If you’re a fan of sports then you’re definitely aware of the two major tournaments that the summer of 2010 will bring: the FIBA 2010 World Championship and the FIFA 2010 WorldCup, and that’s not to mention this season’s sizzling Formula1 championship that kick-started about 3 weeks ago. Now, if you own a Symbian device, [...]
After yesterday’s rundown of the 7 improvements the E72 brings over its younger brother, I take a look today at the 7 problems that the newest Eseries device has which were absent on the E71. It’s more of a proof that whenever you try to improve one thing, you always mess up something else. 1. [...]
Lately, there has been a buzz of applications that aim to modify the Symbian Homescreen, by adding social media aspects, news and weather, like vHome and Flyscreen. The latest such discovery to fall under our radar is HipLogic. When launched, HipLogic brings a full new UI to Symbian, with the regular date, battery and reception [...]
About a month ago, Blog-N97 reported about a new game developer, Polarbit, who appeared in the Ovi Store with 4 Symbian games optimized for touchscreens: Raging Thunder (also available for S60 3rd Edition), Toon Warz, Armageddon Squadron and Wave Blazer. At the time, the games were priced between 2€ and 3€ and few people got [...]
One of the complaints that Symbian always receives is that the UI is outdated and that the available applications look like they came straight out of 2004. By comparison, 3rd party software developped for the iPhone/iPod Touch, Android and even Blackberry add amazing eye-catching graphics with animations, transitions and transparency. While I do agree that [...]
When I think back to Mobile World Congress 2009, I definitely remember the first unveiling of the Sony Ericsson Satio concept, the bomb that was the Samsung Omnia HD, as well as Nokia’s E75, E55, N86 8MP and Ovi Store announcements. The Nokia 6720 Classic? Not so much, honestly. Nevertheless, I recently had the 6720 [...]
Despite the many things that I find myself loving about the Nokia E52, I couldn’t help being disappointed by a few aspects of the device, that I will expose to you below. 1. Build Quality Issues Build quality normally isn’t on any of my “things I hate” list for Eseries, and although the E52′s design, [...]
The Nokia E52 was handed to me a few days ago by the lovely team at Nokia Lebanon, and I am excited to bring you its full review. On paper, the E52 might not be the most advanced smartphone, nor does it have flashy features that make every geek’s heart stop, but in many ways, [...]
There have been a lot of complaints recently regarding the vanishing of certain applications from the built-in Symbian firmware on new devices released by Nokia. There was a time when you could buy an E71 for example and walk away with an incredible out-of-the-box experience filled with discovering new easter egg applications hidden here and [...]
