With their Q4 and full 2009 financial reports, there are some signs that the company is getting back on its feet. Earning about 142 million US dollars in Q4, with a total loss for the year 2009 to only 51 million dollars which is far better than the previous year of 3.7 billion dollars  and [...]

Carbide.c++ v2.4 has been release and is available for download. Now you can have Carbide.c++ check for updates and notify you when they are available. Just make sure to activate the appropriate option in Carbide.c++’s Properties. There are many packages (plug-ins) which Carbide.c++ 2.4 will make available to you, not all of them useful to [...]

Its a 127 Mb update from the Ovi suite and after we did a quick update we did see a lot of difference. The new firmware takes more on the UI and Camera front, so don’t expect huge bouts of free RAM, the official change log does not say anything about it so we made [...]

Toni Nikkanen of Finland, maemo geek like me has exposed the mini computer Nokia N900 running OS X . Good new is N900 is a ready hackathon, bad new is its really slow. Check out the view below for a quick peek. So if you care to a boot time of over 90 minutes then [...]

With the Apple iPad going live, there is a new term in the block called Micro SIM. So lets talk here about it and what it actually is. As the name goes A micro-SIM is a miniaturized alternative to a SIM card for subscriber identification on mobile devices. The physical size of the card is [...]

So with a tumbly three quarter run Nokia made a huge leap in the Q4 with a staggering  profit of good 882 million euro. All this can be attributed to the emerging market share and according to me its more cause of the help its getting from Social Media (twitter, facebook, myspace viz.) which helps [...]

I finally managed to load Ubuntu 9.10 on my Nokia Booklet 3G and honestly its awesome. You can check out the video below showing you some of the basic things like internet (Wi-fi or Mobile Broadband) all working on the fresh install. The only thing that bugs me is the screen resolution which is by [...]

With the introduction of iPad and many Touch devices its clear that Touch is the future. We at present have the Resistive and capacitive touchscreens. The resistive screens are way more accurate, but needs pressure to be applied and are generally less responsive. On the other side the capacitive screens require only slight touch to [...]

Get the live feed page for Apple’s event today where they’re expected to unveil their new tablet computer which is known as the iPad. The event starts at 1 PM ET. Be sure to log on to the events page at http://symbianoid.org/events/ for LIVE Video. The specs include a 9.7-inch display and it’s just 0.5-inches [...]

Forum Nokia’s Bill Volpe speaks with Chris Petty, the Communications Director at BlueskyNorth. Chris talks about the development of the Flash Lite application ‘FLORIN Finance Tracker’, which was a recipient of funding from the Nokia and Adobe Open Screen Project Fund, as well as a winner in Forum Nokia’s 2009 Calling All Innovators contest. Chris [...]

There is a countdown setup at http://countdown.symbian.org and a bit of searching has led us to a site which point to this – http://www.salagram.net – which tells us that Powers of 1, 2, and 3 in math: 1 to 1st power=1; 2 to 2nd power=4 (2×2); 3 to 3rd power=27 (3x3x3). 1x4x27=108 ( And a [...]

Remember Nokia 6800? The device with the split keyboard. Well, Motorola too has recently been experimenting this design and has recently come up with MOTOSPLIT. It runs on Android OS and strongly resembles the Nokia 6800. The picture above shows the MOTOSPLIT and the 6800 displaying halves of the QWERTY keyboard. Tthe Motorola MOTOSPLIT runs [...]