Symbian

The Nokia Microsoft partnership is paying off , first it was launching of Microsoft Communicator on Nokia’s Symbian ^3 devices followed by Nokia’s adoption of WP7 for their newest smartphones and now for the Symbian crowd there is a reason to rejoice, in Fourth quarter 2011 i.e.within the next three months we can expect the [...]

This Time It’s Personal is the tag line of Nokia’s Hong Kong Symbian event.  Nothing is known till yet what Nokia will bring out , some say it’s already leaked #Belle and likes of Eldar says it’s going to be new devices and on the countdown it says Something new on Symbian. What could be [...]

Have you played Need for Speed series , how about Asphalt 6 d you feel the adrenalin rush when paying these high speed games. I’m also a fan of these high speed intense games but sometimes I miss the simple car racing games like Lotus Racing (circa 1992) where all you do is change lanes [...]

Opera today released version 11 of Opera Mobile and Version 6 of their popular Opera Mini for Symbian ,  Android and Blackberry devices . To download just point your mobile browser to m.opera.com and you will be shown versions as per your phone . While Opera Mini 6 is just under 1Mb , Opera Mobile [...]

Symbian Is Here to Stay

by Farhan on March 3, 2011

When Nokia announced their transition to Microsoft’s WP7 many thought that from now Symbian is dead and Nokia will leap from ‘burning’ Symbian platform to be a Microsoft OEM manufacturer with hundreds of million invested in Symbian by Nokia and millions of hours of work done by developers to make the 30,000 plus apps available [...]

It’s been a week we had been using HTC HD7 , a Windows Mobile 7  phone along with our Nokia N8 to see where they both have advantages over each other  and which features Nokia and Microsoft should amalgamate to make the Nokia Wp7 phone a success. Hardware: On the hardware front , Nokia has [...]

For once it’s not Eldar but the folks at Negri Electronics  who are showing off their acquisition of probably Nokia N9 ( as they call it )   Looking at the front , the phone is running Symbian with usual S60v5 Widgets , now if the phone had been running Symbian 3 than the screen [...]

Finally the wait is over , Nokia C3 , the mid tier QWERTY Series 40 phone from Nokia is launched in Indonesia and UK Available in a variety of colors , looks and QWERTY is not it’s only strong points , it’s other features include 13.6 mm thin body weighing 114g 2.4 inch , 262 [...]

Augmented Reality is the new IN thing for mobiles , be it Google using it to find places in Nexus One /  Android or Nokia using it with Point and Find to find product details .   However till now the technology was limited to a few phones but with Wikitude 4.0 from Mobilizy -  based [...]

Mobilizy , the innovator in Augmented Reality is now bringing their Wikitude World Browser to the Symbian S60 v3 phones , currently available for Android , iPhone and Nokia S60 5th Edition , Wikitude offers a point and get information interface . Wikitude gets their information from geocoded , 200 various sources including Flickr , [...]