Mobile World Congress 2010 – My Story

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

It was a fast paced week for me where in I had to catch all the buzz around the Symbian ecosystem and the mobile industry as a whole.

Symbian^3 Showcased At MWC 2010

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

The Symbian Foundation also made the trip to Mobile World Congress 2010 , with a small booth in Hall 1 (two blocks away from the mighty Microsoft displaying the 7 series) where it took the wraps off its open source Symbian^3 platform. Symbian^3 brings a host of much-needed improvements and enhancements in three key areas: user interface, multimedia, and performance

N97 mini modded to a Game Controller

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Manikanan has shown us a very promising demo of how he interfaced his mobile phone ( N97mini ) with  GameFactory . GameFactory is an advanced game engine developed by research teams inside  NTU’s GameLab , headed by  Prof

Windows Phone 7 Series – A UI Re-Engineered

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Windows Phone 7 Series , originally codenamed “Photon” is an upcoming version of the Windows Phone operating system developed by Microsoft. It is planned for release by “holiday” 2010

OpenMAR: Mobile Augmented Reality on Symbian

Friday, February 19th, 2010

For those who are programming on Symbian C++ would want to check out possibility of augmented reality at OpenMAR which is a component based framework, making use of ECOM plugins at different levels. You can find three different interfaces currently implemented: POIOverlay : an overlay makes use of different sensors to estimate position and orientation

Windows Phone 7 Series: Microsoft to Finally Challenge the iPhone

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The rumored Zune Phone is a reality, and if the early buzz has anything to say, Microsoft is well on its way to releasing a very capable product worthy of challenging the mobile monolith that is iPhone. Thankfully, Microsoft isn’t calling their iPhone challenger that. Instead, they’ve gone with quite a mouthful with the introduction of

Open Question: New phone for music and texting?

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Is there a new phone out there that is god for music and texting and has wi fi it would b good if it ws on o2 i have the lg cookie right now x

Nokia N97 v21 QWERTY Confusion

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

I was using my N97 to write an email when I found that the long press on the keypad was giving me an input error. At first I thought it was my mistake but later when the errors were repeating, I found out that, indeed it was the new firmware problem

We Are Heading To Barcelona For The Mobile World Congress 2010

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I am heading to Barcelona to take part in the biggest mobile technology event of the year viz. Mobile World Congress taking place from 15th to 18th Feb. All the coverage can be viewed right here

N97mini gets Firmware v11.0.045 Update Via Ovi Suite

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Nokia has today pushed out its firmware updates for the N97 and its mini counterpart the N97mini . The updates were much awaited but the thing that boggles me is that why has there been no FOTA