A company called Mobile Stream has released a new “Micro Machines kind of racing game,” Micro Race, for Symbian S60 touch-enabled smartphones, including the Nokia 5800, N97 (mini), Nokia 5530 and others. As you can presume, it’s a bird’s eye view racing game, featuring 8 different tracks: a knight’s castle, desert with camels, tropical village,…
S60 YouTube client gets an update in the Ovi Store
YouTube S60 client has been updated. But you won’t find it on YouTube’s mobile website, rather check out the Ovi Store and grab the app from there. Actually, I’m not sure whether it’s worth updating, since there are no major features involved. I’m guessing some of the known bugs have been fixed and the app…
Nokia N82, N95 and N95 8GB firmwares updated to v35
Three Nokia phones have been blessed with a new firmware update. Affected devices include the Nokia N95, N95 8GB and N82, all of which will get the firmware version 35.0.001 after the process is completed. At the moment, we’re not sure what’s included in the latest firmware, but we’re guessing some of the known bugs…
Skyfire 1.5 hits Symbian S60 touch devices in alpha
On the heels of the updated version for Windows Mobile, Skyfire is bringing its famous web browser to Symbian S60 touch-enabled devices (S60 5th Edition). As you probably already know, Skyfire is one of the most promising mobile web browsers, bringing the full desktop experience to your mobile phone. This includes JavaScript (Ajax), Flash 10…
Handy Shell for S60 now in version 2.0
Paragon Software aka Epocware released a new version of its popular stand-by screen replacement app – Handy Shell. Like its predecessor, version 2.0 provides customization options, making your standby-screen more “active” and eventually useful. For instance, you can place widgets on it, such as weather, contacts and photos (new), which provides you with quick access…
Spotify updates its Symbian S60 app
We’ve already talked about Spotify for Symbian S60. The popular music service has released an updated version (0.3.22) of its client for the platform, fixing some of the known bugs and also adding support for new devices: Disappearing offline tracks bug is fixed Fix for the problem when adding tracks to existing playlists on touchscreens…
SPB Weather 2.0 comes to Symbian S60
SPB Weather, SPB Software’s popular weather forecast app for Windows Mobile, has been ported to the Symbian platform. The application, now in version 2.0, is primarily made to single along touch-enabled S60 5th Edition devices, but it also works on non-touch S60 3.1 and 3.1 smartphones. Highlights: 5-day weather forecast for more than 10,000 cities…
Study: iPhone Outranks Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Still King in North America
ComScore has released some survey stats on North American smartphone users gathered in October, revealing that BlackBerry still has the largest penetration, and that iPhone maintains second place and the strong lead over Windows Mobile it has had since 2007, according to other metrics. Here’s a quick rundown of the October numbers: BlackBerry: 14,963,238 users…
Nokia Messaging for social networks updated with Twitter support, better Facebook integration
Nokia Beta Labs has released an updated version of Nokia Messaging for social networks. Still in beta (hence it’s released by Nokia Beta Labs), the newly released application brings Twitter support, allowing you to keep up with your friends right from the homescreen of your Nokia smartphone, via widget. In addition, Facebook support has been…
Nimbuzz updates its Symbian S60 client with Twitter support
Multi IM-network client Nimbuzz has released an updated version of its Symbian S60 application to include Twitter in the mix. Version 2.2 includes several important updates, including: The mentioned Twitter support that includes homescreen notifications (incoming chats and events), timelines, DM, searches, trends, and profiles Full kinetic scrolling A number of layout (UI) improvements Interested?…