Nokia’s performance as a global mobile leader has been going under fire these days. Recently, Rick Cadden, the founder of the Symbian Guru web site has decided to stop updating the site out of frustration. Rick decided to buy an Android based Nexus One. Nokia’s Symbian platform hasn’t been evolving up to speed in comparison to it’s competitors like Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. A Twitter conversation between Eldar Murtazin and Jan Ole Suhr thinks mismanagement may be the reason for Nokia’s problems.

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I myself have been a Nokia / Symbian mobile phone user for quite a while now. This last couple of years, I’m getting impatient with the way Nokia and Symbian with the way they are coming up with next evolution of mobile phones. Symbian’s touch OS, the Symbian v5,  is failing big time in terms of usability and user experience. Nokia’s Symbian flagship phone runs on meager 400+ Mhz. But I’m still hoping things will turn around for the world’s leader in terms of global market share — hopefully soon.

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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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I’ve recently started using Mac OSX. One of the mobile phones I use is the Symbian based Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic. And I’ve found out that Nokia doesn’t actually ship a Mac OSX version of their PC Suite / Ovi Suite. After scourging thru the Internet, I’ve actually found a solution to sync my contacts and calendar to my Mac notebook — using the Mac OSX iSync tool.

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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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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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Wow! This is a shocker. Nokia has bought Symbian several months back with the intent of open sourcing the mobile operating system and using it in its next generation of touch screen based mobile phones. The acquisition cost about 400 million USD and from what I’ve read Nokia is considering to dump the mobile platform in favor of it’s Linux based Maemo open mobile platform. Maybe it’s the reason that leaked info about the next generation N900 Rover tablet is getting a 3.5 radio chip built-in. Continue reading …

I’ve been reading a lot about Sony Ericsson lately regarding some of their really gorgeous upcoming mobile phones. Recently, there’s the video and screenshots of the upcoming Android based Xperia X3 and it’s cool UI. Now Youserblog has a review in video of prototypes of the hopefully soon to be released Sony Ericsson Satio and Aino.

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