Tag: Symbian
Nokia disconnects people with 4,000 sackings
4,000 Nokia employees will find themselves polishing their CVs, as the fading telecoms giant is trimming down to face the future. Most jobcuts will fall to Finland and Denmark, as well as Britain where 700 positions will be cut….
Nokia QWERTY E6 handset has 1 month standby battery
Setting their sights on the BlackBerry business user, Nokia have just outed their latest full QWERTY handset, the Nokia E6. Replacing the E71 and E72 as Nokia's QWERTY handset of choice, it also packs in an 8MP camera, and…
Nokia X7 gets official, packs in latest Anna Symbian
UK network operator Three has just confirmed that the Nokia X7 smartphone will be hitting UK shores shortly. Billed as a premium multimedia handset, the phone comes with a stainless steel chassis, 4 inch touchscreen with OLED Clearblack display, HD…
Nokia: "Symbian is here to stay" despite Windows Phone 7 partnership
Nokia may have put most of their eggs in Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 basket, but they've not totally given up on the Symbian OS they've been working with for the last few years. "Just because we're changing our direction in…
APP OF THE DAY: Nokia Soundtrack to London (Symbian)
What with all the big Nokia news doing the rounds this morning, it's only fitting that our App Of The Day be one seemingly-final hurrah for the Symbian platform. We've picked Nokia's Soundtrack to London app, developed in conjunction…
Nokia and the sad decline of the European mobile phone industry
I can't help feeling a little sad about the news today of the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia. Plenty of others will have gone into the details noting how Microsoft does in many ways offer the Finnish company…
Smartphone malware attacks on the rise throughout 2010
2010 saw a significant rise in the number of smartphone malware attacks, according to mobile security specialists AdaptiveMobile. Reported infections across all mobile platforms were up 33% over the previous year, with malware engineered to spite Android users rising four-fold….
Samsung jump from the Symbian ship
Samsung have become the latest company to drop support of the Symbian mobile platform from their future handsets. Samsung become the second manufacturer in as many weeks to announce they are to halt work on phones using the open source…
Nokia N8 handsets now shipping
Nokia's long-awaited N8 phone has now begun shipping. The handset, which the Finnish manufacturers are hoping will turn around their flailing smartphone fortunes, could be in the post of those who pre-ordered it by as early as tomorrow morning…
10 of the best QWERTY mobile phones
This month saw the high profile launches of two QWERTY keyboard packing smartphones from both Nokia and HTC. Nokia threw out the E7 slider, while HTC crammed a hardware keyboard into their lush Desire Z handset. With so many phones…
