admin | March 2, 2010
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 [...]
admin | March 1, 2010
I’ve been using an Android-powered HTC Eris from Verizon for over a month now, and it’s been quite an interesting experience. I’ve wanted to check out an Android-powered smartphone for a while now, and honestly, I was dead convinced that after using one, I would hate Symbian forever. While that’s obviously not true, I have [...]
admin | February 18, 2010
Mobbler, easily one of the first apps I install on any Symbian-powered smartphone, has finally gotten itself Symbian Signed, releasing as v1.9 (265). The new update will also be available through the Ovi Store shortly, which is awesome and will be a huge boon for the team involved.
Mobbler v1.9 also includes the ability to set [...]
admin | February 11, 2010
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, [...]
admin | February 6, 2010
A few weeks ago, my friend Greg from SymbianFrance.com pinged me to be a part of his Symbian Experts interview series, which was quite an honor. Greg gathered some of the top minds in the Symbian blogging community to answer a few questions and get an idea of where we think Symbian is and where [...]
admin | February 6, 2010
Our friend Asrial Baker at i-Symbian.com shot us an email to let us know that the first Kuala Lumpur Symbian Stammtisch is happening soon, on February 10, 2010. Stammtisch is German for ‘regular get-together’ and is reportedly something we’ll see often in future Symbian Foundation stuff. It’s basically a meetup. Get the details below:
Where?
Kelantan Delights
1-5, [...]
admin | February 4, 2010
Otterbox is well known for the cases that they produce for any variety of different eletronics, including your favorite Symbian-powered smartphones. They’re pricey, but they do an awesome job of protecting your phone from….well…pretty much anything. Otterbox has 3 different types of cases – the Commuter series, the Impact series, and the Defender series.
The Commuter [...]
admin | February 4, 2010
As location-based services have begun to gain traction, one service in particular has stood out as the favorite — Foursquare. The service is simple — when you’re out and about, you ‘check-in’ at various locations, alerting the service and your friends of your whereabouts. The fun comes as you get points for various check-ins and [...]
admin | February 3, 2010
Today we finally learned what that countdown was all about – the Symbian operating system is, as of today, fully open sourced. This is a major announcement, as it means that any company or individual can take the Symbian platform and make it whatever they want, for any device – be it a smartphone, netbook, [...]
admin | February 2, 2010
The Symbian Foundation kicked off a weird promotional campaign recently, with a cryptic countdown that started at 108. The number has since dropped to 61, 49, 48, 36, and finally 29 today. You can keep up with the countdown at http://countdown.symbian.org, and if you view the page source, they’ve changed the hint inside a few [...]
