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Four Pizero Premium themes free for a few days

Available free for a 'limited time' are four 'Premium' themes from one of our favourite S60 3rd Edition/S60 5th Edition/Symbian designers, Pizero. The themes are Aurora, Paradise, Magma and Azure and I've included links to all the free download pages below. Grab 'em while you can!

# Posted by Steve in Software, Links of Interest at 16:31 UTC, Jan 29th || Comments

1.5 billion Series 40 phones, plus half a billion Symbian too

The news that Nokia just handed over its one and a half billionth Series 40 phone was interesting - and impressive - and got me thinking and fact-checking. Just how many Symbian-powered smartphones have been sold, in total, i.e. in the last decade? Turns out it's now well over 500 million, i.e. over half a billion Symbian smartphones have already been sold and are... out there in the world somewhere. Some thoughts below.

# Posted by Steve in Miscellaneous, Industry, Editorial Thoughts at 9:05 UTC, Jan 28th || Comments

Nokia Configuration Tool graduates from beta

Nokia Configuration Tool, a Windows PC application for system administrators to manage the settings of Symbian phones through a USB cable or Bluetooth, has now graduated from Nokia Beta Labs and is formally available for enterprise users as version 6.3.

# Posted by Steve in Miscellaneous, Links of Interest at 10:59 UTC, Jan 5th || Comments

Symbian OS still on top, according to StatCounter

Thanks to a reminder from WebProNews, it's instructive to look again at the smartphone world via StatCounter, a pro service embedded on many web sites which tracks the browser and OS used to access them. And, reflecting the still enormous installed base of Symbian-powered smartphones across the world, Symbian still (for web access, at least) still dominates the world, at 31%. The full graph is below, along with some comments.

# Posted by Steve in Miscellaneous, Links of Interest, Industry at 9:09 UTC, Dec 30th || Comments

The ZingMagic story

There's a nice piece over on the Nokia Developer blog highlighting the story of ZingMagic, a long time favourite developer here at AAS for polished native Symbian games. The piece covers how the company got started, how its games are built and recent success with advertisement-sponsored versions of its games.

# Posted by Steve in Developer, Games at 14:16 UTC, Dec 9th || Comments

Gmail application finally pulled by Google

It appears that Google has finally withdrawn its official Gmail client, written in Java, for Symbian smartphones. Version 2.06 hadn't been updated for two years and I'm guessing that changes at the server end meant that at some point in the near future the client was going to stop working anyway. To avoid complaints, Google has simply pulled the download page for the client. A shame, given that many on S60 3rd Edition phones still use it and would have liked the option to re-install it when needed (though see the PS below).

# Posted by Steve in Software at 16:19 UTC, Dec 5th || Comments

SPB TV thankfully goes its own way

With the news that mobile (and especially Symbian) stalwarts SPB Software has been bought up by Yandex, a Russian search company, the future of star products such as the free SPB TV was in serious doubt. Happily, it seems that this application has been spun off into a separate, independent enterprise, under the company name MobiWorld Media. This should ensure SPB TV's continued existence for all mobile platforms. More below.

# Posted by Steve in Software, Links of Interest at 8:59 UTC, Dec 2nd || Comments

Opera Mobile for Symbian update

The best web browser for Symbian just got itself an update. Following the update to Opera Mini last week, its big brother, the full-on browser Opera Mobile has also now been updated, to v11.5.1. The main change is enhancements to language choice and predictive text in the search field, but there are also a ton of bug fixes.

# Posted by Steve in Software at 19:01 UTC, Nov 22nd || Comments

Opera Mini 6.5.1 fixes bugs, adds predictive text

Just updated in the Nokia Store but also available via the web directly, is the latest and greatest version of Opera Mini, v6.5.1, adding predictive text input and a choice of input languages in the search field. We've quoted the changelog below, along with the links you might need.

# Posted by Steve in Software at 8:18 UTC, Nov 18th || Comments

The new Nokia BL-5K - when a typo isn't a typo?

When the Nokia 701 was announced, I leapt up on its specification with my editor's hat firmly in place. "BL-5K battery, 1300mAh" read the press release. Having owned the Nokia N86 and having played with the C7 and X7, all with the same battery, "that's got to be a typo" I asserted and insisted that Rafe fix it to "1200mAh" for our news story. As it turns out, the Nokia 701 ships with a new 'variant' of the BL-5K that we haven't seen before, rated at "1300mAh". Have there been chemical tweaks inside?

# Posted by Steve in Hardware, Miscellaneous at 11:03 UTC, Nov 15th || Comments

Nokia E72 updated to version 81

Firmware updates are currently rolling out to the venerable Nokia E72, bringing it up to version 81. As usual, there is little information about what the 1.3MB update actually contains, but it is safe to say there will be bug fixes and various optimisations. Web has been upgraded too, to version 7.3.1.32. Only one of the resident E72's in the All About Symbian office has received the update, so your mileage may vary to when the update is available to you too. Read on for more details.

# Posted by David in Software, Hardware at 15:21 UTC, Nov 7th || Comments

The Nokia (/Ovi) Store has upped the download restriction to 10

Nokia has finally relaxed its somewhat restrictive policy of only allowing you to download paid content up to five times (it was a draconian three times, originally) - the limit has apparently now been raised to ten times. Given that you also have to be fully signed in as well, many have argued that there shouldn't be any limit, but ten is a reasonable number and should appease even serial phone switchers like ourselves!

# Posted by Steve in Software, Miscellaneous at 8:34 UTC, Nov 4th || Comments

People Made - Nokia exhibition at London Design Museum

A free exhibition is currently running at the London Design Museum (28 Shad Thames, London SE1), entitled, 'People Made - Nokia products that changed the world' and tells the 'inside story of Nokia - past, present and future'. The exhibition is free to enter, but is only running from October 28th to November 2nd, leaving you three days to go along and take a look.

# Posted by Rafe in Hardware, Miscellaneous, Links of Interest at 12:56 UTC, Oct 31st || Comments

Nokia's Luna brings a new form factor to Bluetooth headsets

Alongside the Nokia 603, the Luna Bluetooth Headset has also been announced. A playful looking in-ear headset, it comes in five colours as well as being NFC enabled. In practice this makes pairing practical - just tap one of Nokia's NFC handsets to the base and you'll be paired up. Other more traditional methods of scanning the area and pairing are naturally available as the headset conforms to the 2.12 Bluetooth specification. Answering calls is a simple matter of popping the headset out the holder and into your ear.

# Posted by Ewan in Hardware at 9:25 UTC, Oct 13th || Comments

store.ovi.com becomes store.nokia.com

The Ovi Store and other Ovi services have been transitioning to the new name, i.e. just "Nokia" for a few weeks now, but it's important to note that there's a new URL for the main storefront on the web. Yes, store.nokia.com just went live, though obviously the old store.ovi.com will be supported for a long time to come.

# Posted by Steve in Software, Miscellaneous at 17:32 UTC, Oct 12th || Comments

For those who were wondering about the Apple iPhone 4S's camera vs the N8

As many people will know, the Apple iPhone 4S was announced last night, with one of the chief improvements being a better camera with better Back Side Illumination, wider aperture and an extra optical element. Leaving aside other elements of the iPhone 4S (which, interestingly, retained its 3.5" screen), such as the Siri voice control, I thought you might be interested in a comment or three on the 4S's camera, as it compares to some of Nokia's camera phone units.

# Posted by Steve in Hardware at 5:43 UTC, Oct 5th || Comments

A detailed look at Nokia Mobile Money in action

There's a nice article by Aatif Sumar over on ZOMGit'sCJ looking in detail at Nokia Mobile Money, announced two years ago but now seemingly arrived, at least in India, as a Java application compatible with S60 3rd Edition smartphones (and presumably S40 and other devices too, right up to the latest Symbian handsets).

# Posted by Steve in Software, Links of Interest at 10:24 UTC, Sep 15th || Comments

Nokia Beta Labs launch Nokia Nearby

Nokia Beta Labs has announced a new project entitled Nokia Nearby. Aimed at emerging markets, it aims to provide ‘hyper local search’ capability, especially for devices not supported by Nokia Maps. Nokia Nearby is a Java application which runs on almost all S60 and S40 devices; with an emphasis on the latter. Utilizing network-based location, it doesn’t require GPS. The application allows you to search by category or name, and add locations to a list of favourites. Read on for a demonstration and download link.

# Posted by David in Software at 9:22 UTC, Aug 30th || Comments

Ovi Store passes 9 million downloads a day

Nokia's Ovi Store has reached the 9 million downloads a day milestone and is continuing to grow. This follows on from June's announcement that Ovi Store was averaging more than 6 million downloads a day and the 7.62 million mark from last month. The 9 million downloads a day rate annualises to 3.29 billion downloads a year (275 million a month). In addition, AAS' own tracking now shows that Ovi Store has now passed the 2 billion cumulative downloads mark.

# Posted by Rafe in Software, Developer, Industry at 17:24 UTC, Aug 16th || Comments

Apple remove iSync from latest OS X, Nokia syncers beware

Mac owners who enjoy bullet-proof syncing from iCal and Address Book with their Nokia/Symbian smartphone(s) should note that upgrading to the latest (and new) OS X Lion operating system will yield at least one unpleasant surprise: Apple has removed all trace of iSync, the phone-sync application that has had wide manufacturer compatibility. Happily there's a workaround.

# Posted by Steve in Software, Miscellaneous at 14:36 UTC, Aug 5th || Comments

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