SPB Mobile Shell for Symbian-powered handset is an application that brings you a totally new look for your touch-enabled handset. With much advanced options to customize the user interface to suit your need it’s a handy partner to have. If you haven’t read our review of it yet. You should to head over to see [...]
The Nokia N97 has proven, without exception, to be one of Nokia’s biggest fumbles ever. When announced, it looked like the device would shatter everything else on the market. Unfortunately, there was nearly half a year between the announcement and release, during which time other manufacturers actually released awesome new handsets. Then, there was the [...]
So, we’ve got the Ovi Store, right? It’s cool and all, but what if you want to know about the latest apps without having to load up the whole store and go through all that? Why not have a widget on your N97 or N97 Mini’s homescreen that shows you the latest apps in the [...]
One thing that Windows Mobile and Android have both benefited from is 3rd party user interface overlays to add a more user-friendly experience, as well as other features such as additional homescreens, swipe gestures, and more. While Nokia has done some of this type of thing on the N97 and N97 Mini, clearly there’s nothing [...]
Earlier tonight, just before going to bed, I checked the Software Update tool on my Nokia N97. I don’t check this often, maybe once a week or so. Normally there’s nothing new here, but this evening I noticed a new update available – Ovi Music v11.4, apparently. The Ovi Music update is small, only 497k, [...]
Nokia announced the N97 Mini Gold Edition quite a while ago, so I was surprised it took this long for an unboxing video to pop up. Aside from the exterior and in-box accessories, the N97 Mini Gold Edition is the same as the non-gold edition – tilt-up display with full QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen, 8GB of [...]
Nokia’s Sports Tracker application and service never quite made the jump from non-touchscreen to touchscreen phones, which is a shame. Yes, there was an official client for touchscreen smartphones like the Nokia N97 and N97 Mini, but it was a complete hassle to track down, and not readily available, even from the Sports Tracker website [...]
The Capdase Classic Leather Book Case promises to protect the phone from wear and tear from a busy lifestyle and it does this by fitting the Symbian-powered handset perfectly. So it says. Mobile Fun have been kind enough to provide one for us to test. Packaging The packaging is made of very simple plastic materials, [...]
Otterbox is well-known for building solid cases for a large variety of mobile devices, including several Symbian-powered smartphones. They’re well known for quality, but I wanted to see how the actual case fit the phone and worked in a real-world setting, so the kind folks at Otterbox sent me one of their brand-new Commuter cases [...]
