Join Forum Nokia India & win N95 8GB!!

Forum Nokia (FN) has launched forumnokia-india ..... Nokia forum (FN) for Indians.
Site is still in infant stage and we hope that lot of India specific stuff will be available on the site. It seems Nokia believes that there are many potential mobile developers in India.
In later stage, we may see Nokia along with reputed education institutes in India teaching Symbian, organizing competitions, events

Even to get quick huge response to site, Nokia is offering a chance to win N95 8GB on registration!!

Launched Nokia 6212 classic with NFC

3 days back, Nokia announced 6621 device in <NFC capability. Though 6621 is not first NFC enabled phone present in market, Nokia is aggressively marketing 6621 as NFC device.The 3G handset allows consumers to conveniently share content, access services and information as well as conduct payments and ticketing with one tap of the device. The Nokia 6212 classic is expected to start shipping in the third quarter of 2008 in select markets in Europe and Asia with an estimated retail price of EUR 200 before taxes and subsidies.

iPhone in India

Good news for iPhone lovers in India.
Now you don't have to buy iPhone illegally and to unlock simcard in order to use it. iPhone will be available in India from Septemeber 2008.

JuiceCaster on TATA phones

Tata Teleservices announced that it will offer JuiceCaster 6.0 mobile social networking services. Tata subscribers will be able to access JuiceCaster 6.0 as a downloadable application on their Windows Mobile and BREW handsets.

Subscribers of Tata Teleservices will thus be able to publish multimedia content from their camera-enabled mobile phones to any person, group, Internet Web site, or desktop.


P.S. I have worked on symbian version of JuiceCaster application.

Nokia N810 on Android

Yes!! it's possible to successfully install Google Android on N810.
For more details:
Nokia N810 Running Google Android

Android on OMAP

Webinar on 'Symbian Signed and its new services'

The webinar about the latest on Symbian Signed "Symbian Signed and its new services" has been made available via the Forum Nokia webinar page.

Symbian CEO on Smartphone market

C-Net's Tom Krazit sat down with Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford a couple of days ago and the resulting interview is now online here, talking about elegant computing, USA market share, Google's Android and the iPhone, among other topics.

No mobile business for Lenova

It’s official–Lenovo is out of the mobile handset business. Many people may not even have known that Lenovo had a handset business (the handsets were sold primarily in China), but PCWorld reported that Lenovo completed the sale of its handset unit on March 31st.

After Motorola's bloodbath in 2007, Lenova has also suffered from competitions. While Motorola has decided to separate its manufacturing business from application development business, Lenova decided t0 completely shut-down its mobile business.

Samsung Instinct wins CTIA award

The Samsung Instinct received “Best In Show” during the Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Award competition, which took place during the CTIA Wireless 2008 convention in Las Vegas.
was first voted “First Place” in the Mobile CE - Phones/Smartphones category by a panel consisting of 31 judges. The “Best In Show” award was then chosen by CTIA attendees. Not surprisingly, attendees voted via text message. CNET also bestowed an award on the Samsung Instinct during its Cream of the Crop CTIA 2008 Awards. The phone was given the title “Best Cell Phone” by CNET.

Dolby on Symbian

Mobile Entertainment like movies and music has become an important part of a person’s life having a mobile phone. Companies like Nokia and Sony Ericsson are doing the best to enhance the experience of every individual who has a mobile phone. Nokia does it with N Series and Sony Ericsson with their W Series.
Now it's time for Dolby. Dolby joined the Symbian Platinum Partner Program and now Dolby technology will be available on the world’s largest selling OS for mobile phones.

References:
Dolby Laboratories Brings Rich Audio Experiences to Symbian OS Smartphones
Dolby Unleashes the Potential of Mobile Entertainment at Mobile World Congress

Videocon could be world’s third largest mobile player

The Videocon group is interested in buying Motorola’s handset business.

“We have hired one of the world’s top three investment bankers who will convey our interest to buy out the mobile handset business of the US company,” Group Chairman Venugopal Dhoot told Business Standard.According to Dhoot, Videocon is ready to launch its pan Indian GSM mobile operations at an investment of Rs 6000 crores.
“The Indian market for mobile phones is around 120 million units a year and we have our own retail chain stories (Next) that we can leverage. Also, we can transfer the manufacturing plant to India to leverage cheap labour in the country,” added Dhoot.

Native vs Java Development on Symbian

Symbian have a useful new paper comparing native and Java development. The paper covers application startup, installation, APIs, portability, fragmentation, security and tools.

It is definately handy documnet for those who like to decide right technology for their applcations.