Truphone, one of my favorite VOIP providers has added support for four new Eseries devices, the E52, E55, E72, and the E75. The update also brings WIFI calling support for the N86, which was previously restricted to Truphone’s Anywhere plan in which ‘international calls dialled on a Truphone Anywhere enabled handset are connected as local calls to the Truphone network, then routed to their destinations at Truphone’s low rates’.

This new release takes Truphone’s Nokia compatibility list to 30 devices, most with WIFI calling support and some with the …

Skype has finally come out of beta and now not only supports S60 3rd Edition (both FP1 and FP2) devices but also S60 5th Edition smartphones like the N97, N97 Mini, 5800 and so on. This means that the N97 finally has Skype support, something that was promised the day it shipped.

You can download Skype by going to skype.com/m from your phone’s browser. According to Steve over at AAS, the client for S60 5th Edition has been revamped and is a lot more demanding when it comes system resources like …

Nokia has just started in the first pilot of Nokia Money in Pune, India in collaboration with YES BANK and the name they’ve given the project is Mobile Money Service. Nokia also plans to roll out Nokia Money in all major Indian cities within the next months.
As of now the pilot is limited to allowing people to easily transfer money to another person by using the person’s mobile phone number and also pay utility bills and top up prepaid SIM cards. But you can soon look forward to paying …

The Nokia Messaging team has just rolled out an update for the S60 5th Edition client in the form of version 10.2, available via the in the Software Update application on your phone. An update for S60 3rd Edition devices will follow soon.

The current update focuses on faster email deletion, support of destinations so that email can be pulled using your favorite access point and easier on device setup.

The Nokia Beta labs has just churned out a seemingly very useful application called ‘Nokia Diagnostics‘. The application has been created with an aim to help users diagnose, troubleshoot, and configure their devices with ease on their own. This application will let you find out if you are roaming, the signal strength of your device, help setup new access point, configure your WLAN setup and so on. Watch this video to get a better idea:

Currently the application offers:

Network Coverage test. You can get all the network related information …

If you are an Indian cinema fan, just a quick heads up to let you know that the ‘Eros Bollywood’ application is now available from the Ovi Store. Eros Bollywood was one of the winners of the Open Screen Project Fund developmental grant and features Bollywood songs, movie trailors, director’s cut and behind the scenes footage from Eros International’s huge catalog of over 1900 films.

The application is available for S60 5th Edition devices and can be downloaded directly from your handset by visiting the Ovi Store or you can …

A native Skype application for Symbian has just entered beta for Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and Feature Pack 2 devices, there is no support for S60 5th Edition yet but the press release promises support for even more devices with the production release which is expected in Q1 next year.

The Symbian version of Skype supports free Skype-to-Skype calling, calling phones with Skype credits or subscriptions, receiving calls on your Online Number, Instant Messaging …

Nimbuzz for Symbian has just received a very welcome update adding a host of functionality including support for Twitter, pop-up notifications and kinetic scrolling for S60 5th Edition handsets. If you are new to Nimbuzz, it is an application that allows you to IM across diffirent services such as Skype, Google, Windows Live etc and make VOIP calls amongst other things.

I have just tried the Twitter functionality and I have got to say it feels a lot like Gravity, which is definitely not a bad thing, add to this the …

I use @Dabr (free and highly recommended) to manage my Twitter activity, however once I started MaemoCentral.com, our sister site dedicated to Maemo and the N900, I started having problems managing both accounts simultaneously.

The obvious problem was that I had to keep logging in and out to switch accounts and the N900 not having a decent Twitter application didn’t help matters. It was then that @Dabr creator @davidcarrington offered me an awesome tip that said …

Nokia has just released Qt 4.6, the first release of Qt to natively support both Symbian and Maemo. Why Qt is important is because it enables the creation of applications which can run on both platforms yet be born from a single code base. In other words, the developer can make an application once and then supply it both for Symbian and Maemo devices.
This is the tool Nokia is looking at to harmonise software development across its different platforms. Qt also supports Windows 7, Apple Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) …