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Mary Jo Foley was quick enough to notice that Microsoft posted the Silverlight Beta executable & tools for Symbian on March 11 before everything was pulled out a few hours later. Here’s the tools description: “The installable executable file enables users to run Silverlight applications on the Nokia S60 5th Edition platform. The executable file includes [...] Skype for Windows Mobile may be “dead” but this won’t stop loyal Nokia user from enjoying it. Nokia & Skype have announced today that the IP Calling application is now available to more than 200 Million Symbian users via the Nokia Ovi Store. Skype for Symbian enables Nokia smartphone users to: The Symbian Foundation has posed the video demonstrating the Symbian^4 UI in action for the first time. It is difficult to draw conclusions from 2 short videos of a unfinished product,but I must say that it’s underwhelming. The homescreen, widgets looks nearly identical to Samsung’s TouchWIZ UI and/or Android. Let’s hope that Nokia is hard [...] In a interview with Austrian magazine Die Presse, Greig Williams, Nokia’s general manager for the Alps and South East Europe, dropped something that nobody really expected. When asked if the company’s Ovi Maps will ever be released on Android and Windows Mobile he answered “That will be the next step.”. Now take this with a [...] Nokia and Intel have just announced that the Maemo and Moblin OS are now merging and becomming MeeGo. The keynote is still underway so I will post more about that later on. You can now go to www.meego.com to get some more information. Release date is set at Q2 2010. Qt will be used to [...] As of today the Symbian mobile OS is finally open source and available for anyone. The best part is that it’s actually the latest version, Symbian^3 (which is also supposed to ship on upcoming Nokia handsets this year). According to the Symbian foundation Over 330 million Symbian devices have been shipped worldwide and 100 million [...] Nokia has just made available what must be one of the coolest mobile games, Ovi Maps Racing. The game basically lets you race anywhere you want in the world just by selecting a location on the Ovi Maps data base. You can create a race track in your neighborhood for example and start racing right [...] According to Michael Hsu, general manager of Nokia Taiwan, the company will not ship any Symbian^2 handset but will instead go straight to Symbian^3 this year. They also expect to launch Symbian^4 handsets at the end of the year (or early 2011). The other good news is that Nokia is also expected to launch [...] Nokia has just made available a new firmware update for the N97 today. This new update is said to improve call reliability and enable smoother scrolling in menus. To update, plug your N97 in to your PC and launch Nokia Software Updater and then start updating. In other N97 news, Nokia has also released the [...] Following the RC1 release less than a month ago here comes the final bersion of Firefox mobile for Nokia’s Maemo platform (Nokia N900). Just like its bigger brother the mobile version of Firefox supports add-ons like like AdBlock Plus, URL Fixer, TwitterBar (there are currently more than 40 Firefox add-ons available for mobile). - Awesome Bar [...] Here’s something that will hopefully make people realise that Nokia is still the number one phone manufacturer and that this won’t change soon. The company surprised the market when it announced better than expected Q4 2009. Nokia posted a net profit of 948 million euros (1.33 billion dollars), up 64 percent from a year earlier [...] Similar to what is already available on HTC’s latest handset, Joikuspot for the Nokia N900 will enable user to connect the PC/laptops/etc via WiFi using the N900’s 3G connection. The application is currently scheduled to launch before MWC which start in 2 weeks. Source: NokiaBlog via Pocketnow Similar to what we have seen on the Windows Mobile devices a couple days ago, here comes a video of a Nokia N900 running Android. The trick here is a Dual-booting mode letting the user select Android or Maemo5. Unlike the Windows Mobile hacks this more of a proof-of-concept (Android 2.0 is nearly fully useable [...] #gallery-2 { Nokia posted the Symbian^4 UI proposal today and is actually seeking feedback from the Symbian open community. The document highlights the new UI changes (they look similar to what we saw last month) and even goes on to compare [...] Hot on the heels of the minor update released two days ago here comes the first major software update for the Nokia N900. The 2.2009.51-1 firmware is around 90MB and can be download OTA or on your PC (then use Nokia’s Software Updater to install it on the device). Here’s what’s new: First up is support [...] So far only two application on the Nokia N900 can run in portrait mode: the phone dialer and the photo album (unless you encounter this software glitch). Things have changed thanks to TheNokiaBlog.com who found out how to enable it in the browser. To enable portrait mode just launch the browser and press CTRL-SHIFT-O on [...] Nokia’s OVI Store (the company’s application store) is now availalbe on the N900 Maemo5 smartphone following yesterday’s OTA update. Users can now access it through the browser or directly in Maemo 5 (you’ll launch the same OVI store app in either casses) and download application directly to their N900. Source: Nokia Coversations N900 users should expect to see a small update being pushed to their devices in the next 24 hours according to Nokia. The update is meant to prepare the N900 for the opening othe the Maemo Ovi Store (some users are already reporting that the store is up and running..). Source: Nokia Conversations The pre-beta version of Nokia’s Image Exchange Touch application has been released today (for S60). This application lets you vrowse through your images and share them all over the web: Nokia Image Exchange is an experimental imaging service to make browsing and sharing images fun and easy. It aims to provide a seamless integration of a [...] |
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