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 [...]
admin | February 2, 2010
At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show last month, Nokia revealed an upcoming game dubbed Ovi Maps Racing. The graphics are great (it’s put together by Red Lynx, the folks behind Reset Generation) but the really cool part of Ovi Maps Racing is the track creation feature.
Using the maps from Ovi Maps, you can generate a [...]
admin | February 1, 2010
One of the things that I’ve heard requested for the Symbian platform since I got my first Nokia 6620 so many years ago is the ability to edit the custom predictive text dictionary stored within the device. We can easily add words to this dictionary, but removing them is basically impossible without erasing everything, and [...]
admin | February 1, 2010
When Nokia announced that all the premium content in Ovi Maps was going to be free, we learned that due to the pitiful amounts of internal app storage on the device, owners of the original N97 would have to wait for a new firmware. Through that, we quickly learned of the pending v21 firmware update [...]
admin | February 1, 2010
What baffles me the most when I read mobile opinions from North American and European journalists is how clueless they are regarding the situation in the rest of the world, and how can they deem a product a success or a failure while limiting themselves to their region and without considering its impact on the [...]
admin | December 30, 2009
Admittedly, I’ve never really done email on my phone before Nokia Messaging came around. Sure, I’d installed Profimail and others, just to check out, but I usually promptly removed them, not seeing the need. However, Nokia Messaging has turned me into a mobile email junkie, but there are two main things that really bother me [...]
