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Opera Mobile 12 hits Android, Symbian, Opera Mini 7 for iOS

Brad Linder — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:22:57 +0000

Opera has released a major update to is web browser for Android and Symbian, as well as a minor update to its iOS web browser. Opera Mobile 12 for Android and Symbian includes a wide range of support for improved HTML5 features, with the Android version getting the lion's share of new features. Among other things, Opera Mobile 12 for Android can now allow websites... Read more »

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Opera web browsers updated for iOS, BlackBerry, S60, and even MeeGo

Brad Linder — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:50:13 +0000

Opera launched new versions of its mobile web browsers for pretty much every mobile operating system imaginable today... except Android. And that's only because the Android apps received the same update a few weeks ago. But if you're using iOS, BlackBerry, S60, or J2ME you can grab Opera Mini 6.5 for your device. Opera Mobile 11.5 is also available for S60. And MeeGo users can check out... Read more »

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Nimbuzz launches PC app — lets you make free voice, video calls to phones

Brad Linder — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:43:31 +0000

Nimbuzz offers mobile apps that let you chat with or make free calls to other Nimbuzz users, or cheap calls to phone numbers. The iPhone app supports video calls, while you can also make voice-only calls from the Nimbuzz Android and Symbian apps. Now the company has also launched a PC app for Mac or Windows which means you can place a call from a desktop... Read more »

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Microsoft Office apps coming to Symbian smartphones

Brad Linder — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:58:46 +0000

Symbian's days may be numbered, but Nokia has promised to continue supporting the operating system through 2016, even as it gets ready to start releasing smartphones with Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 in the future. But apparently the partnership between the two companies isn't a one-way street. Microsoft has also developed software that could make Symbian a heck of a lot more useful soon. Starting soon... Read more »

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Nokia releases Symbian Anna for select phones

Brad Linder — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:00:58 +0000

Sure, the Symbian operating system is on its way out. But if you've already got a Nokia C6-01, C7, E7, or N8 you can now download the latest version of the doomed mobile operating system to breathe a little new life into your device while we wait for Nokia to chuck to Symbian to the side and start selling phones with Windows Phone 7. The... Read more »

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Nokia to go all-Windows Phone 7 in the US (no more Symbian, feature phones)

Brad Linder — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:26:55 +0000

Nokia will start offering smartphones running Windows Phone 7 in the US and other markets later this year. But for the next year or two the company will continue to offer phones running the Symbian operating system as well as cheaper "feature phones" with web browsing, chat, and other internet apps -- it just won't offer them in the US. All Things D reports that... Read more »

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GetJar free app store surpasses 2 billion total downloads

William — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:34:55 +0000

App store GetJar has announced that it's garnered over 2 billion total downloads. GetJar sports a large catalog of free applications for pretty much every smartphone platform except iOS, including BlackBerry, webOS, Android, Symbian, and even HTML5 web apps. GetJar offers more than 150,000 apps in total, and the company has managed to score a few Android exclusives. The company's app store was the first to... Read more »

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Tethered jailbreak already available for iOS 5 beta 4

Brad Linder — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:01:07 +0000

The iPhone Dev Team has released a software update which you can use to jailbreak an iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 5 beta 4. Apple released the latest beta version of its upcoming mobile operating system to developers yesterday. Redsn0w 0.9.8b4 is available for Mac or Windows. In order to jailbreak your device you'll need to connect your iPhone or iPod to a... Read more »

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Next-gen Symbian Anna software coming this summer

Brad Linder — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:56:42 +0000

Sure, Nokia plans to switch from Symbian to Windows Phone 7 for its future smartphones. But those phones won't be ready to go until next year and the complete transition could take a full two years. In the meantime Nokia is continuing to do a little work on the Symbian mobile operating system and today the company announced that a handful of phones will ship... Read more »

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Nokia to provide Symbian updates, support through 2016

Brad Linder — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:32:15 +0000

Nokia may be preparing to switch from Symbian to Windows Phone 7 for future devices, but the company doesn't want you to stop buying existing phones while waiting for new models. But how do you convince someone to invest in a dying platform? By convincing them it's not exactly dying... Nokia CEO Stephen Elop says the company will continue to offer software updates and support... Read more »

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Nokia kills off the Ovi name, say hello to Nokia Maps, Nokia app store

Brad Linder — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:22:35 +0000

Nokia has announced it will rebrand all of its Ovi software and services starting this summer. So Ovi Maps, Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and Chat will be called Nokia Maps, Mail, and so on by the end of next year. And the Ovi Store for third party apps will be the Nokia Store. The move will bring together Nokia's hardware and software under a single brand...... Read more »

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Accenture takes over Symbian

Brad Linder — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:18:55 +0000

Nokia pretty much pulled the plug on Symbian when the company announced its future smartphones would run Windows Phone 7. But there are still a lot of Symbian phones on the market (not in the US, but in Europe and other locales), and Nokia was still supporting those phones and working on some updates. Now Nokia is washing its hands of that responsibility as well,... Read more »

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Opera Mobile 11, Mini 6 now available

Brad Linder — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:10:20 +0000

Opera has released updated versions of its mobile browsers smartphones. Opera Mobile 11 is available for Android, Symbian, and MeeGo, while Opera Mini 6 supports BlackBerry as well. So what's new in Opera Mobile 11 and Mini 6... and why does the company offer two browsers? In a nutshell, Opera Mobile is a full-featured browser with its own rendering engine and support for JavaScript, HTMl5.... Read more »

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Nokia: Symbian is out, Windows Phone is in

Brad Linder — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:27:53 +0000

Nokia still sells more phones than any other company on the planet. But the company's market share is rapidly declining and the Symbian smartphone operating system which powers Nokia's high-end devices has been seriously lagging behind iOS and Android in development. Today Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced the company is going to take pretty drastic action in an attempt to turn things around: it's dropping... Read more »

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Nokia releases update for Symbian phones

Brad Linder — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:05:47 +0000

Nokia has released a software update for the latest Symbian phones, the Nokia N8, C7, and C6-01. If you were waiting for a complete overhaul of the operating system, you might be a little underwhelmed by the new feature list. Last year Nokia decided to focus on a series of frequent updates instead of pushing out major OS upgrades. The software update 1.1 seems to... Read more »

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SPB Migration Tool helps Windows Mobile, Symbian users switch to Android

Brad Linder — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:09:20 +0000

So you want to buy a Google Android phone, but you've spent the last 10 years loading all of your personal data info onto a Windows Mobile or Symbian device. SPB Software has a simple solution, called SPB Migration Tool. It's a $10 app which you can use to copy your data from Windows Mobile or Symbian and export it to an Android device. There... Read more »

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Nokia Ovi Suite 3.0 for Symbian phone synchronization now available

Brad Linder — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:09:46 +0000

Nokia has released version 3.0 of its Nokia Ovi Suite desktop software. Like Apple's iTunes or Microsoft's Zune Desktop, the Ovi Suite provides smartphone users with a way to download music, synchronize media between a computer and phone, backup a phone's data, and update software on a phone. Nokia Ovi Suite 3.0 features faster installation, downloadable street maps and voice guidance files, full-screen mode for... Read more »

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Nokia to offer new browser, UI for Symbian phones next year

Brad Linder — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:00:15 +0000

Nokia recently took over development of the Symbian platform used by most of the company's phones, and it looks like the company has plans to step up the pace quite a bit in 2011. Instead of launching one major update every year or two, Computerworld reports that Nokia plans to offer 4 or 5 updates throughout 2011. The first will bring more than 50 tweaks,... Read more »

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Nokia adds push notification support for 3rd party Symbian, MeeGo apps

Brad Linder — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:49:39 +0000

Nokia has released a new plug-in for the Nokia Qt SDK which allows third party app developers to enable native push notifications. In plain English, that means apps like news apps, instant messengers, or social networking tools will be able to let you know when there's an update more easily. Because the API now supports native push notifications, it means that apps won't have to... Read more »

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Skype for Symbian improves call quality, support for new phones

Brad Linder — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:10:33 +0000

Skype has released an updated version of its VoIP app for Symbian smartphones. The update brings support for newer Symbian phones such as the Nokia N8, C7, and E5. The new app has an interface designed to play well with phones that have larger displays and also uses the same SILK codec used in the desktop version of Skype as well as Skype for Android... Read more »

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Nokia Situations app for Symbian adjusts phone settings by… situation

Brad Linder — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:00:49 +0000

Most smartphones have silent and airplane modes, which let you turn off the ringer and system sounds or disable all wireless communications, respectively. But what if you want to create deeper profiles, for instance telling your phone to vibrate when you're in a meeting, send an auto-reply SMS when you're asleep, or perform other context-appropriate actions. Nokia Situations is a new app for Nokia Symbian... Read more »

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Symbian to shutter web sites, source code available upon request

Brad Linder — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:00:54 +0000

When it was announced that Nokia would take over management of the open source Symbian smartphone operating system with the Symbian Foundation becoming a licensing agency for the OS, I didn't think the changes would be quite so noticeable quite so quickly. The foundation has announced it will shut down its web sites on December 17th, 2010. All of its web sites. That includes Symbian.org... Read more »

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Opera Mobile 10.1 now available for Symbian S60

Brad Linder — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:46:50 +0000

Opera has released a version of Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian S60 phones. The mobile web browser has a new Javascript engine, improved support for HTML5, support for geolocation, and Opera's "Speed Dial" section which lets you create a start page with thumbnail icons for your most frequently visited bookmarked web pages. According to the release notes, even though Opera 10.1 has gone final for... Read more »

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Skyfire dumps Windows Mobile, Symbian

Brad Linder — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:19:38 +0000

The Skyfire web browser has been getting a lot of attention lately. It's one of the first browsers that brings Adobe Flash support (kind of) to the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The company also offers Android app with support for Flash videos, an attractive browser tab UI for switching pages, and integrated tools for sharing web content with your contacts. But Skyfire got its... Read more »

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Symbian Foundation hands over reigns of OS development to Nokia

Brad Linder — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:16:27 +0000

The Symbian Foundation has been going through some rocky times recently, and today the group announced it is changing its role in relation to the Symbian mobile operating system. Instead of leading the software development side of things, the Symbian Foundation will now simply serve as a licensing agency for phone makers looking to use the OS. Nokia will be the primary corporation behind future... Read more »

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Skype says “so long” to Nimbuzz

Brad Linder — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:29:19 +0000

First Fring, and now Nimbuzz. Skype has asked Nimbuzz to remove support for making Skype calls using the Nimbuzz instant messaging client for mobile phones. Nimbuzz first added support for using Skype to make phone calls a few months ago. But it looks like Skype is on a mission to discourage third party apps from using its protocol tomake voice and video calls. Incidentally, Skype... Read more »

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Nokia adopts Qt as primary app framework, supporting Symbian and MeeGo

Brad Linder — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:28:26 +0000

Well this is kind of big. Nokia has announced plans to focus on Qt as its primary application development framework on all devices. That covers phones running Symbian^3, Symbian^4 and MeeGo. In other words, if you have a Symbian^3 device, you won't necessarily need to upgrade to a newer operating system to run new apps, because they should support all three operating systems. Nokia says... Read more »

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Spb launches Mobile Shell 5.0 for Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile

Brad Linder — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:27:55 +0000

Spb has launched version 5.0 of the company's Mobile Shell -- a complete replacement for the home screen and app launcher on Android, Symbian, and Windows Mobile phones. The app lets you arrange icons onto multiple home screens, and you can flip between screens using a pretty slick looking 3D animation. There's also support for widgets, allowing you to do things like control media playback... Read more »

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Samsung, Sony Ericsson end support for Symbian OS

Brad Linder — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:09:40 +0000

Samsung is making quite a name for itself in the Android world, with the launch of several popular Android smartphones and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 inch tablet. But the company has a long history of making mobile devices with other operating systems as well, including Windows Mobile and Symbian OS. Now it looks like you can scratch one of those operating systems off... Read more »

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Firefox Home heading to BlackBerry, Symbian

Brad Linder — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:27:09 +0000

While Mozilla is busy developing a mobile version of its Firefox web browser for Google Android and Maemo/MeeGo Linux, the company currently has no plans to build a complete web browser for iOS, BlackBerry, or Symbian (although Palm WebOS appears to be a possibility). On the other hand, Mozilla does plan to develop versions of its Firefox Home app for Symbian and BlackBerry. The app,... Read more »

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