15 May 2008

PandaManda for S60 3rd Ed
Funny Accelerometer Based Game

PandaManda is motion controlled game for Symbian S60 3rd edition devices that features accelerometer sensor.

Of course it is not the very first accelerometer based game out there but as far as I know it is one of the world’s first commercially-available motion based games for the S60 devices.

Panda Manda is also probably the first accelerometer controlled game that allows you to move through the interactive 3D-like environment. The entire story behind the game is that you have to follow the adventures of PandaManda, a big hero, trapped in a dangerous world, in the search of an exi.. .. .

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.:[ Funny Accelerometer Based Game - full story ]:.

15 May 2008

Nokia launches new nokiaforbusiness.com site

Nokia is pleased to unveil the new nokiaforbusiness.com! The new version of the site provides you, as business and IT decision makers, with the information you need to successfully plan and implement a mobility strategy within your own company.

We've redesigned the site to shift the focus from individual products to a holistic view of business mobility: the software, security components, and devices that, when combined, can provide an end-to-end solution enabling greater productivity and employee satisfaction.

We've listened to your requests and are responding by giving you more of what you need: up-to-date content, a guide to solutions, compelling thought-leadership content, deta... .. .

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.:[ Nokia launches new business related site - full story ]:.

15 May 2008

A Quick Update for Just Released
Nokia Communication Center

Hi folks -- Let's start today's blogging adventures with some good news -- and good news comes from the Beta Labs, as usually lately ;)

The folks over at Nokia Beta Labs just released a quick update for the recently announced Nokia Communication Center. Although it brings lot of fixes, don’t expect too much, it won't mark a significant improvements, it just brings changes that should address many of the problems that appeared since the outset.

They’ve made a lot of progress in addressing many issues that arose, some issues they’ve noticed themselves, and many you’ve brought to their attentio... .. .

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.:[ Nokia Communication Center gets an update - full story ]:.

14 May 2008

WeatherBug Launched Local Weather Widget
for WRT enabled Nokia S60 Devices!

WeatherBug, the world's leading provider of live, local weather information and services, announced the WeatherBug S60 widget today for the WRT enabled Nokia devices.

WeatherBug's S60 widget utilizes Nokia's latest Web Runtime Technology (WRT) and bring advanced, local weather information to millions of Nokia users worldwide.

The WeatherBug S60 widget is available right now from the http://is.gd/got and soon will be available via the Nokia Download application as well. Nokia also plans to pre-install WeatherBug on select Nokia devices; enabling the widget to be easily accessible with a single click from the S60 idle screen or appl... .. .

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14 May 2008

RealVista Desktop - Evolution
Get the Vista Look on Symbian S60 platform

First of all I have to admit that RVD is one of the best flash based themes or maybe is better to call it Flash Lite application that I have ever seen. It is fully capable to simply change your phone style into Windows Vista without changing ANY system files or damaging your phone.

Of course, this is not the first attempt to brings the Windows looks like UI to Symbian devices, there are few flash applications that promise Windows experience on S60 devices but unfortunately all of the m including this one fails at the most important part functionality!!! It is undoubtedly nice to look at but no matter how nice it looks like I am pretty sure that you’ll newer use it because of the poor funct... .. .

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.:[ Get the Vista Look on Symbian S60 platform - full story ]:.

14 May 2008

Provoke's 2012 concepts head to New York
Nokia hopes nobody will notics

Really not sure what it is so appealing about these shiny concept phones that appear from time to time. I mean it's hard to expect that you'll ever see most of them in the wild, but stilly they are usually looks so cute and it is really pleasure to see how the future will looks like. All in all, it’s lovely to look at, but their purpose and functionality is definitely questionable.

Anyway, to meet our future vision, design firm Provoke worked with Nokia to make a conceptual study showing where mobile phone trends are heading in 4 years. Nokia concepts known as Express, Feel and Share will be shown at this yea... .. .

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.:[ Provoke's 2012 concepts head to New York - full story ]:.

13 May 2008

'Copter pilots?
Are you ready to ascend to victory?

Hexagon from the N95 related Swedish forum has managed to port an addictive arcade Copter flash based game for the S60 devices.

Copter is classic arcade game developed in flash that allows you to control and drive a small helicopter by pressing the top d-pad to fly up and release it to drop down. You’ll find yourself spiraling through fun and uplifting labyrinth.

'Copter pilots, are you ready to ascend to victory? Then rise to the occasion, take a flight, grab your little copter, drive it through the strange maze world and avoid the obstacles as for as long as you can without crashing your helicop.. .. .

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.:[ Free Arcade Helicopter Game - full story ]:.

13 May 2008

Microsoft Eyes 40 Percent
of Smartphone Market by 2012

Microsoft is aiming to capture 40 percent of the smartphone market with Windows Mobile by the year 2012, an executive said Tuesday. The target is ambitious considering the company's relatively small share of the market for smartphone operating systems today and stiff competition from the likes of Symbian, Apple's iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry, and newcomers such as Google's Android platform.

Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS went into around 11 million handsets in the company's fiscal year 2007, and it says it will reach nearly 20 million devices in fiscal year 2008, which ends June 30, said Eddie Wu, managing director of Microsoft's OEM Embe... .. .

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.:[ Microsoft To Challenge Symbian - full story ]:.

13 May 2008

Nokia Beta Labs just launched early beta version
of the new Nokia Music PC application

Those folks over at Nokia beta labs are extremely productive lately, incredible level of activity resulted with bunch of handy applications.

Nokia PC Music is latest addition in its software portfolio and lets you play and organize your music, discover and download new music, all seamlessly integrated with your PC and your Nokia device.

In their own words: "We talked to many users during the product development phase and they told us they want to update the music on their mobile device more frequently than they do at the moment. Many of them find the process time consuming and difficult. We created Nokia Music with that in the forefro... .. .

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.:[ Nokia Music PC application launched - full story ]:.

13 May 2008

World's most popular mobile browser
enters a new version

After the shorter period of beta testing the first public version of the Opera Mini (v4.1.11313) was officially released today. The just released version fixes most of the bugs discovered thought the beta testing (more than 150 changes, wow) over the past few weeks, boasting performance and brings user interface enhancements.

Opera Mini 4.1 lets you have the full Web everywhere. This newest release includes several new features, including automatic completion of web addresses, making it easier to get to the sites you need; tools for attaching files to web-based em... .. .

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.:[ New Opera Mini 4.1 Out Of Beta - full story ]:.

13 May 2007

Nokia N78 is supported and near shipping!!

The support pages for the Nokia's N78 is available now, releasing support pages usually means that Nokia going to ship phone within the next couple of days or weeks, at least I hope.

Nokia N78 phone support pages are place where you can find assistance and information to help you make the most of your phone.

As usually support pages include detailed specifications, Interactive Demonstrations, PC and phone software, useful tips and tricks and of course the full final versi... .. .

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.:[ Nokia N78 near shipping - full story ]:.

13 May 2008

Nokia phone maps will get Webbed feet

Nokia is extending its mobile navigation system to the Web via its Ovi.com site, where people will be able to save map locations and routes and then synchronize them with their phones.

Maps on Ovi, unveiled Monday at the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, California, builds on Nokia's next generation of mobile-phone navigation technology, Nokia Maps 2.0. It also signals Nokia's growing focus on software and services, even for use independent of its mobile phones.

Ovi is a Nokia Web portal for Internet services such as content sharing. Maps on Ovi will let people use and mark up maps on the Web and then upload their changes to a cell pho... .. .

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.:[ Nokia phone maps will get Webbed feet - full story ]:.

13 May 2008

NiiMe Drums Project available for download
Discover the inner artist in yourself!

NiiMe Drums is the latest addition in the Asier Arranz's innovative set of NiiMe fusion applications that is now available for the public download after the shorter period of the closed beta testing.

NiiMe Drums is the very first motion based music composers for the Accelerometer enabled Symbian S60 phones like Nokia N95.

It is music-production solution that allows you to spontaneously compose the music tracks just with shaking your phone and instantly playing on your PC after composing. It is like virtual recording studio and creative sound creation tool for your phon... .. .

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.:[ Discover the inner artist in yourself - full story ]:.

12 May 2008

Mobile OS
The complexities of simplicity?

In my usual daily search over the numerous blogs, sites and forums that I read frequently, I came across an interesting article that you might like to read it.

Jason Ankeny from over at FierceMobileContent shares his though on the Mobile operating systems, Symbian, Linux, Android and more particularly on the Apple's iPhone and its changing role in today's Smartphone market in US.

Sick of hearing about Apple's iPhone? Just think how the computing giant's rivals must feel. According to web measurement and analytics firm Net Applications' March operating system market survey, in less than a year since its launch, the iPhone already controls 0.15 percent of total OS market share in th... .. .

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.:[ The complexities of simplicity - full story ]:.

12 May 2008

Pocket Toshi exclusively available for SF members!
Get it and encourage the artist in yourself!

Pocket Toshi is a prototype of a music application for the Accelerometer enabled Symbian S60 phones like Nokia N95 developed by Teemu Korpilahti and Jenna Sutela and thanks to the authors I am allowed to exclusively offer it through the Symbian Freak.

Pocket Toshi offers a creative means for using an everyday object. It turns the mobile phone into an instrument for easy music making in an instant and creates a new emotional dimension to the use of mobile technology.

Taking after the classic mobile ping pong as well as experimental music interfaces (like Toshio Iwai’s Tenori-on) Pocket Toshi sets new creative challenges for compo.. .. .

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.:[ Encourage the artist in yourself - full story ]:.

12 May 2008

Nokia N78
Unboxing and Quick Tour Video

It seems that Nokia N78 is closer to shipping than I have expected. The folks over at iGadge have managed to got their hands on the Nokia N78 that looks like final production model and runs the very stabile software.

The first part of the video is focused hardware and design, typical unboxing and isn’t as attractive as the 2nd that is more oriented on software and provide a quick tour through the Feature Pack 2 and changes that it brings.

Speaking about hardware it is interesting that Nokia has removed the quite handy gallery side key and that phone features little bit strange speakers position. The navi-wheel is improved a lot and now it is fully functional in most of the applicatio... .. .

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.:[ Unboxing and Quick Tour Video - full story ]:.

11 May 2008

The Saga Continues:
More Live Shots of the long awaited Nokia E71!

Nothing officially jet, just a few more photos for the long awaited Nokia E71 device. Actually, we know almost everything about these phones; everything except what is Nokia waiting for!?!?

We got lot of photos, we got the User agent profiles that reveal most of the specification but we still have to wait for Nokia to officially announce new additions to the Eseries family and finally confirm all these speculations and rumours.

Speaking of the just leaked photos, the thing that especially caught my attention is photo with N95 8GB side by side. I just can’t believe how thin this phone is, it is thinner than the supper model and dressed in the luxury suite made of the high qua... .. .

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.:[ More Live Nokia E71 Photos - full story ]:.

11 May 2008

Improved Nokia E90 version is available
and fixes most of its hardware problems!

I already blog about the bad build quality of some of the latest Nokia Nseries and Eseries of phones that seem to cripple their businesses and irritate users as well. Many Nokia E90 owners have reported annoying background noise during phone calls, as well as tedious keyboard issue which is caused by the keyboard construction failure and bad choice of the keyboard material that leaves fingerprints on the screen.

Anyway, our KingRichard has managed to get the redesigned 3rd edition of the Nokia E90 model yesterday after the first shipment arrive the night before in Indonesia. It seems that Nokia is well aware of all these issues and is attempting to resolve them. The new improved Nokia E90 comes in the decent black su... .. .

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.:[ Hands On 'Improved' Nokia E90 Version! - full story ]:.

11 May 2008

Luxury and style
with Nokia N76 Gold Edition!

If you are proud owner of the Nokia N76 and you like your mobile phone but just wish it was a little bit more stylish than it is, if you want to make it unique, then you might be interested in this article.

I’ve just found a quite interesting article on some Chinese site that shows how to transform the boring Nokia N76 black into luxury gold device that can compete to the premium and high quality Nokia S40 phones like Nokia 8800 Sirocco Gold.

Gold is rare, nothing new there, but gold platted mobile phones are even rarer with only few models currently available on the markets and situation with Smartphones is even worse mainly because of dominating low quality and cheap plastic mat... .. .

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.:[ Nokia N76 Gold Edition - full story ]:.

10 May 2008

Flash Lite application
World Time and Temperature

Do you want to know what time it is in Hawaii? What is the weather like in Reykjavik? You are sitting at the airport in New York and want to have a quick look how the weather at your destination is?

Using The World Time and Temperature software you will be able to get answers on all of the above questions. It allows you to discover what the time is and what the weather like is in 16 major world cities is.

With the help of Yahoo! Weather web site, this application gathers weather information from all around the world and displays information in a simple graphical manner. It has the very simple, clean and well designed interface but unfortunately lacks any kind of customization and the whole application is lock... ..

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.:[ World Time and Temperature - full story ]:.

10 May 2008

Nokia Says To Sell 35 Million
GPS Enabled Mobile Phones In 2008!

Nokia Oyj, the world's top cellphone maker, expects to sell 35 million Global Positioning System (GPS) equipped phones this year, its chief executive said on Thursday.

"We expect to ship about 35 million GPS-enabled Nokia devices in 2008, which is equal to the entire GPS device market in 2007," CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told the annual shareholders' meeting.

Nokia's $8.1 billion acquisition of U.S.-based navigation firm Navteq, which is still pending regulatory approval in the European Union, is a good deal, Kallasvuo said. "When we look at it with the eyes we have now, when regarding pedestrian navig... .. .

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.:[ Nokia On Pace To Sell 35 Million GPS Phones In 2008 - full story ]:.

10 May 2008

With a help of HandTalk Glove
Nokia N95 Turns Sign Language Into Words

The students Bhargav Bhat, Hemant Sikaria, Jorge L. Meza and Wesley Jin demonstrated their project ‘HandTalk‘ a sensor equipped glove that translates finger and hand gestures into spoken words few days ago at Carnegie Mellon's "Meeting of the Minds" expo of undergraduate research projects

HandTalk, is actually a portable glove that recognizes sign language and sends signals to a cell phone that translates the hand gestures into audible speech.

Although it is capable to process only 32 words at the moment, but someday the young inventors hope, it may allow deaf people to communicate with those who don't know American Sign Language by having their cell phones speak their words alo... .. .

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.:[ Glove converts sign language into words on a Nokia N95 - full story ]:.

10 May 2008

Design Province releases iBattery screensaver

Folks behind the very popular interactive LiveU screensaver have released a new Flash Lite screensaver named iBattery. iBattery is a crisp battery UI that can be used as Wallpapers and Screensavers on your FlashLite enabled phones. It is actually the cloned Apple iPhone battery indicator that looks pretty good I have to admit but unfortunately is not completely optimized for the 3rd edition phones.

It features only basic indicators and shows the current network, signal strength and obviously tracks your battery but lacks all other necessary indicators like, missed calls indicator, messaging, Bluetooth and so on. Hopefully they’ll be able to optimized and release update version like they did with the LiveU screen.. .. .

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10 May 2008

CorePlayer Mobile adds support for Flash files

CoreCodec Inc, a leading provider of digital media technology, has released an update for the mobile version of its very popular CorePlayer to address some issues and bring some new features and improve functionality. This update brings support for Adobe Flash multimedia container files encoded in flash video. If you have video saved to your memory card it will now be able to play them back.

Native support for flash within webpages is still a ways off, but is planned for a future release. The update also includes some bugfixes and optimizations for the recently introduced YouTube support and improved RSS feed functions. CorePlayer Mobile v1.2.4 Edition is ready and you can get it for ab... .. .

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.:[ CorePlayer Mobile Now Supports FLV Files - full story ]:.

09 May 2008

Creatures of he Deep Wins Meffy Award!

Have you ever heard about the Meffy Awards? Completely unknown to me but in their own words: As the industry’s official benchmark for measuring success and rewarding innovation, the Meffys honour the most influential players from around the world.

Congratulations to the Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep team, for winning the Mobile Entertainment Forum, or mentioned “Meffy” Award, for best mobile game. Creatures of the Deep beat out three other nominees to take top honors in the games category.

Rimma Perelmuter, MEF Executive Director, said: "A focus on discoverability, interactivity, usability and affordability were the common strands shared by this yea... .. .

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.:[ Hooked On Wins Meffy Award - full story ]:.

09 May 2008

Nokia Step Counter beta launched!
Every step you take, every move you make,
every single day, I'll tracking you!

Ever wanted to how much you walk or run as you go about your daily life? The Nokia Step Counter not only counts your steps, it also determines the distance you have covered and your energy expenditure.

You can even compare your activity levels on different days by looking up the summaries stored in a handy diary.

Want to know how it all works? Your steps are measured by analyzing the output from an accelerometer in your S60 mobile device. All you have to do is carry your phone around with you whenever you move, for example in a pocket of your cloth... ..

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.:[ Nokia Step Counter beta launched - full story ]:.

09 May 2008

I owe U, You Owe Me
Keep track of your borrowed stuff

IoUYoM is a free tool to track your IOU-like type of agreements with friends, roommates and family members.

It allows you to keep track of what your friends borrowed from you, and never lose a single item again.

This little piece of Python code is so simplified and yet very powerful tool that could save you so many CD’s, books, and various different stuffs from being temporarily lost or forgotten. It has few different views and also supports filti... ..

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.:[ Track who borrowed your stuff - full story ]:.

09 May 2008

'We expect to make money from devices
as well as from the 'Comes With Music' service!'

Offering unlimited music downloads to phone buyers will make money for Nokia as well as record labels, the handset maker said, dismissing talk the move would come at the expense of profits.

"We expect to make money both from our traditional device sales, as well as from the 'Comes With Music' service," said Liz Schimel, head of Nokia's music business. "I can assure you that we are looking out for everyone's interests in creating these new business models, including our own."

The new music offering from Nokia, the first cellphone maker to push heavily into content, would differ from any other package on the market as users can keep all the music they have downloaded during the 12 months. Last week Nokia stru... .. .

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.:[ Nokia's Comes With Music Comes With Profit - full story ]:.