Advertisements
Advertisements

Archive for September 7th, 2011

Advertisements
Nokia “plans” to learn from HP’s WebOS failure

Nokia “plans” to learn from HP’s WebOS failure

| September 7, 2011 | 62 Replies

Advertisements   Nokia plans to “learn” lessons from HP’s spectacular mishaps with WebOS when it comes to trying to make their Windows Phone strategy a success. Gary Chan, head of ecosystem and developer experience at Nokia Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei, said that the decision by HP to discontinue its WebOS based hardware business is proof of […]

Read More

Nokia Ovi store apps downloaded 160% more than iOS apps

Nokia Ovi store apps downloaded 160% more than iOS apps

| September 7, 2011 | 48 Replies

Even though Apple might have the most propular App store on the planet it doesn’t necessarily guarantee amazing download numbers for developers according to market research firm  research2guidance based in Germany. According to them an average app in the Ovi store generates more downloads than an average app on Apple’s app store. Now we have been […]

Read More

Video: Photo Browser 2.0 demoed on Nokia N8, available at Ovi Store

Video: Photo Browser 2.0 demoed on Nokia N8, available at Ovi Store

| September 7, 2011 | 14 Replies

  Do you remember that cool looking app called Nokia Photo Browser? It made S60 and S60 5th devices look extremely modern with that cooliris like photo browsing experience. Camb078 from blog-n8.fr has a demo of Nokia Photo Browser 2.0 on the Nokia N8 which is available at Ovi Store. (Note: not from Nokia, but looks a lot like […]

Read More

Ovi Suite updated to 3.1.1.90 – fixes for calendar sync and device updates.

Ovi Suite updated to 3.1.1.90 – fixes for calendar sync and device updates.

| September 7, 2011 | 14 Replies

@nkumar_ tweeted that there’s an Ovi Suite update to 3.1.1.90. This replaces the 3.1.1.85 version if you were previously up to date. This roll out may be in series so you might not see it yet. I don’t have it. Nitish twitpic’d that screenshot above though so he’s got an update. This new version has: 1) […]

Read More

Nokia Sleeping Screen Updated: Install away from C drive to save space

Nokia Sleeping Screen Updated: Install away from C drive to save space

| September 7, 2011 | 11 Replies

Yash from zomgitscj reports that Nokia Beta Labs have released an update for their popular Sleep Screen App. You can now thankfully install it anywhere, which means AVOIDING C:Drive which is positively anaemic. Disk space is also saved as your own sleep screen images are compressed. http://betalabs.nokia.com/blog/2011/09/07/nokia-sleeping-screen-beta-updated-install-now-on-any-drive? Nokia Sleeping Screen can now be installed on any […]

Read More

CJ’s early look at the Nokia 600 and Symbian Belle (p)review

CJ’s early look at the Nokia 600 and Symbian Belle (p)review

| September 7, 2011 | 7 Replies

Warm up your scrolling finger as this is a big article from CJ. And it’s just a preview – not his usual ‘Ye Giant reviews”. ZOMGitsCJ, whilst a Nokia fan is also a multibrand mobile site so gives fair opinions on all things mobile. There are TONS of screenshots for you to check out in […]

Read More

Nokia Tune Remakes sounding awesome – selection of some good ones so far. #download

Nokia Tune Remakes sounding awesome – selection of some good ones so far. #download

| September 7, 2011 | 28 Replies

  Remember Nokia’s ReCreate the next Nokia Tune competition? You could win 10,000USD or even 1000USD as a runner up. Well I was looking at some of the submissions last night and they’re sounding awesome! BTW, If you know how, you can easily get the ringtones from here onto your Nokia :p There are over 500 […]

Read More

Flickr Apps at Ovi Store! FlickrPix Free for Symbian, QuickFlickr for N9 MeeGo-Harmattan!

Flickr Apps at Ovi Store! FlickrPix Free for Symbian, QuickFlickr for N9 MeeGo-Harmattan!

| September 7, 2011 | 6 Replies

  Searching for Flickr on Ovi Store came up with 24 results, none really providing proper flickr functionality. That’s a shame since Flickr is THE place for photo sharing, a world top 40 site says Alexa. For Symbian fans, Camb078 from blog-n8.fr has found an app you guys will definitely want to try out, called […]

Read More

v024.001 update for S^3? Beta Ovi Store Update??

v024.001 update for S^3? Beta Ovi Store Update??

| September 7, 2011 | 45 Replies

I read that this was just a regional variant for Anna and not an extra update but a few folks have contacted me to say they’re seeing an extra update on their S^3 phones called, “024.001”. This, I think, is via Ovi Suite. I thought it might be good to ask you guys as more […]

Read More