Connected Phone

Foursquare and it’s iPhone app

phonelover — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:40:14 +0000

Foursquare is not the ball game played by four players. What I am actually refering to is the popular social networking game create by Dennis Crowley, Naveen Selvadurai, Harry Heymann, Nathan Folkman and Mike Singleton with design help from Mari Sheibley. The game is basically played by “checking-in” to different places that you go to. [...]

Symbian gets a native Skype mobile app

phonelover — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:51:02 +0000

Skype is a very popular service that provides voice communication, chat and file transfer functions over the Internet. The Skype services like voice communication is free for Skype-to-Skype calling. Skype also allows video calls on it’s desktop versions of the software. The good news is now Skype has released a native mobile app client of [...]

Mobbler app puts Last.fm into your Symbian phone

phonelover — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:36:20 +0000

This year, I’ve decided to spend more time using my connected phone for my online life. I’ve been taking it a step at a time. First I started using my Symbian based Nokia 5800 to post my tweets on Twitter using an excellent app called Gravity. Then, I’ve setup my mobile phone so that I [...]

Nokia’s Symbian delivers opensource goodness four months early

phonelover — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:47:14 +0000

In June of 2008, Nokia has announced that it is acquiring full ownership of Symbian to make the operating system open source. Symbian a leading mobile phone operating system in the world is used not only by Nokia mobile phones but by other phone manufacturers such as Samsung, Sharp, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Sendo and Sony Ericsson. [...]

Canada’s Virgin Mobile connected phone gets HSPA+

phonelover — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:32:05 +0000

Some pretty good news for mobile phone users connected to Virgin Mobile Canada. The mobile network provider is officially announcing that they are launcing it’s big move to HSPA+ speeds. At HSPA+, data connected phones can experience as much as 21 megabits per second of download speed and an upload speed of up to 5 [...]

JoikuSpot turns a Symbian phone to a 3G router

phonelover — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:25:09 +0000

It has always been a pain trying to get a mobile phone to tether and allow your computer to use the phone’s 3G data connection as a way to connect to the Internet. Tethering via bluetooth is such a pain to setup depending on how your mobile phone likes to connect to your computer. Cables [...]

Gravity makes Twitter so easy on a connected phone

phonelover — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:29:43 +0000

I’ve decided to spend a lot more time online starting this year, in order to do that one of the things I’ve decided was I need a very good Twitter client on my Symbian based Nokia 5800 mobile phone. I’ve tried out several Twitter clients for my mobile phone (I’ll write another post on this [...]

MMS comes to the N900 Maemo

phonelover — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:47:43 +0000

When the Nokia N900 computer phone came out, one of the features that is lacking is MMS. Today, the first MMS app for the Maemo powered Nokia N900 is now available for download. The MMS mobile app is called fMMS. The Maemo app, developed using the python programming language, allows N900 mobile phone owners to [...]

Android SDK version 2.1 now available

phonelover — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:18:19 +0000

A few days after the launch of the Google Nexus One mobile phone, the Android team has released version 2.1 of the Android SDK which is named “Flan”. The updated SDK is currently found only one the Google N1 superphone. But it should soon find its way into the other Android phones on the market [...]

Unlimited tracks using OVI Maps Racing mobile game

phonelover — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:25:11 +0000

Online scrabble has revealed a whole new world of game possibilites embedding real world maps into the game experience. Nokia is doing it for a car racing game on mobile phones – OVI Maps Racing. I pretty excited about the what I think will become a new trend in car racing apps — unlimited tracks [...]