Archive for February 4th, 2010

Big Push N900 Event at London tonight! [@PushN900 #PushN900]

Jay Montano | February 4, 2010 | Comments (0)

Thursday’s Open Source/Nokia related news isn’t all about Symbian, there’s a taste of Maemo too! Back in September, Nokia announced the Push N900 initiative. What is PushN900? “It’s a unique project from Nokia. And we’re looking for help from the world’s most skilled designers, artists, hackers and modders. We want you to come up with [...]

New App: Diagnostics from Nokia Beta Labs

llaadd | February 4, 2010 | Comments (0)

Nokia beta labs have churned out the latest application (currently only for S60 5th but hopefully more later), Nokia Diagnostics. From the official page: Nokia Diagnostics makes it easy to diagnose and troubleshoot situations on the mobile phone by running various tests on the phone, including: 1. Network Coverage test 2. Internet connectivity test 3. [...]

New i version of the 6303 classic to be launched

llaadd | February 4, 2010 | Comments (0)

We have all seen the Nokia 6303 Classic, which was 1 of 2 branches (the other being the 6700) from the 6300 which was hugely popular phone for many reasons including the physical design and stable software, but not Nokia have decided to improve upon the 6303 and make the 6303i which boasts an improved [...]

New i version of the 6303 classic to be launched

llaadd | February 4, 2010 | Comments (0)

We have all seen the Nokia 6303 Classic, which was 1 of 2 branches (the other being the 6700) from the 6300 which was hugely popular phone for many reasons including the physical design and stable software, but not Nokia have decided to improve upon the 6303 and make the 6303i which boasts an improved [...]

World's number one mobile OS, Symbian becomes fully Open Source [#symbiancountdown]

Jay Montano | February 4, 2010 | Comments (12)

The world’s most populous smartphone platform (330,000,000 shipped), Symbian, is now fully open source. Members of the foundation include Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. In 2008, Nokia bought the rest of Symbian for $410 million…. and then gave it away. In February 2009, Nokia received $630 [...]