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Video: Concept Symbian UI Blends AR Maps, Social Networking

1:12AM Danny Allen | The flashy concept was shown at the Symbian Foundation’s SEE 2009 keynote last month and actually looks pretty cool. But is it too little too late? More »
Phones

Overheard: “Nokia Will Never Release An Android Handset”

8:03AM Dan Nosowitz | At the Finnish phonemaker’s booth, I overheard a Nokia rep tell someone definitively that Nokia “will never release an Android handset”. He added, “You can quote me on that”, which is good, because I am! More »
Software

Full Flash For Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids

3:01PM Matt Buchanan | A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. And it’ll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly. But the bad news? More »
Phones

Sony Ericcson. Satio. Symbian. Synergy?

3:28PM Chris Oaten | Sony Ericsson has just announced released Satio, a handset designed to deliver the “ultimate” multimedia and communications experience. Our quotes, not theirs. More »
Phones

Nokia Erdos Is Carved Out Of A Single Piece Of Stainless Steel

2:40AM Jesus Diaz | 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 »
Phones

Has Nokia Fallen Out Of Lust With Symbian?

12:28AM John Herrman | According to Reuters, yes, and all because of some slutty-slut-slut Linux OS named Maemo, said to be the company’s new high-end handset platform. Nokia’s first Maemo indiscretion handset’s said to be landing next week, and probably looks something like this. More »
Phones

Samsung Omnia HD I8910 Review

5:00AM John Herrman | A Symbian-injected followup the so-so Windows Mobile Omnia, the HD i8910 is a specced-out slab of phone from Samsung, with a 3.6-inch AMOLED screen, 8MP camera, HD video recording and a definite thing for multimedia. More »
Business

Nokia And Microsoft To Announce Unholy Alliance

8:15AM Dan Nosowitz | Apparently Nokia and Microsoft are having a teleconference tomorrow to announce an “alliance” of some sort between the two tech giants. But what can this all mean? More »
Phones

Fresh Shots Of The Nokia RX-5 Tablet Prototype

5:00AM Dan Nosowitz | From the wilds of the Indonesian jungle message boards come these new shots of a mysterious Nokia tablet (or MID, or large phone) with a sliding QWERTY, labelled RX-5. More »
Phones

Symbian^4 Will Break S60 App Compatibility

1:30PM Adrian Covert | And this is actually a good thing. Why? Because it means a major Symbian UI redesign is on the way. More »