symbian
D.I.Y. GPS tracking with Mologogo
The combination of a $100 Mologogo kit, a $6/month data plan, and a Java-enabled cellphone allows one to track anybody from an ordinary phone. The Java-enabled cellphone uploads its GPS coordinates every few minutes to the Mologogo server, providing the viewer with a list of the last 100 reported spots the victim was on a Google map.
nokia
Nokia 808 PureView gets May Release Date
After the Nokia 808 Pureview in all its MegaPixel goodness got an award last week, the company has just announced that it will be hitting stores sometime this May. Seeing as we’re already in the second day of the month, we’ll just have to wait until a more precise release date comes up for the Symbian-Belle powered device with its massive 41MP camera. From the announcement, the first countries that will receive the device will be Russia and India with additional countries coming in a later announcement.
(more…)
apps
Microsoft Office Released For Symbian Belle Devices
As far as everyone could have seen Nokia and Microsoft have focused their partnership into ensuring that Nokia’s Windows Phone range of products are the best that they could possibly be. Apparently things have been happening in the works and both companies have remembered the Symbian Belle range of products which only came out recently. Microsoft has released its Office applications to Nokia’s previous operating system of choice. The Microsoft Office apps that were included for the mobile devices were Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
(more…)
nokia
Nokia PureView 808 Pre-Orders in Europe Begin, Shipping Expected in May
The Nokia PureView that was shown off by Nokia in MWC this year is much like any other smartphone nowadays except for two things. The first is that it is running on Nokia’s Symbian OS. The second is what users will want this device for; a whopping 41MP camera. Besides that, the phone will have a 1.3 GHz single-core chip, a 4-inch display with a 360×640 (nHD) resolution, 512MB of RAM, 16GB of storage space which can be expanded with a microSD and a Pentaband modem.
(more…)