Lee Williams: “At Old Nokia, We Could Sell Anything, Even Crap”

Funny morning this. I woke up to a rather surprising interview of Nokia’s ex-SVP of Series 60 Software, Lee Williams (who was also the Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation, before Nokia took it back in 2010). He spoke a lot, trying to spread a lot of FUD around Nokia’s Lumia brand and its Windows…

GoToMenu : A Quick Review

You all must have followed the launch of N9. The one thing that they emphasised on during the launch was a key less front- dey named it a pure touch mobile. The moment i heard it, the tiny menu key on the front of my N8, start growing bigger in front of my eyes, the only thought that came to my mind was to get rid of that key…

Soundtracker Gets Updated, Progressive Download Thrown In

The geo-social Radio app, Soundtracker, has been updated to v1.4 over at Nokia Betalabs. The app was previously called Soundtrckr, and it did seem weird. No more. It has been renamed to Soundtracker now.

Here’s the small change log:

Faster access to music play thanks to progressive download New graphics Performance and other bug fixes

Remember to uninstall the previous version and then download and…

In-Store App Updates Arrive To Ovi Store

See, Nokia’s Ovi Store has survived the rapture and how. They’ve just pushed an update to the Ovi Store, making several ‘under-the-hood’ changes and some much needed features available. For starters, these apply ONLY to the Symbian^3 devices. Only. Don’t expect them to show up for your S60 or Symbian^1 device. We’re told this is the way Nokia works. So yeah.

App Updates for the apps download ‘from’ the Ovi…

Gravity Updated, Brings In Auto Complete Finally

Symbian’s best app, Gravity, the ubiquitous Twitter client, has just received an update that brings Auto Complete, finally. Note that the app is still in Beta, and new features are being added and bugs being fixed, but still, it is highly stable. So stable that you’ll even forget it’s in Beta!

Highlights:

Auto-completion of Friends/Hashtags (you’ll need to use Gravity’s…

Gravity Gets Pushed, Real Time!

Just a quick heads up guys, Gravity, the ultimate Twitter client for Symbian has received an update to build number 6698. It’s still in beta, meaning there may be issues, but like previous Gravity betas, even this is as stable as you’d like. And oh, Push-Notifications have been added and new ‘Mentions’ and ‘DMs’ will be pushed real time.

Nokia Reader now available for 5800 XM

Just as we write about the N8 PR1.1 update, news trickled in that Nokia Reader app is now available for 5800 XM as well.

”Looking for a simple and easy to use RSS reader to manage news feeds on your Symbian^3 or S60 5th Edition device? …

Soundtrckr updated to v1.0.9, several new features added

Soundtrckr, an awesome Geosocial Internet radio app has received an update. Some new features and bug fixes is all that this update includes. Another worthy mention is that the app now works on devices running Java Runtime 1.4 (i.e., those people who haven’t update JRT to 2.1). However, it is recommended that you update JRT…

Socially for Symbian receives another update

It was just a couple of days back that ‘Socially’ for Symbian received an update. Today, there’s yet another update, solving issues like ‘Incorrect Signature error’ while Tweeting, Desktop notifs, Facebook Sign-in errors etc. Important one if you ask me.

It’s still in Beta and LinkedIn and Foursquare support is still…

Socially for Symbian gets update to v3.0

Socially, an app that integrates Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn, has just got an update to v3.0. The new version is a major update over the previous one, bringing along a lot of UI changes and sImplicity. It’s still in Beta, though.

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Consumers or Manufacturers – Who is the King?

So you are happy that so and so company pushes frequent updates to their so called flagship model. Many updates are minor and some major. Now you’d ask why am I talking about something as common as this. It’s logical to ask so. Actually, looking at how people have been waiting for some fearures to be activated has made me ponder over whether this system of updates for niche…

Say WhatsApp!

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The popular messenger service, WhatsApp for Symbian has just received a major update, now standing at v2.2.21. Included in the update are some really worthy features like ability to send images, videos and sound clips. One can even share their location with friends. Certainly worth it I say.

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