Archive for the ‘Platforms: Symbian’ Category

Rumours: Nokia to Ditch Symbian?

August 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

According to the German Financial Times, the love between Nokia and Symbian might be over soon. The vendor would switch to their other open source OS called Maemo.

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N97 Gets N-Gage

July 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The Nokia N97 is without doubt one of the most popular devices in the company's portfolio. Though it was unsure if it would be connected to N-Gage at launch, a dedicated client was released last week.

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Symbian Foundation into Publishing

July 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

With their Symbian Horizon programme, the Symbian Foundation is offering developers a possibility to publish their games onto various vendor stores and operators.

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Symbian Launched Developer Portal Beta

June 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Some months ago, Symbian launched a public Beta for their development site. Though the team says it is still far from finished, the site is now in public beta stage.

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N-Gage to ease Download Limitations?

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

One of the issues raised by consumers a long time ago was that they where not able to take their mobile games to their new N-Gage devices. N-Gage fixed this by introducing a license transfer service, but rumors say Nokia will even go beyond that.

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S60 is Ending

May 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

As part of the new plans for the Symbian Foundation, Nokia has announced that it will pull the plug on S60 by the end of June 2009.

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Symbian Foundation App Store Coming?

April 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The Symbian foundation is said to be working on a new App Store foundation. Indeed, a foundation as they don’t seem to be interested in having a monopoly like Google and Microsoft.

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Symbian Foundation Launches

April 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Though the new branding and website have been live for several weeks now, last friday has been declared as the official launching day of the new Symbian (together with their new logo).

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N-Gage Finally Getting Accelerometer Games

March 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Several mobile platforms (including the popular iPhone) have been swamped with accelerometer apps and games. With the release of Bounce Boing Voyage, N-Gage is joining in on the fun.

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Symbian Foundation Release Plan Revealed

March 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

On the Symbian Foundation blog, David Wood revealed Symbian's plans to do a major release of the platform every six months. The Symbian versions that are currently in production are Symbian^2, Symbian^3 and Symbian^4.