Nokia may be moving to Symbian^3 but it hasn’t forgotten about the millions of Symbian^1 handsets it managed to ship. The company’s engineers are still working on updates for them and today they released the latest Swype beta to all eager users.
The changelog for the new Swype beta is pretty long including a lot of bugfixes and performance improvements. Read more »
Yesterday, RIM released an emulator of their new tablet OS. But today we can take a peek at the new OS running straight on the BlackBerry PlayBook – and since the demo was made at Adobe’s MAX conference, they made a point to present the Flash integration. YouTube played in the browser but that’s not the end of it…
Internet radio is nothing new to Nokia smartphones but it’s only now that it’s making its debut on the company’s feature phones too. S40 devices just got a client that gives them access to thousands of online radio stations all over the world.
There’s also the necessary functionality to make finding the station you want easy. All the stations are organized by genre, language, countries and regions, but you can also search for a specific name. You can also mark stations as favorite so you can easily find them later. Read more »
It’s all about Adobe MAX conference now, but RIM managed to push an announcement, which caught my attention. I’m talking about the availability of Adobe AIR SDK for the BlackBerry Tables OS and the PlayBook Simulator.
The new 1.1.0 version of VLC Media Player for iOS breaks the iPad-only chains and adds support for iPhone and iPod Touch.
Now VLC Media Player is available for iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and the latest iPod Touches for free.
According to anonymous Google engineer the next major Android OS release is 2.3. But could this really be the long rumored Gingerbread?
Update: Google has already set up its Gingerbread man statue.
All devices running thAndroid 2.1 or higher can now taste the first beta version of the Winamp app.
HTC and TomTom have teamed up to provide navigation software on HTC’s smartphones. The HTC Desire HD and Desire Z will be the first beneficiaries of this duo – they will come preloaded with TomTom maps out-of-the-box.
Welcome the new benchmark record breaker, the T-Mobile G2. You can now overclock its processor from the miserable 800 MHz to the mind-blowing 1420 MHz. All you need to do is spend a few minutes reading the instructions and download a few files.
But the final results is worth everything. Just take a look at the screenshot above – the overclocked T-Mobile G2 (a.k.a. HTC Desire Z) CPU allows the Froyo-serving smartphone to offer you unbeatable performance. Read more »
Swype for Symbian is graduating from beta and is making its way to Ovi Store clients as we speak. The Nokia C7 is the first device to get it, but support for Nokia N8, 5800, N97, C6 and others is just around the corner.
Remember that classy and smart Vertu announced last week? We have some new photos and first screenshots of its Vertu-ish Symbian OS to show you.
Here are the new pictures, this time on a white background. Thankfully!
The Android-compatible final version of the popular Angry Birds game was released last Friday and now, two days later, more than two million people around the globe are already enjoying it.
We already know the names of the next two upcoming Android versions – 3.0 Gingerbread and 3.5 Honeycomb. As Google is following an alphabetical order, it’s no big secret the 4.0 version will be called I-something. Well, a today’s leak has it that the “I” release will be codenamed “Ice Cream”.
It’s finally live – the immensely popular iOS game has added another mobile platform to its list. Angry Birds for Android is finally done with the beta testing and is now publicly available in its full shine. And get this – it’s completely free.
Android 2.2 Froyo comes with arguably the best web browser of all current mobile platforms, but you will hardly be able to tell that if you take a look at the Android Market. There are just so many alternative browsers available that you would think they are the hottest commodity around.
Mind you, I’m not complaining here – competition is a great thing and it’s the users that win the most in the end. That’s why the announcement that Opera is going to release their full-fledged Opera Mobile browser over the coming month is excellent news. Read more »
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