Symbian^3 Is Now Functionally Complete – Moves To The Hardening Phase

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

The Symbian Foundation hit a major milestone with Symbian^3 being declared functionally complete today. For Symbian^3 this marks a transition from feature submission and stability into the hardening phase

Hunt Your Way To A Nokia E73 ‘Mode’ Or A Nokia E72

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Nokia’s just recently released the E73 ‘Mode’ for T-Mobile in the US. It is basically the E72 with some styling differences and support for T-Mobile’s 3G bands

Video Editor On The N8 Shown Off – Rivals The Upcoming iMovie App For iPhone 4

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Part two of the N8 demo that Nokia Conversations promised has landed and it sees Chris Bennetts, Senior Project Manager at Nokia show off pinch and zoom for 12 MP stills, the photo editor, the video editor and USB on the go.

Multitasking: The N8 Can Handle 15 Apps Without A Lag

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

We’ve lately been getting our N8 fix pretty regularly and the latest video to show up is that of the N8’s multitasking abilities. The device features a completely new visual task manager which gives you an actual preview of the current state of the application right from the task manager’s thumbnails. If you have a number of apps open, it may be a little more time consuming to switch between applications because you might have to scroll a little to find the app you are looking for, but I have got to say it looks much nicer this way

Thoughts On The Nokia & Yahoo! Alliance

Monday, May 24th, 2010

This alliance is a statement that Yahoo admits that they were not doing too well with Maps and Navigation, while Nokia accepted that they didn’t have a compelling Ovi Mail and Chat service; and that to fix this lacuna both companies have decided to join hands. The result is that Nokia will now power Yahoo!’s maps and navigation services, integrating Ovi Maps across Yahoo! properties, with the “powered by Ovi” branding.

Ovi Maps Updated To v3.04: Faster Fix & More Points Of Interest

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

One of Nokia’s most compelling services, Ovi Maps, has just been updated to version 3.04 . The update aims to brings even an even faster GPS fix irrespective of whether you are in the mall, on the street surrounded by skyscrapers or driving on an open highway by integrating Wi-Fi positioning.

The N97 Mini Trunk Challenge Is A Wrap: Lessons Learnt?

Monday, May 17th, 2010

You must have noticed the frenzied posting in the last 24 hours, four posts dedicated to the N97 Mini Trunk .

We Get Mapping With The N97 Mini Trunk – Old School Style

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Our N97 Mini Trunk came with a Quill, a compass, a diary, an address book, some ink, a calculator and some other items, all of which can prove incredibly useful or amazingly useless in a quest for navigation.

The N97 Mini Trunk Challenge 1: Trunk In Action

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

Last month I told you about the N97 Mini Trunk and its 5 challenges that 10 teams across the blogosphere had to perform as part of a fun competition. Turns out tomorrow is the last date to submit all 5 challenges and our team (me and my friend Sartaj) is yet to publish our first! But as they say, better late than never and with that I present our response to Challenge Number One – ‘Trunk In Action’

Microsoft Communicator Mobile Comes To Nokia’s Eseries

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

The first result of Nokia and Microsoft’s alliance to build productivity solutions is the Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia’s Eseries devices. The first ones to benefit would be the E72 and the E52 and the application would be available from the Ovi Store