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Symbian news • Nokia 808 video review

2015-07-22T17:38:08+03:00

It's the successor of Nokia N93, due to its huge camera capabilities

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edit: videos are br0ken

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Wednesday February 29th, 2012 20h04:27

Symbian news • Opera Mobile 10 goes beta3

2010-02-23T21:10:26+03:00

Hi,
Few days ago Opera mobile 10 for symbian devices reached beta3.
It's downloadable as usual from official download page
Mobile users can go to http://m.opera.com/mobile with their default browser.

Thanks to AAS for the tip

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Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Tuesday February 23rd, 2010 21h10:26

Symbian news • FF for Symbian? There are no plans now ...

2010-02-23T00:01:49+03:00

OP question:

[...]Is possible to make Firefox for SYMBIAN S60 3rd and 5th edition?

Short answer

Not at this time. There was some investigation work on Symbian early in 2009, but it's no longer on our roadmap due to the difficulty of the port and the lack of memory on current phones.

Other question about N97 and a more "tranchant" answer

Brad
Firefox user

Sorry, but we do not support Symbian and have no plans to do so at this time.

Info:

http://mobile.support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=102&forumId=5
http://mobile.support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=40&forumId=5

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Tuesday February 23rd, 2010 00h01:49

Symbian news • Re: Symbian goes open source

2010-02-05T00:32:43+03:00

A quick note: as detailed here, Eclipse Public license is incompatible with Gnu-GPL due to recipient restriction and this passage

If Recipient institutes patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Program itself (excluding combinations of the Program with other software or hardware) infringes such Recipient’s patent(s), then such Recipient’s rights granted under Section 2(b) shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Friday February 5th, 2010 00h32:43

Symbian news • Symbian goes open source

2010-02-05T00:23:13+03:00

Teh press release wrote:
SAN FRANCISCO, US, and LONDON, UK, 4 February, 2010 - The Symbian Foundation today completed the open source release of the source code for the world’s most widely-used smartphone platform. The Symbian platform, which has been developed over more than 10 years and has shipped in more than 330 million devices around the world, is now completely open and the source code is available for free. The transition of this market-leading platform from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history. The move has been completed four months ahead of schedule and provides the basis for unlimited mobile development based on innovation and openness.

Any individual or organization can now take, use and modify the code for any purpose, whether that be for a mobile device or for something else entirely. This strategic move provides the Symbian ecosystem with greater potential for innovation, faster time-to-market and the opportunity to develop on the platform for free. Symbian’s commitment to openness also includes complete transparency in future plans, including the publication of the platform roadmap and planned features up to and including 2011. Anyone can now influence the roadmap and contribute new features.

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All 108 packages containing the source code of the Symbian platform can now be downloaded from Symbian’s developer web site (tiny.symbian.org/open), under the terms of the Eclipse Public License and other open source licenses. Also available for download are the complete development kits for creating applications (the Symbian Developer Kit) and mobile devices (the Product Development Kit). These kits are compatible with Symbian^3, the very latest version of the platform, which is now fully open source and will be “feature complete” during Q1 of this year.

Please note:

Some tools code is currently under the Symbian Foundation Licence and is not yet publicly available. It is accessible only to institutions that become members of the Symbian Foundation and agree to the terms of the Symbian Foundation License (SFL).

You can start browsing the code publicily available from here

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Friday February 5th, 2010 00h23:13

Symbian news • Nokia battery BL-5C recall

2007-08-14T16:18:32+03:00

Well, there's a recall campaign from Nokia for batteries BL-5C manifactured between december 2005 and november 2006 by Matsushita and branded by Nokia.

Nokia has identified that in very rare cases the affected batteries could potentially experience over heating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Nokia is working closely with relevant local authorities to investigate this situation.

Please visit this site to discover if your phone battery may be changed

Note: if your battery will be eligible for change, you'll have to compile a form.
The replacement will be sent via mail and you should return back your old battery as detailed into the pack you will receive.

Almost all symbian phones from 6600 to N91 could be affected
The complete list is here

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Tuesday August 14th, 2007 16h18:32

Symbian news • Skype for Symbian coming

2006-11-18T02:13:38+03:00

According to a comment posted here, there will be a skype public release for s60.
It seems such coding to be a nightmare to develope ...

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Saturday November 18th, 2006 02h13:38

Symbian news • DIY nokia sw update

2006-09-07T11:08:17+03:00

Hi ... It's not so new, since it's available since Aug 22th.

http://www.nokia.co.uk/softwareupdate

(direct link to update page)

That software update is the same identical sw update you'll be able to retrieve at your favorite nokia customer support center, and it's free .

there are two update methods available.
Choose what do you like more, remembering that PC update will require win 2000/XP installed and over-the-air update is not so recommended unless you have subscribed special GPRS/UMTS data offers.

Please

backup all your lovely stuff to a more secure place.
Backup will avoid you data loss even if your mobile breaks.
read carefully updating instructions
remember that phone death during such treatment is not so infrequent event

cheers

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Thursday September 7th, 2006 11h08:17

Symbian news • Symbian 9.1

2006-03-20T08:10:26+03:00

The first symbian 9.1 device is nokia 3250 which is shipping in those days.
According to AAS the price should be 350 euros

The so long expected nokia N91 *should* enter the market in April 2006.
Stay tuned.

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Monday March 20th, 2006 08h10:26

Symbian news • Netfront 3.3

2006-01-23T16:55:25+03:00

It's out from about a month, downloadable from www.access-netfront.com as usual as 45d trial (of course you can register the sw too).
First glance improvements: renewed interface, improved text box input (that's to say: no more posts truncated randomly as in 3.2), text only interface is able to download and use current site css rather than presenting a black and white + blue link site.

Troubles: upgrade from 3.2 seems problematic ... at worst delete old version and reinstall.
It looks weird redirecting users on bookmarks after loading app ...

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Monday January 23rd, 2006 16h55:25