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Nokia acquired Symbian

Symbian Foundation will be Nokia’s next hot property! When Nokia acquired a social-activity service provider like Plazes yesterday, this blog remained silent. But today, when this giant Finnish announced that it has launched a cash offer to acquired Symbian Limited, we won’t! To complete this acquisition, Nokia need about 264 million euro (US$410,563,241.02). This is equal [...]

Nokia E71, E66, and 6205 CDMA: finally official

The world largest mobile manufacturer, Nokia, finally unveiled their 2 new Eseries line up. The phones, E71 and E66, actually has been in reviewers’ hand from about 2 weeks ago. Along with the new Eseries, the Finns also launched 6205 flip phone. 6205 is a CDMA phone. In the US, 6205 will be provided by [...]

Installing S60 SDK in Vista. Impossible is nothing!

Again. Installing S60 SDK in Vista. Impossible is nothing! Thanks for Lucian Tomuta (Chief Engineer of at Nokia), one of the Symbian 60 developer in Forum Nokia, yesterday he published a summary on how to install Symbian 60 SDK in Microsoft Windows Vista. Well, I want to publish this success story in 3GWeek too since I thought [...]

Gartner told you to use iPhone instead of …

BlackBerry? No, the articles doesn’t mean that! It’s just saying that Gartner, the Stamford-based analyst who actually concern about the iPhone’s utilization in corporate now has change their mind. But why? The raise of iPhone SDK has change the situation. From a gadget which you can only use it for entertainment and a-like to something which [...]

Worm spreads out among Nokia handset

Fortinet, a security vendor, announced that several worms have been infected various models of Nokia phone. Fortinet’s threat response team warned on Monday that the worm, identified as SymbOS/Beselo.A!worm, is able to run on several Symbian S60 enabled devices. These include handsets such as Nokia 6600, 6630, 6680, 7610, N70 and N72 handsets.

Symbian powered 30 million Japan’s phone in 2007

Symbian turned out to be successfully delivers service for 30 million Japan’s phone until November 2007. To date, a total of 69 mobile phone models based on Symbian OS have launched in Japan by six Symbian customers: Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Nokia, Motorola, Sharp and Sony Ericsson. Definitely a breeze for Symbian since nowadays the competition among [...]

Smartphone makers reengineering their user interface

Since the release of iPhone and its tangible user interface, the other smartphone makers have gotten the message. It is about time to rethink and reengineer their user interface.

Use Mowser to search on your mobile phone

Mobile users are still trying to seek the more convienient way to browse Internet on their mobile phones. The browser, especially mobile browser’s, is the main concern in this field. So, let’s take a look at a new mobile browser called Mowser.  Mowser is a new service allows us to view Web on our mobile phone.