Good news if you own a smartphone running the Symbian S60 operative system and want to try out the new Opera Mobile 10.1 beta version, because the software is available to download for free starting today. The new features of Opera Mobile 10.1 beta include: – Presto rendering engine; – Vega graphics library; – Carakan [...]

The S60 platform that is used in many Nokia cellphones all around the world has received a serious support update, because Google Voice and S60 can now work together. The announcement was made today at the Google Mobile Logo, and one of the cool features is the voice-based search, which lets users speak where they [...]

Symbian^4 is not yet available but we have started seeing it mentioned around the Internet. David Wood, the “Catalyst and Futurist” of the Symbian Foundation said in a recent interview that Symbian S60 will definitely be phased out in the near future. The Avkon API will be replaced by the UI toolkit Qt once Symbian^4 [...]

You thought that the E71 was a hot Nokia phone? Well apparently Nokia has a follower en route. The E72 is said follower and it appears it has been already posted and removed from YouTube. The phone will come with features like a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and flash, an optical trackpad, a 3.5mm [...]

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is here! Nokia’s first touch screen phone is among the company’s first devices to support Nokia’s “Comes With Music” service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalog. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic features the Media Bar, a drop-down menu that provides direct access to music [...]

Hot on the heels of the 8-megapixel behemoth called the Innov8 comes yet another S60-powered device from Samsung, the i7110. Although not officially confirmed yet, from what we can glean from the picture, the i7110 seems to be a handsome-looking handset in a candybar form factor. As for the specs, all we know is that [...]

Well Nokia doesn’t seem to waste any time does it? After fully purchasing the Symbian platform and announcing it will be an open platform, it was rumored that Nokia will release their first touchscreen phone for the general public. That means it won’t be a high end smartphone but an affordable mid ranged handset. The [...]

I was wondering when this would happen, but well, it happened today. Nokia will support Microsoft’s Silverlight platform (a competitor to Adobe’s Flash technology) with a view to deliver rich web applications on the S60 (Symbian OS) series of devices. You may already know that Flash is available for S60 in the form of Flash [...]

In an open letter, Steve Jobs finally said it: Apple will be delivering an SDK for the iPhone, allowing third party developers to write new applications on the phone. While they want to make it an open platform to developers, the phone will also need to be protected against viruses and malware “that silently spread [...]

A lot of us can’t have an iPhone. The fact that its service is monopolized by telecommunication giant AT&T, disallows just anybody – specially those in other countries outside the US – from getting the iPhone. But tech geeks won’t have that as an excuse. So, to enjoy the cool new interface of the iPhone, [...]