ovi Sync has been added to the desktop Music player is improved GPS allows for faster fix on your location Some of the existing apps have been updated…
Symbian unveils new web app development tools
Symbian released its web application development tools, making application development on the platform “as easy as creating a webpage.” In other words, any web developer with a knowledge of HTML, CSS and some JavaScript can create mobile apps that run on Symbian smartphones, including the newly unveiled Nokia N8. The good thing about these tools…
iPhone, BlackBerry Won’t Last Another Five Years – Kaspersky
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of a popular antivirus company, said at a Infosec that closed operating systems, like iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone, won’t last in the long run because they don’t embrace open-source, like Android and Symbian do. That’s an awfully heavy-handed statement, considering the ample success of iPhone and BlackBerry these days, though Android…
Paragon Software launches SlovoEd Dictionary series 4.0 for Symbian S60 smartphones
Paragon Software/Epocware released SlovoEd dictionary series 4.0 for S60 3.0 and 5.0 Symbian smartphones. The most notable improvement of the new version deals with the use of a touchscreen (for S60 5th Edition devices), with controls being optimized for finger use. Moreover, there are other changes included, such as: New pop-up “Help Tips” OTA forms…
Nokia N8, first Symbian^3 handset, gets previewed and is deemed an embarrassment to Nokia
Eldar Murtazin, Editor in Chief of Mobile-Review, makes Gary Powell look like an amateur when it comes to leaking early prototypes. Eldar gets things weeks, even months before everyone else, and has been for years. How he does it … no one actually knows, and whether or not his opinions on preproduction unfinished hardware and…
Nokia E72 gets a major firmware update (version 31.023)
Nokia has released a new firmware update (version 31.023) for its E72 smartphone. Aside from fixing many of the known bugs, the new firmware also bring some new applications along with updates to existing apps. Here’s the recap: New pre-installed apps include Ovi Sync, Advance Communication Manager (which gives extra call functionality such as black…
Samsung may release a Symbian phone later this year
All you Symbian fans should be happy to hear that Samsung is reportedly planning to make a handset with that operating system by the end of the year. There have been some rumblings that the world’s second-biggest handset maker would ditch Symbian because it already supports Android, bada and Windows Phone 7 but that doesn’t…
Nokia E72 White Edition shows up on Nokia’s Malaysian website
Nokia is about to launch a new version of its popular E72 smartphone. A new version actually means new color – white. At the moment, the E72 is available in four color options (black, grey, brown and purple) and with the addition of white, I’m betting the Finnish company will move even more units —…
Numo Solutions’ SMS Preview hits 1 million downloads in the Ovi Store
It’s not like every day we talk about Ovi Store success stories. We had Digital Chocolate and Shazam reporting their respective milestones reached, and now we have an even smaller company, Numo Solutions, saying their SMS Preview application has hit the 1 million download mark. The free app is so handy that if I were…
Ultrabrief: Google Maps 4.1 comes to Windows Mobile and Symbian S60, adds voice search
Google Maps 4.1 has just come out for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform, and the Symbian S60 platform, and with it the ability to search for something via voice. BlackBerry and Android users have had this capability for a while now, and iPhone users … well Steve Jobs controls your version of Google Maps so you’re…