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The guys at Nokia Beta labs, responsible for the awesome “Nokia Bots” and ”Nokia Conversations” widgets and the “Photo Browser” application currently available in the Ovi Store have released a beta version of the text input program “Swype”. The Swype apps is available at the following link. Swype aims to significantly speed up text entry on touchscreen, button-less devices and is available on multiple platforms. Go give it a whirl and leave your feedback both here and at the Beta Labs page. Help them make a better product for us users will ya!

Currently available for the Nokia N97, N97mini, X6, 5800, and 5230

Video of Swype in action below.

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Stumbled across this video on dailymobile showing an upgraded pixelpipe application with the ability to upload not just pictures and videos to a variety of online services  such as picasa and facebook but also regular files such as PDF’s to dropbox accounts.

Give it a look!

P.S. No information on the size of the files that can be uploaded using pixel pipe.

Could one upload full HD videos to youtube this way?!

The Nokia C7 has been leaked again in an what looks like a genuine feature in a Hong Kong IT magazine called “Hi-Tech Weekly” issue 615:

Looks like the Nokia C7 is very close to launch since they are already making ads for it. As you can see it runs Symbian 3 it has a 3.3 inch multitouch display.

Key features:

• Symbian 3 OS
• 3.3 inch multitouch display
• Resolution of 640 x 360
• 3.5mm head jack
• microUSB
• 8 Megapixel autofocus camera with HD video recording
• Wi-Fi and GPS will probably be included

According to Fonearena it already has been handled by people and they say the device is easy to use and quite fast which is nice to hear.

My opinion on this is if this is so close to release which it is considering that they are already making ads for, that means the N8 should be available in August now thats just my speculation.

My personal opinion on this phone is that there are a ton of features that would make most high end smartphones cringe and considering this is a mid range smartphone is should be solid device for the average consumer

What do you think are you looking forward to this phone, let us know in the comments

Thanks to Amanda for the heads up

via unwiredview.com

via Fonearena

Over in the mobile-review forums I stumbled across a post by a user named quagmire (giggity! ) who posted a few links to photos on flickr that were shot with the Nokia N8 (supposedly).

Although I’ll remain a skeptic ( ’til I have the N8 in my own hands!!) , the pictures that were linked are from the same user who posted a number of other N8 sample pictures a few weeks back. Below is a small gallery of the pictures taken and a link to the flickr user’s page.

[Update by Jay. These are Nokia N8 photos as marked by flickr. We've previously covered apyykko's photos in another post a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/88916251@N00/

Sound off in the comments!

Having just read a short excerpt written on Nokia’s official blog by the current head of Nokia’s Mobile Services division Anssi Vanjoki, I felt it necessary to share it with you guys.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/02/the-fightback-starts-now/

I think it speaks for itself where Nokia regard their position in the market and the situation they currently face. I’ll say this much though, I like him a LOT more than OPK. Brutally honest, open-minded and very much aware of the issues with their company, their products and their perception unlike other executives *cough* Steve Jobs *cough*.

Read on and sound off in the comments, would love to hear what you guys think.

Thanks kaiwangaila for the heads up.

The ever so popular Eldar Murtizan published his frankly ridiculously long review of the Symbian 3 OS that will be powering the Nokia N8 which you can read here. You have to give it to him despite his frankly hatred for Nokia he has written a long review on Symbian 3 which I bet you won’t find anywhere else.

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Jeremy Clarkson, the refreshing loud mouth presenter of BBC’s hit “Top Gear”, is frustrated with the vast choice of high-tech mobile phones as not a single one simply does what he needs: be a phone. You know, one for talking?

He does highlight one of my major gripes about convergence device: Battery Life!

“What I want is a mobile phone with a battery that lasts for more than six seconds. This means no colour screen. A colour screen uses more electricity than the Pentagon “

It’s understandable that not everyone will want or even need cameras/mp3 players/internet on their phone, but for the world where convenience and saving time is of the utmost importance, convergence is the way forward. As long as the manufacturers give us enough battery life to even make use of their “all-in-one” solutions, otherwise as Clarkson rightly puts it:

“It will become a device of such mind-boggling complexity that you will be lost and its battery will be flat anyway“

Read the full article on timesonline.co.uk

P.S. for simple calls/text only phones, try out the Nokia 2310.