In the automotive world, carbon-fiber design- and structural-elements epitomize the perfect blend of incredible strength and lightweight. Carbon fiber is stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum, making it perfect for high-end automotive applications (not to mention its extensive use in aerospace applications). But, when we’re talking about carbon-fiber (CF) in the mobile world, we’re…
Digia integrates Chinese 3G to Nokia S60 platform
Digia recently announced that it has successfully integrated TD-SCDMA, aka Chinese 3G, to Nokia S60 platform using Digia Telephony solution earlier created for GSM and WCDMA. The solution was demonstrated in Beijing, China using TD-SCDMA/EDGE modem by ST-NXP Wireless and T3G Technologies as well as China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA 3G network. Commenting on the announcement, Digia’s…
Nokia Email service hits Nokia Beta Labs
Nokia Email service/app is now available as an early release through Nokia Beta Labs. The application is designed to help users easily manage their emails on the go. Supported email services include GMail, Yahoo! Mail and “thousands of personal email accounts offered by other ISPs.” Unfortunately, at this stage corporate email and MSN Hotmail are…
fring now supports Samsung 550W, Nokia E71
fring has recently announced support for the first Symbian Samsung device – the GPS and WiFi enabled 550W model. In addition, the full QWERTY-keyboard equipped Nokia E71 is now also on the list of supported devices. Those not familiar should know fring is probably the most popular VoIP client for Symbian S60 powered devices, allowing…
T-Mobile launches Nokia 5610 XpressMusic handset
The Nokia 5610 XpressMusic handset has been circling T-Mobile’s network for longer than we can remember (our short-term is shot). The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic has already touched down on T-Mobile as a monoblock (candybar) musicphone, but that leaves the slider form-factor Nokia 5610 XpressMusic yet to come. Today, we’re finally seeing the music-oriented slider land…
FindMe Facebook app goes Symbian S60
Popular Facebook app, FindMe, is now available for Symbian S60 smartphones, allowing you to let your friends know where you are and find out where they are at any point. With a mobile FindMe client, you can completely control what your friends see, “At home”, “Office”, “Playing Soccer”, etc, or add such information like zip…
Nokia N85 NAM hits FCC – US spec Nokia N85 is near
The Nokia N85 has only just recently come to light as a Nokia N96-esque pseudo-slider bearing the same glossy-black finish and backlit slide-out media controls that we fell in love with on the N96. Last we heard, the device was that Nokia seemed to be aiming the Nokia N85 to be placed towards the high-end…
Samsung i7110 S60 smartphone leaked
Launching the first Symbian S60 smartphone with an 8 megapixel camera (aka i8510 INNOV8) is obviously not enough for Samsung. The Korean giant wants to corner the rest of the market as well, hence they will be launching a new Symbian S60 smartphone called i7110. We’re not aware of the official launch day, but I…
S60 Touch web browser UI leaked!
There are a host of new ways to interact with the new S60 Touch OS. With the addition of a touch-input interface, the S60 Touch UI will obviously accommodate finger-taps on the screen. But, the most important aspect of S60 Touch will be the web-browsing interface. The iPhone Safari browser has the touchscreen market dominated…
Missing Sync goes Symbian
Mark/Space has recently unveiled The Missing Sync for Symbian to allow wireless synchronization of Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola Symbian OS mobile phones with your Mac. Thanks to the unique feature called Proximity Syncing, the process is done almost automatically — all you have to do is bring your S60 or UIQ based device within…