The other day we told you that Nokia would be releasing just one Maemo handset next year, and that they would be concentrating on the Symbian OS.
Nokia has now shown of some photos of how the new re-designed Symbian UI will look, with some renders of what they intend to make Symbian look like.
Last week a couple of UK mobile phone retailers, the Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U removed Sony Ericsson’s Saito mobile phone from their shelves due to a number for problems experienced by Saito owners.
Sony Ericsson has just released a software patch for the troubled handset, which is said to fix the problems, which were basically the handset freezing when you were running more than one application at once.
If you looking for a truly pocket sized speaker, then this Mini Mini Speaker is the smallest we have seen for a while.
This tiny cube speaker comes in a variety of colors and you can connect it either via the fold away 1/8″ plug or via mini USB.
The Samsung Omnia II is now available on Verizon from today, for $199.99 after a $100 mail in rebate on a two year contract.
Other features on the Samsung Omnia II include a 3.7 inch touch screen display, and it runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 and features Samsung’s TouchWiz 2.0 UI.
Some Palm Pixi owners are reporting that their handsets have updated to a new version of Palm’s webOS, webOS 1.3.2, although there are no official details as yet on the Palm webOS update page.
When Nokia announced the Nokia N900 everyone expected to see a lot more Maemo powered handsets from Nokia next year, this is not the case as Nokia only intends to released one Maemo handset in 2010.
To be honest most people though Nokia would be saying goodbye to Symbian, and using their Linux Maemo OS instead, but Nokia has stated that they are ‘firmly committed to Symbian as our smartphone platform of choice,’.
LG & AT&T have announced a new smartphone, the LG eXpo, which is aimed at the business market and it features an optional DLP projector that is attached to the back of the phone.
The LG eXpo features a 3.2 inch touchscreen LCD display, a slider QWERTY keyboard, built in A-GPS, plus a five megapixel camera and a microSD card slot.
The guys over at Gizmodo have managed to get their hand on a prototype of a ZiiLABS, Google Android mobile phone, which runs the Zii Trinity platform which is designed for Google Android and Plaszma operating systems.
The Zii Trinity features a 3.1 inch multi touch OLED display with a resolution of 480 x 800, and it can support full HD video playback in 1080p, via the built in mini HDMI port, it also features support for OpenGL 2.0 for accelerated gaming.
The other day the Sony Ericsson Saito was removed from the shelves by a number of UK retailers due to reported problems with the handset, now it looks like another mobile phone from Sony Ericsson is having problems, the Sony Ericsson Aino.
The problems seem to stem from the touchscreen on the Sony Aino and Sony Ericsson has acknowledged the problem and have said that they have a solution in the works.
Some of our readers will remember the Nokia X6 that was announced back in September, good news if you have been waiting to get your hands on one as the Nokia X6 is now shipping in the UK and Europe.
The Nokia X6 features a 3.2 inch touchscreen LCD display with a resolution of 360 x 640, it comes with 32GB of storage built in and features a 5 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and a dual LED flash.
Nokia has had to delay the launch of its new Maemo powered handset, the Nokia N900, in the UK due to the huge demand for the mobile phone, and the amount of pre-orders Nokia has received.
The Nokia N900 was due to go on sale in the UK this week, but now it looks like it won’t be available until the 4th of December, this is mainly to to the fact that the demand for the handset has far outstripped Nokia’s supplies.
Yesterday Fring launched a new version of its smart phone app that now allows users to make video calls through Skype of 3G or Wifi.
At the moment the software only works on the following smart phones: Nokia smartphones: 5800, X6, N97, N97 mini, N95 8G, N95 and N82. But Fring say more devices will be added shortly.
