Posted on Jun 29 2011 by Gerry Filed under: Nokia, Symbian, Mobile Platform / OS
Good news for those who use Nokia phones running on Symbian 5 or Symbian 3.2 – an update is coming to these mobile phones according to Nokia.
It seems that Nokia hasn’t forgotten its Symbian users in spite of the Windows Phone direction that they are now talking. To give you an idea, Symbian 3.2 based Nokia phones include the Nokia E72, E52, E5, C5-00 and the Nokia 6700 slide.
Symbian 5.0 Nokia phones included in the update are the Nokia C6-00, C5-03, 5230, Nokia 5235, 5250, X6, N97 mini, 5530 XpressMusic and my beloved Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
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Posted on May 27 2011 by Gerry Filed under: Blackberry, BlackBerry App World, Mobile Platform / OS
If you just upgraded to BlackBerry App World™ storefront v2.1.2.15 and the icon is suddenly missing on your phone, there’s a fix for that.
For those of you who are using a BlackBerry® smartphone with BlackBerry® Software v4.6 and v4.7, your BlackBerry App World icon may have disappeared after installing the update. You can get it back by downloading the released fixed which is BlackBerry App World v2.1.2.19.
Posted on May 24 2011 by Gerry Filed under: Microsoft, Nokia, Windows Phone, Mobile Platform / OS
Microsoft has announced that next iteration of the Windows Phone operating system will be used on the first Nokia with Windows Phone device. Microsoft also announced some of the new features that will come with version 7.1 aka ‘Mango’ release of the their Windows Phone OS. The features focus on communications, smarter apps and better internet.
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Posted on Jul 25 2010 by Gerry Filed under: Android, Android Market, legal agreement, payment, Mobile Platform / OS
Mobile phone sales based on Android open mobile platform has been growing steadily. With phone manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson churning out Android phones in full force, more and more people are getting aware of the power of an Android based phones.
Of course all these powerful Android mobile phones become more useful because of their ability to run different types of mobile apps much like our desktop computers. Google has created the Android Market to allow Android users to centrally find mobile apps. One of the hindrances to the current state of the Android Market is its limited ability allow users to buy mobile apps. Most countries are limited to downloading and installing only FREE apps. It looks like that will be changing soon…
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Posted on Jul 21 2010 by Gerry Filed under: BlackBerry OS, mobile platform, RIM, Mobile Platform / OS
RIM has been putting in a lot of work into its upcoming BlackBerry 6 OS and also updating everyone about the work being done. Today RIM has announced some of the very cool multimedia features that will be available on BlackBerry 6 which includes an integrated YouTube video uploader.
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Posted on Jul 17 2010 by Gerry Filed under: Access, Android, Graffiti, handwriting recognition, input method, Palm, Mobile Platform / OS
If you’re one of those who remember or use Palm’s PDA (personal digital assistant), you know about Graffiti. It’s Palm’s input method. Back then, the use of a virtual keyboard as an input method is not something popular.
Well, Graffiti is now available as an alternative input method for Android mobile phones. Access Inc., who has rights to the technology, has created an mobile app that you can install on your Android phone. The app provides Graffiti as an alternative input to Android devices.
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Posted on Jul 13 2010 by Gerry Filed under: BlackBerry OS, mobile platform, upcoming, video, Mobile Platform / OS
The Blackberry is currently the most widely used mobile phone by business people because of it’s great messaging features. It is also slowly becoming a must have cell phone for the teen generation because of it’s messaging features and teenagers simply love to send SMS. But RIM, the makers of Blackberry, isn’t going to stop on its tracks. If fact they’re full blast into developing the next iteration of their BlackBerry platform — version 6.
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Posted on Jun 12 2010 by Gerry Filed under: Addressbook, Calendar, isync, Mac OS X, Maemo, N900, Nokia, Mobile Platform / OS
I’ve finally gotten a replacement Nokia N900 mobile phone from WomWorld / Nokia yesterday. The first thing I tried out on the N900 when I got it up and running yesterday was the web browser. I tried browsing the Connected Phone site to see if it will render properly on the N900 and it did. Before starting off several articles about the Nokia N900, I thought I’d post something about syncing the Mac OS X addressbook and calendar with the Maemo based Nokia N900.
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Posted on Apr 22 2010 by Gerry Filed under: Android, iPhone, Mobile Platform / OS
If you have some 1st generation iPhone that happens to be lying around and gathering dust. You can try running the Android open mobile platform on the iPhone. A known as planetbeing has apparently been hard at work porting Android to the iPhone. Now he has finally posted the youtube video below of Android running on the iPhone.
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Posted on Apr 2 2010 by Gerry Filed under: how to, iPhone, iTunes, Mac OS X, Nokia, Symbian, sync, Mobile Platform / OS
After having been able to sync my Contacts with my Mac notebook using iSync, I was surprised that I could actually also sync the music on my Symbian based Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic mobile phone with my iTunes music library in Mac OSX. Being a long time Linux user, I had always find it easy to sync my phone’s music files with Ubuntu’s Rhythmbox. It’s was just a matter of being able to mount my Nokia mobile phone as a USB storage device in Ubuntu.
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