Vodafone have announced two of the cheapest phones ever, the Vodafone 150 and 250. The Vodafone 150 harks back to the early days of mobile phones. It can store 100 contacts, has 500mAh battery that lasts 400 hours of standby and 5 hours of talk time. The phone works in 900/1800 MHz GSM networks. It [...]

Rumor has it that Nokia X10 is a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard design powered by a Cortex A8 CPU at 600MHz and have 256MB of RAM, with 16GB or 32GB of internal memory. There’s nothing about a microSD card slot though (the Nokia X6 doesn’t have one). The screen on the Nokia X10 is said to [...]

Sherwin Pao has shared with us an amazing post on how you can publish your content even if it has a similar name to other content. He explains us of a solution to this problem which we might face in Ovi Store with the purchase of our content if we try to publish two different [...]

Bringing financial mobility is not a new thing but Nokia Money service is a little different. Announced at the Nokia Press event at Mobile World Congress 2010, we caught up with Gerhard Romen, Nokia’s Director for Alliances to give us a picture of the vision Nokia has for the future of financial services offering by [...]

With all the MeeGo Buzz and Nokia’s commitment to ensure its quick proliferation into a main OS for the future we sourced a few websites and got together a quick guide on building your first basic MeeGo application using Qt Creator. You will need to download the Qt creator in order to start building apps [...]

Last year the Nokia Fanboy community went abuzz when a clip from the movie Star Trek which showcased the very popular Nokia Tune went viral. It can now be related to the fact that with MeeGo on way things have become more realistic. Car infotainment systems and much more. Kudos to Nokia and Intel. Now [...]

It was a fast paced week for me where in I had to catch all the buzz around the Symbian ecosystem and the mobile industry as a whole. There were a few hiccups initially but as we approached the D-Day everything was eased off. Going in as a solo can be a real tough job [...]

The Symbian Foundation also made the trip to Mobile World Congress 2010, with a small booth in Hall 1 (two blocks away from the mighty Microsoft displaying the 7 series) where it took the wraps off its open source Symbian^3 platform. Symbian^3 brings a host of much-needed improvements and enhancements in three key areas: user [...]

Manikanan has shown us a very promising demo of how he interfaced his mobile phone ( N97mini ) with GameFactory. GameFactory is an advanced game engine developed by research teams inside NTU’s GameLab, headed by Prof. Seah. As you may observe he controls the jeep in the game by tilting the phone. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA_eY4vElbM[/youtube] To enrich the gaming experience, [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series, originally codenamed “Photon” is an upcoming version of the Windows Phone operating system developed by Microsoft. It is planned for release by “holiday” 2010. Windows Phone 7 Series was initially intended to be released during 2009, but several delays prompted Microsoft to develop Windows Mobile 6.5 as an interim release. During [...]

For those who are programming on Symbian C++ would want to check out possibility of augmented reality at OpenMAR which is a component based framework, making use of ECOM plugins at different levels. You can find three different interfaces currently implemented: POIOverlay : an overlay makes use of different sensors to estimate position and orientation. [...]

The Puma phone’s screen is 2.8 inches with a 240 x 320 resolution and it’s quite vivid and responsive. It comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash, GPS, compass and it even has a pedometer. With all the slick UI tricks and the clean looking interface, maybe the nicest thing about this phone [...]