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July 28th, 2008

Nokia 5800 “Tube” pushes S60 and many other things, forward

You’ve seen it in The Dark Knight and last year we saw a glimpse - wait, let me correct that. We saw the philosophy behind Nokia’s direction to head towards an iPhone like user interface. Today, in July 2008, we’ve so far seen Nokia’s S60 platform push for a new user interface with the N81, […]

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May 23rd, 2008

Nokia N78 comes with FM Transmitter

We got to play with an N78 in the wild last night courtesy of Nokia, and I took some photos.
Beneath its smooth, clean surface, the Nokia N78 is the first Nseries phone to boast a built in FM transmitter. This is pure genius. In the history of staple hardware built into mobile phones, the camera […]

By Jayvee -- 1 comment

February 8th, 2008

Nokia licenses S60 to Samsung

Of all the mobile phone platforms available in the market, none is as community driven as Symbian. In fact, the S60 operating system, highly attributed to Nokia, has been licensed out a couple of times in the past. It goes as early as the Siemens SX1 back in 2004. Today, Nokia has licensed the new […]

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January 31st, 2008

PanoMan for S60: Best 360 degree panoramic photo stitch

PanoMan is the craziest photo stitch application for the S60. It comes built into the latter releases of Nseries phones such as the Nokia N82. Costing about USD $29. After running PanoMan, all you need to do is press the start button and move your cellphone clockwise to generate a 360 degree image around you.
The […]

By Jayvee -- 1 comment

August 29th, 2007

Nokia Go Play Overview

I’m in Singapore! Although the Nokia Go Play event ended several hours ago (we took a post event trip to Equinox, a bar located at the highest peak of Singapore), there are a lot more things happening tomorrow. In the meantime let me give an overview of what took place today as Nokia launched several […]

By Jayvee -- 5 comments

May 21st, 2007

Beware: S60 Trojan in the wild

Unlike other harmless proof of concept mobile phone viruses, this S60 trojan works by sending out SMS to premium numbers in your phone book. Premium numbers are rented numbers that can cost up to $1.00 per message. The virus is unattractively named Trojan-SMS.Symb.OS.Viver.
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December 26th, 2006

ControlFreak Software is Now FREE!

Are you jealous of those Sony Ericsson users who can pair their phones with their PC / Macs with a bundled application? Well, fret no more because ControlFreak is now available for free as a Christmas gift from the guys at mtvoid.
What is ControlFreak?
ControlFreak enables you to control Winamp and the rest of your computer […]

By Jayvee -- 1 comment

June 4th, 2006

In depth look at Opera Browser for S60

The S60 blogs has posted an indepth review of the Opera Browser for S60 phones and compares this to Web browser for S60.
Here are some of the highlights:

Web browser is free. Opera browser costs 19 Euros.
Opera can cache images. Web browser can’t (darn!)
Web browser comes with an RSS reader while Opera doesn’t.
Opera browser has the […]

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