Ladies and gents, I’m glad to report that Nokia’s WOM World has lent me the Nokia E71 smartphone for two weeks. As you’ve already seen/read other reviews on the Web, my goal won’t be to compete with other folks who did their job properly. Rather I’ll try to write about my day-to-day experience with the…
Nokia E63 spotted at the Symbian Smartphone Show
I’m not sure what Nokia’s waiting, but this isn’t the first time we’re seeing their upcoming E63 model “in the wild.” We would love to see the Finnish giant going all official with this baby before this year ends, and then concentrate their efforts on the S60 5th edition devices next year. Sounds like a…
When is mobile gaming more than graphics performance?
With the plethora of mobile games available for my iPhone 3G and the massive catalogue of Windows Mobile games, you’d think that I’d have more than enough in the way of mobile games to keep me busy. And, you’d be somewhat correct – sorta, kinda. I have plenty of options when it comes to high…
CellPhoneSote releases File Associate UIQ3
Sony Ericsson may consider UIQ dead, but that doesn’t mean existing smartphone owners should be abandoned. That being said CellPhoneSoft, which is known for its UIQ apps, has released a new handy utility called File Associate that lists and lets users change what applications are used to open various document files. For instance, you can…
Sony Ericsson: UIQ is dead
What’s this? Sony Ericsson, a champion of the UIQ mobile OS, has apparently seen the last days of the Symbian-based OS. Sony Ericsson’s Patrick Olsen said at the Symbian Smartphone Show that his company’s mobile OS of choice just “didn’t make it.” Olsen didn’t elaborate on the timeline for phasing out UIQ from Sony Ericsson’s…
Fring 3.36 released for Symbian phones
Fring has announced that their popular VoIP and instant messaging application for Symbian phones has reached version 3.36. Aside from fixing few reported bugs, the new version sports a new, improved user interface making the application look much better and more user friendly. With an upgraded menu structure, and all of your favorite online communities…
12 more companies join Symbian Foundation and other Symbian news
Symbian Smartphone Show has started yesterday in London and we have some news to report. Here’s what’s happening: First of all, Symbian Foundation is now stronger for 12 more companies — including ARM, CieNET, Flander, FUJISOFT, Huawei, Inmote, InnoPath Software, Red Bend, Scalado, Symsource, TRANGO Virtual Processors and Visa — all which added their endorsements…
AT&T launches Samsung Epix – Windows Mobile touchscreen handset with optical mouse
Remember when Samsung started showing off their Samsung i780 Windows Mobile smartphone? Remember how the mobile world was split on whether that optical trackpad/mouse was a good fit with the touchscreen handset? Right, well Samsung has finally gone live with the first smartphone to feature a built-in optical mouse. Following on the FCC’s approval of…
Opera Mobile 9.5 beta now available for Symbian UIQ3, too
We did knew Opera Software will push its mobile browser beyond Windows Mobile and make it available for the Symbian UIQ3 smartphone owners as well. Today that happened and now owners of such Sony Ericsson smartphones as P1, W960, G700 and G900 can download the first beta version of the browser. Widget support is included…
MobiMonster – “the next-gen Mobile app”
Sometimes app vendors do make grand claims about the capabilites of their apps – and variously we find out the reality when we download them and try them out. And so it comes to be that another entrant in to the multi-functional app comes to pass, and they are called MobiMonster – check out the…