AllAboutSymbian

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• Ovi Store passes one million daily downloads

  
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  One million downloads a day. Thats the popularity of the Ovi Store, reports ME News from a Nokia round-table this week. Although still in its first iteration, with a new version of the store due early in 2010, and many will comment that ring-tones and wallpapers as well as applications will be included in that ...
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• Nimbuzz expands with full Twitter client

  
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  Looks like Gravity just got a major competitor. Nimbuzz has released a new version of its free Symbian client with "industry-first Homescreen Notifications and sophisticated Twitter functionality". The new version 2.2 also has full kinetic scrolling on all touchscreen phones, a number of layout improvements and ties ...
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• Get involved with Symbian at MWC 2010

  
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  Symbian is starting to crank up its presence at Mobile World Congress 2010, theres a new article here detailing the ways in which you can both help Symbian and help yourself . As a company, by cross-promoting your own products, as a developer by taking part in the BoF sessions, and as a general enthusiast by ...
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• Looking around Orange France’s home of the future

  
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  So what do you do when youre one of the targets of the network operators in France? This week I saw round the technology labs at Orange France to see a few minutes into the future. Under the guidance of Communications Director Eric Barilland, the “Orange Apartment” was my home for a few hours. Read on.... Its not ...
  2 days ago

• Review: Nokia E72 - part 1: the E71 upgrade, a Solid Smartphone

  
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  Its tempting to look at the Nokia E72 as just a variation on the popular E71, but looking at it in detail, there are a surprising number of detailed improvements. With only a couple of software gotchas, and despite its necessarily-small screen, the E72 looks to be one of the most desirable candybar smartphones for ...
  3 days ago

• Platforms, programs, and diversity

  
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  Sony Ericsson has been through its ups and downs over the last few years and Ulf Wretling as been with the company through them all. In this interview, I talk to Ulf about the challenges of a increasingly crowded platforms portfolio and the role of developers in the company’s future. Read on for the full interview .
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• The Forgotten Sync

  
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  Theres a nice rant by Ricky Cadden here, referring to Unohtaneet Sync but meaning Ovi Sync, the SyncML-based system that syncs your Contacts, Calendar and Notes up to Nokias servers in the cloud. The Unohtaneet bit means Forgotten in Finnish, in case you hadnt twigged, and Ricky handily rants about several aspects ...
  4 days ago

• Psiloc World Traveler

  
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  Ewan takes a tour round Psilocs World Traveler for S60 5th Edition , competing with Worldmate in the travel utility stakes. Its fair to say that most things it can do could be replicated with built-in software and a few judicious Web bookmarks, but it seems that what youre paying for here is convenience. Read on
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• Google slips out a Maps bug fix: 3.3.1

  
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  Necessarily a brief post, but I thought I should let people know that after the slightly botched release of Google Maps v3.3.0, with many people caught out by a crash when trying to use Layers, the big G has made available a bug fix, v3.3.1, from the usual m.google.com mobile web site. Grab it if you had a problem you ...
  5 days ago

• Snow Globe and Christmas Tree

  
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  Its time to get into the festive spirit, or at least Offscreen Technologies think so, as Ewan hits the Ovi Store and some mulled wine. Hes been taking a quick look at their Snow Globe and Christmas Tree novelties - the second is of particular interest as its a way to get to some free applications. Read on
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• Ovi Prime Places - business listings for Ovi Maps

  
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  Ovi Prime Places , a free service which allows businesses to add their details and meta data to Ovi Maps, has been quietly launched by Nokia. Ovi Prime Places should help improve Ovi Maps PoI (point of interest) database and related location / place search. For businesses it is an opportunity to reach users on ...
  6 days ago

• The PsiXpda debuts

  
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  Not Symbian, but hopefully of interest to any ex-Psion or ex-Nokia Communicator users, it seems the general form factor has been revived, with a new startup, PsiXpda, with photo below, offering a clamshell high spec, QWERTY-driven part-PDA, part-laptop. And, impressively, far from being vapourware, its available next ...
  6 days ago

• On cue, the Sony Ericsson Satio gets an update, to “R1C”

  
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  The Sony Ericsson Satio has received its first public firmware update, to version R1CA037 (from R1Bxxxx), which was released via Sony Ericsson Update Service (involving a Windows utility) in the last 24 hours. Its a 106MB update and addresses a litany of stability issues, including non-responsive touchscreen, media ...
  1 week ago

• How to: Control music and audio on your touchscreen phone without touching it

  
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  One of the big selling points about the original Nokia N95, N86 and 5730 XpressMusic (among others) has been that they have hardware music controls. So, while pocketed, or while in another application, or even with eyes closed in bed at night, you can still skip music tracks, pause podcasts, and so on. But with the ...
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• First look at Symbian^3 concept screenshots

  
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  During Nokias Capital Markets Day event , held yesterday, a few screenshots showing Symbian^3 were shown off as part of Kai Öistämös (Nokia EVP, Devices) presentation. While the big Symbian UI rewrite will not happen until Symbian^4, there are still some significant changes in Symbian^3. Read on for further ...
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• Review: BlockGo

  
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  Blocks and grids align for classic gameplay with classy UI and presentation, in BlockGo and BlockGo Lite, reviewed here by the master of mobile puzzles, Mr Ewan Spence. If you can put up with a rather high dose of Cute then youre going to love this S60 5th Edition game, fresh from the Nokia Ovi Store.      ...
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• AAS Insight 97 - Qt and Q and A

  
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  In All About Symbian Insight 97 (AAS Podcast 161), we discuss the release of Qt 4.6 and why it is important (Symbian and Maemo support, Qt Mobility APIs). We answer a range of user questions ranging from Ovi Suite for Mac, through N86 firmware and E72 software, to discussing whats the best current imaging phone. You ...
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• Opera update Mini and Mobile with Sync and Downloads

  
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  Opera continues to improve on the recent first beta release of Opera Mini 5 (Java) and Opera Mobile 10 (native C++) for Symbian OS. Beta two sees numerous bug fixes, and the addition of a Download manager and Opera Link - which allows you to sync your bookmarks and browser settings to other Opera installations on your ...
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• A first look at WebSDK from Sony Ericsson

  
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  Sony Ericsson’s WebSDK offers developers the opportunity to deploy web applications, that access some phone features, to both Satio and the X10. If you’re already creating web applications, does WebSDK offer new opportunities or simply more frustration from yet another set of APIs. Read on to find out.
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• Google Maps 3.3 syncs your favourites and starred places

  
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  Google Maps for Symbian just got updated to v3.3, with direct syncing support for your starred places (to the full Web version of Google Maps). In addition, on the first sync, your Nokia/Ovi Maps favourites also get uploaded. You can get v3.3 by going to m.google.com in Web on your phone. There are a couple of ...
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