Archive for the ‘Platforms: Symbian’ Category

HandyGames Reaches 20 Million Downloads on Nokia Store

April 17th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Great news from HandyGames today. The company announced to have served 20.000.000 downloads through the good ols Nokia (Ovi) Store. The news follows on the 25 million downloads the company announced last week.

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Nokia Releases Free Microsoft Office for Symbian

April 10th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Back in 2009, Nokia announced that it, together with Microsoft, would start the development of Microsoft Office for Symbian Devices. Following up on the EOL status for Symbian, Nokia finally released Microsoft Office for the OS.

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€18 Million Available for App Development

March 26th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia and Microsoft have put together a new fund that will assist developers in getting their work onto Nokia phones including Series 40, Symbian and Windows Phone. The new fund is called AppCampus.

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Nokia Starts Windows Phone Training for Symbian Developers

June 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia’s Czech department has started to invite Symbian developers to the Microsoft offices. There, the companies will help developers in their transition from Symbian development to Windows Phone.

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Symbian open for Business

April 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

While Nokia invested a lot in letting Symbian go open source under the Symbian Foundation, it seems the giant has changed it’s plans now it bought Symbian back. From now on, clients have to pay again.

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Three Updates for Symbian in 2011

March 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Though Nokia has been reported to be sacking part of it’s Symbian developers, the vendor announced that it still expects to roll out three updates for the Symbian platform in 2011.

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Opera Launches Opera Mobile Store

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: PalmOS, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Opera has launched it’s own browser based app store called Opera Mobile Store. The app store is active in over 200 countries and supports platforms like Android, BlackBerry, Palm and Symbian.

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Ovi Store Ads QT and Arabic Support for Symbian^3 Devices

February 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Sometimes you stumble across things that sound pretty logical, yet they seem to come late. One of those things is Nokia’s announcement that the Ovi Store will finally support Arabic on Symbian^3 devices.

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Herocraft Passes 12.345.678 Downloads on Ovi

December 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Talking about big numbers, Herocraft announced the company has passed the joyfull number of 12.345.678 downloads on Nokia’s Ovi Store.

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PlaySpan Enters the Mobile Payments Arena

November 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

If PayPal doesn’t offer enough in-app purchase opportunities, you might want to check out PlaySpan’s new UltimatePay Mobile system. The system allows billing on Android and Nokia phones.