It’s not quite the injury-proof car that Volvo is aiming for by 2020, but we reckon this is as close as it’ll get. Volvo’s world first pedestrian detection and auto-brake technology uses radar and cameras to detect people in the way, and if you don’t brake in time, it’ll do it for you. We wanted to see how this worked for ourselves, and here are the results on video. More »
Good old Symbian Series 60 is still around and going (fairly) strong, despite the dual Android/iPhone assault – and has today been brightened up no end by the arrival of a beta release of Opera Mobile 10.1. More »
Nokia’s proudly showing off the Symbian S^4 user interface to all and sundry, which is expected to fall onto phones sometime early next year. We may still be awaiting Symbian^3, but Symbian^4 looks like a breath of fresh UI air. More »
Believe it or not, Nokia keeps doing their expensive 8800 series. And believe it or not, they still run the dreadful Symbian S60. This is the next model, the Nokia Erdos, carved out of a single piece of stainless steel. More »
And this is actually a good thing. Why? Because it means a major Symbian UI redesign is on the way. More »
Symbian’s Horizon program works like a record label or book publisher, says Cnet. You submit an app—please make it a good one, since they have to manually review it and they’re “starting small”—and Symbian will make sure it’s kosher and then push it to a bunch of phone app stores, like Noka’s Ovi trainwreck. Good luck guys. I mean that very sincerely. [Symbian via Cnet]
