Dolby Laboratories, Inc. announced a collaboration that will see Nokia incorporate Dolby surround sound technologies into select handsets worldwide.

The two companies revealed their collaboration following the launch of the Nokia N8, Nokia’s latest smart phone based on the Symbian^3 platform, and the world’s first smart phone to incorporate Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 surround sound technology.

“The collaboration between Nokia and Dolby, a world leader in entertainment technology, now brings cinema-like experiences to mobile,” said Jo Harlow, head of smart phones, Nokia. “The Nokia N8 is the first smart phone to offer a tru… .. .

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DreamSpring, a Symbian smartphone specialist, announced the availability of its innovative activity manager DreamLife for Symbian S60 3rd edition as well as language versions for 5th edition smartphone users.

DreamSpring today released the S60 version of DreamLife for Nokia S60 v3.1 and v3.2 non-touch phones, closing the gap for an all in one contacts calendar manager. “The combination of contacts and calendar creates a killer app.”, confirms IntoMobile.

This version of DreamLife features clear display of contact information in business card format, key match and global find contacts, planner calendar view, context activity editor, hiera… .. .

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Yeah, it’s Spring, finally! To celebrate this, from today during a limited period of time, you can buy ANY Symbian OS software (and any number of programs) out of thousands of titles available at the My-Symbian Software Store with 20% discount off their total price! All you have to do is to type the April discount code in the “Do you have a discount code?” field at the checkout screen.

Hurry up, ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT! The discount code can be used only once per user, so make sure to select all the programs you want to buy!

Best Secretary from Smartphoneware is a full-scale voice calls and SMS processing application. It can automatically answer a call and play a predefined voice message to a specified person or group of persons. It can block unwanted calls and automatically answer your incoming messages. There are custom responses for your contacts, for groups of contacts, for custom phone numbers, default response (“for others”), black list, etc. A complete log is also available: everything that the Secretary does is logged and can be browsed easily.

Speereo Voice Launcher enables you to set voice dial to any contact in your address book; to start dozens of applications; to launch bookmarks and all of that with press of predefined button and a voice command. Now you can call any of your friends without looking for them in long list of addresses. Set your command and from now on press a button and say. Select the button you hold for speech recognition and tag all your programs and favorite bookmarks with custom tags. You can tag any program in the way you want and then just say “Weather Forecast” or transliterate the pronunciation in your native language. With Speereo Voice Launcher you can free your Today screen from icons to display the information you rally need (phone calls, appointments, weather, etc).

Time Chime from CellPhoneSoft is a clock application that plays audible signals at specified times. The program provides hourly and quarter-hourly chimes. You can select from pre-defined sounds (like beep effects and bird songs), or choose from your own sound files. You can even instruct the program to say the current time via speech synthesizer. The application also offers many further customization possibilities, like vibration, sound volume, and playing times. Compatible with all Symbian/S60 phones.

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Tweets60 is a free twitter client for Series 60 devices

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Few months back I made my feelings about 12 megapixel camera modules for mobile device abundantly clear, and as I said then, we should not treat these tiny little 12 MPX sensor chips for mobile devices as the revolutionary change in chip technology nor should we take mega pixels as a measure of camera performance as many hail them to be.

Generally speaking, the mobile technology progress gives consumers what they expect and the main problem is that leading manufacturers know it will be hard to sell a five or six megapixel camera when their competitor’s shiny and tinny phone is equipped with 8, 10 or even 12 MP for not much more money!

Average mobile phone users don’t know much about the accuracy and quickness of the camera’s autofocus, neither about lens quality or sensor sensitivity, but I guess that mo… .. .

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