Category: S60

Nokia taking Symbian development back in house, Foundation remains to control licensing and patents

Nokia taking Symbian development back in house, Foundation remains to control licensing and patents

| November 8, 2010 | Reply

  As mentioned before in the press release Jay posted, and has been rumored in the blogosphere for quite a while, it seems that Nokia and the Symbian board have taken a decisive step towards improving the Symbian OS, speeding up time to market, improving developer and OEM relations and at the same time cut [...]

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Symbian web browser sluggish??  Javascript to blame

Symbian web browser sluggish?? Javascript to blame

| October 20, 2010 | 49 Replies

  While this is by no means an empirical test, I’ve seen mention in a number of places on the web that the main reason for the dismal performance of the Symbian Web browser is the lack of adequate CPU power, I can categorically say that this is a false assumption. I’m currently using a [...]

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The Nokia E7 is no small business. Find out why…

The Nokia E7 is no small business. Find out why…

| September 22, 2010 | 24 Replies

Since it’s announcement during the recent Nokia World event, the E7 has gotten quite a lot of attention. And for a good reason. It was passionately dubbed by Annsi Vanjoki as the direct continuation of the Nokia’s ‘communicator’ legacy, and thus, has quite some shoes to fill. But before we move head first into the [...]

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Tabula Crypticum

Tabula Crypticum

| September 14, 2010 | 14 Replies

The following blog post was dropped into our comments section not long ago and having read it from end to end, I can sincerely empathize with the author and agree almost whole-heartedly with his views. I think the key takeaway from this article is that Nokia has an image problem and seems not to realize [...]

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Swype for Symbian^1

Swype for Symbian^1

| September 2, 2010 | Reply

The guys at Nokia Beta labs, responsible for the awesome “Nokia Bots” and ”Nokia Conversations” widgets and the “Photo Browser” application currently available in the Ovi Store have released a beta version of the text input program “Swype”. The Swype apps is available at the following link. Swype aims to significantly speed up text entry [...]

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Near-final N8 firmware run through

Near-final N8 firmware run through

| August 27, 2010 | Reply

With rumors circling the internet that the final, release version of the N8 firmware is scheduled to be finished by next week (crosses fingers) The latest video that I found on the site, http://tv.mediaprovider.se should hopefully give a pretty clear insight into the sort of performance and applications (read: games) we can expect to see when [...]

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C7 preview

C7 preview

| August 26, 2010 | Reply

The all knowing Eldar has posted another preview of a Nokia device, this time the S^3 powered C7. As is customary he speaks little to the functionality and more to the flashiness of the interface, once again stamping on it’s lack of novelty or spice. His conclusion? “Those who are accustomed to Symbian and know [...]

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Pixelpipe on the N8

Pixelpipe on the N8

| August 24, 2010 | Reply

Stumbled across this video on dailymobile showing an upgraded pixelpipe application with the ability to upload not just pictures and videos to a variety of online services  such as picasa and facebook but also regular files such as PDF’s to dropbox accounts. Give it a look! P.S. No information on the size of the files [...]

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Nokia X3 Touch and Type

Nokia X3 Touch and Type

| August 17, 2010 | Reply

Wooo, a bit of a shocker Nokia have released today, the X3-01 was leaked a while ago but no one expected it to be touch screen button tag team combo. It has caused a bit of a stir on the internets. Key features traditional 12 button keypad 2.4 inch screen 5 megapixel camera with 4 [...]

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Nokia N8 v Samsung Omnia HD multitasking

Nokia N8 v Samsung Omnia HD multitasking

| August 14, 2010 | Reply

iPhone owners look away now, here is an interesting look at the Nokia N8 being compared to the Samsung Omnia HD doing PROPER multitasking. I have got to admit the Samsung’s multitasking is pretty funky thanks to KaiwanGailan for the heads up !!! via Parttimereviewer on youtube

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Nokia 5250 pictured clearly

Nokia 5250 pictured clearly

| August 10, 2010 | Reply

Some clear pictures of a rumoured Nokia 5230 have appeared, first time I have actually heard of this phone it is probably based on Symbian 1 but looks decent a bit like the Sony ericsson X8 the slightly smaller version to the X10. BTW I thought Nokia had stopped using this naming convention thanks to [...]

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Nokia C6 Review: The good, the bad and the smart

Nokia C6 Review: The good, the bad and the smart

| August 8, 2010 | 75 Replies

Introduction Ever since it’s release under the Nokia’s Cseries branding, the Nokia C6 was bound to attract some attention. And for a good reason. The budget price range is quite unusual for what it offers in return: attractive design, a touchscreen enforced with a slide-out qwerty keyboard and all the connectivity you can eat, including [...]

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Symbian 3 is finished

Symbian 3 is finished

| August 4, 2010 | 13 Replies

Symbian 3, Nokia’s latest baby was officially completed on June 17th, of course that doesn’t mean the N8 is coming tomorow. It means all the new features and improvements have been added, now the hard work of testing and tweaking begins, the boring bit basically but a bit Nokia needs to get right to avoid [...]

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Freeware: Weight Tracker by OffScreen – Free on Ovi Store

Freeware: Weight Tracker by OffScreen – Free on Ovi Store

| July 27, 2010 | Reply

Here’s a free app available on the Ovi Store that I’ll definitely be using on a day to day basis. It’s called Weight Tracker. As you can guess it tracks your weight. The interface is simple and easy to use. Basically each day, just turn the scale to your current weight, be it in lbs [...]

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Video: Nokia C6 video review

Video: Nokia C6 video review

| July 23, 2010 | Reply

Next up is a 2 part US video review by Smartphoneenvy of the Nokia C6, the ‘budget’ version of the Nokia N97 mini. As noted in the video unboxing: C6-00 Tech specs C6-00 INFO Forum Nokia Carphone Warehouse UK still lists the Nokia C6 as coming soon Nokia Shop has the C6 available for £289. [...]

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Video: Nokia C6-00 unboxing

Video: Nokia C6-00 unboxing

| July 23, 2010 | Reply

Here’s GSMARENA’s video unboxing of the Nokia C6, a budget version of the N97 mini (complete with N97 style homescreen) with 4 row, non-tilt slide QWERTY keyboard. There’s no speaking during the video but you do get an interesting background song made up of phone vibrations. Despite being S60 5th (S^1) and having ARM 11 [...]

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Nokia E5 and C3 Demo – Every message brings us closer

Nokia E5 and C3 Demo – Every message brings us closer

| July 22, 2010 | Reply

Nokia E5 Nokia C3 As I said before I am an Art design type of person I do like Nokia Ads or promo videos showing of their handsets and this is another one Nice funky Video showing of the Nokia E5 and C3 another two device that should kickstart Nokia’s resurgence in the second part [...]

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Eseries with Symbian 3 and touchscreen due soon

Eseries with Symbian 3 and touchscreen due soon

| July 14, 2010 | Reply

I was reading Nokia’s official blog today and came across an interesting article with the communications team members Maria Kellokumpu and Dinesh Subramaniam, who both work closely on the Eseries devices . An interesting question came up about the perception that Eseries devices are technologically behind the curve and a very interesting answer came out [...]

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Is Symbian going to disappear into the bowels of mediocrity. (Poll)

Is Symbian going to disappear into the bowels of mediocrity. (Poll)

| July 13, 2010 | Reply

Having read YET another article, this time by Gartner predicting the demise of Symbian (Same people that predicted Windows Mobile 6′s dominance over Symbian in the 00′s) and comparing it to the Titanic of all things, Read here: http://blogs.gartner.com/nick_jones/2010/07/11/is-symbian-re-arranging-the-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic/ I thought I’d put up a poll to ask where YOU felt Symbian is heading and [...]

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Is Symbian going to disappear into the bowels of mediocrity. (Poll)

Is Symbian going to disappear into the bowels of mediocrity. (Poll)

| July 13, 2010 | 26 Replies

Having read YET another article, this time by Gartner predicting the demise of Symbian (Same people that predicted Windows Mobile 6′s dominance over Symbian in the 00′s) and comparing it to the Titanic of all things, Read here: http://blogs.gartner.com/nick_jones/2010/07/11/is-symbian-re-arranging-the-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic/ I thought I’d put up a poll to ask where YOU felt Symbian is heading and [...]

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Eldar Murtazin's Official Statement on Nokia Situation

Eldar Murtazin's Official Statement on Nokia Situation

| July 12, 2010 | 17 Replies

Eldar Murtazin Nokia’s favorite person on this planet right now is as you might now in trouble with Nokia about the supposed Nokia N8 prototype, which according to Nokia is in Eldar’s possession of course he strongly denide the claim from Nokia and after getting plenty of attention form the Tech media and bad media [...]

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