I must say this “Non touchscreen devices are out dated. We all prefer a smart-phone with a touchscreen and has a great user interface“. Now-a-days, having a touchscreen on a device is not considered as a high-end device. As touchscreens are getting more affordable, companies are including touchscreens in mid-range phones.

Gartner Inc believes that, “worldwide market for touchscreen mobile devices will surpass 362.7 million units in 2010, 96.8 % increase from 2009 sales of 184.3 million units“. Basically doubling last year numbers. In a matter of 2+ year, touchscreen (capacitive …

A new project called Explore & Share started in Nokia’s Research Center. The idea is to download content wirelessly into Nokia device via computer with out compromising on speed. Project Explore and Share is based on a new radio technology.

Just place the device on a Writer, which is connected to the computer. Run Nokia’s Explore and Share Application and select what you want to transfer (Music, Videos, Applications, Games etc).

Customized offering according to the consumer preferences and devices.
Transfer One album in less than 10 seconds. (That’s very impressive..)

Look at …

Recently we have posted few leaked documents/details of N Series which you can find them here (Nokia N87) and here (Nokia N98). Now, its time for Nokia X10 which will be knowed as the first to be loaded with Symbian OS 3. If you haven’t looked at the design preview of Symbian OS 3. Please look at it, its very impressive.

Looking at the documents we learned that Nokia X10 will the following features..

Loaded with Symbian OS 3
Slider with QWERTY keyboard
Multiple homescreens with auto rotation
600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU
3.2” AMOLED …

When we talk about worldwide market share, Symbian OS will take the number one spot. In our recent post we have mentioned Symbian captured top spot with 47.2% worldwide market share in year 2009. Unfortunately, Symbian market share in US is very minimal. Because Symbian is not popularly used smart-phone in US.

With the recent announcement of Symbian going FULL open source for the first time in history, Symbian unveiled a completely overhauled mobile operating system at Mobile World Congress 2010, Barcelona. Here are few design features..

Multiple Home Screen Pages
Create your …

After several months of feedback and testing Skype released its Skype App version 1.0 for Symbian. In its beta version, Skype worked on fixing several bugs and improved its performance. Skype can be used on both 3G and WiFi network and has some support for hand-offs between the two wireless technologies.

Skype for Symbian 1.0 features the ability to:

Initiate and receive Skype voice calls
Initiate and receive Skype IMs and texts
Share multimedia files between other Skype users

Requirements

Compatible Symbian device – Nokia 5530, 5320, 5820, 6210, 6220, E51, E63, E66, E71, E90, N78, …

We have posted leaked details of Nokia N98 smartphone yesterday. Here come one more Nokia N series. Our source got their hands on few documents which seems like they belong to Nokia N87 – code name VASCO (N8X Series). This phone seem more like a camera phone because its dressed with a 12 megapixel camera with Xenon flash.
These are the specifications we have:

Codename: VASCO (N8X series)
ARM Cortex 8 processor clocked at 600Mhz
Dedicated GPU with OpenGL
256MB RAM
Internal memory 16 or 32GB
…

Its hard to believe that this is actually Nokia’s next generation smart-phone N98 which is expected to launch end of this year (in the holiday season). Our sources have confirmed internally that, this is a 4 inc smart phone with a QWERTY keyboard.

Information we have gathered so far..

4 inc display screen
QWERTY Keyboard
Touch Screen (Looking at the image it does look like a touchscreen)
32 GB Storage
S60 – Operating System
Similarities are like Sidekick

Remember Nokia’s N service is all about high end smart-phone for professionals. Our sources also heard that the price tag …

Today Nokia revealed that, the new version of Ovi Maps reached a downloaded count of over 1 million. Over 1.4 million downloads in total since the January 21 launch. Nokia was really surprised with these figures. Because, the smartphone maker expected a lower number.

Nokia launched Ovi Maps for FREE in response to the Google Maps Naigation app for Android based devices. Nokia, the smart-phone leader, claims that, Ovi Maps has a better service because data is preloaded in Ovi Maps. That way Maps will be loaded faster and will decrease …

N97 users/owner – your new firmware update version 21.0.45 is ready for download via Nokia Software Updater. This update has improved call reliability, smoother touch screen scrolling and few more..

How to get this update?
Step 1: Plug your N97 to your PC
Step 2: Launch Nokia Software Updater
Step 3: Click on the Update to update your firmware.
The firmware size is about 138 MB.
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Toni Nikkanen of Finland is the first person to run Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) on a Nokia N900. Toni used PearPC to install this version of Mac OS X. We are sure that Toni had a success running Mac OS X on Nokia N900 but, to boot Mac OS X on Nokia N900 it takes about a hour and a half and to open up the “About This Mac” it took Toni plenty of time. The …