May 24, 2013

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“Swype Apps” for Symbian Beta now with Support for French,German & Polish Languages

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The beta flavor of Swype for Symbian, the application the Swype team developed in collaboration with Nokia’s Beta Labs engineers, has just got enhanced with support for a wider range of languages. Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen [...]

World’s first “Ice touchscreen display” built by Nokia NRC Tempere

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Researchers from the Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland, have turned a wall of ice into a huge interactive touchscreen display. Using infrared emitters and detectors to determine hand location and movement, the team projected images onto the blocks of ice so that users could see flames behind their hands. Happily, users didn’t need to [...]

Nokia launches New C2-01 and X2-01 featurephones

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Today Nokia unveiled a couple of new entry-level additions to its mobile phone portfolio. The Nokia C2-01 is meant to be Nokia’s cheapest 3G phone, while the Nokia X2-01 has a full QWERTY keyboard as its key selling point. “Both [phones] aim to offer maximum functionality for the lowest price possible, but with a different [...]

2011:The Age of Tablets !

With the thriving success of Apple’s iPad with over 4 million units sold, since its launch in April, the BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has joined major players in the electronics industry to rush into the market with their versions of the tablet. After the huge success of the iPad, all major hardware vendors [...]

NOKIA N8 facing Power Issue:Niklas Savander confirms

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Nokia N8 is the current top of the line Symbian^3 based multi-media handset. However, in last few days, several Nokia N8 owners complained that the phone powers off all by itself. Niklas Savander, Exec. Vice President for Nokia, acknowledged the issue at the official Nokia Conversations blog that a small number of users have been [...]

Nokia Z500 Tablet : What we Know so far?

Nokia Z500 is the tablet which has been a mystery since its announcement to launch. Nokia Ovi store long time back had published that it would launch Nokia Z500 tablet into the market but till date the maze to the tablet still has not been solved. With the announcement of Apple’s iPad the world roared [...]

Nokia Z500 MeeGo Tablet Accidently Leaked on Ovi Store Website

Nokia Z500 MeeGo Tablet leaked in Ovi Store Website

An interesting leak occurred at the site of Nokia Ovi Store – inattentive staff published a page with a device Z500. The error was quickly discovered and all traces erased. According to rumors, Nokia Z500 – Tablet PC based on MeeGo. If you work on it will be successfully completed, then it goes on sale [...]

Nokia Announces New Development Strategies to Unify Symbian and MeeGo Environment

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Nokia announces great clarification and simplicity in it’s developer offering, it’s going to empower the development community to create application to reach users across both the Symbian and MeeGo platforms. The decision focuses on Qt as the sole application development framework will ensure compatibility with future evolution of Symbian as well as forthcoming MeegGo .And [...]

Nokia Introduces Inexpensive Nokia C5-03 Symbian^1 Touchscreen Phone

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Nokia have announced they are adding another smartphone to their C5 series, which goes by the name of the C5-03. It’s a Symbian^1 (S60 5th Edition) running touchscreen smartphone Nokia C5-03 for the budget conscious folks. Nokia C5-03 is a mobile phone weighing 93 grams that comes with 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, and GPS. In addition, [...]

8MP Nokia C7 ‘Symbian^3′ Phone Starts Shipping in Europe

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The Nokia C7 has started shipping to customers around the world. The second Nokia smartphone based on the new Symbian platform, the Nokia C7 follows hot on the heels of the company’s entertainment powerhouse, the Nokia N8. Officially announced less than one month ago, the Nokia C7 can be seen as a cheaper alternative to [...]

Nokia Chairman Jorma Ollila Will Resign in 2012

Nokia Chairman Jorma Ollila

Nokia Chairman Jorma Ollila today confirmed that plans to resign in 2012, marking more sweeping changes as the company tries to win back leadership of a complex market with new smartphones. Nokia spokeswoman Arja Suominen said Tuesday that Ollila has said he would be “at the disposal of the company” until the annual general meeting [...]

Sony Ericsson Vivaz (AT&T) to Start Shipping Sept. 5 Onwards

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Sony Ericsson Vivaz (AT&T) to Start Shipping from Sept. 5 : Today AT&T announced that it will soon begin offering the Sony Ericsson Vivaz, a Symbian S60 5th edition powered smartphone. Available in red or blue, the touchscreen Vivaz is a Symbian Series 60 powered smartphone, although AT&T and Sony Ericsson seem to be playing [...]