During the 2010 Mobile World Congress, a company called Distimo gave a presentation, showing off their findings when comparing the top 6 mobile app stores. These include the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Distimo compared numerous aspects, including number of [...]
What baffles me the most when I read mobile opinions from North American and European journalists is how clueless they are regarding the situation in the rest of the world, and how can they deem a product a success or a failure while limiting themselves to their region and without considering its impact on the [...]
You may recall several months ago, just about the time the E66 and E71 were announced, that Nokia also revealed it would be discontinuing support for BlackBerry service on its S60-powered smartphones. This was a huge deal, and the post was one of our most popular for several months afterwards. However, in a recent Rueters [...]
Nokia takes huge strides to convince us that our S60-powered smartphones can be used to manage our lives in every aspect. Various marketing campaigns such as the Henry Needles one ask what’s in your pocket, is it many things, or one thing. Nokia’s various other activities encourage us to use our phones as digital cameras, [...]
Click To Play I know I took last week off, and I’m sorry, I’m working on getting back into the routine of things. Here it is, Episode 32 of Driving with the Guru, and I brought lots of toys. We take a brief look at the Samsung SBH500 Stereo Bluetooth headphones, the Yada in-car handset [...]
One topic that gets quite a bit of debate in the mobile industry is what defines a ‘smartphone’. What makes one phone smart and the other ‘dumb’, and what happens when a ‘dumbphone’ is able to do things that a smartphone can? Dennis over at WAPReview.com (killer site, by the way, if you’re a mobile [...]
Steve Litchfield has posted the latest edition of the Smartphones Show, and this time, after many requests, he’s gone retro! No, he’s not dressed up all funky, he’s just posting the show in H.263-encoded MP4, which means it will be compatible with older handsets, for those of you who watch the show ON your smartphone. [...]
Steve Litchfield is bringing in the New Year with a fresh episode of the Smartphones Show, with a slightly new direction and a fancy new intro. This episode also features a new special guest, Craig Loxton of Craig’s Tech Blog. Craig’s a longtime friend of Symbian-Guru.com and will be doing a few segments on the [...]
