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

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

Found On The Mobile Web #243

Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2356 mobile sites. Entertainment and Leisure/Literature The Manga Man 2.0 http://winksite.mobi/xhtml/ms_main.cfm?susid=25133 Philip K. Dick Award nominated author Alexander Besher ‘s novel “The Manga Man” is the story of a half-digital, half-human “post-Zen” Butoh dancer-assassin whose mission is “to stop the warlords who plan … Continue reading

CTIA is Wild This Year and it Hasn’t Even Started Yet.

I’m at the big CTIA Wireless trade show in Orlando this week as the guest of WOMWorld/Nokia.  The event doesn’t start until tomorrow but, thanks to a couple of huge pre-show announcements, it’s already shaping up as an especially interesting show this year. Yesterday, AT&T announced that it is acquiring  T-Mobile USA.  The match-up, if it passes regulatory review, would make AT&T the largest US operator. As a long time satisfied T-Mobile customer who also briefly used AT&T a few years … Continue reading

Nokia E7 First Impressions

Click image to enlarge I received a Nokia E7 for review yesterday from WOMWorld/Nokia. I’ve been looking forward to some extensive hands on with this phone since I first saw it at Tech.Ed in Berlin last October. I got quite a surprise when I ripped off the wrapping and saw the box’s custom slip wrapper. It looked like regular Nokia packaging with an image of the E7 on the front. But the phone’s screen was displaying a Tweet I sent … Continue reading

E7 Near Release? New Video

WOMWorld/Nokia just sent me a a previously un-released video of the E7 along with a message that the E7 will be shipping “very soon”. The short clip (below) features Nokia designer Shungiro Eguchi speaking about some of the design ideas behind the phone. Update: the video has been taken down. I spent some time with the E7 at Tech.Ed Europe in November and was very impressed with the phone, especially the form factor and keyboard. It manages to pack a … Continue reading

Found On the Mobile Web #239

Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2321 mobile sites. Transit Toronto TC m.ttc.ca The Toronto Transit Commission’s official site has bus, subway and streetcar schedules, a transit trip planner, fare and pass information and PDF! maps. Content: Usability: Toronto Next Streetcar nextstreetcar.ca Built on open transit data from the … Continue reading

Found On The Mobile Web #235

Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2346 mobile sites. Entertainment and Leisure My Santa Talk m.mysantatalk.com Ad-free, child safe site lets kids talk to a Santa bot and view cutesy animated Christmas gifs. Content: Usability: Mobile Tech Andrea Trasatti’s tech notes and more blog.trasatti.it Personal tech blog from one … Continue reading

Symbian’s Robust Enterprise Security

L to R; Me, Mike Maddaloni, Craig Richards,  Teemu Lehtonen. At Microsoft Tech.Ed in Berlin last week, Mike Maddaloni (thehotiron.com), Craig Richards  (geekcomputers.co.uk) and I sat down with Nokia’s Teemu Lehtonen.  The topic was Symbian security, something Teemu knows a thing or two about having worked primarily in that area for most of the 12 years he’s been with Nokia. Teemu outlined the Symbian security model which he called the most secure in the industry. It starts with the hardware. … Continue reading