In All About Symbian Insight 94 (AAS Podcast 158), we round up a few loose items from SEE 2009 - the Nokia 6788 and the open sourcing of the EKA2 kernel. Then there's discussion of the official enabling of Ovi Store downloads, live tests of Google voice recognition in its Mobile Search product, thoughts on Opera 10 Mobile for Symbian from Ewan, news of a Symbian UI concept video from Rafe and...

Search engine giant Google announced on Monday that it released a new version of its Google Mobile App for Symbian mobile phones. The new flavor of the application offers owners of a Nokia device the possibility to place a shortcut to Google search directly on their handset's home screen, so that they can perform fast searches either by voice or by typing. “Google Search by voice has gr...

Google announced that the Google Search by voice feature is now available for Nokia’s Symbian S60 handsets. Integrated into the latest version of Google Mobile App, the feature lets you search for almost anything (from “restaurants” to “movie times” and so on) without having to type your queries. Of course, if you prefer not to search

Search engine-based company Google is reportedly gearing up for the release of a mobile phone that would be capable to translate foreign languages almost instantly, the latest reports around the web suggest. It seems that the company is focused on including voice recognition and automatic translation within the device, and that it would take at least a couple...

Weve just found out that Google Search has reached the next step in its evolution, being available on Nokia S60 phones and understanding Mandarin Chinese. The new version of the Google Mobile App is demoed on the video below and you have to know that the software places a shortcut to Google search on the

Heres another story a la Google Voice versus AT&T and Apple, this time with Skype and Nokia playing the protagonists… or is it? Were talking about the fact that the Skype app was pulled from Ovi Store, just days after the free application was made available for the Symbian Nokia phones. Skypes Sravanthi Argawal claims that

Google Search by voice has learned a new trick. It can speak Mandarin Chinese. Previously, Google Search by voice has only been available in English but the latest version of the Google Mobile App for Nokia S60 devices introduced the new language. Do not expect the level of dependability as seen on the English version

Google Mobile App for iPhone has been updated and is available in Apple's App Store. The new version includes support for Japanese and Mandarin voice search, localized speech recognition, and more. Read the full story here.

Now we mentioned yesterday about the Google voice recognition application for the Apple iPhone and of course you can watch the video here, the new voice is pretty impressive where all you need to do is speak into the iPhone and it will send queries to the Google search box. We would love to know and

When it comes to S60, we are fortunate to have a choice of which mapping application we use, but which is best? Is it Ovi Maps (née Nokia Maps), with its worldwide pre-loaded maps, voice navigation and PC integration, or is it Google Maps with the power of Google search, high-res satellite imagery and the perfect price? David Gilson has been testing both, a...