Foursquare is not the ball game played by four players. What I am actually refering to is the popular social networking game create by Dennis Crowley, Naveen Selvadurai, Harry Heymann, Nathan Folkman and Mike Singleton with design help from Mari Sheibley. The game is basically played by “checking-in” to different places that you go to. With the help of a GPS equipped mobile phone like the iPhone (although it works with an iPod touch the detected location is not as accurate), you can check-in to these places.

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Skype is a very popular service that provides voice communication, chat and file transfer functions over the Internet. The Skype services like voice communication is free for Skype-to-Skype calling. Skype also allows video calls on it’s desktop versions of the software. The good news is now Skype has released a native mobile app client of it’s popular service for the Symbian mobile platform which has been under beta testing the latter part of last year.

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This year, I’ve decided to spend more time using my connected phone for my online life. I’ve been taking it a step at a time. First I started using my Symbian based Nokia 5800 to post my tweets on Twitter using an excellent app called Gravity. Then, I’ve setup my mobile phone so that I can use it as a mobile 3G router that I can use to connect to the Internet from my notebook and netbook. This pass couple of weeks, I’ve been using a mobile app called Mobbler that lets me listen to my Last.fm radio stations.

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In June of 2008, Nokia has announced that it is acquiring full ownership of Symbian to make the operating system open source. Symbian a leading mobile phone operating system in the world is used not only by Nokia mobile phones but by other phone manufacturers such as Samsung, Sharp, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Sendo and Sony Ericsson. The decision to take the open source route is one of the biggest if not the biggest open source conversion project. It was a bold move on the part of Nokia. I could just imagine the amount of license agreements that needs to be ironed out in order to open source all of the source code in the mobile operating system.

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Some pretty good news for mobile phone users connected to Virgin Mobile Canada. The mobile network provider is officially announcing that they are launcing it’s big move to HSPA+ speeds. At HSPA+, data connected phones can experience as much as 21 megabits per second of download speed and an upload speed of up to 5 Mbps.

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It has always been a pain trying to get a mobile phone to tether and allow your computer to use the phone’s 3G data connection as a way to connect to the Internet. Tethering via bluetooth is such a pain to setup depending on how your mobile phone likes to connect to your computer. Cables are a messy thing. You’re in luck if you have one of those Symbian mobile phones with Wifi ‘coz the JoikuSpot mobile app offers a painless one-click way to configure your Wifi-equipped Symbian mobile phone as a 3G router.

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I’ve decided to spend a lot more time online starting this year, in order to do that one of the things I’ve decided was I need a very good Twitter client on my Symbian based Nokia 5800 mobile phone. I’ve tried out several Twitter clients for my mobile phone (I’ll write another post on this because these Twitter clients do have their own merits) and I found Gravity from MobileWays to be the best fit for my needs.

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When the Nokia N900 computer phone came out, one of the features that is lacking is MMS. Today, the first MMS app for the Maemo powered Nokia N900 is now available for download. The MMS mobile app is called fMMS. The Maemo app, developed using the python programming language, allows N900 mobile phone owners to send and receive MMS using a graphical frontend.

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A few days after the launch of the Google Nexus One mobile phone, the Android team has released version 2.1 of the Android SDK which is named “Flan”. The updated SDK is currently found only one the Google N1 superphone. But it should soon find its way into the other Android phones on the market via online updates. This includes Motorola’s popular Milestone Android mobile phone currently available in the US as the Motorola Droid under Verizon.

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Online scrabble has revealed a whole new world of game possibilites embedding real world maps into the game experience. Nokia is doing it for a car racing game on mobile phones – OVI Maps Racing. I pretty excited about the what I think will become a new trend in car racing apps — unlimited tracks using real world maps.

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