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As mobile phone penetration rates steadily increase around the world, with smartphones leading the rush, advertisers are embracing the mobile space. The latest entrant into the mobile advertising game is Fring. With Fring clients peppering mobile phones across the globe, Fring serves up instant message...
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Today Nokia officially unveiled the E63 smartphone, the one we’ve already seen in the wild for few times. Touted as the mass market messaging device, the E63 resembles the Finnish giant’s E71 model, which I’m currently testing. However, unlike the E71, the newly announced device lacks...
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I know that at the end of October we mentioned the Nokia N96 with US 3G frequencies (850 and 1900 MHz) is available for purchase, but it was yesterday when we caught Nokia’s official release announcing the N96 has started shipping. Let’s recap the specs: 2.8-inch QVGA screen 16GB of internal...
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Have you been waiting to get your hands on the successor to Nokia’s Nseries throne? The Nokia N96’s glossy-black styling, 16GB of on-board storage, and 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss camera make it the cream of Nokia’s S60-crop. But, without a US-compatible 3G radio, the European Nokia N96...
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Symbian Smartphone Show has started yesterday in London and we have some news to report. Here’s what’s happening: First of all, Symbian Foundation is now stronger for 12 more companies — including ARM, CieNET, Flander, FUJISOFT, Huawei, Inmote, InnoPath Software, Red Bend, Scalado,...
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Remember when Samsung started showing off their Samsung i780 Windows Mobile smartphone? Remember how the mobile world was split on whether that optical trackpad/mouse was a good fit with the touchscreen handset? Right, well Samsung has finally gone live with the first smartphone to feature a built-in...
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Back in April we wrote that Yahoo has invested in Vlingo and has used their technology to bring voice support to its OneSearch mobile product. Now the Internet giant has released Yahoo Go 3.0 for Symbian S60 to bring its voice-enabled search to the world’s most used smartphone platform. Once Yahoo...
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Following on the Nokia N95’s bump up to the new v30.0.015 firmware, owners of Nokia’s candybar Nokia N82 can now update their handsets to the latest firmware. Nokia has unleashed the newest firmware version for all Nokia N82 handsets, bringing with it a new Flash Lite version, Maps 2.0, new...
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With all the hype surrounding user interfaces following the iPhone launch, it doesn’t surprises many companies are launching their custom UI solutions. We’ve already seen quite a few similar Windows Mobile apps and today we’re presenting you an application that aims to enhance the active...
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Skyfire has made some headway in the mobile web browser game since we last touched base with them. The lightweight and super-fast mobile web browser uses servers on the back-end to handle all the data-processing to make sure that full-featured webpages are delivered to your mobile phone in just a fraction...
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If you’re a fan of place-shifting streaming TV, then you’ve probably already outfitted yourself with a Slingbox and SlingPlayer Mobile to watch live TV with your mobile phone. Unless, that is, you’ve been using a UIQ-based handset. Sling Media has been holding their Symbian UIQ-compatible...
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Nokia’s road to establishing an open-source Symbian Foundation has just been cemented with Samsung’s reported acceptance of Nokia’s offer to buy-out Samsung’s shares in Symbian. Samsung is the last remaining share-holder in Symbian that stands between Nokia and their Symbian Foundation...