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SlingPlayer TV-on-Cellphone Coming For Symbian UIQ This Summer

Just as Sling announced a few weeks ago, their Slingplayer cellphone player is getting added support for Symbian UIQ devices this summer. Among the sets being supported are the Sony Ericsson P1i, P990i, W960i, W950i and M600i, along with Moto's MOTORIZR Z8. You'll be able to see it in person at CTIA coming up next week, but won't be able to stream episodes of Lost on it until summer—but by then the TV season would already be over. [Slingplayer]

2:20 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Jason Chen
1,258 views, 3 comments

Latest by thechansen: Compatibility with networks (i.e. Flash and Silverlight) that stream over the internet would be better. The entire series of south park in my pocket? Yes please. more »

smartphones

WalkingHotSpot Turns Smartphones Into Wi-Fi Routers

Screw HotSpot @ Home—now there's HotSpot @ Wherever The Hell You Are. It seems like an obvious idea: turn your 3G Wi-Fi-enabled smartphone into a Wi-Fi router for you and maybe other people simultaneously, instead of using it as a more complicated one-to-one tethered modem requiring wires or Bluetooth. Taproot Systems' WalkingHotSpot software for Windows Mobile and Symbian does precisely this, though there are some catches: More »

10:45 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Wilson Rothman
7,326 views, 29 comments

industry

Nokia to Support Microsoft Silverlight Web Video

Nokia has committed to bring Microsoft Silverlight video services to its S60 devices. Further, Nokia will also add support for the video content to its S40-based handsets at later stages. Given the immense market penetration of Nokia's Symbian- based cellphones, this partnering will have a large effect on mobile content support, and you can bet your bottom dollar that Adobe is feeling a little sick right now. [Reuters]

4:19 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Haroon Malik
1,777 views, 4 comments

cellphones

10 Awesome Applications for Symbian Phones

If you just got an N95, are drooling over its successor, the N96—or any Nokia E or N series phone—GigaOm has a great list of apps you should load up to the get the most out of Symbian. Here's a few: Gmail for Mobile (mercifually designed for numeric keypads); GooSync to bring your Google and Symbian Cal together; Fring does AIM, Skype, Yahoo, MSN, GTalk and Twitter, including file transfers; and Shozu lets you tag and categorize stuff for easy Flickr and YouTube uploads. What's missing? [GigaOM]

2:00 AM on Wed Feb 20 2008
By matt buchanan
9,866 views, 13 comments

Latest by vizavi: Truphone is one the best voip services that so far only works parallel with your regular cell network on selected Nokia phones. more »

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Nokia N96 Hands-On: Basically a Video Oriented N95

The N95 smartphone just does fine with its video playback. But the N96's 16GB of internal memory, slightly bigger 2.8-inch screen, DVB TV tuner, special video browsing UI and kickstand make it better than its pappy.

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6:35 AM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Brian Lam
11,207 views, 18 comments

Latest by The Full English Please!!: @ARRGH406: the phone does have wifi, its practically standerd in Nokia high-end nowdays. Its a brillient product and its going to sell even more than the 7million sold by the N95. Cant waid till opera 9.6 with flash lite 3 is release: more »

cellphones

Nokia's Touch UI Hands-On: Officially Way Behind Apple

When we first saw the Nokia Symbian Touch UI over the familiar S60/Symbian OS, we were stoked. Then we found out it was not a working proto but a rendering, and we wondered how far along they really were in their touchscreen UI. Turns out, not as far as we would like. More »

3:01 PM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Brian Lam
50,320 views, 47 comments

cellphones

The Nokia N96 Super Cellphone is Official: Gallery and Specs Here

The N96 is pretty similar to the Symbian 60-powered N95 we've all come to recognize as Nokia's 5MP GPS finest, but with 16GB of internal memory and a 2.8-inch screen. This model also has a built-in DVB-H receiver for digital TV signals in Europe and Asia, and a kickstand for desktop viewing. Also new are the backlit touchbuttons on the face, dialpad and top slider section of the phone. When playing media, they show the typical play/pause/ff/rr functions; when gaming on the N-Gage gaming platform, they show control pad buttons. Approx $800, but likely no US 3G support.
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4:20 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Brian Lam
30,916 views, 46 comments

Latest by Andraeseus: quick queston. Does any one know how the us 3g network compares to that of europe? I mean I have a locked at&t phone that boasts its 3g network and it sucks. its no faster than my n95 (unlocked) with more »

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LG KT610 Cellphone Offers GPS, HSDPA, QWERTY Keypad

LG are beating the cellphone-gasm that will be the Mobile World Congress 2008 by releasing their KT610 model ahead of the game. There are no images of the handset yet, but features that have been confirmed include a candybar design, GPS, HSDPA (3.6Mbps) and a 2.4-inch VGA flip screen, concealing a QWERTY keypad.
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9:00 AM on Sun Feb 10 2008
By Haroon Malik
8,053 views, 8 comments

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Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta Reveals Cartographic Improvements

Nokia is in the process of updating the free Nokia Maps software. Its first major revision since launch about a year ago, the small beta testing reveals all sorts of upgrades, including a better driving mode interface, brand new pedestrian mode, satellite maps and real-time traffic data. [allaboutmysymbian]

9:24 AM on Sat Feb 9 2008
By Mark Wilson
4,780 views, 10 comments

cellphones

Nokia, Microsoft in Talks to Load Windows Mobile on Phones

Nokia, who's supposedly super loyal to the Symbian platform, is currently in talks with Microsoft (says one of Microsoft's marketing directors) to load Windows Mobile on the handset maker's phones. Here's what Nokia already uses of Microsoft's: ActiveSync and PlayReady, but like an anxious teenaged lover, Microsoft is working "closely" with Nokia and wants to "go all the way." It's too early to determine whether or not you're going to be able to buy a Nokia with WinMo on it, but it's all but guaranteed that they'll still be selling phones with Symbian—so no worries S60 fans. [itwire]

2:45 PM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Jason Chen
2,714 views, 21 comments

Latest by RamV10: i'd be excited to see it. for real. I'd be more excited if the n96 had a fkin touchscreen though. more »

cellphones

Nokia N-Gage Cellphone Gaming Platform in Beta...Looks OK-ish?

The prerelease of the N-Gage gaming app for Nokia cellphones is being trialled to N81 owners right now, and AllAboutSymbian has a hands on of the system, which has Xbox like Friends lists, over the air game demos, gamer points, and chat. The beta comes with three demos: Space Impact: Kappa Base, Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep, and System Rush: Evolution. The screenshots tell the tale best.
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10:47 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Brian Lam
3,103 views, 8 comments

smartphones

iPhone Greedily Eats North American Market Share

Canalys has produced a report showing the iPhone has grown massively in North America. The study looked specifically at smartphone market share statistics in Q3, and the iPhone, in a surprisingly short time span, has managed to grab second position. A 27% market share is nothing to scoff at; what Apple has done in a few months, others have failed to do in years. More »

6:36 PM on Sun Dec 16 2007
By Haroon Malik
14,393 views, 70 comments

Latest by ShyGuy91284: Symbian still has far greater marketshare. The catch is, its marketshare is with s40 on devices that you can't help but wonder if the color LCD really adds that much. Now talk s60 vs. other smartphone OSes, then more »

smartphones

Symbian Boss Calls Android Just "Another Linux Platform"

Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford just told reporters at a conference that the Android phone OS presented by Google and the Open Handset Alliance is "another Linux platform." More »

10:54 AM on Tue Nov 6 2007
By Wilson Rothman
2,529 views, 23 comments

smartphones

Spy Shots of Streamlined New UIQ Interface

Other than these quick and dirty snapshots smuggled out a presentation somewhere, not much is known about the new UIQ interface. Although, many Sony Ericsson users will undoubtedly be excited about getting a closer look at what appears to be a much improved touch-based UI. Additional photo after the jump. More »

4:10 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By Sean Fallon
4,384 views, 18 comments

Latest by AnEternalEnigma: Enjoy your fresh banhammer, douche. more »

nokia

S60 Gets New Features, Stepping Out of iPhone's Shadow?

The folks at Crave UK recently got a chance to tour Nokia's R&D facility in Finland; and while they may have seen a robot dog, the real prize here was updated information on the S60 Touch UI. We already knew that the software, accused of being an iPhone clone by some, had a couple of sweet features that the iPhone couldn't compete with (namely, stylus input and tactile feedback response). What we didn't know is that the R&D team is also working on an app that translates foreign words in pictures taken with the phone's camera, and another one that identifies objects by pointing the camera at them (finding product information while shopping is one proposed use). Hit the gallery to see it all up close, and let us know what other apps you'd like to see in the comments. [Crave UK]

3:35 PM on Thu Oct 25 2007
By Benny Goldman
6,315 views, 13 comments

Latest by rimplestultskin: S60 also isn't as locked down. long live the pirates of sweden! speaking of which, 20% of net profit from S60 devices should go towards supporting pirat-byran, because S60 and the pirate bay share goals of free use, more »

symbian os

Symbian OS's ScreenPlay and FreeWay Enhances UI and Speeds Downloads

In addition to the touchscreen UI we saw in Symbian last week, two new features—ScreenPlay and FreeWay—are coming to add even more sophistication to the platform. ScreenPlay is their new graphics engine that allows transparency and animations without taking up too much more battery life. FreeWay is less visible, but it's a new IP networking stack/architecture on 3G networks/WiMax to allow faster audio/video streaming and VoIP calling. Check out the touch video above again just for a refresher.

3:33 PM on Tue Oct 23 2007
By Jason Chen
5,640 views, 11 comments

Latest by Kim98: I'm surprised how many people are missing the point here. This is about S60 - not about a particular device. S60 is the UI that Nokia runs on top of Symbian OS and the S60 UI will be on tons more »

nokia

Nokia Introducing Touch UI to Open Source S60 OS

Today Nokia, the largest player in the mobile handset game, announced the addition of a touchscreen interface to their S60 OS. Comparisons to Apple's multi-touch input system are inevitable, but Nokia is holding its own with a few promised extras. These include silencing the phone by flipping it on its face when an incoming call is received, support for stylus-based input and a tactile feedback response.

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9:35 AM on Tue Oct 16 2007
By Haroon Malik
28,798 views, 36 comments

Latest by brandon2084: It doesn't support iTunes DRM, so fuck it. Besides, just because it matches, or even exceeds the feature list does not a true iphone killer make. The only way anyone will know if something is an iPhone killer is AFTER more »

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Sony Ericsson and Motorola Plan Superfriends of Smartphone Platform Development

Sony Ericsson's selling half of its UIQ smartphone software unit to Motorola, which will be run independently of both companies (it's "not a joint venture") with the goal of "creating a platform which can be shared by a number of operators." In particular, they want to eventually knock Nokia's Symbian-based S60 off the top of the smartphone platform list. More »

3:10 PM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By Matt Buchanan
1,526 views, 9 comments