Category: Symbian^3

New Social Applications for Belle & Updates for X7, E6, 500 before the rest? + Minor Rant

New Social Applications for Belle & Updates for X7, E6, 500 before the rest? + Minor Rant

| November 13, 2011 | 60 Replies

Random screenshot of Belle I found on Nokias official Belle website :http://www.nokia.com/sg-en/products/featured-phones/belle/ as you can see there seems to be two new widgets dedicated to Facebook & Twitter. The Facebook applications seems to have notification support FINALLY!!! how does anyone make a Facebook app that doesn’t even support notifications??? Groups or Pages and Events I might understand but notifications are the core [...]

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Gameloft 50% off Promo at Nokia Store!

Gameloft 50% off Promo at Nokia Store!

| November 10, 2011 | 16 Replies

  Hello fellow Symbian users! I’ve been trying to get around to posting this for the last week or two. Gameloft is currently holding a special 50% off sale of it’s games in the Nokia Store! The total sales price comes to about $.99 USD for basically each of their titles. If you have been holding off [...]

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Nokia Maps Available on Nokia store (for Belle device only)

Nokia Maps Available on Nokia store (for Belle device only)

| November 6, 2011 | 46 Replies

Nokia Maps (previously Ovi Maps) has just been released from the super amazing top secret beta labs over to Nokia store, Except it’s only for Belle devices!? When I tried downloading it over the PC with my phone set to ‘N8′ it said the application wasn’t available; however if you simply change your device to any [...]

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Review: iWindows for Symbian

Review: iWindows for Symbian

| October 31, 2011 | 4 Replies

This review comes from our reader FireDragon. He installed iWindows on his N8 running Anna. Here’s what he thought. I was checking this application and I like it so far other than how it looks. iWindows brings a Windows Start Button to the Homescreen, over lapping the “Option” button. The Start Button’s graphic is horrible [...]

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Beta Labs – Nokia Pulse (WP, Symbian, Web)

Beta Labs – Nokia Pulse (WP, Symbian, Web)

| October 28, 2011 | 28 Replies

Another post I pushed back due to the heavy traffic of Nokia World. It seems Beta Labs have pushed out a new social network tool they are calling Nokia Pulse. It was another product I’ve heard was shown off at Nokia World. According to Nokia it “brings your everyday conversations to life by automatically tagging [...]

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Belle already on C7? (Not 701)

Belle already on C7? (Not 701)

| September 26, 2011 | 9 Replies

I was looking at QT 3D and the demo phone they included in their video was a C7 supposedly running Symbian Anna. Obviously, the UI shown on the device is not Anna, but indeed Belle. We know it’s a C7 based on the design. The 701 does NOT have the menu button in the bottom [...]

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Voddler app for Symbian (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland)

Voddler app for Symbian (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland)

| September 19, 2011 | 18 Replies

It seems that Voddler launched an app to be used with Symbian this time. “The app is free and works on Symbian smartphones that have upgraded to Symbian Anna.” According to Voddler’s website “at launch, the app has about 250 movies activated for mobile viewing, but new titles will be added on a running basis [...]

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Asphalt 6 HD: Symbian^3 and Android graphical comparison.

Asphalt 6 HD: Symbian^3 and Android graphical comparison.

| July 26, 2011 | 43 Replies

    Hello fellow Mynokiablog readers! Today we present an honest (harsh?) video comparison of Asphalt 6! The nitty-gritty details can be found in the video description below. From MrNokiaTech: “NOTE: Gameloft “ported” Asphalt 6 to the Symbian^3 OS. It appears that they were not able to harness the power of the Broadcom GPU and [...]

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Universal Search Beta

Universal Search Beta

| July 17, 2011 | 38 Replies

I know we have already brought you an article regarding Nokia Beta Labs’ new toy, Universal Search Beta. However, it was a closed trial (invite only). This still hasn’t changed, although i have come across a leaked installer of the new Search (2.39.176). I have been using it on my N8 (PR 1.2 – No [...]

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Press shots of Nokia 700/Zeta leaked (and tiny rant) #Symbian Belle

Press shots of Nokia 700/Zeta leaked (and tiny rant) #Symbian Belle

| July 5, 2011 | 77 Replies

      Snap, what do we have hear then, it looks like Elop might be a master in leaking a device on purpose but he sure isnt one in keeping a device  under wraps. What we have here is the first ina group of devices that will run the next version of Symbian called [...]

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How To: Re-Download the Ovi Store, for any reason!

How To: Re-Download the Ovi Store, for any reason!

| June 15, 2011 | 70 Replies

Just an FYI/ Helpful tip for our Symbian friends. To anyone that has not received the new Ovi Store update or needs to re-download the Ovi Store for any reason, here is the link to the Ovi Store download: http://store.ovi.com/content/5406 I suggest bookmarking the link on your PC for future use. After clicking on the link, log into your [...]

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Angry Birds Rio Gets New Level

Angry Birds Rio Gets New Level

| June 10, 2011 | 7 Replies

The Rovio team have brought the latest update to Angry Birds Rio, a new episode called Carnival Upheaval which brings 15 extra levels (plus another 15 in this episode “Coming soon!”) and to top it all off….a new bird!!! Get downloading now via the button in Angry Birds Rio, or via the Ovi Store. Update: [...]

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New Beta labs app: “Nokia play To”

New Beta labs app: “Nokia play To”

| June 1, 2011 | 74 Replies

Have you ever wanted to to stream your content such as pictures, video’s or music from your Nokia device to your DNLA enabled high def telly? Well then you are in luck today my friends. The clever guys at Nokia Beta labs have been hard at work again and have created another delightful app to [...]

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#BerlinMapsters – a Nokia Maps feedback workshop

#BerlinMapsters – a Nokia Maps feedback workshop

| June 1, 2011 | 18 Replies

A diverse group of bloggers from all around the world, including Canada, USA, UK and India – were invited to fly to Germany to meet the team behind Nokia Ovi Maps – in my opinion, the most popular service on Nokia phones.

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New CNN App for Symbian^3! Nokia and CNN collaborate to deliver mobile news and rich mapping!

New CNN App for Symbian^3! Nokia and CNN collaborate to deliver mobile news and rich mapping!

| May 26, 2011 | 15 Replies

From Nokia Conversations, The Official Nokia Blog: “GLOBAL – Today Nokia and news network CNN have announced plans for an international agreement which will see Nokia providing rich mapping services to the network. You may have already seen the first fruits of this collaboration when CNN used Nokia’s new 3D maps to show the route [...]

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Nokia N8 camera tips by Damian Dinning

Nokia N8 camera tips by Damian Dinning

| May 1, 2011 | 31 Replies

On the day preceding the Royal Wedding, along with a few other bloggers I was invited by WW/N to a mysterious little event held London. There, in collaboration with Nokia, a selected group of CNN iReporters were given out Nokia N8′s to capture the big day. And the best part – everyone attending got a [...]

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Nokia E7: First Reactions

Nokia E7: First Reactions

| April 7, 2011 | 15 Replies

Sometimes before actually writing a fully fledged review it’s useful to put down some raw impressions first. These immediate reactions of using the Nokia E7 might be able to convey a more vivid image than a perfectly constructed and though-out review. Of course, for every type of article there’s the best time and place. Now [...]

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Molome : The Qt Instagram for Symbian arrives

Molome : The Qt Instagram for Symbian arrives

| April 7, 2011 | 31 Replies

Without much fanfare or any publicity, this Instagram ( the cool iOS app that adds effects and filters to a photo on the fly and shares it on social networks ) look-alike for Symbian devices has been launched in the Ovi Store. It’s a free application and it’s called Molome. Like stop motion videos ? [...]

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Change to Nokia Pure font now! [Tutorial included]

Change to Nokia Pure font now! [Tutorial included]

| March 27, 2011 | 130 Replies

Nokia Pure , the new typeface , which was launched recently during the design week has garnered a lot of attention. The Brandbook blog has given us a glimpse of the new type face in this screenshot comparing the old Nokia Sans font and the new Pure font.You might have seen a tutorial for changing [...]

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New Firmware PR 1.1 finally available for Nokia C7 (N8, C6-01 coming shortly)

New Firmware PR 1.1 finally available for Nokia C7 (N8, C6-01 coming shortly)

| February 3, 2011 | 76 Replies

Well it looks like finally, FINALLY Nokia has managed to give us the first of hopefully many more software updates for their new Symbian devices. Unfortunately for camera lovers out there, the N8 doesn’t seem to have this update yet. (I checked). The description of the update is ” Improves phone performance and brings you [...]

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Sparkle for Symbian^3

Sparkle for Symbian^3

| January 29, 2011 | 9 Replies

Odd title for a blog post but having watched a few videos of the game, i gotta say, name or not it’s worth a buy. Sparkle is a game much like Zuma where the objective is to fire coloured beads at a moving line of other beads in order to destroy it before it gets [...]

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