Nokia’s Browser Site Adapts Itself to Everything From S40 to the Desktop

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

Nokia has launched a mini-site at browser.nokia.com alerting users that there might be an updated browser available for their phone. The site touts the features of the new Symbian and MeeGo browsers and Nokia’s proxy based browser for recent S40 phones. For Symbian, the site showcases the latest 7.3 version of the Symbian browser and its improved JavaScript performance and support for CSS3 and the viewport meta tag. According to Nokia, Browser 7.3 for Symbian is available for all Symbian 3 and S60 5th edition phones and for … Continue reading →

The Carnival is Coming to WapReview

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

Photo: Xavier Donat – Some rights reserved That’s the Carnival of the Mobilists (COTM) of course. The Carnival is a monthly celebration of the best recent blog posts on mobile topics from around the world. It’s been appearing regularly on a (not-totally) random blog since 2005. The Carnival exposes readers to new writers and a month’s work of quality insights into diverse areas of mobile world. For blogger’s, the Carnival provides some recognition, a quality link back to your site and usually … Continue reading →

Mobile 2.0 Event Highlights – Design Workshops and Encouraging Entrepreneurship

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

I spent the day yesterday at Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco. Great event as always. Highlights for me included Larry Berkin‘s overview of the current and future device landscape, and Jame’s Pearce‘s whirlwind tour of the capabilities of modern mobile browsers and the development tools and libraries for working with then. A new feature of this year’s event were two interactive workshops that were part of the afternoon’s development/design track. The workshops broke the audience up into teams to work on a … Continue reading →

GetGlue’s Mobile Webapp Lets you Check-in to Books, Movies, Music, Baseball Games and More

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

AdaptiveBlue’s GetGlue.com is a check-in based social media service. Rather than checking into a physical venue like with Foursquare or Gowalla, GetGlue users check into entertainment media like TV shows, movies, books, music, magazines, Web pages, foods, beverages, video games etc. Instead of badges, they win stickers. And these aren’t just virtual stickers either. When you accumulate seven stickers, GetGlue will mail them to you as actual physical stickers to plaster on your laptop, refrigerator or whatever. GetGlue users … Continue reading →

Revision3 – Cross-Platform Internet TV Mobile Webapp

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

Revision3 produces and distributes Internet TV shows which are available on YouTube, Tivo and iTunes and via Android and iOS apps. Current shows include Diggnation, Lifehacker, TechnoBuffalo and many more (mostly consumer tech and video gaming oriented) shows. Revision3’s stealth mobile site at m.revision3.com, which isn’t mentioned or linked to on the desktop site, offers most of Revision3’s content in smartphone friendly format (320×180, H.264/AVC video, MPEG-4 AAC audio). The videos I tried played well on all my test smartphones, including a … Continue reading →

KeePass, a FOSS Password Manager With Great Multiplatform (PC and Mobile) Support

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

The focus of this site is on mobile web apps so I rarely cover native apps. However I prefer using a native app for password management. I want my passwords available instantly and everywhere regardless of whether I have a wireless signal or not. I also need a password management solution that works on all my devices using the same encrpted password database. I use Windows and Linux PCs as well as Android andSymbian smartphones and basic feature phones with Java … Continue reading →

Symbian Belle Announced, New Belle Phones Shipping in Six Weeks

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

If you are one of the lucky few to have the new Symbian Anna on your Symbian^3 phones get ready to wave it goodbye. Today Nokia officially announced Belle, the next version of the Symbian OS today. Nokia also announced three new phones that will come with Belle and will be available “this quarter”, or sometime in the next six weeks. Belle will also be delivered to the existing Symbian^3 devices (N8, E6, E7, C6-01, C7 and X7)) but that update … Continue reading →

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