S60 freeware YouTube video player

Today we all got a new great freeware application for our S60 devices. This is a freeware YouTube player which is most wanted app of this year. Its name is emTube. This is standalone S60 application allows you to Search, List and Watch YouTube video clips directly on your mobile. It can play videos while they downloading to your device. Also you can store downloaded videos to device's memory. I'm not sure if it supports YouTube authentication to access to restricted content, but anyway functionality of this app is just awesome. Here more screenshots of this app:

Thanks for the review to Allabout.

S60 and UIQ PC remote file manager and backup

Sometimes we need to transfer a huge amount of files to or from the phone (often to the MMC card). Also we need to transfer a whole directory structure or do backup operations for phone's memory card in case if we what to change it to a new one without losing all the data and without using PC card-reader. Here the solutions I've found at some "PC phone tools" forum thread. The first one is PC File Manager. This application from Epocware gives you an opportunity to manage files on your phone from your PC. It works only for old versions of Nokia and SE devices like Nokia 7650, 3650, 6600 ans SE UIQ P800, P900. Moreover this is shareware application.

The second application was Symbian FileExplorer. This is just devices sis app. Symbian FileExplorer gives you full access to your Symbian phone file system from your PC over Bluetooth (OBEX). Using this application you can access via BT to the all content of your phone memory and do all file operations in bulk mode. This is also a shareware application.

There is also Oxygen Phone Manager but it can't transfer plain files. The only freeware solution for this task for Nokia S60 is the original Nokia PC Suite application, but backup and file transfer in this application doesn't copy all files. For UIQ there is free Symbianware DesktopFileMan.

Cheap international mobile calls are possible now

There is a new great service EQO which solves of most painful problems for mobile users - international long-distance calls on the go is very expensive. But we want calling for free or at least very cheap. Now we have a solution. This is new VoIP service EQO. What the EQO is? EQO is small Java midlet installed to your mobile phone by SMS text message for free. When you call somebody with EQO, the application automatically instructs the phone to call the local number, and EQO routes the call over its international calling network. This service available in almost 40 countries all over the world. Rates are very-very low. This service a little bit expensive than Fring, Truphone or other true VoIP SIP solutions, but it works on every modern Java-enabled phone. Other clients require smartphones with Symbian or Windows Mobile.

Symbian 9 Platform Security and capabilities hacked - copy any files and DRM content

Reading this post we can learn about the big security vulnerability of our Nokia and Sony Ericsson Symbian 9 smartphones. We need to do following steps:

• Take an update firmware package (currently supported only by Nokia for S60 smartphones).
• Edit some part of it, where all those capabilities are listed that a user can grant to a 3rd party application upon installation.
• Update these capabilities.
• Flash this modified firmware.

I think we all now can watch DRM content for free on S60 devices like N95 or N73. This will be the big surprise for all content providers. Also we can browse all files in our smartphones including Private folders!

New GPS freeware navigation - Google Maps for Symbian 9

Google Maps is now available for Symbian 9. Unfortunately it's available only for Symbian S60 version. But still this is another great free native GPS navigation application for Nokia S60 phones. It supports both external BT and integrated N95 6110 GPS receivers. You can download it with mobile browser from google.com/gmm/.

Free themes and games for Nokia - 5 ways to download

Everybody wants to get some free stuff for mobile phone. The most popular content for mobile phones are ringtones. But there are other high demanded content for mobiles including Nokia Symbian S60 devices. This is themes and games. Platform Nokia Symbian S60 allows to developers to make very rich and high-quality themes for S60 devices. Many of PC and game console games can be ported to Nokia Symbian S60 mobile phones. This gives us thousands of themes and hundreds of game titles for S60 devices. How we can download all of them freely?

The first way is to check dedicated forums and look what they can give to us. The most well-known forums dedicated to Nokia S60 software and freeware are imserba.com, noeman.org, symbian-freak.com, gsmarena.com, allaboutsymbian.com etc.

The second way is to check mobile portals like Imserba, My-Symbian.com. This portals has huge collections of free themes and games for a lot of mobile phone models including Nokia S60 devices. Go there and start downloading.

The third way is to check some blogs which collects freeware and downloaded content for mobile phones. Most of them hosted on blogspot servers. The examples of such blogs are Symbian-Freeware and my blog.

The fourth way is to subscribe on one of Yahoo! Groups dedicated to Symbian software. Examples of such groups are SymbianSeries60 and MOBILEMEDIA_SIS.

And the fifth way is just google for these content and you can find all other sites not mentioned in this post! For example there is a lot of free applications, games and themes on content store sites like Handango.

S60 Symbian freeware Autolock

AutoLock is a "must have" freeware for all Symbian S60 devices (Nokia, Siemens, Motorola). Because it is automatic keylock application for S60 1st, 2nd and 3rd Edition smartphones. It turns key lock on after some of time of user inactivity. It automatic starts up when the device is turned on. You can change inactivity time. It run invisible to the user. And it's free because it's freeware. Download this application for your Nokia 7650, 3230, 3650, 6260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, 6682, 7610, N-Gage, N70, N72, N90, 3250, 5500, 5700, 6110, 6120, 6290, E50, E61, E70, E90, N71, N73, N75, N76, N77, N80, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95 or Siemens SX1 mobile phone here.

Free GPS map navigation for Nokia Symbian phone

There is only one free native Symbian option for your Nokia Symbian smartphone if you like to use free GPS maps navigation software. It is Nokia Maps, also known as Smart2go. The site where you can download this application is here. By the way it now officially has been updated for almost all of S60 3rd edition devices (including E61(i), E61i, E65, N73, N76, N93i, Nokia 6120 classic and the ones with Nokia Maps preinstalled - E90 Communicator, N95 and 6110 Navigator), not only N Series as before, but for E Series devices too. Most interesting thing that it is now available for Symbian Series 60 (S60) 2nd Edition devices Nokia N70 and N72. I hope we can install it on 6630, 6680, 6681, 6682 devices too. But this assumption should be proven.
There is more options on free GPS navigation for Symbian: amAze GPS for J2ME devices with Bluetooth GPS receiver which may run on Symbian too, Nav4All the Java-based voice-guided navigation system which supports Bluetooth GPS and integrated GPS in Nokia N95 and Nokia 6110 Navigator devices.

Reader of Adobe PDF texts on J2ME mobile phones

We have tried free PDF readers for Symbian smartphones recently. But there is a lot of J2ME enabled java phones. There are such devices from Sony Ericsson (models K750, K610, W610, V630, W710, Z610, Z710, K790, K800, W830, W850, W900, W810, S500, T650, Z750), Nokia (Series 40 system), Motorola, LG etc. People may want to read Adobe Acrobat PDF files on these devices. There is J2ME midlet for all these mobiles. It's not really free version, you should pay for this app. But if you really need to read PDF documents on the go you consider this offer. Direct link to download this app here. The homepage of this app here.

Where to download free e-book reader Mobipocket

Mobipocket is really interesting freeware for S60 Symbian device. But at this day the official site
Mobipocket is down so we need alternative direct download link for this application. You can try to download from this site. It contains mobipocket converter and can install mobile mobipocket reader.

Free Symbian text and e-book readers for S60 and UIQ

The most requesting Symbian software for S60 and UIQ devices is text and e-book readers. Obviously we want there readers for free. Let's look what we can get here. There are two options here: Mobipocket and QReader.
Mobipocket is an ebook reader. So it has page-by-page formatting option. The other features are bookmarks, highlights, annotations. It supports Open-eBook and XML/HTML/CSS format. Also it shows embedded BMP and GIF images in e-book.

QReader is a text reader. It supports wide range of formats like Plain text (.txt), Palm DOC (.prc and .pdb), TCR, FB2 and UMD files. Moreover it supports screen rotation (90, 180 and 270 degrees). Also great features are autoscrolling and text formating. You can select colors of text and background. There is available wide range of e-books for QReader. You can download some of them from these sources:
Project Gutenberg

Baen Free Library

Symbian VoIP SIP applications

There is a lof of free and not really free VoIP clients for Symbian Nokia and Sony Ericsson devices like BaraBlu, AQL, Mobiboo, Skype, RebTel, Jajah, Truphone and possibly others. But we talk now about really free software clients that allows to use SIP gateways on Symbian 9 and Symbian 8 smartphones. You always can use special edition of Nokia smartphones Ineternet Edition - N80 IE and others. These devices have embedded SIP client that can be configured to work with any SIP gateway server. But what to do with other Symbian smarphones? We need to install some free SIP client on the smartphone. One of these applications is Fring. Since version 3.0 it allows you to call not only to Skype contacts, but configure a SIP service and directly use it. Now you can call for free to many countries with SIP services like Gizmo, Free World Dialup or bunch of Betamax services like VoipStunt, VoipDiscount, VoipCheap, NetAppel, Voipbuster, SparVoIP etc.
Update: Read about new Free Skype VoIP client in Nokia phones, it's ready to be released in Nokia N97 phone

Native Skype VoIP client application on Symbian phones - not until real HSxPA

If you are waiting for Skype client on Symbian you probably should suspend your hopes until arrival HSxPA or other next-generating networks. Skype still not release it's client for Symbian. As we know only phones run Symbian so Skype don't ready to play on this field. In the meantime there are a bunch of third-party solutions that transfer voice over current cell networks to the Skype network. Such well-known solution is Fring free VoIP client software that actually encode voice with AMR codec and transfer it to its server.
But I think Skype is losing to traditional VoIP clients in consumer phones. There is a lot of free SIP VoIP clients for Symbian even embedded into phones like in Nokia Internet Edition devices N80, N73 etc. If Skype will waiting too long it might completely lose this battle to companies like Betamax (VoipDiscount, VoipCheap brands).

More on Abobe PDF Reader applications for Symbian S60 and UIQ

There are two options - free applications and commertial ones. Also there are three main platforms where you want to read PDF documents and e-books: Nokia Symbian S60 2nd Edition, Nokia Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Sony Ericsson UIQ. There is Series 80 platform from Nokia but it has really small coverage among Symbian devices. Lets break applications in categories stated above and give some links.
The first part of links will be about really free Adobe Reader. Free Adobe Reader or Adobe PDF Reader freeware links:
The Adobe Reader application from Adobe site direct links:

• Nokia 6680, 6681, 6682 Symbian Adobe Reader English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese version.
• Nokia 6680, 6681, 6682 Symbian Adobe Reader English US, Latin America Spanish, Portuguese Brasil version.
• Nokia 6680, 6681, 6682 Symbian Adobe Reader Chinese version.
• Nokia 6680, 6681, 6682 Symbian Adobe Reader Asia-Pacific Chinese (Simplified), Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Japanese version.
• Nokia Communicator 9500, 9300i Symbian Adobe Reader English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese version.

It seems that Nokia 6680 and N70 version works on Nokia 6630 and N72 device and some others but not on N90.
The Adobe PDF Reader application from Nokia site direct links:

• Nokia N70 Symbian Adobe Reader European version.
• Nokia E60 Symbian Adobe PDF Reader European version.
• Nokia N80 IE Symbian Adobe Reader European version.
• Nokia N80 Symbian Adobe Reader European version.
• Nokia E70 Symbian Adobe Reader European version.
• Nokia E61 Symbian Adobe Reader European version.
• Nokia E50 Symbian Adobe Reader European version.

And there is common Nokia E-Series Adobe PDF Reader E-Series Symbian Adobe Reader

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Another Symbian S60 free application - Screenshot

This application is not only free but also is open source. It works on S60 3rd Edition but there is version for UIQ. It captures screenshot on Symbian OS mobile phones. It supports 31 languages. The screenshot can be sent directly to a PC via Bluetooth or infrared and another mobile phone. You can download it here.

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Free Symbian software application - VoIP service Symmy

I've recently found an interesting free app for S60 devices - Symmy. Symmy is a VoIP communication service on Symbian S60 v2 and v3 phones. It is completely free application like Skype or other VoIP . You can call user of Symmy for free and send them instant messages.

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Samsung i550 - GPS Symbian S60 smartphone

There was some posts in different sources about new Samsung i550 that would be a first GPS enabled phone from Samsung. Moreover - it has Symbian OS S60 which is great for all of us. Connectivity is the GSM/HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.0. Sources claims that maps and routing info are downloaded over-the-air and on-the-fly. Other not official specs are:

• 2,6-inch display
• 128Mb RAM
• 150Mb flash
• micro SD-slot
• 3,2 Mpix camera with autofocus and flash
• FM-radio
• MicroUSB
• Size - 115x53x13,8 mm

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Symbian UIQ 3.1 SDK for Motorola Z8 now available

UIQ Technology had announced the availability of the final version of its Symbian SDK for UIQ 3.1. This Symbian version is used in the Motorola MOTORIZR Z8 phone. This SDK like other UIQ ones supports touchscreens. The SDK can be downloaded from UIQ Technology website uiq.com.

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Open Adobe PDF documents on Symbian devices

If you have a Nokia or other Symbian OS-based device, then you might want to read PDF dociments on it. In this case you sould use sone third-party application to do it. Because Symbian doesn't support Adobe PDF documents natively. There is three options: mBrainsoftware's Pdf+ for viewing PDF files with Nokia S60 devices, Documents to Go to use with UIQ and Series 80 and native Adobe Reader LE 1.1 for some Symbian devices. Pdf+ viewer lets you view stored PDF files, read password-protected PDF files, and display all the text, line drawings and images within a PDF document. Also you can search and follow hyperlinks in the Adobe PDF file, and view and follow bookmarks. The Documents to Go by DataViz provides the same capabilities only in professional version. The simpliest application is Adobe Reader, but the main advantage is no cost of it, you can download it for many models from Nokia website.

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Three new classic phones from Nokia - 6267, 3500 and Symbian S60 Nokia 6121

Here some features of new phones. Two first phones are Series 40 5th Edition (I hope). The first one is a clamshell Nokia 6267 device. It has quadband GSM with WCDMA 850/2100, 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, secondary VGA camera 320 x 240 pixels display, FM Radio, microSD card slot, wireless Bluetooth and miniUSB cable connectivity. Product datasheet here.

The second device is also Series 40 but has classic monoblock design. This is Nokia 3500 classic. It's features are just GSM, 2 megapixels camera with 8x digital zoom, FM Radio, microSD card slot, wireless Bluetooth and miniUSB cable connectivity.Product datasheet here.

The thidr device is a Symbian S60 smartphone in classic design. Nokia 6121 also supports GSM with EDGE, WCDMA 850/2100 and HSPDA 900/2100 with is Ok for smartphone. It has 2 megapixels camera with 4x digital zoom which is little not modern but because this smartphone is from middle range it would be Ok. Also there is VGA front camera. Symbian is S60, 3rd Edition SP1 which gis a lot of features. 320 x 240 pixels display, FM Radio, microSD card slot. It has both wireless Bluetooth and cable miniUSB connectivity. Product datasheet here.

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Mobiola and Skype - new snapshot capability

Skype 3.2 has been released. The new featrues are: send money with PayPal to friends direct from Skype; video snapshot to your profile picture with photos of yourself from webcam; invitation friends from Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail for a call; simple account management within Skype. So main interesting feature of Skype 3.2 for mobile phones owner is what they can easily and fast make snapshot of themselves within Skype using Mobiola Web Camera and setup this picture into account information.

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Apple iPhone stuck with AT&T Cingular forever in US

Rumor and news about AT&T Apple agreement on iPhone for five years, according to a USA Today, tell us about not so happy vision of iPhone's future by heads of Apple. T-Mobile, the another GSM carrier in the U.S., won't be able to use iPhone. Fortunately there are another countries except US, so you can buy unlocked iPhone there.

Motorola RAZR2 V9 announced

The long-awaited successor of very popular motorola phone RAZR has been announced a few day ago. This is the new shiny RAZR2 V9. The main features of this phone are:

• GSM 850/900/1800/1900, 3G HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
• Size 103 x 53 x 13.3 mm
• 262144 colors TFT 240 x 320 pixels display
• Java J2ME support
• Audio MP3/AAC/AAC+ support
• Camera 2 MP with video capturing
• Opera 8 browser
• 45 MB of memory expandable by microSD cards
  
• USB cable Interface and BlueTooth 2.0 connectivity

This will be very attractive and succesful phone on US market.

How to detect version of MS Visual Studio or compiler in compilation time

To do this you should use _MSC_VER define like in this code:
#if _MSC_VER >= 1400 // this is Visual C++ 2005
#elif _MSC_VER >= 1310 // this is Visual C++ .NET 2003
#elif _MSC_VER > 1300 // this is Visual C++ .NET 2002
#endif

Convert Visual Studio 2005 solution and project to VS 2003 format

In some cases you would need to convert somebody's project in VS 2005 format into format of your VS 2003. There are no such convertion tools build into new or old studios. The solution is to download UnPrjConvertor application from this page. You can run this app to convert VS2005 solution into VS2003 or VS 6.0 formats. Also it converts projects .vcproj into .dsw format. But I can't to convert VC project file from VS2005 to VS 2003 format by this application. I've found that you just need to change version of file format in the .vcproj file from 8,00 to 7,10 and this file will successfully load in 2003 studio. Some of these projects will compile, some not, but most of them wiill.

Nokia has announced another Series 40 phone - Nokia 3109

Nokia has announced the 3109 classic model. This device is from chep Nokia phones line. The new device is a Series 40 based phone that offers a J2ME support, long battery life. It has expandable memory via microSD cards. The Nokia 3109 classic supports email withattachments, and synchronizes calendars and to-do lists with personalcomputers through its USB connection. Also it has handsfree speaker, music player and 256k colour display. Nokia 3109 classic is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2007.

Mobiola Web Camera J2ME released in addition to Symbian version

I've reviewed previous USB and Bluetooth versions of Mobiola Web Camera for Symbian. Now Warelex has released a new version - for J2ME phones. This give you functionality that you can't expect from your phone. Mobiola makes from your phone a wireless PC web camera. A client J2ME midlet resides on the phone and a webcam driver is installed on PC. Now you phone will be compatible with any Windows application like messengers Skype, Yahoo!, AOL IM, ICQ, and Flash sites YouTube etc. Mobiola Webcam J2ME has only Bluetooth version.

Sony Ericsson P1 - the competitor of Apple iPhone on european market

This powered by UIQ 3 smartphone for networks UMTS 2100-GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900 will have these main features:

• This phone has full alpha-numeric QWERTY keyboard
• 3.2 megapixel camera with very useful feature - business card scanner(!)
• Large 2.6" touchscreen Transflective TFT display with 262,144 color and 240 x 320 pixels resolution
• Push email including support for Exchange ActiveSync™ and BlackBerry® Connect™
• Integrated WLAN and VoIP enabled

Also this model has following features:

• Opera™ Web Browser 8.0
• Video recording/streaming/viewing supporting H.264 playback
• Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo A2DP
• Support of MP3/AAC/AAC+/e-AAC+ audio formats
• Support of Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) cards
• Connectivity is Bluetooth 2.0, Infrared, USB with mass storage

Motorola has presented MOTORIZR Z8 along with Razr2

The UIQ 3-running Motorola MOTORIZR Z8 has been presented again. The first presentation was in February 2007 at 3GSM congress. And now again with presentation of RAZR2 - The Next-Generation RAZR Motorola has mentioned about it's long-awaited UIQ3 slider phone.

New version of Salling Clicker remote control for Windows

Salling Clicker is a remote control software. It lets you control applications on the PC running Windows or Mac OS from a mobile phone or PPC. Salling Clicker offers control of PowerPoint, iTunes, Windows Media Player, and other programs like WinAmp using plugins. Salling Clicker works with all Bluetooth stacks. The program works with over 301 devices. This application can be used as wireless presenter, media remote control, call handler.

Nokia has added 3 new profiles - Nokia 3109, Nokia 6263, Nokia 6555

Some peoples have found that there three new UA profile on Nokia web site. It seems that Nokia prepares some phones to release.
• Nokia 3109
• Nokia 6263
• Nokia 6555

Forum Nokia has presented Series 40 platform 5th Edition (not Symbian)

Nokia has announced the new edition of its Series 40 feature phone platform (it has 5th number, not 4th as we all expected). The new Series 40 5th Edition is a hardware, software and API architecture, based on Java ME technology. It supports the latest version of the mobile information device profile (MIDP 2.1). Series 40 provides an rich Series 40 UI that enables developers to build multimedia applications and services for Nokia feature phones. Series 40 5th Edition incorporates Bluetooth and Infrared connectivity and synchronization capabilities, also Series 40 5th Edition delivers a glorious mobile browsing experience with browser supporting a number of mobile browsing standards. The Series 40 5th Edition also implements the JSR-248 Mobile Service Architecture specification, as well as the latest version of Adobe's Flash Lite 2.1 player. In addition, Series 40 5th Edition delivers the Advanced Multimedia Supplements (JSR-234) and enhanced versions of the Java APIs for Bluetooth (JSR-82), the Mobile Media API (JSR-135), the J2ME Web Services Specification (JSR-172), and the Security and Trust Services API for J2ME (JSR-177). New developer tools will be available very soon in June 2007.

Seven new phones from Nokia. Three of them are Series 40 - Nokia 2660 Nokia 2760 Nokia 2630

Nokia introduced a range of seven new handsets specifically made for the needs of consumers in emerging markets.

The Nokia 2760 is a Dual-band folding GSM phone for E900/1800 or E850/1900. The Nokia 2760 features a VGA camera, FM radio, e-mail and mobile Internet access via a WAP browser. Additionally, the Nokia 2760 supports MMS and Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging, for recording and editing messages on the go.

The Nokia 2660 is a Dual-band folding GSM phone for E900/1800 or E850/1900. The Nokia 2660 features include FM radio, e-mail and mobile Internet access via a WAP browser. Additionally, the Nokia 2660 supports MMS and Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging, for recording and editing messages on the go.

The Nokia 2630 is a Dual-band GSM phone E900/1800 or E850/1900 (for some markets) that includes a VGA camera, FM radio, e-mail and mobile Internet access via a WAP browser. Additionally, the Nokia 2630 supports MMS and Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging, for recording and editing messages on the go.

Video of a girl that dancing in the bathroom (Nokia N Series)

Nice PR move from Nokia. Just read the title of this post and then watch the movie clip. Wasn't what you've expected to see? But still this is what the title claims.

New Carbide.c++ V1.2 Symbian development IDE from Nokia

Nokia today has presended new developer productivity and cost-savings enhancements to its Carbide.c++ development tool for Symbian OS. The Carbide.c++ IDE accelerate mobile application development delivering new functionality with device navigation utilities and time-saving project build tools. This IDE has been announced at the S60 Summit 2007. Carbide.c++ Developer Edition available for purchase for 299 € and Carbide.c++ Professional Edition for 1,299 €. Free upgrades available for current Developer and Professional Edition customers. Carbide.c++ Express is available for free.
Developers will find advanced Performance Investigator tool functionality in Carbide.c++ V1.2 Developer and Professional Edition. It delivers greater visibility into critical power consumption and memory usage early in the development process. Carbide.C++ IDE supports smartphone software development based on the latest versions of Symbian OS, including UIQ, NTT DoCoMo's MOAP, and S60 3rd Edition.
New enhancements include:

• Improvements to Eclipse-enabled code browsing and code completion capabilities.
• Enhanced project build functionalities, including new wizards for kit detection and project import, easier and more reliable project creation and editing.
• Improvements to the Performance Investigator tool, including Power Optimizer and Memory Analyzer.

Samsung has presented the Symbian smartphone SGH-i400

At S60 summit Samsung today showcased its latest Symbian OS smartphone SGH-i400. The smartphone SGH-i400 is based on Symbian OS and S60 which offer extensive languagesupports and multitasking features.The Samsung i400 is created for users who want to have advanced features of a smartphone in slider design. The slider phone supports full web browsing and Bluetooth connectivity for active business users. Samsung i400 also includes 2 Megapixel camera, music key and stereo dual speaker. The SGH-i400 has a 2.3-inch bright display.

The main feature of S60 3rd Edition FP2!

Do you think that main feature of FP2 S60 3rd Ed is Open C. You're completely wrong. The main feature of SP2 is Center Softkey. You would have to redesign all of your applications in order to use this key.

The last Symbian UIQ smartphone from Motorola MOTORIZR Z8

Motorola's MOTORIZR Z8 probably the last UIQ smartphone from the Motorola company. Why? Because SonyEricsson has acquired 100% of UIQ company. The phone is a slider with a HSDPA connectivity and has 15.3-mm thin form factor. It has a QVGA 16 million color display and 2 megapixel camera also a VGA front cam. It also has 90MB of internal memory and MicroSD cards support.

Nokia has surprised with releasing of Nokia 6110 Navigator and Nokia 3110 phone

Nokia 6110 Navigator is a GPS centered phone and 3110 phone is the rich Series 40 phone.

Nokia plan to present at 3GSM four new Symbian smartphones - N77, E65, E61i, E90

Rumors says that Nokia will present this set of devices: Nokia E61i, Nokia E65, Nokia E90 and Nokia N77. Also Nokia will present its new Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2 SDK features and may be some devices with it.

USB version of Mobiola Web Camera for Symbian Nokia S60 3rd Edition

Warelex LLC have released new version of its application Mobiola WebCam for S60 3rd Edition with USB support. More info here.

New Apple's iPhone in competition to Nokia Symbian smartphones

News from Apple about iPhone rise company's stocks up to 8%, but I think it not scares smartphone manufacturers like Nokia because Apple has made too much mistakes. Here they are:
- first of all, it's a convergence era so devices should have all the features and use it successfully, but in iPhone there are lack of HSDPA, GPS, WiFi sync and more, second of all - it's not a smartphone, so I don't know how you suppose to make a new game or other killer-app for it. You can't even extend functionality of it for support VPN or your favourite VoIP provider. The design is stylish but this is a true PPC size and many of people don't like it because the size not really fit their pockets. And who would buy this phone? Owner of iPod already have it with phone in other pocket.
So I think there are nothing to worry about for manufacturers like Nokia, but there are problems for Blackberry and WM5 guys.