Mobile-Review reviews the Nokia 6210 Navigator

Eldar with his great site Mobile-Review.com has received the upcoming Nokia phones before their public releases. As he has done with the N96 or G900, he has published his review about the Nokia 6210 Navigator.

Focusing on everything related with GPS and navigation, the Nokia 6210 Navigator positions itself in the mid-range with a full navigation capabilites thanks to a built in GPS chip and a not expiring license for Nokia Maps 2.0.

HAVA Mobile Player to support S60 Phones

Monsoon Multimedia, an innovative digital video solutions provider, today announced HAVA Mobile Player for S60, a TV place-shifting video-streaming solution for S60 3rd edition on Symbian OS. The HAVA Mobile Player gives HAVA owners the ability to watch and control all of their home television channels and services from anywhere in the world on a mobile device – whether it be cable or satellite, receiver or DVR, standard or high definition. Monsoon Multimedia will be showcasing the new software at the S60 Summit 2008, held in Barcelona, Spain, May 28-29, 2008.

An Evening with S60 in Boston

Another very cool S60 meeting, this time in Boston:

Have you been itching to talk to other S60 fans around Boston? Well here’s your chance! An Evening with S60 lands in Boston on Thursday June 5th from 8 PM to 10:30 PM at The Living Room. Come join  for an evening fun with good food, drinks, people and of course cool technology! This is a night you don’t want to miss!

Nokia Maps 2.0 leaves Beta State – Updates include enhanced Pedestrian Navigation, new Satellite Images and Support for integrated Compass Orientation

Nokia today announced that its highly anticipated update for Nokia Maps has left beta stage and is now ready for consumers to download.
 
Downloaded over 240,000 times since announced in February, Nokia Maps 2.0 has improved its optional Car Navigation, enhanced its pedestrian navigation, added multimedia city guides, now offers satellite images, and is sporting a redesigned user interface. Nokia’s mapping and navigation solutions give people navigation features, local content and world maps directly on their mobile device, in a way that only connected devices can. 

Next Nseries Device to be the Nokia N85 with WQVGA Resolution?

We are still concentrating on the N78 and N96 as upcoming Nseries devices in the near future, when there are already very interesting news over at the Mobile-Review forums which make us already face the next generation of Nokia’s multimedia line.

Eldar, the administrator of Mobile-Review, is obviously one of the best informed persons in the mobile scene and has posted some very interesting facts about the phones coming after the N78 and N96.

RealVista Desktop brings Windows Vista Optics to S60 Devices

 

As many people with the same opinion, I think that Microsoft’s current OS Windows Vista is everything else than convincing and revolutionary as the developers say, but one thing is  although it slows down your PC much an advantage for sure – the great optics.

The new “Aearo Glass” UI and all the other lovely icons, backgrounds and bars are real eyecatchers and maybe the only attraction for XP users to change to Vista.

iPhone Realized – iPhone Theme for S60 Phones by dragon-tmd

I have already told you my opinion about theme posting here at SWB, but I will repeat it once again. SWB focuses on cool applications, hardware news, tutorials and so on, and posts only about very exceptional themes. There are numerous other great sites which report about themes frequently like Symbianplanet by Mauikek.

Anyway, I know many S60 users are a radical enemy of Apple’s iPhone. But I also noticed that a lot of them also like the awesome touch control of the device and its menu design.

Video contest: Show your S60 smarts and win a S60 Device or other cool Prices

Got an S60 tip or an application experience you’d like to share? Saara and the See into S60 team would like to hear about your S60 tips and stories of your favorite apps. By submitting your video to their Show your S60 smarts video contest group on YouTube, you’ll have a chance to win a brand new S60 device or a Bluetooth headset and Handango gift vouchers. It doesn’t matter if someone has already posted a video on the same topic – creativity is what counts! The contest is open until 20th May.

Skype Beta for your Mobile Phone

Following recent moves to extend Skype™ conversations to a wide variety of new mobile and wireless devices, Skype is taking another major step as it continues to merge its internet communications software with mobile phones. Today, the company released a beta version of Skype for your mobile, a mobile “thin“ client that works on about 50 of the most popular Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

S60 extending the lead in Internet Innovation and Experiences

S60 on Symbian OS, the leading platform for mobile innovation, today announced extended capabilities of its Web Run-Time offering allowing creation of personal and context aware widgets. S60 was the first mobile software platform to support the creation of widgets and this announcement enables web developers to create even more compelling and relevant services. In addition, S60 has expanded choices for open source innovation in native application development through adding support for several popular platform-independent C++ libraries.