admin | July 1, 2010
As of today, I will no longer be updating Symbian-Guru.com, and will be purchasing an Android-powered smartphone – my new Nexus One should arrive tomorrow. I’ve been a Nokia fanboy since 1999, and a Symbian fanboy since I got my Nokia 6620 in summer of 2004. Since then, I’ve personally owned 10+ different Symbian-powered smartphones, [...]
admin | May 27, 2010
Our friends at Taptu have noticed a growing problem – there are a junkload of touchscreen phones out there, and a similar-sized pile of publishers – like us here at Symbian-Guru.com – who have built their websites to be touch-friendly through the phone’s browser. Unfortunately, it can be somewhat difficult to wade through the rest [...]
admin | April 6, 2010
Lately, I’ve been trying to embrace the “cloud” a bit more, synchronizing some files over Dropbox and notes over Evernote and overall trying to set a cautious foot in the 21st century. While there is an official Evernote widget for Symbian under development, I can’t unfortunately say the same about Dropbox which lacks any decent [...]
admin | March 23, 2010
One of the things that the Ovi Store desperately needed when it launched was a healthy amount of freeware applications. The team has since done a great job of getting my favorite freewares listed in the store, including Mobbler, Pixelpipe, Best Screensnap, TuneWiki, Qik, and others, but the themes section of the Ovi Store was [...]
admin | March 16, 2010
Opera, the Norwegian company which makes browsers for both PC and mobile phones such as the infamous Opera Mini, recently announced that their two browsers for mobile handsets, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile, have been released as final versions.
The main difference between Opera Mobile and Mini is that the first one is a native application [...]
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 [...]
