Tag Archives: Symbian

New Opera Mini 6.5 for iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian and Java ME, Opera Mobile 11.5 for Symbian

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Opera Mini 6.5 (Symbian) Status Bar and Bookmark Star

Opera Software rolled up updates to both Opera Mobile and Opera Mini today. Opera Mini 6.5, which was released for Android 3 weeks ago, is now available for Java ME, Symbian 2nd edition and latter, Apple iOS and BlackBerry OS 4.2.1 and latter. Opera Mobile 11.5, which also first appeared on Android three weeks ago, was released today for Symbian 3rd edition FP1 and latter. The iOS release is available in iTunes. Java, BlackBerry and Symbian versions can be downloaded from opera.com/mobile/download/ (desktop) or … Continue reading →

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

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Nokia Browser Site

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 →

Google Plus Web Apps For Every Mobile Browser

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Google Plus, the search giant’s latest try at social media, seems to be taking off. I’m not going to try to explain Google Plus here.  If you need an introduction to it a couple of good ones are Google’s interactive tutorial and and Paul Boutin’s clear description of the basics.  This post is a look at the available options  for using Plus on a mobile device. The richest Google Plus experience is with the official Android app which requires Android 2.1 or latter. Almost … Continue reading →

Albite – Free Java eBook Reader With Touch and ePub Support

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Albite Reader

I enjoy reading novels on my phones, particularly when traveling. I’m always on the lookout for new eBook readers particularly for Symbian^3 and Java feature phones where there aren’t many good options.  A reader pointed me to Albite, a new mobile Java eBook reading app that comes in several versions including one optimized for Symbian touchscreen devices. Albite reader is a free open source (Apache 2.0 license) app  by Svetlin Ankov. Download it from albite.vlexofree.com (mobile download site: m.albite.vlexofree.com).  The key feature of Albite … Continue reading →

How To Reset the Nokia E6 and Re-install the OS

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        To my horror the Nokia E6 review unit that WOMWorldNokia sent me seems to have developed a fault and has been spontaneously rebooting every ten minutes or so since yesterday morning.  I really like the phone and hoped to get a few more days use out of it before I have to send it back.  I’ve been successful in the past at fixing misbehaving Symbian phones with a soft or hard reset so I set about trying … Continue reading →

What’s On My Nokia E6?

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While there aren’t as many apps available for Symbian as there are for iOS and Android, I’ve always been able to find everything I need for my Symbian phones. Here are the apps I like and use on the E6 that WOMWorld/Nokia has loaned me. All are free except for Gravity: Gravity needs no introduction for most Symbian users. It’s a beautifully designed, highly intuitive and immensely powerful client for Twitter, Facebook, Identica and Foursquare. There’s rudimentary Google Reader support … Continue reading →

A Great Little Phone – Nokia E6 Unboxing and First Impressions

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E6 and Sharpie

WOMWorld/Nokia has loaned me a Nokia E6 to evaluate. Here are my initial impressions and few unboxing photos. Hardware: This is one solid little phone. Mine is black with white and stainless steel trim which I think looks quite nice on this particular phone. The battery door and sides are metal and the front is all glass. The body of the phone appears to be a high quality plastic that is almost indistinguishable from cast metal.  The back of the … Continue reading →

Google News Now Optimized For Opera Mini

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Google News for Opera Mini

Click images to view full size. Yesterday Google announced that they are now serving Opera Mini visitors to news.google.com a version of the site that’s optimized for their browsers. Up to now Opera Mini users had been seeing the bare bones legacy mobile version of News. The legacy view is optimized for embedded feature phone WAP browsers and only displays five headlines from a single section per page with no images. Google News for Opera Mini is very similar to … Continue reading →