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Archive for January, 2010

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What on earth is happening Tomorrow on Thursday, 21st January 2010?! What's Nokia/Ovi got cooking?

What on earth is happening Tomorrow on Thursday, 21st January 2010?! What's Nokia/Ovi got cooking?

| January 20, 2010 | Reply

Advertisements As you may have undoubtedly heard, Nokia’s got something going on with Ovi on Thursday, 21st January 2010, 09:45am GMT. Events are being held in London, as well as NY, Moscow, Paris, Mexico City and Berlin with an invite looking like the one below: If you head over to http://events.nokia.com/countdown/ you’ll see a clock […]

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Engadget's Nokia N900 Review! Glorious browser – smacks everyone down in raw power and compatibility!

Engadget's Nokia N900 Review! Glorious browser – smacks everyone down in raw power and compatibility!

| January 19, 2010 | Reply

Engadget has often been mighty critical of Nokia. Sometimes undeservedly so, but most times unfortunately, their points against Nokia are indefensible. The main culprit for this negativity lies in S60. Whilst Symbian is a remarkably great mobile OS (still by far the most widely used platform), S60 is a now considered a cluttered and somewhat […]

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Video: Apps to improve N900's battery life: Simple Brightness app and 3G/2G selection applet

Video: Apps to improve N900's battery life: Simple Brightness app and 3G/2G selection applet

| January 19, 2010 | Reply

Demonstrated in the video are two applications that can indirectly improve your N900’s battery life. [YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjLIgzGG9ZQ]

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Maemo 5  v2.2009.51-1 firmware update observation and feedback

Maemo 5 v2.2009.51-1 firmware update observation and feedback

| January 18, 2010 | Reply

About a month ago, I wrote a post about firmware update wishlist for the N900. Last week, we had 2 firmware updates, a mini one and  a big one. I’ll combine the observations of both in this post. The new firmware updates seems to have solved a few items on that list including: 2. Portrait […]

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Video: How to: Uploading Photos and Videos to Twitter and YouTube directly from N900's Gallery and Camera App

Video: How to: Uploading Photos and Videos to Twitter and YouTube directly from N900's Gallery and Camera App

| January 17, 2010 | 7 Replies

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnreT5CKEOA] I’ve only started using Ovi Share on the N900 and I was surprised by how flawlessly it worked – find/take a picture/video, share, done. Maybe edit title/description tags along the way. Otherwise, it’s online in a few clicks. I wanted something like that for Twitter, as at the moment, it’s a little difficult to […]

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Video: The Phones Show Episode 100! Mythbusting special! (And a look at episode 1)

Video: The Phones Show Episode 100! Mythbusting special! (And a look at episode 1)

| January 17, 2010 | Reply

Huge congratulations to AllAboutSymbian’s Steve Litchfield whose The Phones Show (aka The Smartphones Show) has reached episode 100. Here’s to 100 more! The very first Smartphone show was released in 10th January 2006! Check out the Pilot Episode, Smartphones Show 1 . Though Steve was already a natural presenter, he’s really improved a lot since […]

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MyNokiaBlog Weekly Post Round Up (Ep 1): N900 firmware updates, X6 review and opening of Ovi Store for N900

MyNokiaBlog Weekly Post Round Up (Ep 1): N900 firmware updates, X6 review and opening of Ovi Store for N900

| January 16, 2010 | 4 Replies

This will be a new feature to highlight the posts from MyNokiaBlog.com  that have gone by each week. The first begins with posts from Sunday, January 10th up to Friday 15th January. This week includes: Hiren’s review of the Nokia X6, Mini and Big firmware upgrade of the N900, Ovi Store opened up for the […]

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N900: Quick fix for new firmware error: "Install using NSU"

N900: Quick fix for new firmware error: "Install using NSU"

| January 15, 2010 | 21 Replies

Hi guys, I have been sitting and waiting for my phone to say there is a new update and as some of you might know I finally got that message yesterday BUT then it said i cannot install, and I must do via NSU: I have been trying on NSU since yesterday (about 30 times) […]

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Games: Airport on the Nokia N900

Games: Airport on the Nokia N900

| January 15, 2010 | Reply

This is a really simple but quite a catchy game that’s free on the Ovi Store for the N900. It’s called “Airport”. Basically you’re an airport controller, and you have to safely guide the landing of the planes. You get two types of planes, the big commercial passenger plane and a small properller style. The […]

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