Symbian Foundation is one member stronger, as we have Renesas Electronics Corporation announcing its decision to join the Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )-led group. As part of the deal, Renesas will make sure its chipsets support the Symbian platform to enable OEMs worldwide to create Symbian-compliant devices that fully meet the needs of network operators
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Renesas joins Symbian Foundation
Easy Locator allows you to remotely track the location of the phone on which it is installed. A text message from any other phone will trigger an SMS response containing the location of the tracked device (link to a map or Cell ID/GPS coordinates)
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Easy Locator 1.00 – Location Tracking for Blackberry
Nokia has been having a hard time keeping up with snazzy new smartphones powered by the iPhone OS and Google ( NSDQ: GOOG )’s Android mobile operating system, but the Finns are looking to rejuvenate their handsets with the launch of Symbian^3 later this year.
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First Symbian 3 smartphone won’t be Nokia N8, launching from ‘Asian vendor’ in 2010
Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) released a new beta version of Nokia Messaging for IM for touch-enabled devices like the Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 mini. The application is apparently fully redesigned to make getting around easier than ever — according to the “official blog post,” you should be able to accomplish key actions with one touch (or just a few). As you probably know, Nokia Messaging for IM offers a desktop-like IM experience, allowing users to stay in touch with their buddies across multiple communities, including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Talk and Ovi
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Nokia Messaging Beta for IM updated for touch-based devices
QuickPull is a FREE tool that frees memory quickly by simulating a “battery pull” soft reset. Unlike the red power button on your phone which merely shuts down your device temporarily, QuickPull does a full reset that clears your devices caches and can significantly increase performance while keeping all of your e-mails, contacts, etc
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QuickPull 4.0.3 – Soft Reset Application On Blackberry
SPB Software is launching its user interface application for the Symbian smartphones. SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 is made to work with touch-enabled Symbian S60 device (S60 5th Edition and above), bringing the same experience some Windows Mobile users learned to love.
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SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 released for Symbian touch devices
Samsung may have forgotten its i8910 HD users, but the tech-savvy among them [users] are there to stay, for now at least. That said, you will be glad to learn that the new version of HX firmware series for the i8910 HD has been released. The HX-V5 firmware brings a number of fixes and improvements, including fixing the Java certificate problem and improving battery life
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Samsung i8910 HD gets HX-V5 unofficial firmware update
Looks like Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) is prepping its next productivity handset and the E73, or “Mode,” could hit T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) USA as early as next month, according to screen shots obtained by Engadget. Not much is known about the E73 but it looks like it will retain a similar form factor to the E72 . That’s a good thing in my book because that was a stylish handset that felt really good in the hand and the full QWERTY keyboard makes it easy to bang out text messages and e-mails
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Nokia E73 launching on T-Mobile next month?
So I got a look at a relatively new Motorola, and after tackling yesterday’s Motorola offering, I discovered there can be quite a difference between models. Today we’re tackling the Motorola Brute, and it’s got a lot going for it.
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Motorola Brute i680 Cell Phone Review–Adventurer’s Phone
Towards the end of last month we let you know that Garmin-Asus had a new phone just over the horizon called the Garminfone and while we had a bunch of specs for you we didn’t have an official release date or price point. Luckily, T-Mobile has just let u sknow that they will be shipping the device this June for $199 on a 2-year contract. If you don’t remember, this device is running Android but features a heavily modified user interface to make way for the GPS-esque UI we’ve come to know form other Garmin-Asus devices.
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Garminfone coming to T-Mobile this June for $199
Good news for users of a cellphone that has Windows Mobile as the operative system, because Microsoft has added a very useful feature which brings turn-by-turn navigation via the Bing maps application. The new feature is already available to download for free and is supported by Windows Mobile cellphones on AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. Head over to m.bing.com for the download and to take advantage of the new feature
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Turn-by-Turn navigation in Bing for WinMo
The Aino cellphone of Sony Ericsoon has recently received a firmware update which includes the following items: – being more stable; – improvement of battery life; – codec support that supports MPEG4 videos – improved bluetooth and WLAN performance; So if you are the proud owner of a Sony Ericsson Aino don’t wait and get the firmware update. Related Posts Sony Ericsson Satio Gets New Firmware Remember those Satio issues we told you about last week?
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Sony Ericsson Aino gets firmware update
While it is known that the Motorola WX404 will soon become available for purchase, it is unknown which carrier will carry the device – Sprint and Verizon are the 2 options. In terms of features the Motorola WX404 boasts a QWERTY keyboard and a 2-megapixel camera for photos and videos.
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Motorola WX404 will soon become available
Once again, another iPod Touch and iPhone game has gone free for a day. This time, it is Blue Skies, another shoot-em-up game. This one features about “30 levels of high-paced action” as well as “bonus items, a host of different weapons, and a random level generator”.
Symbian released a new version of the Symbian^3 reference library for product developers. Here’s what they say about it: The library will look quite familiar in places, since it is based on content published previously on the Symbian developer website
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Symbian releases the new Symbian^3 reference library
I think we are all looking forward to that motion control without a controller Project Natal from Microsoft, and we got a release date. Actually, we got an idea of a pre-Christmas launch date, and it is in October this year. I would imagine that they won’t make enough of them, so they purposely sell out before the holidays
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Project Natal getting an October release date
Welcome to another square phone on the cellular phone block. The Flipout has both Android 2.1 and Motorola’s BLUR UI, a 3.1 Megapixel camera, a QWERTY keyboard, a 2.8 inch display, 256 MB of RAM, GPS, and 700 MHz processor. The Flipout is due to flip out in the United States in June one of three colors (green, black, and pink).
Back when the iPad was first announced Apple made it clear that the device would be sold unlocked. Well, it seems that only applied to everywhere besides Japan as it was recently announced that the iPad 3G will be locked to Softbank Mobile. If you’re familiar with Japan you’ll know that Softbank Mobile is the exclusive carrier of iPhones so it’s not really a surprise that Apple would choose them to received a locked down iPad.
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Japanese iPad 3G to be carrier locked
What was once the premiere Android device is quickly getting overlooked by several carriers — It was already announced that Verizon wouldn’t be taking on the Nexus One, instead favoring the Droid Incredible and now Sprint is next. Sprint has just announced that they will be focusing hteir efforts of the EVO 4G and will not be releasing a Nexus One for their services. Of course if this saddens you in any way, don’t let it as the EVO 4G is superior to the Nexus One is virtually every way.
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Sprint waves goodbye to Nexus One, says hello to EVO 4G
I don’t get the opportunity to play with many Motorola phones, so whenever I do, I’m always at least kind of intrigued. And the Motorola i890 is going to give me an opportunity to satisfy my intrigue. The Motorola i890 is a folder-style flip phone with conference call capability, voice recorder, caller ID, speakerphone, Bluetooth connectivity, push to talk capability, a phone book with capacity for six hundred names and numbers, mobile web, mobile email, text messaging, Java capability, several kinds of downloadable content, a two megapixel camera with supplementing 4x zoom, alarm clock, calendar, MP3 player, and a battery capable of yielding a strange two hundred and five minutes of talk time on a single battery.
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Motorola i890 Cell Phone Review–Simple But Solid
AT&T has just announced that they will be releasing two new MiFI devices manufactured by CradlePoint ; the PHS300 Personal WiFi Hostpot and the CTR350 Mobile Broadband Travel Router. Both of these devices are aimed towards the business crowd as they both feature the ability to connect up to 16 802.11b/g connections making it perfect for a corporate outing where a company won’t want to pay for individual wireless cards. Both devices also feature WEP, WPA/WPA2,NAT, SPI and a built-in firewall
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AT&T announces 2 new CradlePoint MiFi devices
If you’re looking for a new mouse to match your brand new Apple computer and don’t want to fork over the cash for a Mighty Mouse perhaps you should check out Dell ’s latest offering. This mouse is called the WM311 and features a sleek white housing, perfect for any Apple fan, and a price tag of just 30 bucks. Spec wise you’re looking at 1000 dpi optical tracking and a micro USB reciever that apparantly touts “concealed, fold-up storage” functionality.
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Dell’s new WM311 wireless mouse