Archive for the ‘Symbian (S60 & UIQ)’ Category

Nokia has announced plans to integrate its Maps application to its Ovi services portal with the intention to allow users to create their own maps and routes, complete with waypoints and markers that can be loaded onto compatible devices with the Nokia Maps application installed.
Interested users would navigate to the Ovi portal, create an account [...]

It’s no secret that LG, like many other phone makers, uses Japanese-exclusive and other foreign phone designs for newer models. They take the external casing, and replace all the internals with less expensive (and less powerful) hardware.
But it was a surprise even for us to see Symbian touting a version of the LG enV2 with [...]

The Symbian enthusiast site SymbianFreak has revealed the first details on a first for Nokia devices: A Series 60 based device with a touch display.

The device features Symbian Series 60, but is modified to support touchscreen displays, tactile feedback, and widescreen aspect ratios. The full featureset consists of an internal GPS transceiver, support for geotagging, [...]

Nokia has just made its long-anticipated N-Gage gaming service available for select S60 smartphones — Nokia N81, N81 8GB, N82, N95, and N95 8GB, with promised additional support for Nokia N73, N93, and N93i coming soon.
The service, also known as “N-Gage 2.0,” is the spiritual follow-up to Nokia’s original standalone N-Gage handheld gaming device (released [...]

Wireless solutions provider TapRoot Systems has announced the availability of their WalkingHotSpot software for Windows Mobile and Symbian Series 60.
As the name suggests, WalkingHotSpot works by turning the existing 3G connection on a device into a quick access point by utilizing the available 3G internet access and passing the connection through the Wi-Fi radio, enabling [...]

Nokia has issued a substantial firmware update to its original N95 (N95-1) smartphone, bringing it up to v21 and adding support for Flash Lite 3 and in-browser flash, among other additions.  This new firmware presents N95-1 owners with a terrific opportunity to celebrate Update Your Phone Day, if not a bit belated.

The update comes as [...]

Sling Media, makers of the popular Slingbox line of products, are preparing new versions of their SlingPlayer Mobile client for S60, Windows Mobile Standard, and Windows Mobile Professional devices, as reported by Engadget Mobile.
The updated versions of all three SlingPlayer clients are said to be focused heavily on supporting new devices for each of the [...]

Following up on the recent announcement that Nokia and Google have agreed to integrate the aforementioned search technology into the Nokia Search client, Google has now launched a separate client for all S60 based devices.

Image courtesy of All About Symbian
The client places a Google Search bar on the homescreen for those models with a [...]

Nokia’s current top end camera-focused superphone — the Nokia N82 — has been made officially available for purchase by Americans, as indicated by its presence on Amazon and Buy.com.
N82 leads the pack in camera quality amongst not only Nokia’s Nseries line, but among all GSM camera phones. N82’s camera features a 5 megapixel sensor, [...]

Nokia has announced in a press release that it has integrated Google Search into its Nokia Search software and will preload the software on the N96, N78, 6220 Navigator, and 6210 Classic while making the software available for as many as 100 countries and 40 languages later on.
Nokia Search provides users with the ability to [...]