Nuance To Acquire Swype Inc. For $102.5M, $77.5M Paid Already

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say many users love Swype. I do, too. It’s awesome. Well, sort of.

Nuance, a ‘speech recognition and digital imaging’ software maker, is acquiring Swype Inc. for $102.5 Million, out of which $77.5 Million have already been paid. The balance will be paid 18 months after the deal is closed, say…

Nokia E7 Review

Thanks to the good people at WOMWorld/Nokia, I got the Nokia E7 to review.

As you all would know(or not, never mind), I’ve been a big fan of Nokia’s E-series. I still have the E63 by my side, now for more than a year and a half, and while it seems out of the stone age, it works,…

Nokia E6 Review: Perfect Match Of Touch And Type

Guys Nokia E6-00 is a perfect example of a combination of touch and types. It depicts a birth of masterpiece on mating of two different things. Lets go through the details of the phone.

HARDWARE

Nokia E6 is a touch and type smartphone with a QWERTY keypad. So it’s a Symbian Anna device, playable on a 2.46” TFT LCD screen loaded in a 115.5 x 59 x 10.5 mm weighing 133g…

[Video] Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Talking About Meltemi And Some Clipper Programme

Umm, I just happened to come across this video on YouTube, a while back, where Nokia CEO Stephen Elop talks about Nokia’s strategy henceforth. For starters, I’m not really sure, but it looks like it’s after the N9 launch in Singapore.

Do note that Elop mentions -

S40 Clipper programme …and the underlying Meltemi software effort Delivery and Launch Services – Location and Commerce Deliver differentiation…

Nokia To Replace S40 With Linux Based Meltemi To Connect The Next Billion?

Meltemi, or MeeGo Lite, that is what could replace Symbian S40 (woohoo!), according to a report by WSJ. Course, Meltemi is still a code name, and sounds weird for a mobile (smart or not, I don’t know) OS. But Harmattan sounded weird too, so quite a possibility the name remains.

Moving…

[More Screenshots Added] Nokia Link: Simpler Way To Sync Media Between Your Nokia And Windows Or Mac Computer

Oh well, look what’s here. Nokia Link. It’s a tool, a lightweight suite if I may say, to sync media between your Nokia N9 (officially), Symbian^3 device (my friend Nitish tested it with his Nokia N8 and E7, worked just well) and your Windows or Mac computer (yes, Mac is a computer as…

India Plaza Offering Nokia 701 At Rs. 16,999, Ships In 2 Days, COD

Even before the Nokia 701 could be made available officially, India Plaza, an online reseller, is offering the Belle-running smartphone, already.

The price they’re asking is quite good too, about Rs. 2,000 less than the MRP of Rs. 18,999….

Microsoft To Nokia Qt Devs: Port Your Qt Apps Even Faster With Our API Mapping Tool

Here’s some good news for Qt developers, who have apps for Symbian and MeeGo: If you’re looking to sail with Nokia, and you don’t want to redo all your apps from the scratch again for Windows Phone, Nokia’s new OS of choice, then you can now use an API Mapping Tool released by Microsoft.

Nokia and Microsoft have released an extensive package and documentation to help you get started with…

Just In [Screenshots Added]: Swype For Symbian 2.0 Out, Brings Split Screen Support

Just in. I am absolutely going to love those two words. The fine folks over at Nokia Betalabs have released Swype for Symbian 2.0, bringing in some cool features based on the feedback they received from both Nokia and Android users.

Here are a couple of screenshots. Looks good.

App Review: 4squick Beta 0.96 For Symbian Devices

By Symbian, I mean the new Symbian (Symbian^3 and above). The version I will be talking about here is 0.96, which at the time of writing this, is the latest, so all new plus old stuff will be covered.

Wondering what 4squick is? It is a Foursquare client, that lets you, well, check-in to places and…

Microsoft Apps Like Lync, Skydrive, OneNote Etc Coming To Symbian

I’m a tad late on this piece, among others. But anyways, Nokia has announced that some half a dozen Microsoft apps are coming to Symbian, in a blog post. These updates will come to Nokia’s Symbian Belle devices. And unfortunately, that is that much about it. All those users currently…

Nokia 801 (N8-01) Leaks (?), Could As Well Turn Out To Be Just That

The blogosphere’s gone crazy with leaked images of a Nokia N8-01 (or just 801, following the new naming scheme).

Apparently, the guys over at TechBlog had done a quick video review of the Nokia 700. In the review, the blogger played a video that showed an unannounced Nokia device, that also seems to run…