Symbian and Orange are teaming up in the '' in London on January 13th 2010. This is completely free and is "the ideal place to gain insight and hands-on experience with the Symbian Mobile Platform, leveraging our Runtime tools including

Nokia have filed suit in San Francisco against a number of LCD manufacturers (including Samsung and LG) claiming they colluded to fix pricing on LCD panels (reports ). In Nokia's words "the liquid crystal displays were incorporated into Nokia mobile

As I , the pairing of a Symbian smartphone and an Apple iPod Touch makes a huge amount of sense in terms of their complimentary strengths. And now Mike Macias is rightly making (for sharing its data connection via Wi-Fi)

iSearch is a delightful little widget for touchscreen S60 smartphones. It provides a very simple function - to take a search term from the user and direct it to one of many search engines online to help you find whatever

The times, they are, as the bard quoth, a changin' - Google Maps Navigation now provides free turn by turn voice instructions on Android-powered phones in the USA, and it's only a matter of time before the licensing restrictions and

UK Gaming site Pocket Gamer has delivered . While primarily about gaming and the new rush for downloadable content, the landscape is remarkably similar to the software markets for smartphones. Looking at all angles, the final statement "...whatever excuses any

For anyone else waiting for an iSync plug-in for the Nokia N97 mini, to enable Mac syncing, note that Jim @ Worded Wonders has produced one, currently best described as in . Comments welcome if you've got time to try

There is a lottery whenever you download an application for your Symbian Samrtphone. I don't mean the lottery of whether you'll be able to re-download the app (although that can still be a concern); I don't mean the lottery of

Knowing he owned a Nokia N86 and iPhone, I arranged for Nokia Creative guy James Burland to get a review Turbocharger 3400 from Proporta - this is the revamped device, not the original white one . As it happens, James

Following on from the best-selling(!) , here's . In addition to comments on the interface and photo/video samples, I put the Satio's camera head to head over a variety of photo shoots with the Nokia N86 8MP, the Samsung i8910

Available for almost all recent S60 phones (touchscreen and non-touch), HP's free iPrint Photo software is now available in the on-device Ovi Store as a small 250k native Symbian utility. It's touted as a quick way to print 6" by

Nokia has released a new firmware update for the Nokia E71. The new version, 400.21.013, adds improved support for Nokia Email / Messaging and a pre-installed version of Ovi Contacts, contains numerous stability and bug fixes, and includes small updates

Just to note a flurry of relevant updates from the Symbian world. Google Mobile App just got updated to v2.3.9, bringing a slightly slicker interface and extra shortcuts - get it from m.google.com on your S60 3rd Edition smartphone. Ovi

It may be ancient by 2009 standards, but it's still a very powerful beast. I'm talking about the Nokia N82, with accelerated graphics and Xenon flash. And it's the subject of a by Eric of Eric's Corner. Well worth a

I'll be accused of cherry picking links again, but what the heck, it's nice to see a USA tech web site giving space to the Nokia N97, in this case . As perhaps might be expected, the N97 rather runs

UK customers on Vodafone take note! The company is promoting their Vodafone Live! service with a bundle of 28 chrismassy ideas, and you can find out those ideas on the Live! portal. Just to make it a bit more attractive

Finally a version of the Facebook widget has appeared for S60 3rd Edition, in the form of a download for the wide-screened Nokia E71 and E72 (anyone able to verify it also works on the E61i and E63?). Supported devices

Priced at only a (UK) pound, Mind is an interesting application from the Ovi Store - it takes a well recognised organisational technique, that of mind mapping, and places it in a Java application on your smartphone. With a system

In All About Symbian Insight 96 (AAS Podcast 160), we discuss recent rumour around Nseries in 2012 and the related Symbian / Maemo debate. Then there's news coverage of the Nokia 6700 Slide and Spotify on Symbian. We finish with

It's Sony Ericsson's first ever S60 smartphone, running the same version of S60 5th Edition as the Nokia 5800, but with several Sony Ericsson extras, plenty of horsepower under the bonnet and a distinctive camera-centric tablet form factor. Can Sony