Skype now available for Nokia smartphones in Ovi Store
More than 200 million smartphone users worldwide now have Skype at their fingertips. Luxembourg and Espoo, Finland - Skype and Nokia jointly announced the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform, the world's most popular smartphone platform. Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either.....
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Nokia Diagnostics Available for S60 3.2 Devices
Nokia Diagnostics is an experimental application released by the guys over at Nokia Beta Labs several weeks ago for users of a Nokia phone powered by the Symbian S60 5th Edition operating system so that they can diagnose, troubleshoot, and configure devices on their own. This time around, the developing team announced that the software solution's...
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YouTube mobile clients may now require different password
Having linked your YouTube and Google accounts last year, YouTube has now enforced the use of the latter's password for signing into YouTube from mobile clients such as the Symbian/S60 version (available in, for example, the Ovi Store and on m.google.com). Screens and more info below.
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Symbian Foundation's Scott Weiss on UI
In this video interview, recorded just before MWC, we speak to Scott Weiss (User Interface Technology Manager at the Symbian Foundation and Chair of the Symbian Foundation UI Council) about the Symbian Foundaion UI and some of the initiatives and projects that Symbian is undertaking around UI topics. You'll hear about some of the key user experience changes, the UI workshops and the UI patter...
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Video: Scott Weiss, Symbian’s User Interface Manager
A few weeks ago, Rafe and I popped into the Symbian London HQ to talk with Scott Weiss, the Foundations User Interface & Technology manager. The aim? Find out more about what theyve got planned with upcoming versions of the operating system. Have a watch! Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast |
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Video: mSped – Refllex Reaction Game on the N900 (Maemo 5 version of S60 5th Edition Speedtester)
Remember Speedtester on S60 5th Edition? That turned out to be surprisingly popular for something quite so simple. Theres four coloured circles. All you have to do is tap the one thats lit. Its a little harder than the Symbian version as you begin at a faster speed and the sequential speed increases is steeper. (imo, mSpede
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Silverlight for Symbian Beta Expected
Among other things Microsoft is expected to announce at its MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas, one is slated to be the launch of a beta of Silverlight for the Symbian Platform. - Among other things Microsoft is expected to announce at its MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas, one is slated to be the launch of a beta of Silverlight for the Symbian Platform. According to published reports, on March 11 Mi...
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OfficeSuite now offers Google Docs editing
Mobile Systems, far from being daunted by the Quickoffice juggernaut, have been plugging away at their competing OfficeSuite for S60 - the latest v5.30 can edit Google Documents directly, something of a breakthrough for the Symbian world. A hat tip to Wampyre here for both spotting the new version and doing a brief, illustrated write-up. Comments welcome if you're an OfficeSuite user and can ...
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SXSWi - Day 1 reports
Seems like theres plenty going on in Austin, Texas if the reports of some of the #nokiacomp winners are anything to go by. In his Day 1 post The Symbian Blogs Vaibhav Sharma outlines his device choice for the outing, saying he opted for the E72 for the dependable battery life and the N900 for the
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Nokia C6 with Slide-out QWERTY Keyboard Leaks
ESPOO, Finland - Adding to the list of leaked smartphones of Nokia's new Cseries line is the C6, a device which resembles the Nuron 5230, but comes with a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. The Nokia C6 seems to run on the existing S60 fifth-edition software platform, even though the release of the Symbian^3 is expected later
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