By definition, the Nokia Communicator is a brand name for a range of business-centric mobile phones. Traditionally, they wore a clamshell form factor, allowing them to be used as ordinary phones in closed mode and as palmtop computers when opened up. The earliest of Nokia’s Communicators were the fore-runners of today’s smartphones. I wasn’t available [...]
Similar to Matthew Miller (an avid WinMo fan) giving up on Windows mobile, Ricky Cadden and Rita El Khoury of Symbian-Guru.com have resigned from being advocates of Symbian. The popular Symbian-Guru.com site will also no longer be updated. To them, I say, Welcome to the club. If you have been following Mobility Nigeria for at [...]
I thought it would be both fun and informative to do an article on my smartphone of the year 2009. It was unfortunate that we didn’t get good participation for the MobilityNigeria 2009 Phone Awards. Thanks to all those who did drop their nominations. Anyway, in this article, I will list all the smartphones I [...]
The guys at All About Symbian went all out to pitch the browsers on a number of competing mobile phone platforms represented by the following devices: N86 N97 iPhone 3G T-Mobile G1 AAS concludes: In general the Nokia devices with version 7.1 of the S60 browser out-performed the iPhone 3G and T-Mobile G1. The iPhone [...]
I just got my hands on the Nokia E75 slider QWERTY smartphone. The E75 runs on Symbian S60 3rd Edition OS and is being marketed by Nokia as a descendant of the Communicator dynasty (I’m not convinced yet). Here are my first impressions: Very good hardware build; feels solid in the hand QWERTY keyboard is [...]
