Following on from last bit of news about the Walt Disney secrets Notescast, here’s another of Timestream Software’s apps for another cool attraction! TimeStream Software is offering free downloads of its new Glacier National Park Notecast for the iPod Classic and iPod nano on www.Notescasts.com. With 110 interactive pages, complete with photos, it’s a comprehensive…
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic NAM with an updated firmware hitting Nokia Flagship Stores in the U.S.
Nokia is bringing back its flagship all-touchscreen device to its U.S. Flagship Stores in Chicago and New York. The firmware of the device has been updated and now the Tube sings perfectly along AT&T’s 3G network. In case you pre-ordered the 5800 online, you’ll get your unit within 1-2 weeks. Otherwise, if you’ve already grabbed…
Forum Nokia releases Solitaire for Symbian S60 5th Edition
Forum Nokia has recently released classic card game, Solitaire for S60 5th Edition, as an example application to demonstrate the touch features of the platform. In that sense, in addition to tapping the cards, users can also drag and drop them around, just like they would do on a desktop computer with a mouse. Also…
Mobile OS market share stats confirm RIM, Apple leading the charge
Leading the charge against entrenched smartphone incumbent Nokia, both RIM and Apple have proven that consumers are a finicky bunch. Following on data that had Apple and RIM at least doubling the size of their slice of the smartphone market, at Nokia’s expense, we’re presented with new data from Gartner that confirms Apple and RIM’s…
Nokia Intrigue 7205 finally turns up in Verizon leak
Remember the sleek, entry-level Nokia 7205 clamshell (flip-phone) that Nokia was preparing for Verizon Wireless’s network? More than a year since we first laid eyes on this slim flip, it seems the Nokia Intrigue 7205 has finally made its way into Verizon’s product-pipeline. Newly leaked pictures of the Verizon Nokia Intrigue hints at the No.…
Vlingo Launches Public Beta for Symbian in British, German and Spanish Flavours
Following a private beta announced in our forums, one of my favourite voice applications for BlackBerry, Vlingo, is spreading its wings both technologically and linguistically with a new version for S60, supporting British accents, German and Spanish language recognition. What can you do with Vlingo? Well, just about everything, to be honest: transcribe messages, launch…
S60 5th Edition SDK 1.0 now available!
Nokia has released the full version, 1.0, of the S60 5th Edition SDK (previously available was version 0.9). Available through Forum Nokia, the new version adds support for keypad-off display in the emulator, additional languages, a start-up progress indicator for the emulator. In addition, a number of bugs, issues and deficiencies have been fixed, and…
Ovi Blue Symbian S60 theme looks simple, cool
Need a new theme for your Symbian S60 smartphone. Here’s a cool solution made by Nokia’s Ovi team, which will certainly make your device look “ready for the spring.” Yap, that’s the way I see it. The theme is called “Ovi Blue” and it looks clear and fresh — I can’t find better words to…
Windows 98 running on Nokia N95!
Seeing Windows 3.1 running on an already-aged Nokia N95 reminded us just how far we’ve come in the past decade, or so. Then there was that iPhone running Mac OS 7 (System 7). Mobile phones these days, smartphones especially, are jam-packed with more computing power than we would have thought possible before the turn of…
WeFi – Find WiFi hotspots anywhere in the world
If you’re the type to strive for a connected and mobile life, the cellphone in your pocket is likely a smartphone, and it likely has a WiFi radio. But, before you can take advantage of the high-speed WiFi connection, you’ll need to find an available WiFi hotpsot. Finding that WiFi hotspot, however, can be a…