Yesterday in Barcelona, during Mobile World Congress, Microsoft published their updated and reformed mobile platform which will replace Windows Mobile 6.5 during 2010. The new platform is called Windows Phone 7 Series and it has been designed mobile phones in mind. They have totally rebuilt the new mobile operating system / platform. They have used elements from Zune HD media player and Xbox Live user interfaces. As with all modern mobile devices, the home screen is customizable with “Live Panels”, small widget-style boxes.
According to the keynote speech, Windows Phone 7 won’t include Adobe Flash support in early stages. It will…
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Nokia Ovi Maps, a navigation application for Symbian 60 smart phones, became free at the end of January, 2010. Within a week the free application had been downloaded over a million times. At the moment the service works with ten Nokia smartphones and in March it will be included with all Nokia smart phones with built-in GPS. By the end of January, the most active Ovi Maps users were from China, Italy, UK, Germany and Spain and the most used devices were Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia N97, Nokia 5230 and Nokia E72.
Nokia has gotten a head start…
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Today’s the day many Apple and mobile fans have waited for months. Today Apple will introduce new products (hardware and/or software). The most anticipated product is the rumored Apple tablet. The event starts at 10am Pacific Time (7pm Central European Time).
Before the Apple iSlate (or what ever it will be called) is presented, it’s impossible to say what kind of device it will be. It can be anything from a portable tablet style computer to e-book reader and large versatile phone. The product has been speculated for months and dozens of “photos” and mockups have circuleted the web since early…
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Nokia announced yesterday that Nokia Ovi Maps will be free from now on. At first Ovi Maps will be freely available in ten Symbian powered phones with built-in GPS, and in March the service will be included with every new GPS phone. The currently supported devices are Nokia X6, Nokia N97 mini, E72, E55, E52, Nokia 6730 classic, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition and Nokia 5230.
I just bought a new phone in December and back then I made a decision between Nokia 5800, Nokia 5230 and Nokia 5530 and ended up purchasing the latter one,…
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