Archive for October, 2008

Maps 2.0 Report of the Week: Anotheran Beats Back the Taunts

This week’s Report of the Week comes from Anotheran. Anotheran shows off his device and Maps service to a friend who’s with a competitor. I’m noticing a pattern to the reports submitted from our Ambassadors in North America — there’s a bit of defensiveness permeating the tone. I guess fans of S60 tend to take [...]

Moving on

Just couple of days ago me and my husband moved to our new flat. As you know, it is hard and messy work. You don’t know where is your stuff, which box or plastic bag contains your most urgent things and what you carry to the storage directly. During the moving days I was hoping [...]

Symbian Smartphone Show recap

The tenth Symbian Smartphone Show is behind us and I thought a week after the show would be a good time to summarize some of the news from the show from S60 point of view and find out what others have to say about the news. First of all, we were very happy that so [...]

Global Market Share: The New Top 5

What with all the recession talk and lackluster earnings from phone makers, it wasn’t much of a surprise to hear that third quarter cell phone shipments fell 0.4% from the previous quarter (Q2), and gained a mere 3.2% compared to last year. But what was interesting, was the new rankings for global market share. (in [...]

Contest: Win a Bunch of High School Musical Stuff (UK Only)

Nokia’s UK Music store is promoting the new movie High School Musical 3, and the official soundtrack with its latest contest. Grand prize: a gift voucher to watch the movie at any ODEON cinema and an “exclusive” High School Music 3 goodie bag. And from what I can tell, the goodie bag includes a mini [...]

Nokia Takes on Apple

Nokia Takes on Apple2 min – Oct 5, 2008The phone maker will unveil a touch-screen phone to rival the iPhone.

Mobile Web Server Blog archived, but life goes on

Hi all, as part of the grand S60 Blogs makeover the old individual blogs were archived, hence there is no Mobile Web Server Blog anymore. You can still find all of the past stories via this link. To follow Mobile Web Server stories, I will be using tag ‘Mobile Web Server‘ for those so you [...]

Nokia aims to take bite out of Apple

Nokia aims to take bite out of Apple2 min – Oct 3, 2008Oct 3 – The world's largest mobile handset maker is launching a 'free' music package and its first touch phone in a challenge to Apple's dominance of the digital music market.

Nokia CarMenu v2.4 Now Available

The Nokia Car Kit gets another update. Now how about my E66? Salvaged from a previous entry: “If you’re one of the ten owners of the Nokia Car Kit CK-300, you’re in luck: Nokia just released an updated firmware for the device.” And so it is again. The aptly named CarMenu application is now rockin’ [...]

Announcing a new *Global* Campaign: N-Gage ‘Reset Generation’

OK, here’s the global campaign all you Ambassadors outside of NAM and SouthEast Asia have been clamoring for! We are accepting Ambassadors for a new campaign supporting N-Gage Reset Generation. We have activation codes for the first 500 Ambassadors to who sign up for this campaign. We’ll also be giving away one copy of “Star [...]