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At a Nokia developer event that took place earlier this week in Mexico, one of the presenters had a slide up that revealed the next two versions of Symbian and what makes them standout. Similar to how Google names Android versions by using dessert names in alphabetical order (Donut, Eclair, Froyo, etc.), Nokia is using…
Say what you want about iOS, Android, or Windows Phone, and how each of those platforms have their respective strengths and weaknesses. For those folks who simply want the best camera phone on the market, Nokia’s been targeting that audience since the N90 started shipping in Q2 2005 thanks to the combination of the company’s…
Our Norwegian friends at Opera Software [Disclosure: Photo above from an event last month that they invited me to and paid for both my flight and hotel] have just released a new version of Opera Mini for devices that run Symbian, Java applications, the Apple iPhone, and RIM’s BlackBerry lineup. With version 6.5 the most…
Fifty-year-old Brit Trevor Prideaux has embedded his Nokia C7 into prosthetic arm, allowing him to more easily use the Symbian-powered smartphone. First, he tried to embed the iPhone, but Apple wasn’t that interested to provide him with the “blank iPhone casing” during development. Then he contacted Nokia and the Exeter Mobility Centre, a disability service…
Nokia 700, which we know as one of the first Symbian Belle smartphones, is now available from Vodafone UK. The Big Red carrier is offering Nokia’s baby for free on a two-year 26 GBP per month contract. That money gets you 300 minutes, unlimited texts, 500 MB of mobile data and 1GB of BT OpenZone…
Less than 100 hours we brought you images and specifications of an unannounced Nokia device called the 603. Today it’s been officially announced and we’re sad to say that the predictions we made about the 603 are far from accurate. We thought it would be an ultra low end Symbian Belle device, but it isn’t.…
Everyone and their mother complained when Apple started shipping the iPhone and it was discovered that the damn thing used microSIM cards. As soon as the fourth generation Jesus Phone landed in people’s hands, more videos demonstrating how to cut your SIM card to microSIM size were uploaded to YouTube than we care to count.…
Nokia and Accenture announced an agreement on April 27th with plans to outsource further Symbian development. That deal has been finalized between the two companies and is expected to go into effect in early October. The main reason for such a move is so Accenture can support Symbian while Nokia focuses on making the transition…
Android has nabbed second place in Europe as the most used operating system according to comScore, a company which performs research on the digital world. In the study released today, data from the comScore MobiLens service analysing growth trends of all smartphone platforms showed impressive year-to-year growth by Android. This study was done across the…
Nokia and Microsoft announced today its plans to deliver Symbian software updates called Microsoft Apps. Both companies claim that this new update will add some “serious business productivity tools” for anyone buying a new Symbian Belle device, as well as anybody looking to upgrade from Symbian Anna to Symbian Belle. But here’s the caveat: If…