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Skyfire Upgraded And Officially Opened To Everyone!Today

Skyfire Mobile Browser gets an upgrade (version 0.85 BETA) and now is finally and officially opened to everyone and available everywhere for a direct download without without the need to activate it with registration code anymore!

Skyfire team have announced yesterday that they are expanding the availability of their highly anticipated mobile browser to United Kingdom but they also said that you might be able to use Skyfire outside the United States, Canada and United Kingdom.

Their focus is to provide the best possible user experience for the mentioned countries and using Skyfire outside these countries is at your own discretion! So just point your mo... .. .

Nokia designs the future: A chat with Nokia's Alastair CurtisYesterday

In an interview published on Forbes yesterday, Alastair Curtis, Nokia's primary designer, talks about his inspirations and upcoming Nokia devices.

If you're a huge Nokia fan, Alastair Curtis is the well known name for most of you, but for those who don't know, Alastair Curtis is the man with one of the coolest job in the wireless industry.

He joined the company in 1993 and has held a number of senior positions including Design Director of Nokia's Los Angeles Design Center and Head of Design for Mobile Phones, Nokia's largest business unit. As Nokia's chief designer, a post the company veteran has held since 2006, he influences the look and feel of the millions of cellphones the Finnish communications giant produ... .. .

Reminder: Vote For 'Member Of The Month' And Win Cool Prizes!Yesterday

Over the last couple weeks the SF Moderators, Admin and Members of the Dev team have discussed what to do with the SF's 'Member Of The Month' award that we are running for the past few months and tried to solve a couple problems with the current process.

To be honest we are still not quite sure what to do but at least we came up with some great ideas on how to improve it and what is even more importantly, how to involve more participation in process of nominating, voting and awarding.

As you may have already noticed, here at Symbian Freak, we really care about our visitors, and we love being able to reward community members, each one of who have done remarkably a lot to make this site stand where it is and not be a dream broken very soon. We would like to spread joy, friendship and good-will among members by investing the site revenue back in the community and awarding membe... .. .

Weekend Reading: Nokia, Symbian, Google and Microsoft, face off in San FranciscoYesterday

The Open Mobile Summit is a groundbreaking conference exploring the move to open up the mobile value chain, and deliver the mobile Internet. It features industry heavyweight speakers from both the wireless establishment - mobile operators, handset manufacturers and software giants - as well as Internet, WiMAX, VoIP and mobile web players.

In a break from traditional conference etiquette, executives from the Google, Symbian and Nokia, faced off at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, and let it be known exactly how they feel about each other. They even picked on Microsoft, despite the fact that they weren't there to defend themselves.

All of this happened to the delight of the audience, who did all they could to encourage the behaviour by whistling and applauding with each stab that was made. The comm... .. .

WARNING: Unsupported and unofficial Python release!Yesterday

A new version of the Python for 1.4.5 S60 3rd Edition devices has been released yesterday and posted over at our forum section.

Although it fixes quite a few of the bugs it is still an unofficial update and is provided AS IS with NO SUPPORT!

In simple words, the leaked update pack is not made by Nokia, no source code of the changes is available so be careful and proceed at your own risk. Cyke64, one of the most active member of the PyS60 community has matched files from those unofficial update pack with the last official 1.4.4 and in source Python files and he noticed a few changes in foll... .. .