Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been keeping tabs on Sony Ericsson’s Kurara, which has promised to be a reasonably impressive Symbian device with an 8 megapixel camera and 3.2” WVGA touchscreen. Little had been said about an official launch before today, but a press release has been issued and quickly retracted, possibly a…
Nokia USA selling 5530 XpressMusic Games Edition bundled with 20 games
In an effort to make its handsets more appealing to the U.S. consumers, Nokia is bundling the all-touchscreen 5530 XpressMusic with 20 games, 10 of them coming from Gameloft and 10 from EA Mobile. This special device is called “Games Edition” and it costs only $10 more — $299 as opposed to $290. That’s the…
How to Get Google Maps on your Nokia N900
Yeah, the N900’s native browser is badass enough to actually load the real Google Maps front page, but it take forever to load and isn’t what you’d call “mobile friendly”. Luckily, YoDude from HowardForums has put together a nice little solution that will definitely do the trick. Download and install Oleg Romashin’s Geolocation extension. This…
Nokia presents their UI concept for Symbian^4 to the Symbian Foundation [It still looks old]
Scott Weiss, the User Interface Technology Manager at the Symbian Foundation who I interviewed before back in July of 2009, has just posted the user interface proposal Nokia has given to the Symbian Foundation for Symbian^4. When Nokia purchased Symbian in the summer of 2008 and made then proceeded to make operating system open source…
Nokia N86 8MP gets a minor update; Firmware reaches version 21.006
Nokia has issued a new firmware version for its N86 8MP camera phone. After the update, firmware runs in version 21.006, up from the previous version – 20.115. However, don’t expect tons of new features – it’s a maintenance release only, which further improves performance, while fixing a number of minor bugs at the same…
Nokia Beta Labs launches Gig Finder, an S60 app that helps users discover live music events
Nokia Beta Labs is out with a new S60 app called Gig Finder. As you can guess from the app’s name, it’s made to help users find live music events based on their current location (in case you live in USA, Canada, UK and Ireland) and music tastes (Smart Recommendations). However, it’s not just the…
Orange UK stops selling Nokia N97 Mini due to high return rate; Vodafone cancels XPERIA X2 launch
The Nokia N97 Mini will no longer be offered by UK operator Orange after sources told Mobile Magazine that the return rates of the device were “quite high”. In other operator related news Vodafone said it is no longer going to launch the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 since it was significantly delayed and no it…
Nokia Image Exchange for S60 5th Edition released in early beta
Nokia Image Exchange is no longer a non-touch “thing,” only. The application has been released in early beta for touch-enabled Symbian S60 5th Edition devices. According to the “official post” from Nokia Beta Labs, this version has limited functionality and UI that is far from perfect — auto-rotate feature is not there, for instance. The…
Mystery Sony Ericsson Slider Looks a Lot like Kurara
The touchscreen slate from Sony Ericsson called Kurara has been pretty extensively explored, but it looks like it will be getting a slider sibling in the near future. Aside from clearly running S60 5th. Edition, little else is known about the device, but if it’s anything like the Kurara, an 8 megapixel camera, 600 Mhz…
Nokia’s Ovi Contacts gets an update
Nokia has released an updated version of Ovi Contacts for Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2 and S60 5th Edition devices. Among the new features/bug fixes included in this version, we highlight: Send file now works from the friend list, too (not only from chat view) Issues with Cyrilic and Scandinavian letters were fixed E-mail field…