Archive for the 'nokia' Category

S60 browser will continue to use webkit

Hmmm… So those were some of the rumors. The S60 browser team has posted on their blog that the browser is here to stay with enhancements currently being taken from the Leopard branch. Here is a quote from the post:
We are not backing away from Webkit no matter what you might have read on one […]

Is Nokia switching to Gecko for S60?

An email over at the webkit mailing lists suggest that Nokia/S60 developers have not checked in any source modifications in the last 8 months!! This could mean anyone of these two things: Either Nokia has switched to another rendering engine, like the Gecko or they are waiting for a new release to be out to […]

I am an S60 Ambassador

I received the S60 Ambassador merchandise today. The kit consisted of a cool T-Shirt, 2 notepads, a nice pen and a tag. Too bad, that T Shirt was a little small for me. Interestingly, I am selected as an ambassador for the Ovi program, which is not yet available for India users on the Share […]

Useful GPS enabled Applications for S60

With the inclusion of GPS chip in many of the new Smartphones from Nokia - like the N95, N95 8GB, N82 and the upcoming N78 and N96, the available GPS based applications are on an increase. Here is a list of some of the best applications that I tried on my N95 8GB. This is […]

N96 Blog

Being an avid fan of Nokia’s N95, I am now eagerly awaiting for the next flagship, the N96. I am tracking all the news and updates of this device in a separate blog here. If you are interested in this device, you can subscribe to the RSS feed here.

Nokia N830

While Apple gets all the attention for introducing a 2 GB version of its display-less MP3 player, a certain Finnish manufacturer’s rumored update of a much more useful device almost went unnoticed. The Nokia N830 seems to be an update of the last year’s best selling computer on the Amazon, the Nokia N series internet […]

The Nokia N96 disappointment

The leaked specifications of Nokia N96 reveal lot of improvements over its predecessor, the N95. The addition of DVB-H, built-in 16 GB memory with an expansion slot (take that, Apple!), WMV9 support and SDTV output are all welcome changes. But the glaring shortcoming is the 320×240 QVGA screen. Why not VGA or atleast 352×416 as […]

The inevitable has happened…

It looks like Microsoft has conquered the final frontier in its quest to make Windows Mobile the No. 1 mobile operating system. A report from itwire suggests that Microsoft is in talks with Nokia to bring the Windows Mobile platform onto Nokia handsets. This will have very interesting consequences as Nokia is currently the only […]