My weekend was rather special. It all started with an email last Tuesday from Donna at WOMWorld inviting me to fly down to LA to stay in a house right on Sunset Beach and participate in making a video to promote the new Nokia E73 Mode for T-Mobile USA. I had no idea what I was actually getting into but wasn’t hard to accept an offer to get out of San Francisco’s fog for weekend on the beach. I arrived … Continue reading
Last night Nokia announced three new moderately priced QWERTY phones that look very impressive. The thing that stands out to me is the amount of advanced functionality Nokia has crammed in at such low price points. There’s the $122 (list) C3 (top left), a BlackBerry styled 2.5G S40 with WiFI, music player and WebKit based browser. The $244 E5 (top right) is similar to the $469 E72 but with twice the RAM, an even better keyboard and a bigger battery. … Continue reading
Opera today released “Final” (non-Beta) versions of Opera Mini 5 (image above, left) and Opera Mobile 10 (image above, right) for most platforms. Only the just released Opera Mini 5 for Android and the native Windows Mobile version of Opera Mini remain in Beta. Download the new releases from m.opera.com with your phone browser or opera.com/mobile/ with your PC. Opera Mini 5 Final will replace Opera Mini 4.2 and Opera Mobile 10 Final will replace any Opera Mobile 10 Beta … Continue reading
(Above) Editing Options in Opera Mobile Beta 2 There’s a new version of Opera Mobile 10 available for S60 3rd and 5th edition phones. This release, dubbed “Opera 10 Beta 2 Update” adds full native editing and entry modes to in-line editing in web pages and the Opera Mobile GUI. Previous Opera Mobile 10 releases had two edit modes; “in-line” (image, top left) where you could enter text directly into fields on the screen but were limited to using triple … Continue reading
Asri al-Baker’s been a Symbian enthusiast since the Psion days. He published i-Symbian for many years until shutting it down last year. Asri recently started up his blog again as “The Independent Symbian Blog“. It’s updated daily with items on the latest Symbian hardware and software including some of the best coverage I’ve seen of Opera Mobile 10 for Symbian. Asri uses the MobilePress plugin for WordPress to generate the mobile version of The Independent Symbian blog. Filed in: Wap … Continue reading
Gerry Moth’s nokiAAddict.com is an indispensable site for Nokia and Symbian users whether they are actual addicts or just trying to get their phones to do what they want them to. Gerry reviews the latest hardware and software but the best part of the site for me is its directory of S60 3rd and 5th apps. When you need an an app, avoid the frustrations of the Ovi Store and doggy download sites and head directly to nokiAAddict’s Downloads page … Continue reading
It’s been a long wait but Opera Software today released the first Beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Symbian. Supporting Symbian S30 3rd and 5th edition devices, Opera Mobile 10 is available free of charge at opera.com/mobile/next/. I’ve downloaded the new Beta onto my trusty Nokia N95-3, which is the North America Market version of the original N95, and I am impressed. The first thing I did was run the Acid 3 Test where Opera Mobile scored 100 out of … Continue reading
About a month ago All About Symbian‘s Rafe Blandford published an extensive set of browser speed test results. Rafe compared page load times for ten well known US and UK sites using eght different Nokia S30 3rd and 5th editon devices plus the T-Mobile G1, iPhone 3G, Skyfire and Opera Mini. Latter Matthew Miller at Smartphones and Cellphones updated Rafe’s data with numbers for the iPhone 3GS and Opera Mobile 9.7. Rafe and Matthew’s data showed that smartphone browsers are … Continue reading