The popular instant messaging soft, Skype, was announced to be available for Sony Ericsson Symbian devices (Satio and Vivaz) in Luxembourg, on 15th June. Now the application can be used over Wi-Fi or mobile data connection (3G, GPRS and EDGE). If you have one of those two smartphones and want free calls to your Skype friends, then access skype.com/m or visit this link, which will be available soon.

Skype for Symbian will run on any Ericsson which uses the new operating system that is Symbian ^1. Some of the features that Vivaz and Satio owners can have now are free Skype-to-Skype calling, cheaper SMS prices when sending messages abroad, instant messaging (similar to Yahoo! Messenger or MSN Messenger), file sharing (videos, pictures and other files) and many others. The full list can be found here.

Skype is a well-known software that aenables instant messaging, used by millions of persons and businesses to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files. Skype also enable low-cost calling, especially over the border.

Via MobileCrunch

Android has become in the last quarter of 2010 the best sold operating system in the world, overcoming Nokia's Symbian. With almost 39 million handsets sold around the world in Q4, Android passes over Nokia, which stalls at a level of 31 million handsets sold in the same amount of time.

Android is right now spreading around the world fastest than even the iPhone, so this is a remarkable achievement. The battle at the top is between Google, RIM and Apple, and it seems Google is taking over the mobile phone world. Nokia, on the other side, seems to lose a lot of ground - and fast. Apple and Android are growing quarter after quarter, while Nokia stalls or goes down. The Finnish producer's future ideas does not even seem interesting for the market anymore, so I can't see a very shiny future for them.

Source: MobileCrunch

Even with Nokia N8 ready to be released in few months, it is well known it will not run the new version of Symbian, 3.0. Instead of the new Nokia, it seems "an Asian vendor" will run it for the first time, as Lee Williams (Symbian Foundation Executive Director) says. We don't know which vendor it will be, but if it's Asian then will probably be LG or Samsung.

Rumors suggest the new Symbian is almost ready to be launched, but Symbian wants a highly expected smartphone to integrate the new operating system in it, otherwise it may not be such a hit they want it to be.

Source: Engadget

After launching Opera Mini 5.1 upgrade yesterday, Opea is launching another software update today, and we talk about the same Opera for Mobile, but now is the one for Symbian S60, not the one for Android. The first beta of Opera Mobile 10.1 is now available to download. Some of the new features include accelerated browsing speed and support for geolocation. Speed Dial, tabs in the browser, Opera Link and Turbo are also included in this beta version.

The software update is available for both 3rh and 5th edition S60 smartphones. You can download it by visiting m.opera.com/next from your phone.

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