Posts tagged with symbian
Zoho Mobile For BlackBerry And Symbian
Posted on: Posted on April 29, 2009 10:02 AM
Zoho, the company which offers an online collaborative application suite, similar to that of Google Documents, is busy expanding its offerings in the mobile scene. The latest platforms to be supported are Android, BlackBerry and Symbian. In case you forgot, the iPhone and Windows Mobile were already supported before this. You can head over to http://mobile.zoho.com to check it out. Applications under the Zoho umbrella include:
- Zoho Mail
- Zoho Calendar
- Zoho Writer
- Zoho Sheet
- Zoho Show
- Zoho Creator
Tags: blackberry, symbian, zoho,
Symbian Ported To Run On Atom
Posted on: Posted on April 16, 2009 4:01 PM
We’ve seen many people put Google’s Android platform on netbooks, both for fun and for research purposes. Now it looks like the folks over at Symbian don’t want to be left out, as they’ve managed to compile and run a S60 Symbian build on one of Intel’s Atom reference boards. Of course, we’re not sure if anybody would want a Symbian-powered netbook at the moment, but it’s certainly good to see the Symbian folks looking into the possibility of it.
Fring Twitter 2.0 Add-On
Posted on: Posted on March 31, 2009 8:35 AM
There are certainly a lot of Symbian and Windows Mobile users who use fring on their mobile phones, and if you’re a Twitter user, you’ll have even more reason to smile. We say so because fring has just released the Twitter 2.0 add-on for both those platforms. Users who install this latest version will see notable improvements which include a revamped look, new keyword search capabilities and even the ability to open links that are included in the incoming Tweets. If you want some alone time, you’ll even be able to turn off the sound whenever a Tweet comes it, though most of you Twitter addicts will probably leave it on. Just a little advice for those of you who are planning to install the Twitter 2.0 add-on, you’ll want to unsubscribe from the previous version before attempting to subscribe to the new one.
Tags: fring, symbian, twitter, windows mobile,
Symbian Platform Development Schedule
Posted on: Posted on March 13, 2009 6:40 PM
Symbian might not be famed for coming up with platform updates in the past, but it certainly looks like it’s making a concentrated effort to do so. The latest platform release plan that has been made public by the Symbian Foundation shows that they’re serious, especially since we’re looking at a new platform every six months. The new naming convention will be “Symbian^N”, where “N” is the version number. David Wood of the Symbian Foundation explains the naming convention:
The simplest way to pronounce “Symbian^2? is “Symbian two”… You can also view the ‘^’ as an upside down ‘v’. So we’re telling the world that, in a way, we are intending to turn versioning upside down - by opening up our roadmap discussions to the entire community.
Tags: symbian,
Phone Guardian For Symbian
Posted on: Posted on March 2, 2009 9:59 AM
Folks who keep a lot of private data on their mobile phone will be happy to hear that Symbian Guru has released its Phone Guardian 3.0 software, which will do a fairly good job of protecting the cell phone from theft and more importantly unauthorized access. The program will lock the phone automatically when it receives the lock SMS or SIM card, after which you’ll need to use the correct application password to unlock the handset. Some of the newer features of Phone Guardian 3.0 include:
- Added aGPS support, allowing users to trace their cell phones more precisely
- New SMS commands
- Added an option to start Phone Guardian not only by clicking on the icon, but also using the previously set secret combination
- SMS can now be sent to up to 3 numbers
Tags: symbian,
Mudslinging Between Symbian Foundation And Android
Posted on: Posted on February 24, 2009 9:19 AM
A little mudslinging has apparently been going on between those in the Android camp and the Symbian Foundation. What the Symbian Foundation brings up is that Android is controlled by Google, and thus labeling the “open-source” bit of it as marketing. On the other hand, folks over at the Android camp argue that they haven’t held any technology, and reminds everybody that the Symbian Foundation charges an annual membership fee of $1,500, not to mention that the membership isn’t open to individuals.