Nokia is having a turbulent week, first the CEO’s secret email to staff about the company being in trouble is leaked to the press, then they announce an historic strategic partnership with Microsoft to exclusively use Windows Phone on its high end smartphones. Many employees didn’t like this announcement though, primarily the 1,500 workers employed [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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F-Secure Anti-Theft For Mobile
A lost or stolen cell phone can be devastating, considering that the phone may contain private data and information that may even be used for identity theft or other criminal activities. F-Secure Anti-Theft For Mobile is a free security software for cell phones running Symbian OS, Windows Mobile or Android. It offers several options to [...]
Tidbits From The World Of Mobile Phones, Circa: Now [part 2]
This is the continuation of the last post that rounds up the latest on the popular smartphones of the moment. Of course, their smartness is highly relative – like whether your last phone had a color display or not and whether the rock that was over you was volcanic in origin. There’s a lot happening [...]
Sony Ericsson’s Kurara Is More than What You Think It Is
Remember Kurara? That phone from Sony Ericsson That got leaked right after the XPERIA X10 came out from behind the veil? Well, we had it pegged down as an ordinary phone that is the stripped down, cheaper version of the Aino megaphone. Turns out that that is not the case at all. It is actually [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta Announced
A recent blog post at Opera.com revealed the near release of Opera Mobile 9.7 for Windows Mobile touchscreen Devices. The new beta version of Opera Mobile will come with several interesting and important enhancements but unfortunately no Symbian support. Among the features are the new Presto 2.2 rendering engine that is passing the Acid 3 [...]
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Ghacks Christmas Giveaway: RoboForm
Day 17 of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. The giveaway is slowly reaching the end with another week to go before it closes its door for this year on December 24. Today’s application is the popular password manager, note taking and form filler RoboForm. RoboForm is available for Microsoft Windows operating systems and can be installed [...]
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Symbian OS 9.4 Announced
Nokia introduced the newest version of the Symbian operating system in a webcast on October 2. The Symbian operating system is used in many Nokia phones and one of the most used operating systems in mobile phones. The release of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating system have put some pressure on the world’s largest [...]
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Save Network Bandwidth
Saving network bandwidth is important for those users who are subscribed to a data plan that gives them a certain amount of Gigabytes per month that they can transfer freely. If they reach the limit they either have to pay for additional data transfers or live with reduced connection speeds which are both unpleasant side [...]
Free Apps and Games for your Symbian Phone
Nokia doesn’t have one wizz-bang distribution store like Apple has with iTunes, and locating applications for the Symbian OS is actually quite a pain. Apparently Symbian is a total bitch to develop for so there isn’t a huge amount of apps like you can get for the iPhone. There are some resources however, so I’ve [...]