Archive for February, 2010
#Symbiangives:Over $5500 grand prize total to win and a bunch of other prizes with @Symbian on Twitter!
If you head over to www.symbian.org/symbiangives you’ll see that Symbian are giving away some prizes from today up to next Friday (Feb 19th). There’s gonna be a few prizes to win, as well as a grand prize total of over $5500. What do you need to do? Well follow @Symbian on twitter, and up until [...]
What would it take to bring you back to Symbian?
Perhaps you’re still a Nokia user who’s moved over to the greener Maemo 5 pastures, or strayed completely into the dens of other smartphone OS [iPhone/Android/WebOS/Windows?!/Blackberry?!?!]. Whatever the case, if you’re no longer using Symbian or know that your current Symbian handset is the last one you ever want to use: What would it take [...]
Video: Sony Ericsson Satio Vs Nokia N900 [Symbian Vs Maemo?]
YouTube user SpecialVideosHD has got the SE’s Satio and puts it against Nokia’s N900. Essentially, this is Symbian Vs Maemo for the OS part. N900 is wider, thicker. Satio is taller, slimmer. Whilst both having 3.5″ screens, the N900 in terms of area is bigger due to the ratio N900′s screen has much higher resolution [...]
Custom Laser Cut Acrylic and Wooden stands for the Nokia N900!
The Maemo Community isn’t just about software. From talk.maemo.org one of the users is creating custom cut stands for the N900! Now, the N900 already has a stand, but you might want to enhance the angle a little more. Plus, this one has a rest for the stylus, is more stable on both sides [you [...]
MyNokiaBlog Weekly Post Round Up (Ep 4): N97 V21 firmware update, Symbian fully open source and Golden Retrevo Award
This first week of February on MyNokiaBlog, we bookend with the Conversations app on the N900, showing you how to get more IM account to the default messenger app as well as the update which allows for facebook chat. But this week has really been all about Symbian, starting with the long awaited update for [...]
Facebook Chat for N900's inbuilt Conversations app.
On Sunday, we wrote about how to get additional Instant Messaging accounts to the N900′s built in messenger client. This was through the “Pidgin Protocols Plugin..”. The N900 only just now notified me of an update whereby now FaceBook chat is included. Facebook via conversations app was available a few days earlier but with extras-devel [...]
Updated Ovi Store App on the Nokia N97 Works Great! Accurate Search, more content, improved navigation and stability!
Last September, I ranted about my frustrations on the Ovi Store App on the N97 with the post, “Ovi Store Rant: 7 things wrong with the Ovi Store” These annoyances consisted of: 7. Inability to update Ovi Store app from the client itself [Ovi Store App updates itself now] There’s been at least three updates I [...]
Video: Tour of FireFox on the N900
Last Saturday, FireFox officially went out of Beta stage, ready for the masses [well N900 owners anyway] Below is a video tour showing you the great features on FireFox mobile for the Nokia N900 Awesome bar instant bookmarks Specific search engine search Open tabs on left browser controls on right awesome bar automatically stows away [...]
N900 free on a £25/month contract – £240 effective price. Unlocked, Unbranded, unlimited internet, plus free case. Best deals for the Nokia N900?
If you’re just after a N900, your cheapest bet might be going for the unlocked option. In the UK that would mean setting adrift £440-£499. Great if you’ve got that sort of cash lying around. Plus you’ve got to fork over extra for data/calls/text. I prefer the whole contract route. Yes you’re somewhat slightly tied [...]
![Big Push N900 Event at London tonight! [@PushN900 #PushN900]](http://mynokiablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/push-n900-150x150.jpg)
Big Push N900 Event at London tonight! [@PushN900 #PushN900]
Thursday’s Open Source/Nokia related news isn’t all about Symbian, there’s a taste of Maemo too! Back in September, Nokia announced the Push N900 initiative. What is PushN900? “It’s a unique project from Nokia. And we’re looking for help from the world’s most skilled designers, artists, hackers and modders. We want you to come up with [...]
New App: Diagnostics from Nokia Beta Labs
Nokia beta labs have churned out the latest application (currently only for S60 5th but hopefully more later), Nokia Diagnostics. From the official page: Nokia Diagnostics makes it easy to diagnose and troubleshoot situations on the mobile phone by running various tests on the phone, including: 1. Network Coverage test 2. Internet connectivity test 3. [...]
New i version of the 6303 classic to be launched
We have all seen the Nokia 6303 Classic, which was 1 of 2 branches (the other being the 6700) from the 6300 which was hugely popular phone for many reasons including the physical design and stable software, but not Nokia have decided to improve upon the 6303 and make the 6303i which boasts an improved [...]
New i version of the 6303 classic to be launched
We have all seen the Nokia 6303 Classic, which was 1 of 2 branches (the other being the 6700) from the 6300 which was hugely popular phone for many reasons including the physical design and stable software, but not Nokia have decided to improve upon the 6303 and make the 6303i which boasts an improved [...]
![World's number one mobile OS, Symbian becomes fully Open Source [#symbiancountdown]](http://mynokiablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sos-150x150.jpg)
World's number one mobile OS, Symbian becomes fully Open Source [#symbiancountdown]
The world’s most populous smartphone platform (330,000,000 shipped), Symbian, is now fully open source. Members of the foundation include Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. In 2008, Nokia bought the rest of Symbian for $410 million…. and then gave it away. In February 2009, Nokia received $630 [...]
WiiMote, Duke Nukem 3D and N900
Here’s a video showing Duke Nuken 3D being played on the N900…but the controls are a Wii Remote If you’ve got a Wii Remote and a N900 you wanna hook it up to, follow instructions on connecting the two below
Something Big with Symbian Tomorrow? #symbiancountdown at 12
This blogpost is brought to you by the letter S and the number 12. Last week, we saw the first of the #symbiancountdown, which was then at 108. It’s been randomly counting down and now it’s at 12. If you head over to countdown.symbian.org you’ll see a sesame street video attached (they’ve had ponies and [...]
Something Big with Symbian Tomorrow? #symbiancountdown at 12
This blogpost is brought to you by the letter S and the number 12. Last week, we saw the first of the #symbiancountdown, which was then at 108. It’s been randomly counting down and now it’s at 12. If you head over to countdown.symbian.org you’ll see a sesame street video attached (they’ve had ponies and [...]
Nokia Orion – Touch Screen Gaming Nokia Concept
It resembles a super slim Game Boy Advance, with a touch of E97 ‘clone‘; this concept called Orion by the Recombu guys is a dedicated Nokia gaming touch screen phone which relies on dedicated gaming keys as opposed to purely touch screen. The E97 part is the qwerty keyboard which appears behind the touch screen, [...]
Nokia to go to S^3 in Q3 of 2010 and not bother with S^2!
According to Digitimes from Taiwan, Nokia are not going to skip S^2 and just go ahead and release S^3 in Quarter 3 of 2010 due to the fast paced development of the OS. Things we are to expect are include gesture and multitouch support which will be great to use on handsets like the X6 [...]
N97 Failed Boot up/Hard Reset Problem Fixed by new firmware update V21.0.045?!
Seems the numeric reversal of V12 to V21 isn’t all that was reversed. The Hard Reset problem initially appearing with V12 – for me anyways – might now be gone! Thanks firmware update team! A hard reset maybe something you’ll need if you need if you need to: Wipe the phone memory (selling it on/sending [...]
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