Nearly 12 hours ago, Nokia officially unveiled its latest masterpiece, the Nokia N8. This smartphone is the first Symbian^3 device to be officially unveiled, and it brings Nokia up to par with the hardware capabilities of every other smartphone manufacturer on the planet. The Nokia N8 features a 3.5-inch nHD (360×640 pixels) resolution capacitive OLED [...]
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 [...]
Our friends at SPB Software have released another awesome game for Symbian-powered smartphones, though this one is limited to touchscreen devices like the Nokia N97 and Samsung i8910. SPB Quads has been available for other platforms for a while, and is apparently disgustingly addictive. In SPB Quads, the screen is full of multicolored squares, whose [...]
Only a few days ago, NokiaUSA.com listed the Nokia X6 16GB for sale at a reasonable $455, but now Amazon.com is listing the phone as in stock, ready to ship for $397, with free shipping. The Nokia X6 was announced at Nokia World 2009 and is the company’s first Symbian-powered touchscreen smartphone to feature a [...]
Yesterday I shared with you 10 things that I’ve found Android does much better than Symbian. However, there’s more to the story, so today I have a list of 10 things that my Symbian-powered touchscreen phones do much better than my Android-powered HTC Eris, which is currently running Android 1.5. Obviously this isn’t a complete [...]
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 [...]
Symbian^3, the first fully open-source version of the Symbian platform, was announced today as being feature-complete by the end of Q1, with devices expected to ship in Q3 of this year. This new release includes a handful of awesome improvements that should really make Symbian stand out once again as a leader in the smartphone [...]
It wasn’t too long ago that Sony Ericsson quietly went live with the Vivaz, a new touchscreen Symbian-powered smartphone with some impressive specs. Earlier tonight in Barcelona, Spain, at the 2010 Mobile World Congress, they upped the ante with the Vivaz Pro. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro has the same basic features as the Vivaz, [...]
Checking out the Software Update on my Nokia N97 Mini, I noticed that there was a new version of Nokia Messaging for Email, v10.2. I was currently running v10.1, so this isn’t a major update, but an update, nonetheless. The install went smoothly and as expected, maintained all my accounts and whatnot. Just browsing through [...]
