Symbain, said on Wednesday, that it could expand its collaboration with Google Inc. This collaboration is to grant free and open access to its software platform.

“We already work together and so whatever collaboration, if there is an opportunity, we will be happy to collaborate with them,” Symbian chief executive Nigel Clifford told reporters in Tokyo.

“And that could be on the application level or that could be on the more fundamental operating system level.”

Symbain currently uses google services for its applications, like maps and search enggines.

Nokia will contribute Symbian’s assets to a new not-for-profit organization, Symbian Foundation, in which it will unite with leading handset makers, network operators and communications chipmakers to create an open-source platform.

Google’s just added a new feature to Google Maps for mobile, Called voice Search. The add-on allows you to seek for businesses by speaking your query. It uses the speach acceptance technology as GOOG-411, Googles service.

The point of voice search is to accomplish it easier to seek for a business if accounting is difficult or out of the question, the name is too long, or if you’re not abiding how to spell it. As Google credibility out, accounting may accomplish added faculty in some instances, such as in a blatant environment.

To download Google Maps for voice recognisition to your BlackBerry Pearl, absolute the smart phone’s browser m.google.com/maps. Once that’s done, you can use Articulation Seek with the application.

Voice Seek uses the accepted map appearance to actuate the geographic breadth searched. If you’d like to seek in the breadth anon about you, you can use the My Breadth beta feature, which helps you apperceive area you are on the map, even if your buzz doesn’t abutment GPS.

According to Google, Articulation Searh is experimental. So, like with added voice-recognition technologies, accurateness should advance over time. Google says it is alive to aggrandize Articulation Seek to additonal accessories and platforms in the abreast future.

You can learn more about it from here

Never quite sure about miniature mobile phones, but if that’s what you like, you might like the Willcom 9 - just launched in Japan.

Sadly, it’s not thin as well, with the handset looking like more than a bit chunky. Features are average, with a 2-inch LCD screen, 24MB of internal memory and a 1.3MP camera, although it does come with the more popular Google packages pre-installed.

No news on a price or launch outside of Japan.

Visit willcom official site for more details