Symbian has switched to Open-source version of Software

Symbian software is used on more than 330 million phones around the world. It powers the most smart phones in the world. It is facing new competition in the smart phone arena from Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Google Inc.’s Android system. Between these Android is freely available for anyone to use. Now, the Symbian Foundation planned to release, a large part of the software for free.

This open-source version of the software is known as Symbian 3, and supersedes Series 60. It has now completed the largest-ever conversion of proprietary software to “open source,” which means the source code, or blueprint for the software, is available to anyone.

Symbian foundation was set up in 2008 after Nokia Corp. Nokia decided to give the software away to make it more popular with other manufacturers, a move not uncommon in the technology world.

Analysts say Symbian, which has more than 10 years of development behind it, is starting to look outdated and has lagged in supporting must-have new features like touch screens. This version of software deletes incorrect reference to Series 40, which is still owned by Nokia.

Flicka on Android Market is knocking at

Flickr.com is going to introduce its aptitude through Flicka on Android phone.

With Flicka, one can customize notifications to get immediate notification about the new Flickr contact uploads, Flickr mail, Photo stream comments, in your Android notifications bar.  Favorite (or any photo) can be viewed, and set the photo as your Android wallpaper or contact icon by this.  Flicka gives you the ability to quick and powerful searches on Flickr browse, add, and remove Flickr contacts  and easy upload content directly from your phone to Flickr. Its “Share” feature, allowing you to easily upload new photos or video to Flickr with a single tap. It also facilitates Custom photo slideshow and wallpaper slideshow on Android background wallpaper cycle between specific Flickr photos.

By signing up to the official Flicka mailinglist you can get notified of Flicka’s release on the Android Market.  To get the full advantage of Flickr, user should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and install the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player.

Google Voice coming shortly

Google is starting a new service “Google Voice” within a few weeks. This amazing new voice service will give the users a single phone number and all the calls to their existing phones will be diverted to this single number. It’ll have voice mail feature and users can access this service using any mobile phone or internet (browser). The voice messages will be converted to text and thus it’ll be easily searchable, free sms service, forward voice mails directly to email addresses, recording incoming calls only and listen / download them later from web and many more. The interface will be similar to gmail.

Google will certainly integrate it with android and it’ll support other platforms too. For details visit voice.google.com