Few days ago we wrote that Samsung decided to change the name of its new flagship device Omnia HD into simply i8910. Well, that ain’t gonna happen, at least not in all markets. Apparently, the Korean giant will push its 8 megapixel-equipped smartphone in Italy under the “good ol’” Omnia brand, keeping the original name…
Nokia Photo Browser updated to work with non-touch Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP1 and FP2 phones
Remember that cool-looking Nokia Photo Browser for Symbian S60 touch-enabled devices like the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic we covered two weeks ago? Well, the Finnish giant’s Beta labs has updated the application and now it works on non-touch phones as well. Actually, only devices running Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and 2 are included…
Bobba brings virtual world to Symbian S60; iPhone version coming soom, as well
The company called Sulake, which you may know for their virtual world Habbo, is going mobile to bring its “virtual world expertise” to a handset near you. Actually, not every handset — at the moment their mobile virtual world, Bobba, is available for Symbian S60 smartphone users, only. But they said the iPhone/iPod Touch version…
Opera Mobile 9.7 for Symbian S60 in works, too
During the CTIA in Las Vegas, Opera Software announced the new version of its popular mobile web browser – Opera Mobile 9.7. At that point, we thought they are talking about a Windows Mobile version, exclusively. Now, we have a hint from the company’s blog that they are working on a Symbian S60 version, too.…
Nokia N78 gets another firmware update – 21.002
Nokia has released a new firmware upgrade for its N78 smartphone. The update fixes a number of bugs and glitches found in the previous firmware v20.149. The detailed change log is not available at the moment, but as always we advise you to keep your devices up to date (and to backup your data prior…
Google Maps for Symbian S60 gets a minor updated; Reaches version 3.0.1.4
Google has released an update to its popular Google Maps for Mobile application for Symbian S60 smartphones. Version 3.0.1.4 doesn’t contain tons of new stuff, but improves the user experience slightly. The most noticeable new feature is a context popup menu which allows users to quickly get directions for the certain address, switch to street…
Symbian Foundation launches new beta site!
The Symbian Foundation launched a new beta site offering participating developers (i.e. member companies) a tons of content such as platform release information, council charters, wikis, forums as well as access to the SDK, SCM (Mercurial), Bugzilla, tools, documents and FAQs. Commenting on the announcement, which BTW was made during the CTIA in Las Vegas,…
Survey Sez: LBS Developers Not Interested in WebOS, Symbian
According to recent research by Skyhook Wireless (the guys who work on Wi-Fi positioning systems), only 8% of location-based service developers will jump to the Palm Pre operating system, WebOS. The survey was conducted over 100 developers spread across six platforms: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, BlackBerry, Java and iPhone. Here are the main findings from…
Samsung cuts OmniaHD branding – Meet the Samsung i8910
Actually, you’ve already met the Samsung i8910. The Samsung OmniaHD has always been known as the i8910, but Samsung has apparently decided to ditch the “cooler” OmniaHD model name for the sake of avoiding confusion. We would never confuse the OmniaHD, and it’s 3.7-inch QHD AMOLED touchscreen display, 8-megapixel camera, HD video recording, 3G (HSPA)…
SymbianGuru releases BT Guard 2.2; Works with Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
SymbianGuru has recently released the new version of their Bluetooth-protectin’ application for Symbian S60 devices – BT Guard. The most important feature of the version 2.2 is the added support for Symbian S60 5th Edition. Yap, that means the application will have the optimized-for-touch user interface when installed on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic or the…