A few weeks ago, my friend Greg from SymbianFrance.com pinged me to be a part of his Symbian Experts interview series, which was quite an honor. Greg gathered some of the top minds in the Symbian blogging community to answer a few questions and get an idea of where we think Symbian is and where [...]
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As location-based services have begun to gain traction, one service in particular has stood out as the favorite — Foursquare. The service is simple — when you’re out and about, you ‘check-in’ at various locations, alerting the service and your friends of your whereabouts. The fun comes as you get points for various check-ins and [...]
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Today we finally learned what that countdown was all about – the Symbian operating system is, as of today, fully open sourced. This is a major announcement, as it means that any company or individual can take the Symbian platform and make it whatever they want, for any device – be it a smartphone, netbook, [...]
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The Symbian Foundation kicked off a weird promotional campaign recently, with a cryptic countdown that started at 108. The number has since dropped to 61, 49, 48, 36, and finally 29 today. You can keep up with the countdown at http://countdown.symbian.org, and if you view the page source, they’ve changed the hint inside a few [...]
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Our friends at SBSH have released a new version of their popular FExplorer Pro application, including some new features and a ton of bug fixes. FExplorer is somewhat like a swiss army knife of utility tools for your Symbian powered smartphone, including a task manager, screenshot tool, and file manager.
The new update, v2.1, is free [...]
Waze, our favorite social navigation application, just let us know that users will see some new road goodies on the maps, starting today. The new road goodies – heart-shaped ‘love balloons’ and cupid’s arrow, will replace the holiday-themed candy canes and snowflakes. The Waze team says there will be more of these on the maps, [...]
Our friend Asrial Baker at i-Symbian.com shot us an email to let us know that the first Kuala Lumpur Symbian Stammtisch is happening soon, on February 10, 2010. Stammtisch is German for ‘regular get-together’ and is reportedly something we’ll see often in future Symbian Foundation stuff. It’s basically a meetup. Get the details below:
Where?
Kelantan Delights
1-5, [...]
Otterbox is well known for the cases that they produce for any variety of different eletronics, including your favorite Symbian-powered smartphones. They’re pricey, but they do an awesome job of protecting your phone from….well…pretty much anything. Otterbox has 3 different types of cases – the Commuter series, the Impact series, and the Defender series.
The Commuter [...]
At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show last month, Nokia revealed an upcoming game dubbed Ovi Maps Racing. The graphics are great (it’s put together by Red Lynx, the folks behind Reset Generation) but the really cool part of Ovi Maps Racing is the track creation feature.
Using the maps from Ovi Maps, you can generate a [...]
