Nokia’s road to establishing an open-source Symbian Foundation has just been cemented with Samsung’s reported acceptance of Nokia’s offer to buy-out Samsung’s shares in Symbian. Samsung is the last remaining share-holder in Symbian that stands between Nokia and their Symbian Foundation initiative. With their offer accepted by Samsung, Nokia will have ownership rights to the…
NS Basic goes Symbian OS
NS Basic Corporation has recently released NS Basic/Symbian OS 1.0, a new development tool for creating S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3 applications, which will hopefully bring more cool apps to the platform(s). The product includes an Interactive Development Environment (IDE) with a graphic design screen, powerful code editor, compiler and installer generator. It is…
Nokia 6650 with North American 3G coming to AT&T
AT&T will be adding the Nokia 6650 in the near future. The S60 3.2 (Feature Pack 2) powered device will replace the earlier N75 model, hence giving Symbian fans another option in the States. Specs wise, the AT&T’s 6650 variant sports a 3G radio with “proper” 3G frequencies for the U.S. soil, and also packs…
Videos: Nokia N79 and N85
Nokia has released two promo videos for two newly announced smartphones – Nokia N79 and N85. As you’re about to see, both devices are quite capable and it’s hard to pick the favorite one. At the end, it’s a matter of personal preferences. Which form factor do you prefer – dual slider or a candybar?…
Nokia N96 ready for American 3G
Nokia has announced that its N96 smartphone is now ready for the U.S. market, boasting the right bands to work with AT&T’s 3G network. The Nokia N96 is arguably the best smartphone Finnish giant has ever made, sporting a large 2.8-inch screen, 5 megapixel camera, WiFi, GPS, 16 gigabytes of internal memory plus a microSD…
Nokia ditches built-in SIP for S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (FP2)
Prospective Nokia customers looking to cash in on Espoo’s traditionally open-stance on VoIP-over-WiFi might be in for a bit of a surprise. Nokia has finally been swayed by carrier interests (read: lucrative handset contracts) to make it just a little harder for VoIP fans to get busy with web-based voice calls. Nokia has traditionally included…
Nokia officially breaks cover with Nokia N79 and Nokia N85
We’ve been looking for Nokia to bring a new wave of N-series devices to the world for a good while now. The Nokia N79 and Nokia N85 were expected to take offer consumers even more of the glossy-finished N-series goodness that we see on the Nokia N96. The Nokia N85 NAM (North American edition) has…
Samsung G810 awarded the European Photo Phone 2008-2009
Now this is strange. EISA’s (European Imaging and Sound Association) European Photo Phone award is usually reserved for Nokia phones, but this year it’s the Samsung G810 which got all the glory. Best of all (as far as Samsung is concerned), they’re using Nokia’s S60 platform for their baby. We’ve already covered the G810 in…
fring adds support for Nokia E66, Symbian 9.3 based devices
fring has recently announced support for more devices. First, they said the stylish business slider Nokia E66 is now on the list of supported devices. Soon afterwards, they posted Symbian 9.3-based devices are now also on the list. More specifically, fring is now compatible with following Nokia smartphones: Nokia N78, 6550, 6210, 6220 and 5320…
Enhanced Calculator for S60 hits Nokia Beta Labs
Sick and tired of the default calculator on your Nokia S60 smartphone? You can always install Calcium and use D-pad as shortcuts for the common operators. However, the problem with Calcium is that it only provides you with basic calculations. And while I do believe more than 90% of all calculations are basic ones, it’s…