08 February 2010

Nokia Plans To Develop Salo Plant Operating
Mode To Further Increase Production Speed And Efficiency For A Growing Smartphone Market

Nokia is planning to develop the operating mode of its Salo plant to ensure production is focused fully on the high-value smartphone market, especially in Europe. The key drivers for a new operating mode in Salo plant are diverse customer requirements, faster deliveries in high-end mobile device manufacturing and the company's transformation towards a solution-driven offering.

The plans will result in the introduction of new and highly specialized manufacturing methods and also entail changes to personnel at the facility.

The planned new focus for Salo is expected to affect a maximum of 285 employees involved in produc... .. .

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08 February 2010

Eamex's Technology Boosts
Lithium-Ion Battery Life To 20 Years

For years we've been promised about super fast charging and longer-lasting batteries that will liberate using of mobile devices, but unfortunately none have materialized onto the market and despite rapid progress in technology, dry cell batteries have not progressed much beyond alkaline battery introduced more than a forty years ago.

Just as you can never be too rich or too pretty, you'll never complain about a battery that lasts too long and despite disappointments with so many 'breakthroughs' in batteries technology over the years there are several new developments could be about to come to the rescue and make batteries more efficient and last longer!

Thankfully, it would seem that Japanese company Eamex have found a new way to increase the typical aver... .. .

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.:[ Lithium-Ion Battery Life Could Reach 20 Years - full story ]:.

05 February 2010

User Review:
My Non-Tech Girls View Of The N97 Mini

After years of using Sony Ericsson I decide it was time to go back to Nokia for my next phone. I finally got my hands on a N97 after months of drooling over it on the internet, only to be so disappointed with it I sold it after just 2 weeks of using it.

Its downfall was the plastic feel, bad keyboard layout and awful memory management not to mention the out the box software. For me this put a massive dent in my confidence with Nokia and swayed me back towards looking at Sony Ericsson again for my next phone.

Then I heard about the N97 Mini and people reporting it was so much better than the N97, but I wasn’t convinced so when I got the chance to trial the N97 Mini courtesy of wom... .. .

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04 February 2010

Keep Your Smartphone
In Top Form With RAMblow S60

Despite the fact that smartphones are trying to push into the ultra-portable computers realm we're still constantly reminded of the pure limitations of the current hardware.

With lesser amount of free RAM, a smartphone can slow down considerably and can even forcefully close running applications without any warning.

One good workaround for this issue would be to use phone's available resources more effectively, and that's where the little, but powerful application with equally fierce name co... .. .

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04 February 2010

Faster Access To Relevant Content
With New Content Sorting For Ovi Store

Just to briefly let you know about new Ovi Store application and update on the most recent enhancements to Ovi Store Service that went out yesterday.

Focus with this release is to provide you a faster and easier way to sort through the Store content catalogue.

Starting with this new release, you will notice the sorting options as you navigate through the store. These sorting options, “Top Free”, “Best Sellers”, and “New” will make it fas... .. .

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04 February 2010

Nokia Diagnostics: New Experimental Troubleshooting Application From Beta Labs

The good folks over at Nokia Beta labs have just introduced a new experimental application called Nokia Diagnostics.

The main intention behind creating this experimental software is to create a solution for helping millions of Nokia users diagnose, troubleshoot, and configure their devices with ease on their own.

Beta lab’s developers believe that exposing this idea to the Beta Labs community and sharing this application prototype would help them realise just that. With Nokia Diagn... .. .

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04 February 2010

NAM Variant Of The SE
Vivaz Gets The FCC's Green Light!

According to documents that appeared on the US Federal Communications Commission's Web site Sony Ericsson has received regulatory approval to start selling its 5th Ed Smartphone that makes it easy to catch life in high quality video using its 8MPX camera!

Such approval is required before a wireless device can be sold to consumers in the United States and if nothing else FCC approval is always a good sign that phone is on the way and indicates that it will be released for US markets soon!!

As usually, the FCC pages shows nothing new, just confirms already very well known facts about this powerful ima... .. .

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.:[ Sony Ericsson Gets The FCC Approval For Vivaz - full story ]:.

04 February 2010

Symbian Goes Completely Open
Source 4 Months Earlier Than Planned!

The transition process is over and the whole source code behind more than a ten-year old Symbian OS is 100% open source and is expected to be offered for free through Symbian developer page starting today.

“The dominant operating system provider out there is Symbian,” says Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation, “and now we are offering developers the ability to do so much more.”

The transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history, claims the Symbian Foundation. Transition process has been completed four mont... .. .

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03 February 2010

Minor Firmware Update For
Nokia X6 Available As FOTA Update!

I just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up that Nokia has rolled out minor firmware update for its first capacitive touchscreen smartphone.

Firmware version 12.0.091 for Nokia X6 is now available as 'Over The Air' update for most of the generic product codes and should be shortly available through Nokia Software Updater as well.

Unfortunately, I still didn’t manage to get the change log but as you would imagine, the firmware update is always recommended as it usually brings improvements in performance and optimizes the functionality of the phone across ma... .. .

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.:[ Minor Firmware Update For Nokia X6 Available - full story ]:.

03 February 2010

New Ovi Maps With Free Navigation
Races Past 1 Million Downloads In A Week

Nokia has today announced that since the 21 January 2010 launch of the new version of Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation, there have been over 1.4 million downloads. The one million mark was reached just one week after the launch.

"We're averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day," said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia. "When we announced free walk & drive navigation we knew it would be a game-changer.

The number of people now using their Nokia for navigation, and as a result looking for more location-aware software, is growing faster than even we predicted." The success of the ne... .. .

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.:[ 1 Million Downloads In A Week - full story ]:.

03 February 2010

First Nokia's Location
Based Game Now In Ovi Store

Today Greystripe, the leading mobile rich media- advertising network, announced ad network support for Nokia’s Ovi App Store. Although Greystripe has supported hundreds of millions of Java downloads, this is the first time they will be supporting apps in the Ovi store.

Greystripe is beginning to migrate 1,200 Gamejump.com Java titles into the Ovi App Store. With this announcement, Greystripe now supports the top three smartphone marketplaces: the iPhone App Store, the Android Marketplace, and Nokia’s Ovi App Store.

The Ovi Store is designed to be an evolving media service that consolidates Nokia’s existing services into a one-stop-shop for free and paid content. In May of last year, th... .. .

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02 February 2010

First Nokia's Location
Based Game Now In Ovi Store

With Ovi Maps Racing, the first location-based mobile game by Nokia, players can navigate and access their location, create a track and race around the block.

Utilizing actual map data by NAVTEQ and the GPS technology of the mobile device, Ovi Maps Racing allows players to create a racing track out of their own physical location, whether at home or in the office *). Racing is experienced with easy and enjoyable touch controls and there are three racing cars to choose from.

Developed by RedLynx, a leading developer of connected games for handheld consoles and mobile pho... .. .

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02 February 2010

Nokia To Skip Symbian S^2
To S^3 In The Third Quarter Of 2010

According to Digitimes, Finnish mobile phone giant plans to radically speed up the development of the new Symbian Foundation’s platform by jumping over the second version to offer version 3 with full multi-touch and gestures support that enables user interaction with more than one finger, and combines sequential touch inputs to a 'gesture'.

The main benefits of this new functionality will allows users to interact with applications in better ways, simplifying finger-based interaction with UI components, allowing common basic gestures and multi-touch gestures as well as enabling extensibility.

General manager of Nokia Taiwan, Michael Hsu, also confirmed t that development process of the next gen Sy... .. .

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.:[ Nokia To Skip Symbian S^2 And Offer S^3 In 3Q10 - full story ]:.

01 February 2010

Nokia Custom Dictionary
New App From Nokia Beta Labs

In an attempt to address to address the wish that many S60 users have had, the good folks over at Nokia Beta Labs have just released the first public version of Nokia Custom Dictionary application to gather feedback from those early users in order to further improve and lunch the full functional version as soon as possible and make the application more broadly available.

Nokia Custom Dictionary is an experimental application currently offering you the chance to edit the list of words used by the phone for text prediction and transfer it between phones as well as import list of words from a text file. This means you can quickly “teach” your phone commonly used words or even cre... .. .

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.:[ Predictive Text Editor For S60 Devices - full story ]:.

31 January 2010

New Firmware Update For N97
May Arrive As Soon As Tomorrow!

The Nokia N97, company’s flagship Symbian is to get a software update over the coming couple of days that is set to fix numerous issues the phone is currently suffering from, as well as improve browser, add smoother scrolling, better image manipulation and introduce dozens of bug fixes and further optimize functionality and stability of the phone.

The firmware version 21.0.xxx will be progressively available for most of the generic product codes through Nokia Software Updater and is expected to be available as quick over-the-air update as well. Since the v20 firmware the Nokia N97 beca... .. .

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29 January 2010

MuskokaTech Releases
PathAway GPS 5 for Symbian Smartphones

MuskokaTech; a leading provider of GPS Navigation and Tracking Software for mobile devices and smartphones, have announced the release of PathAway GPS 5 for Symbian™ handhelds. Since 2000 PathAway has been a productive GPS tool on multiple mobile platforms and has now most recently been delivered on the Symbian platform.

PathAway is an all-purpose GPS software application for recreational and professional use. Key features of PathAway for Symbian include the ability to create customized navigational maps via PathAway tools or 3rd party sources; perform extensive GPS track logging and point capture; navigate using multi-point ro... .. .

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27 January 2010

Free Walk & Drive Navigation
Now Available For Nokia N97 Owners

Nokia has pleasantly surprised us here at Symbian Freak today by announcing availability of the latest Ovi Maps Client with free walk & drive navigation for life!

This new version of Ovi Maps requires the latest available firmware so update can be downloaded only by N97 users who have already installed phone software version 2.0.x.

To get the software and free navigation just run the built-in software update client which is located inside the Applications Folder and choose the new Ovi Maps from the list. In case you still didn't get the latest firmware you can read more about here and upd... .. .

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.:[ Free Ovi Maps Navigation Now Available For Nokia N97 - full story ]:.

27 January 2010

Android To Grab 2nd Spot By 2013
Symbian To Keep Its Leading Position!

By 2013, IDC forecasts that worldwide shipments of converged mobile devices, also known as smartphones, will surpass 390 million units, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.9% for the 2009–2013 forecast period. Underpinning the converged mobile device market is the constantly shifting mobile operating system (OS) landscape.

In a market that was once dominated by a handful of pioneers, such as BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile, newcomers touting open standards (Android) and intuitive design and navigation (Mac OS X and webOS) have garnered strong end-use... .. .

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27 January 2010

Nokia Research Center
Unveils Mobile Radar Concept

Nokia Research Center (NRC) Helsinki today unveiled a new research concept at Demo House 2010 research exhibition in Espoo, Finland.

The mobile radar demonstration shows how a mobile device can use an active radar sensor to measure speed and the direction of movement of approaching objects, just as traditional RADAR would.

It uses electromagnetic waves to provide a different type of mobile wireless sensing. This research concept could enable new ways for users to interact with their device, for example via gesture control. It also opens the door for the creati... .. .

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.:[ Nokia's Mobile Radar Concept - full story ]:.

27 January 2010

Daily App Blog Q&A
Meet-up On the 27 th of January

Hi Guys & Gals! Just wanted to inform you I'll be taking part in the Daily App Blog Q&A session with Robin Jewsbury, who's the co-founder of Mippin, as well as EyeMags.

The session will be held in WomWorld/Nokia office at 6.30pm (GMT) on Wednesday, the 27th of January.

It's not going to take long (40-50 min), but it be should fun little chat with a well established developer and 4 other bloggers, plus the whole thing is supposed to be filmed and posted on Daily App Blog for everyone to watch. Now you might ha... .. .

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26 January 2010

New Cheaper Variant Of Nokia X6
Comes Without Music and With 16GB Less

At the last year's Nokia World conference in Stuttgart, Finnish mobile phone giant has released its first Xseries branded device that combines 32 GB of on-board memory, 3.2-inch finger touch interface, and 16:9 widescreen display optimised for photos, videos and browsing.

Nokia X6 is company's first in several categories, beside being Nokia first-ever phone equipped with a capacitive touchscreen, Nokia X6 is also first Nokia's device exclusively available in combination with 'Comes With Music' service that offers a full year of unlimited music downloads but also significantly increase the price and force users to pick up the Nokia music off... .. .

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.:[ Cheaper 16GB Variant Of Nokia X6 Without CWM - full story ]:.

26 January 2010

HipLogic Live Gives Your Smartphone
a Real-Time Web-Connected Interface

HipLogic, Inc., today announced the launch of HipLogic Live, a free download that redefines the way consumers experience content on their mobile phones. HipLogic Live enhances standard user interfaces (UI’s), delivering today’s most popular content including Facebook, Twitter, CBS news, CBS sports, weather, and entertainment through a web-connected, always-on interface.

How it works: HipLogic Live gives Windows Mobile and Symbian devices an ‘extreme makeover,’ allowing users to simply toggle between the original mobile operating system and an always-on interface for instant access to the web and apps. HipLogic delivers an iPhone like experience to mobile pho... .. .

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25 January 2010

IBM Delivers Enterprise
Secure Mail for Symbian Devices

IBM today announced a major expansion of IBM Lotus collaboration software and delivery of enterprise secure mail for Symbian smartphones.

"We believe IBM has taken a leadership position in providing the broadest mail and collaboration support for mobile devices," said Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president, messaging and collaboration, IBM.

General Motors (GM) is playing an innovative role in extending mobile collaboration into the automotive industry. Recently, GM's Chevrolet and OnStar unveiled the auto industry's first smartphone application that will allow Chevrolet Volt owners 24/7 connectivity and control of vehicle functions and OnStar featu... .. .

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.:[ Enterprise Secure Mail for Symbian Devices - full story ]:.