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Filed under: Software, Nokia, Misc

There’s hardly anything more embarrassing that admitting that your company still uses Lotus Notes, but for the millions upon millions (140 million, in fact) of licensed users who’d love the opportunity to check in via their S60-based handset, this one’s for you. Starting next month, Lotus Notes support will be granted for Symbian S60 3rd Edition, meaning that anyone with a fresh S60 device can soon tap into Lotus Notes Traveler and access real-time email, calendar, address book, journal and to-do list data. On second thought, maybe you shouldn’t be so enthusiastic — leaving work at work is a blessing too many take for granted.

Nokia adds support for Lotus Notes in Symbian S60 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: LG, Misc

When we see alluring phone concepts that’ll never leave the lab, we end up wishing there was a little more innovation in the handsets out in the wild. There was a wealth of eyebrow-raising examples of that principle when LG Japan exhibited top entries to its Mobile Design Contest last weekend. We’re keen on the fbt, a phone designed for braille text messaging, and the Tap, which is shaped like a light switch and functions like one too — when you tap it, the phone turns off so you can live once again in peace. The winner, though, was the above-pictured Planet Phone, the surface of which is dotted with LEDs representing your friends; if you don’t talk to someone for a while, their light gradually moves out to the edge. It’s supposed to remind you to keep in touch, but it has darker connotations — if you become angry with someone, you can revel in the pleasure of watching them slowly tick away into oblivion. That’s absolutely a feature we want to see added to the Storm.

[Via Hallyu Tech]

LG’s concept phone contest winners should please art house gadgetphiles originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Software, Apple, OS X

We’re going down our “things that absolutely must change on the iPhone” list, and yeah, “redo the Safari toolbar” isn’t anywhere on there. Not even at the very bottom. Cupertino works in mysterious ways, though, and they’ve decided in firmware 2.2 that it’s time to muck with the positioning of the text boxes so that the address bar and search bar Bot. appear at all times without needing to first tap in the area. They’ve also moved the refresh button inside the address bar itself, which should truly revolutionize our browsing experience yet again. Apple, screw copy / paste — we’re officially stoked.

[Via Wired, thanks Konstantin]

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