It seems Nokia DOES want to take advantage of the Christmas shopping rush in the United States. According to Symbian Guru, the Finnish giant’s Flagship Stores will start selling the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic for $350. That’s unsubsidized price, without any contracts signed! Apparently, the Chicago store will be the first one to get the highly…
Fennec/Mobile Firefox coming to Symbian S60 in 2009
Until recently, Mozilla focused its energy to release Fennec i.e. Firefox mobile for Linux and Windows Mobile device. Now they said they’ll also release their browser for Symbian S60 platform. As a matter of fact, the development has officially started and the browser should be released during next year. From Christian Sejersen’s blog: Today we…
Nokia E71 spotted in black, red at Nokia World 2008
Nokia will be releasing new color options for its popular E71 smartphone. The full QWERTY keyboard-equipped device has been spotted in black and red at this year’s Nokia World in Barcelona. As you can see from the image above, the E71 keeps rocking even in new color. And with additional color options, the Finnish giant…
Google Maps for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile gets Street View, too!
Good news for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile smartphone owners. The version of Google Maps for mobile with Street View support is out! Initially, Street View feature was available on Google Maps for iPhone, Android (T-Mobile G1) and BlackBerry and now it’s available on every major smartphone platform out there. Best of all, it’s not…
Handy Safe Professional Edition goes well beyond standard edition; Allows efficient data storage on Symbian S60 smartphones
Epocware is out with another “Pro” version of their existing application. Following Handy Alarm, they have released the Professional Edition of Handy Safe for Symbian S60 smartphones. The application uses password protection and a strong 448-bit data encryption (Blowfish) to keep your data private and secure. Some of the Handy Safe Pro special features include:…
Nokia releases new firmware update for Nokia N96
As feature-packed and stylishly designed as the Nokia N96 is, the N96 has been plagued with stability and performance problems. But, that’s all about to change with the new Nokia N96 firmware. The new firmware update from Nokia promises to make the Nokia N96 faster, improves camera accuracy, and increases WiFi reception range. Nokia N96…
Nokia N85 NAM now shipping to North America!
With the Nokia N85 garnering FCC approval recently, it was only a matter of time before Nokia graced the North American continent with a Nokia N85 variant capable of surfing North American 3G frequencies. Pre-orders have been available from Amazon.com and Nokiausa.com for a while now, and today we’re hearing that the Nokia N85 is…
Nokia considering serious push into intuitive touch-UI?
Well, by the looks of a recently published presentation from Nokia’s Capital Markets Day, Nokia is making a serious push into crafting an intuitive touch-only UI for its Symbian S60 mobile platform. The new touchscreen UI could make good on the promise of an intuitive S60 Touch UI that the Nokia XpressMusic 5800 failed to…
Nokia sticking with ARM 11 CPU for Nokia N97?
The Nokia N97 was recently announced to a good deal of fanfare. As the Finnish cellphone giant’s 2009 flagship, the Nokia N97 was expected to be a monster of a smartphone. The feature set reads like a list of what’s what in the mobile space – 3.5-inch touchscreen, 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss camera (with dual…
Quake 3 Arena ported to Symbian S60; Works with Bluetooth keyboard, mouse
We’ve seen the original Quake game ported to Symbian S60 platform. We’ve even seen Quake 3 Arena on the iPhone and iPod Touch and now it [Quake 3 Arena] is available for select Nokia smartphones as well. By “select” I mean those devices that have 128MB of RAM and rely on Texas Instruments’ OMAP 2420…