Featured Posts
Nokia N8 Will Have Smart Dial!

Nokia N8 Will Have Smart Dial!

1. You read it right folks. The Nokia N8 will have a mechanism to search contacts quickly from the dial-pad. 2. I asked this feature during the N8 Preview KL but it was not confirmed. 3. Thanks to a post at MyNokiaBlog.Com, the final user guide for the N8 is available online ...

Read More

Nokia N8 preview - KL Session :-)

Nokia N8 preview - KL Session :-)

1. On Friday September 3rd 2010, I attended a Nokia N8 preview event organized by the good folks of Nokia Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. 2. It is nice to catch up with fellow bloggers like Toh of MyTechNews.Info, Joshua of Tallboyz, Jason of SmashpOp & Nigel of NigelSia.Com and some more ...

Read More

Opera Link is The Missing Link

Opera Link is The Missing Link

1. With Opera Mobile 10 Beta 2 for Symbian, a new function is added. It is called Opera Link. 2. This brought a new level of internet experience for Symbian users. 3. Opera Link is a service to synchronise bookmarks, speed dials, web history, notes and more. It is available for free. 4. ...

Read More

Interview - Malcolm Lithgow, Dreamspring's Chief Dreamer

Interview - Malcolm Lithgow, Dreamspring's Chief Dreamer

1. DreamSpring is one of the few companies that are still in business since the Psion days. 2. They have developed really outstanding products for ER5, UIQ2, UIQ 3 and now they also produced applications for S60. 3. I interviewed Malcolm over email to ask him some questions that I kept in ...

Read More

vMenu - alternative launcher for Symbian^1

vMenu - alternative launcher for Symbian^1

1. the built in s60 5th edition application lancher, which nokia calls it menu, is ugly. 2. it looks ok on a non touchscreen phones on the old s60 up to s60 3rd edition. 3. on touch screen phones, the softkeys took too many spaces and it becomes uglier on landscape mode ...

Read More

Dayhand Keyboard - Alternative text input for Symbian^1

Dayhand Keyboard - Alternative text input for Symbian^1

1. Since the first S60 5th Edition (now Symbian^1) smartphone, the 5800 until now, the text input mechanism is something that I really hate. 2. There are 4 options, namely : - alphanumeric keypad. for one hand usage but it requires a tap on the green tick icon on the top left ...

Read More

New Screenshots of Symbian^4 UI Concept

New Screenshots of Symbian^4 UI Concept

1. Symbian^4 is not yet ready and they are working hard to bring it feature complete towards the end of this year. 2. Symbian^4 will bring a new DirectUI user interface. A whole new experience of smart mobile operating system. 3. The new UI will stand head to head with other modern ...

Read More

Skyfire 1.5 Beta for Symbian^1 - Sucks As Usual!

Skyfire 1.5 Beta for Symbian^1 - Sucks As Usual!

1. Last week Skyfire released a new and updated version of this server-rendering internet browser. 2. Version 1.5 is available for S60 3rd Edition and a new public beta for Symbian^1 touchscreen is released. 3. According to them, many features are added and improved. Including :- - Symbian S60 3rd edition -- Smooth Scrolling: ...

Read More

Gravity - The Best Twitter Client Ever!

Gravity - The Best Twitter Client Ever!

1. If there's a Symbian application that I can talk about for hours, it must be Gravity. 2. It made my friends who use iPhones, Androids and other smartphone platforms jealous and wanting to use E71 just for Gravity. 3. What made Gravity so special? To me, it's about the unique user ...

Read More

10 Supercool Facts About Nokia N8 That Makes Me Drool

10 Supercool Facts About Nokia N8 That Makes Me Drool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrXHXin9Iio 1. Before the N8 was even announced, the people are talking about it. Good publicity, bad publicity, you name it. It was everywhere. People were talking about what Nokia will do with Symbian^3. And people are watching carefully to see whether Nokia will compete in the high-end smartphone battle or ...

Read More


Improved WordPress app available now

1. For a blogger, who uses WordPress system, having a dedicated mobile WordPress client is very important.
2. The developers are working hard preparing a Symbian and Maemo version of the popular app which was available for iPhone, Android and Blackberry previously.

3. The latest version for Symbian is numbered 0.71. Compared to the previous versions, this one improves …


Rumour Mill : The first E7-00 real photos are here

1. In March 2010, I blogged about a new high-end Nokia Eseries smartphone running Symbian^3 called the E7-00.
2. At that time, information about it is not available that much. We can only guess and shoot in the dark. But I managed to scourge some very interesting specifications of the E7-00 such as the 1024MB ROM, Microsoft Communicator built-in, 256MB …


10 Supercool Facts About Nokia N8 That Makes Me Drool

1. Before the N8 was even announced, the people are talking about it. Good publicity, bad publicity, you name it. It was everywhere. People were talking about what Nokia will do with Symbian^3. And people are watching carefully to see whether Nokia will compete in the high-end smartphone battle or not.
2. When N8 was announced on April 27th …


Donation / Contribution to help this poor fella

1. Sorry to my readers for the long hiatus. Been really busy
2. This is a short post. Just want to ask contribution and donation to help me repair my laptop’s screen. The cost is going to be around USD200. As you can see, only 60% of the screen is usable at the moment.

3. If you are willing …


The Official WordPress Client on E90

Note : Please click on the screenshots to view bigger size
1. I own and maintain 3 self-hosted WordPress blogs. This blog, SymbianKu.Com and MeeGoKu.Com. I choose WordPress for it’s simplicity, elegant and flexibility.
2. On my MacBook, I use an offline blogging client called Ecto. A superb and easy to use software that fulfills my blogging needs.
3. For Symbian S60 3rd …


I Choose Best TaskMan, How About You?

1. One of the beautiful thing that made me stick with Symbian is it’s multitasking.
2. Out of the box, Symbian supports multitasking since the glorious days of Psion.
3. The built in method in S60 to see the running applications in the background is to press and hold the Menu key aka the Applications key which will list opened applications.
4. If …


Switch to our mobile site