Nokia’s Symbian Professional Services to be Acquired by Accenture

by Haris on August 4, 2009
in Gadgets

nokia-logoNokia and Accenture have entered into an agreement for Accenture to acquire Nokia’s Symbian Professional Services unit responsible for Symbian OS customer engineering and customer support.

The unit provides engineering consulting and product development services on
a global basis to mobile phone manufacturers, as well as chip manufacturers
and mobile operators.

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Motorola Sholes, Verizon’s First Android Phone

by Haris on August 3, 2009
in Android, Gadgets

verizon-android-phoneEven if it’s slow, but atleast we are getting to see new Android phones coming up by other manufacturers. As announced earlier this year, Motorola is all set to come out with their Android phone in Ocrober.

It is rumoured that this phone will be released for Verizon, and if it really does, then this Android phone will be the first one to work on the EVDO Rev. A 3G network.

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MXL5007T, TV Tuner for Netbooks

by Haris on August 2, 2009
in Gadgets

Netbooks are becoming faster and more powerful day by day with every new one being released in the market. There are many things that it lacks of, but since hardware is getting smaller you can expect anything these days for netbooks.

Recently, MaxLinear and Hauppauge Digital announced that they will be coming out with a network TV tuner, MXL5007T, especially for networks.

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Nokia N97 Mini Pictured in Wild

by Haris on July 30, 2009
in Gadgets

nokia-n97Nokia N97 Mini. Sounds funny, isn’t it? We have no idea what Nokia is planning next, but it surely seems they are going to soon come out with a smaller version of Nokia N97.

We all know Nokia N97 has a high price tag with it, and this is the main reason why it didn’t attracted much consumers towards it, even though it is much better than Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

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GV Mobile on Cydia for iPhone

by Haris on July 29, 2009
in Gadgets, Mobile Apps

google-voice-iphoneApple is very strict about what apps it allows in the App Store and what not. Many times we see apps not getting approved for the App Store because they don’t comply with the App Store policies.

Google Voice gives you one phone number for all your phones, voicemail as easy as email, and many calling features for free.

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Palm Pre Giveaway on Facebook

by Haris on July 28, 2009
in Gadgets

palm-preWho doesn’t like giveaways, right? Whether it’s an iPhone giveaway or a free app license, I always participate in case my luck shines some day!

Today while randomly browsing Facebook groups, I came across an interesting comment by a user which gave link to the official Palm Pre group where you could win a free Palm Pre.

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Flash Player 10 Beta for Symbian, Android, webOS

by Haris on June 25, 2009
in Android, Gadgets

flashplayerAdobe has announced that they will be releasing a new and updated version of Flash Player for most of the smartphone OS, which includes Symbian-based S60 devices, Android, Palm webOS and Windows Mobile platforms.

They are expecting to release the beta version of Flash Player 10 in October at Adobe MAX 2009. This announcement was made by the president of Adobe, Shantanu Narayen.

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Ozone Browser, New Nokia S60 Browser

by Haris on May 18, 2009
in Browsers, Gadgets

ozone-logoThe race for the best and the fastest web-browsers never end, whether it’s the desktop version or mobile. In the past, we have covered two such mobile web-browsers, the infamous Opera Mini which was and is still the most popular mobile web-browser and Bolt.

When Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile web-browser for S60 devices, is just round the corner (or atleast we think that), we have a new contender to be the fastest browser. o3 – Ozone Browser, is a webkit-based browser with a very fast interface and nice features.

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Take Photos in Nokia Without Camera Shutter Sound

In the past, all Nokia cameraphones used to have an option to turn on or off the camera shutter sound. But recently, they seem to have removed that option because of misuse of cameraphones in some places and privacy issues.

One way of turning the camera shutter sound off is by hacking into the firmware files and modifying the code. But why get into all that hassle when it can be done from a simple freeware?

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