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Archive for July 12th, 2009

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How to: Calibrating the Nokia N97's compass in 3 seconds.

How to: Calibrating the Nokia N97's compass in 3 seconds.

| July 12, 2009 | Reply

Advertisements The Nokia N97 has a compass mainly for rotating your maps to align with the roads/surroundings as you turn your phone. It doesn’t rotate instantly towards north like a real compass – and so, needs a bit of calibration, which according to the manual, the method is to swing your phone in an 8-shape […]

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Freeware: UK Rail – Train Timetables for your Nokia N97, 5800, Samsung i8910 and other S60 5th Edition Phone

Freeware: UK Rail – Train Timetables for your Nokia N97, 5800, Samsung i8910 and other S60 5th Edition Phone

| July 12, 2009 | 4 Replies

This application is a must have for anyone who travels frequently (or at all) on a train. Whenever I needed to travel by train, I used to go to www.thetrainline.com. You can access it from your S60 browser directly or you can choose the mobile version, m.thetrainline.com, which is more economic on the data and […]

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Two thumb typing on the Nokia N97 (or lack of)

Two thumb typing on the Nokia N97 (or lack of)

| July 12, 2009 | Reply

The Nokia N97, if you take the time to get accustomed to it, has a pretty decent physical QWERTY keyboard. However, there are times that I need to use the onscreen alphanumeric keypad, like when I’ve only got one free hand or if I simply just want to text with the phone closed. The latter […]

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