After the Nokia N97 and N97 Mini, no other touchscreen smartphones from Nokia have supported the same homescreen widgets, which honestly had me worried that these would be single-use-case devices. Fortunately, that’s not the case – today, Nokia announced the C6, its next generation of hybrid touchscreen smartphone with a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The [...]
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, [...]
When Mobisystems updated their OfficeSuite to version 5.00, they upgraded some of its core functions, such as being able to handle password protected documents and the ability to both view and edit Microsoft Office 2007 documents. Packed into this suite are three main functions, starting with the Word editor lets you view and edit documents [...]
When you take a look at the Ovi Store, it becomes clear to you that Widgets are becoming more prominent amongst the offered applications. I won’t say “I told you so” (because I obviously knew I was right), but I will ask you to focus your attention on the fact that most of these widgets [...]
For users of the Nokia N97 flagship handset, some might be painfully aware of the bad GPS reception on this particular handset along with other issues such as the camera slider. Having bad GPS reception simply defies the usage of OVI Maps (which I use quite often) or social GPS applications such as Waze. I’m [...]
I’ve already mentioned TouchComic on Symbian-Guru in our Update on Developer Challenge post, but I think that writing a dedicated post for it, especially since it has now moved leaps forward, is a must to highlight what a pleasure this application is to use. You might recall that earlier this year, I specifically asked for [...]
DreamSpring recently announced their Dream Connect application for Symbian-powered handsets. Having solid roots in the Symbian UIQ platform and it’s predecessor Psion, Dream Connect is an application that works seamlessly with the built in Contacts application on handsets running Symbian. Being an advanced contact manager, it’s given that search for contacts when typing from the [...]
Matthew Miller over at NokiaExperts just discovered that Olive Tree Bible Software has opened their previously-closed beta Bible Software for S60 5th Edition devices to everyone. You can now download this beta to check it out on your S60 5th-Edition-powered smartphone, such as the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic or the Nokia N97, to have instant access [...]
Last week, we brought to you a detailed walkthrough of gReader, the dedicated Google Reader client for Symbian, developed by MojosMobile. After the article was published, we received a lot of feedback on the site as well as on Twitter, especially regarding displaying images from the news items. The feedback was forwarded to the developers [...]
