Hey Symbian users, Swype is gonna hit your Nokia phones pretty soon. Android users have been using Swype keyboards on their devices for quite sometime now. I use it on my Android devices, and Swype much faster than I can type using the touchscreen. What’s Swype, you ask? Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the... 

Here’s another thing that makes the Nokia N900 awesome: MoBio. It stands for Mobile Biometrics! Developed by the University of Manchester, the app tracks and locks down 22 facial features, in real time, using the front facing camera on the N900. From the Video Description:“This prototype from the University of Manchester (UK) shows an Active Appearance Model tracking 22 facial features... 

Folks, DivX has now released an updated version of their mobile DivX player for Symbian. The main thing with this release is support for Symbian^1 (Touch devices). Do note, it’s still beta. But something’s definitely better than nothing! You can download the s60v3 app here - Download Download the s60v5, aka Symbian^1 version here – Download. From DivX Labs: We have released a new... 

For those of you who were fans of the Nokia Sports Tracker Beta app, which was discontinued in June, here’s some good news. Sports Tracker now has it’s own site over at www.sports-tracker.com and a new app on Ovi Store. Sign up for the new service before August 30th and you get to import all your older data from your old Nokia Sports Tracker account over to this one. If you haven’t... 

FourSquare users and those interested in getting on the bandwagon, a dedicated app is on the way for the Symbian Platform. Sym4square is a freeware application developed by ThinkChange, to make the FourSquare service available for the Symbian^1 phones smartphones. From the screenshots and the video below, it looks like this application is almost like the FourSquare Android one, with similar features. Sym4square... 

Nokia Betalabs has released a new beta app, Ovi Browser, for Nokia Series 40 phones. Though it’s currently a “beta application”, it’s said to be stable, and also brings some good stuff over to s40 phones.  Like Opera Mini, there’s server side compression of data, which Nokia says will reduce data consumption by 90%. It also means that the browser page load times will... 

Sure, the N900 is billed as a Mobile Computing device rather than a Mobile Phone.   But it lacks a lot of functionalities present in a normal computer. One of them was a proper Dropbox client. In case you didn’t already know, Dropbox is a service that lets you store, access and share files across multiple computers and mobile devices. It’s a very useful service, especially since you get... 

Nokia just announced over at Nokia Conversations, the release of a new open-source digital photography platform called FCam, for the N900. From the post: “FCam allows the creation of new digital camera applications that help users overcome some of the shortcomings of their devices or create interesting new types of imagery. It is part of the Camera 2.0 project, created in collaboration between... 

You can now upload to Dropbox and access your files from multiple devices and computers from your Symbian phone, thanks to furtiv. Just head to http://furtiv.mobi from your phone to get the plugin. You can read more about this over on the Furtiv Blog. Thanks to ZOMGitsCJ for the tip! We’re on twitter, @mynokiaworld, or visit out Facebook Page!  Read More →

Pocket Radar is a nice little app that measures the speed of moving objects using your Nokia Phone.    Here’s what the publishers of the app, Pico Brothers Say: “Measure the speed of anything that moves. This is a highly sophisticated application that uses no microphone or camera but can measure the speed very accurately. Perfect for measuring speed of cars, baseballs, footballs or...