One of the bajillion things that’s different from the Eseries to the Nseries and other Symbian-powered smartphones is the way the phone notifies you of new…..events. On most Symbian-powered devices, you get a rather large (yet ultimately useless) popup on the homescreen, as well as a small indicator in the top right corner of the [...]
Nokia Bots was just released on the Nokia Beta Labs, and I have to say, this is the first step towards something I have wanted for a long, long time. Basically, Nokia Bots monitors the way you use your Symbian-powered smartphone and starts doing things based on this behavior. There are four bots currently available: [...]
The Nokia Beta Labs just launched an interesting new application called Nokia Feel. This is an interesting widget that asks how you feel and then recommends a feature of the phone to help with that feeling. It’s certainly an interesting way to introduce users to all of the functions of their smartphones. In this first [...]
One of the things that I’ve heard requested for the Symbian platform since I got my first Nokia 6620 so many years ago is the ability to edit the custom predictive text dictionary stored within the device. We can easily add words to this dictionary, but removing them is basically impossible without erasing everything, and [...]
Following closely behind the launch of free Ovi navigation for [almost] everyone, Nokia Beta Labs have opened up testing for Ovi Suite v2.1, which I’ve been privately testing for a few weeks now. This one is actually quite a leap ahead, so let’s talk about the improvements and why I think this might be the [...]
Nokia Betalabs have been busy lately with releases such as the Nokia Image Exchange Beta For S60v5 and recently released Nokia Image Space. Newest in their portfolio of applications are Gig Finder. With this application the user can buy tickets to concerts of their favorite artist as well as getting directions to where the event [...]
One thing that you can’t fault Nokia for is constantly asking for user feedback. Whether it’s through the Nokia Beta Labs, random questionnaires, or even the numerous Nokia employees who scour the various forums and blogs on the Internet to find out what people are saying about the company and its products, they’re definitely listening. [...]
Ovi Suite is the culmination of all Nokia’s various PC Suites into a single application, with close ties to various Ovi services, such as Ovi Maps, Ovi Share, etc. The application has been in beta for quite a while now, recently growing up to Beta v2.0, with the ability to install applications onto your phone. [...]
The Nokia Beta Labs, not to be left out of the Nokia World excitement, has released a trio of applications for Symbian^1 (S60v5) devices, mostly the Nokia N97 (and inevitably the N97 Mini). These applications are all available to be downloaded today, right now, but they do come with varying levels of stability. Also, remember [...]
