Nokia’s Ovi Store is growing quickly, with over 6,000 apps and more coming in every day. We already know that the average selling price of Ovi Store apps is less than Apple’s App Store, which is awesome, but now there are two new reasons to hit up the Ovi Store on your Symbian-powered smartphone. Today, [...]
We were one of the firsts to announce the availability of the Skype Mobile Beta almost 2 years ago, and it has continued to be one of our most popular posts, even to this day. Today, however, the Skype team finally announced the availability of a native Symbian application, specially designed for touchscreen smartphones like [...]
I realize it’s a bit late, but I’ve been spending some quality time with Mrs. Guru and our families for the past couple of days, celebrating the holidays. It’s been an awesome year here at Symbian-Guru, and we’re way thankful that you guys and girls have kept coming back to the site day after day. [...]
They say “when it rains it pours” and just a few hours after we gave you a detailed rundown of the latest Nimbuzz version with new chat message notification, a very decent Twitter integration, chat history, link recognition and kinetic scrolling, another long-awaited application has turned up: Skype has announced a new beta for their [...]
I had a chance to play with the Nokia N97 recently, and captured a few screenshots that I thought you might find interesting. There was not much software loaded into this unit, which was running prototype firmware v10.0.005, so I wasn’t able to check out N-Gage, nor was I able to ogle the new Facebook [...]
The people behind Nimbuzz recently had a poll on which mobile phone they should support next. Out of the four phones in the poll, the Blackberry Storm, the Blackberry Bold, 5800 XpressMusic and the Omnia HD, the 5800 XpressMusic came out as the clear winner, which is definitely encouraging! As such, the team is working [...]
I’m not a Fring user, personally, but I know many of you swear by it, particularly for the Skype integration. If that’s you, and you’re the proud owner of a bouncing Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (or one of those few Nokians who read Symbian-Guru sitting there smugly with an N97 on your desk) then I’ve got [...]
Following up on the news from earlier today that Nokia and Skype will be integrating the Skype service into Nokia’s Nseries smartphones, I have a picture that I found on the Skype blog, courtesy of TechCraver.com. While the Nokia press release made it sound like the S60 contacts app was going to get a web-enabled [...]
Coming off its 5 new smartphone announcements, Nokia kicks off the second day of Mobile World Congress with news around its software services, as well as integration with others. Today, Nokia announced that it will be integrating Skype services into its Nseries smartphones, beginning with the N97, in Q3 2009. The service will be integrated [...]
