The Nokia Beta Labs have long been the destination for new and upcoming apps for various Nokia devices, with a majority being for Symbian-powered smartphones like the Nokia N97 and the Nokia N86. However, these apps have always been directly developed by Nokia – internal apps that are being revealed to the public. Recently, the [...]
When we heard about the Nokia alliance with Microsoft yesterday, and the duo’s plan to ‘bring’ mobile Office support to Nokia’s Eseries, we immediately reached out to QuickOffice, to see what they thought about the deal. QuickOffice is the Office suite that has shipped on Nokia’s smartphones, including the Eseries, XpressMusic, and even their normal [...]
Nokia and Microsoft, today, announced a new alliance that will make it even easier to manipulate Office documents on your phone. You can read the full press release here, or go back and watch the video here. Like me, you’re probably more concerned with what this means to you, the consumer, in the immediate and [...]
Remember those bar codes we used to play with on our phones? From what I know it was never quite the success. Of course you can argue that it was successful by looking at the hype around it such as T-shirts and other merchandises you can buy and treasure hunting. However a quick search reveals [...]
The people over at Mobisystems have once again updated their software OfficeSuite. Here’s a recap on what it is. It’s an office application for the S60 handsets where you can create and edit spreadsheets with charts and word document with support for the latest Microsoft 2007 formats, all this from within your device. OfficeSuite for [...]
After years and years of waiting for Microsoft to enable POP3 (and IMAP4) on Hotmail, they eventually did it. If you have a Hotmail email address then you can finally, thanks to POP3, access and read your email through applications other than the browsers on your computer and your mobile device. This means that you [...]
The fancy folks at QuickOffice have decided to offer the full-on viewing/editing suite for $1 today only (July 22nd). QuickOffice v5.0 is fully compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 documents, including those from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.With QuickOffice Premier v5.0, you can not only view Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files directly on your S60-powered smartphone, you [...]
Ewan Spence, from AllAboutSymbian, is attending MIX08 and managed to get a few minutes with Brad Becker, who is the Group Project Manager for the User Experience Platform and Tools Marketing Group at Microsoft (that’s GPM-UEPaTMG, for short), for a nice chat about Silverlight, which we announced earlier last week as coming to Nokia’s product [...]
AllAboutSymbian has posted up the latest edition of their Insight audio podcast. If you’re not familiar with it, the AllAboutSymbian Insight podcast features Steve Litchfield, Rafe Blandford, and Ewan Spence chatting about recent events in Symbian and other mobile-related topics. Last episode they had Stefan from IntoMobile as a guest, and this time around they [...]
