Tag Archives: Symbian

Nokia E7 Review

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Nokia E7

I sent my Nokia E7 loaner back to WOMWorld/Nokia last week and I was sad to see it go. The E7 is not perfect but my overall experience with it was very good. The E7 is the successor to Nokia’s successful Communicator series (image of 1998 9110 Comunicator below) which were clam-shell devices featuring a large screen and spacious QWERTY keyboard.   The Communicators were pocket-able devices that provided a near-laptop experience and were popular with professionals who wanted to be … Continue reading →

Browser Test: Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mini 4.3

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Opera Mini 6 (Android) Touch Speed Dials and Menu

Click images to view full size Last week at CTIA, Opera Software released three new mobile browsers, Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mini 4.3.  I covered Opera Mobile 11 a couple of days ago.  Here’s my take on the new Opera Mini versions. Opera Mini 6 and 4.3 can be downloaded from m.opera.com using your phone or from opera.com/mobile/download/ with a PC. The Android version is also available from the Android Market. Opera Mini 6 is latest … Continue reading →

Browser Test: Opera Mobile 11 For Symbian and Android

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Opera Mobile 11 Android - Full Screen With Status Bar

Opera Software released a trio of new browsers last week at CTIA. They are: Opera Mobile 11 for Android 1.6 and later and Symbian 3rd Ed and later. There are also experimental “labs” releases of Opera Mobile 11 for Maemo, MeeGo and Windows (for Windows 7 tablets). Opera Mini 6 for Android, Symbian 2nd Ed and later and BlackBerry OS 4.2.1 and later. iPhone and iPad releases will be available soon. Opera Mini 4.3 for Java ME and BlackBerry. The … Continue reading →

New Symbian Browser: JavaScript Benchmarks and HTML5 Test Results

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T-Mobile Astound Browser - W3C HTML5 test

I’m pretty happy with the new “pre-PR 2.0” Symbian browser on the T-Mobile Astound version of the C7. Not only is the user interface nicer and the feature set improved but browsing seems a lot faster than the E7/N8 browser. To get an idea of the HTML5 support in the new browser I ran the HTML5TEST.com and W3C HTML5 test suites in the old and new Symbian browsers as well as in Opera Mobile 11 (on the Astound) and in … Continue reading →

Nokia E7 First Impressions

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E7 In personalized ackaging signed By Steven Elop

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 →

My Thoughts On NokiaSoft

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Nokia Mobile Devices Sales Mix

I’m still trying to digest today’s announcement that Nokia will adopt “Windows Phone as its primary smartphone strategy”. Symbian will become a “franchise platform”, which based on the slide below (from one of Nokia’s announcement  press PDFs) means will it will be gradually phased out. Meego will become a research project for exploration of future products. As the side below shows R&D investment in MeeGo will drop by about two thirds.  That slide also suggests that  massive layoffs in Nokia … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #238

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Secondhand Memories

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 2311 mobile sites. Literature Secondhand Memories kl.am/2hmm The first North American Japanese-style ongoing cellphone novel, Secondhand Memories is a story of high school love. Written on a mobile phone by “takatsu” it has short (50-100 word) chapters for “mobile snack” reading on your … Continue reading →

How To Fix Word Wrap In Opera Mobile on Symbian

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paidContent with word wrap bug

I’ve been using my N8 a lot lately and because the Symbian^3 browser is so bad (slow, too small default fonts and no text-reflow on zoom) I’ve been using Opera Mobile 10.1 quite a bit as well. It’s a much better browser overall; it’s noticeably at faster loading complex pages, has tabs, lets you copy page text,  has some HTML5 support including geolocation and text is supposed to reflows to fit the screen width. But I keep running into pages … Continue reading →