The smartphone market is still seeing solid growth, despite a weak global economy that has consumers cutting back on non-essential goods. Gartner is reporting that Global sales of smartphones in the second quarter of 2009 increased 27% year-on-year, accounting for more than 40 million units sold. Meanwhile, mobile phone sales in general slid 6.1%, compared…
First stable version of OmniaHD DevPack is out!
After several beta versions, Samsung Mobile Innovator portal released the first stable version of the DevPack for the Samsung i8910 aka OmniaHD! The Korean company’s first device specific SDK is packed with all the tools and documentation developers need to make apps for Samsung’s flagship Symbian device. Among the DevPack features, we highlight: Custom APIs…
YELLIX: See your friend’s Facebook photo and last status update when they call you
YELLIX is a pretty awesome idea, in theory. The application, which works with Android, RIM BlackBerry, Symbian or Windows Mobile, goes online when someone calls you, pairs the phone number of the person calling you to the phone number your friend has in their Facebook profile, and then displays their photo and last status update.…
Video: Nokia N97 hacked in order to add useless bling
Transitions, or pretty shit to watch while you wait for a device to do something as I like to call them, are a fast and easy way to make an outdated user interface seem new and modern. The Nokia N97 has the ability to display transitions, but the feature just happened to be turned off…
Video: New Nokia 5800 XpressMusic commercial
Today we present you with a new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic commercial. As you’re about to see, the Finnish giant insist the Tube is a great device for video and image capture, as well as sharing. Moreover there are maps, Internet, and so on. The idea of the clip is: Touch, Feel, Live. Here is comes,…
Canada’s Rogers Wireless to offer the Nokia 6790 Surge, too?
After AT&T, Canada’s Rogers Wireless is getting ready to launch the Nokia 6790 Surge, too. We’re not too excited about the Surge and its fugly form factor, but I guess some Sidekick fans like it (or not). Anyway, the carrier will reportedly sell the device for CA$89.99 on a way-too-long 3-year contract, or for CA$279.99…
Nokia N900 Rover is at the FCC; Heading to T-Mobile USA?
We know Nokia is gearing toward launching the next Internet tablet device which will reportedly be called N900 Rover. However, we haven’t got a clue they’ll be launching it with T-Mobile (of all the carriers in the U.S.). This is not to say T-Mobile is bad, quite the contrary, it’s just that their 3G network…
Video: Symbian^4 will offer a new user experience and new developer tools
In a nutshell, what I said over a month ago about the current S60 UI being scrapped, and then expanded on a week later during an interview with Scott Weiss, User Interface Technology Manager at Symbian Foundation, has been confirmed on video by Ian Hutton in the video below. We’re not going to see any…
fring 3.40 now works on Samsung S60 phones, too
Fring has updated the latest version of its Symbian S60 client and now it’s not longer the Nokia thing, only – version 3.40 works on Samsung’s Symbian S60 smartphones, too — OmniaHD included. As a reminder, key features of Fring 3.40 are unification hints (manual/GSM+IM services) and user profiles. In addition, some (if not all)…
DataViz’s Exchange ActiveSync client RoadSync comes pre-installed on Samsung OmniaHD
DataViz has announced that its Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync client, RoadSync, is included on the new Samsung I8910 HD aka OmniaHD — allowing “secure, wireless and direct push synchronization” of corporate e-mail, calendar, contacts and tasks with Microsoft Exchange Server. The same press release talks about the updated version (4.004) of RoadSync which is additionally optimized…