Despite our handsets having a keylock, whether manually, timed or automatically, it’s not always convenient to do things when the keys of our Symbian-powered handset is locked. Many times I’ve been frustrated over that I first have to unlock my handset to then be able to skip a track when listening to my music on [...]
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, [...]
A few days ago, we brought you the exclusive preview of the unofficial IMDb client from Moubail, a Symbian^1 widget that allows you to search for actors, directors, movies, TV series, on the popular Internet Movie Database website. The widget wasn’t officially available for download yet, but has been made public by Moubail. This IMDb [...]
We made the wish, or should we say the Developer Challenge, for a decent IMDB client for Symbian and so it happens, a developer decided to take it up and turn it into a reality. This developer is Moubail who has brought us great widgets for Symbian^1 touch devices with extremely nice UI, like iSearch, [...]
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 [...]
The Nokia X6 was announced at Nokia World 2009 back in September with much fanfare. It’s the company’s first touchscreen smartphone to use a capacitive display, and is was the company’s first phone to only be available as a Comes With Music device. Today they’ve announced the Nokia X6 16GB, which has half the internal [...]
You might recall a long, long time ago when I did a review of a prototype Sony Ericsson Satio, before it became available on the market. I promised a conclusion to that review and somehow it fell forgotten under my other blogging work, until Sony Ericsson announced the Vivaz last week and I thought it [...]
Lost in the news of free Ovi Maps yesterday was the quiet announcement of a new Symbian-powered smartphone from Sony Ericsson dubbed the Vivaz. This touchscreen handset packs a whopping 8.1 megapixel camera and supposedly records video in HD at 720p. The camera hosts a number of high-end features, including face-recognition, image stabilization, and geotagging, [...]
