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Reviews June 3, 2011

Vertu Constellation Quest Review

Last October we posted about the then upcoming Vertu Constellation Quest, Vertu’s first QWERTY keyboard phone, a phone which compared to all of their previous models was a veritable smartphone. Half-jokingly (or perhaps presciently), Larry stated that it might be my next phone, and when we were in Vegas for CES this January, I stopped [...]

Nokia and Microsoft Get in Bed Together to Produce Prettier and Presumably Smarter Babies

This is so good, it’s almost hard to believe: Microsoft and Nokia have just formally announced their “Broad Strategic Partnership” as they “combine assets and develop innovative mobile products on an unprecedented scale.” The joint press conference occurred at 2:00 a.m. PST/5:00 a.m. EST, and unfortunately (or is it fortunately?) I was still awake trying [...]

Christmas Gift Idea for the Angry Birds fan: Angry Birds Plush Toys!

Like many, I have an addiction to Angry Birds. Well if you are the extreme Angry Birds fan or even just like them, then maybe you might like these Angry Birds Plush Toys! There is the red, blue, black and white Angry Birds right from Rovio’s extremely popular game. Each plush bird is only $14.99 [...]

Samsung Unfriends Symbian

Uh oh…more bad news for Symbian (and Nokia). Boy Genius Report has posted that Samsung is getting out of Symbian entirely, to the point where they’re shutting down any developer support at the end of the year. This move just makes Nokia’s strategy to spin Symbian into a separate foundation even weirder. If you hit [...]

Cellcrypt Now Features Secure Mobile-to-Office Calling

Cellcrypt offers a very unique feature. That feature is completely securing voice calls on GSM networks. We’ve covered Cellcrypt before, highlighting their mobile-to-mobile security. Now there’s another reason to use Cellcrypt’s services: secure Mobile-to-Office calling. While this level of service (encrypting voice calls) could be considered, by some, to be a bit much — and [...]

Tangoe Simplifies the Expense and Management of Wireless Devices

As companies continue to “go mobile” to take advantage of giving their employees the means to manage their work anytime or anywhere, the inevitable problems of how to manage devices and costs quickly becomes top priority. Imagine being able to easily manage all of the service costs for each device — before those pricey overage [...]

Manage Your Next Trip with World Traveler for Symbian

Mobile travel applications let you select and track flights, book hotels and effortlessly manage all of those last-minute changes that will inevitably occur your trip. The Gear Diary team are huge fans of travel apps like TripIt, but that’s not the only game in town. If you are using a Symbian smartphone, you may prefer [...]

Using LogMeIn Rescue+Mobile To Remotely Support Smartphone Users

Let’s face it, no one enjoys contacting their IT department at work. By the time that call comes it is usually preceded by a lengthy bout of frustration, swearing and pounding of fists. While it used to just be your PC or Mac giving you fits, now you are probably just as exhausted trying to [...]

Mini smartphones popping up all over MWC, Derek Zoolander and Dr. Evil get excited

Image courtesy of Flickr MWC is in full swing and all the big companies are pulling out the stops on the new phones. None of this is really any surprise until I saw the assortment on “mini” phones starting to stack up. I first though to myself who wants a mini phone? Super huge capacitive [...]

How popular is your phone OS in the US?

As the battle of the Smartphones rages on, more consumers are making the smartphone switch every day. People are trading up their RAZR’s for something with a touchscreen, keyboard and high dollar data package. Comscore conducted a survey back in October to find out the Mobile OS market share as of Q3 2009. The survey was only [...]

Nimbuzz Launches for Symbian Phones!

If you have a Symbian smartphone (Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, among others) you are going to want to stop what you are doing RIGHT NOW and download Nimbuzz! Why? Not only will you get messaging, chat, and cheap international calling — you also get what may be the most powerful Twitter app for the [...]

Symbian imagines Synergy on Steroids

The Symbian Foundation released this video showing a hypothetical phone UI, which basically looks like a mashup of MotoBlur and Palm Synergy with a dash of augmented reality and Google maps navigation for good measure. This isn’t an actual future UI, but how fast would you line up for a Symbian phone if it were? [...]

Android to overtake iPhone by 2012

The Gartner group has predicted, via research, that Android based phones will overtake the iPhone and jump into the number 2 position in popularity in as little as two years. Currently the iPhone sits in the number 3 slot behind Blackberry and Symbian. Gartner further suggests that RIM, makers of the Blackberry, will lose close [...]

Review: Astraware Casino for Symbian Series 60

I love casinos, but I am terrible at gambling. Flashing lights, lots of bars, video games; essentially casinos are just a grown-up version of the boardwalk arcades from my childhood. Of course, my problem is that I don’t understand how to gamble; I just tap screens, pull levers, and pretend I understand how poker works [...]

When “backup” is a relative term…

I recently posted about my love/hate relationship with the Nokia E71x. It’s gotten a bit more contentious lately, due to various and mysterious software issues. Calendar entries that refuse to accept date changes, programs that freeze repeatedly, games that malfunction…it has been frustrating to say the least. Cue Nokia PC Suite and their backup suite. [...]