Category: OVI
Windows Phone Mango Review, Starring the Lumia 800
The amazing people at Nokia Connects were nice enough to send me a Lumia 800 to trial out for a while, so first off a shout out them for making this possible, they have some truly wonderful people working for them. Now a bit about the extent of my relationship with OSes other than Symbian/S^3, [...]
#N9Hacks: Dynamic Calendar Icon (App)
We brought you news about a dynamic calendar icon demoed on the Nokia N9, a few weeks back. It is fitting, now that there is an easy install for it, that I am including it as part of my N9Hacks series. The calendar icon resembles that of iOS, changing to display the current date. At [...]
Nokia Store Gets Nosy About What Version of S^3 Your Phone is Running.
Tom just tipped us that when selecting your mobile on the Nokia store after choosing a phone (under select your phone) you get a new pop-up as seen above that asks if you’re running Symbian Belle or Anna/Earlier. Interesting twist as Belle hasn’t seen daylight on any of the phones I tested this on (N8, C7, E7), [...]
Nokia X2-02- Dual Sim Mobile Phone Launches Today
Nokia’s strategy to “connect the next billion” is slowly but surely coming to fruition with the inclusion of the media-centric X2-02 handset in their wide device portfolio. It comes with Nokia’s very own Easy Swap Dual SIM technology and is loaded with dedicated Facebook and Twitter clients that you can directly launch from the home-screen [...]
Nokia Internet Radio now available for N9/N950
One of my favorite apps on my N8 is Nokia Internet Radio as it enables me to listen to games in the states (Go BULLS) while I’m halfway across the world in Jordan, worry not Meego users; as this app is now available for you too through the official Nokia store. Just head over to the link [...]
Nokia Maps Available on Nokia store (for Belle device only)
Nokia Maps (previously Ovi Maps) has just been released from the super amazing top secret beta labs over to Nokia store, Except it’s only for Belle devices!? When I tried downloading it over the PC with my phone set to ‘N8′ it said the application wasn’t available; however if you simply change your device to any [...]
‘Ovi Music Player’ becomes ‘Nokia Music Player’
I’m not sure how many of you actually use Nokia/Ovi music player but personally I use it transfer music to my phone as well as Metadeta collection for tracks. Overall it’s a ‘decent’ app in my opinion even though it does take ages to start-up, Nokia has pushed out a new update to version 2.5.11021 which [...]
Updated Nokia Store Look + Increase in Download Limit.
If you head over to http://store.nokia.com/ you’ll find that there’s been a couple changes to the layout, mainly moving all the categories to left side of the screen rather than having them cluttered up below the featured app. This new design does make it much simpler to navigate through the site and gives it a more professional look. However I [...]
Nokia Ovi store apps downloaded 160% more than iOS apps
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 [...]
Asphalt 6 HD: Symbian^3 and Android graphical comparison.
Hello fellow Mynokiablog readers! Today we present an honest (harsh?) video comparison of Asphalt 6! The nitty-gritty details can be found in the video description below. From MrNokiaTech: “NOTE: Gameloft “ported” Asphalt 6 to the Symbian^3 OS. It appears that they were not able to harness the power of the Broadcom GPU and [...]
Universal Search Beta
I know we have already brought you an article regarding Nokia Beta Labs’ new toy, Universal Search Beta. However, it was a closed trial (invite only). This still hasn’t changed, although i have come across a leaked installer of the new Search (2.39.176). I have been using it on my N8 (PR 1.2 – No [...]
How To: Re-Download the Ovi Store, for any reason!
Just an FYI/ Helpful tip for our Symbian friends. To anyone that has not received the new Ovi Store update or needs to re-download the Ovi Store for any reason, here is the link to the Ovi Store download: http://store.ovi.com/content/5406 I suggest bookmarking the link on your PC for future use. After clicking on the link, log into your [...]
Download Apps from Ovi Suite! Yes! Updated – Nokia Ovi Suite 3.1.1.40 Beta
Yesterday, Ovi Suite got an update that you can pick up over at Nokia Beta Labs. Apparently, it brings a MUUUCH awaited feature of app downloading from Ovi Suite. This would be really helpful for me as my current accommodation again is devoid of WiFi (from July onwards it won’t be so expect more frequent [...]
New CNN App for Symbian^3! Nokia and CNN collaborate to deliver mobile news and rich mapping!
From Nokia Conversations, The Official Nokia Blog: “GLOBAL – Today Nokia and news network CNN have announced plans for an international agreement which will see Nokia providing rich mapping services to the network. You may have already seen the first fruits of this collaboration when CNN used Nokia’s new 3D maps to show the route [...]
Nokia Trailers app out now in the Ovi store…..and boy does its look pretty
If you are a regular user of the Ovi store you will notice that trailers of new movies often appear there but downloading them is not that of a great experience. If you remember Nokia also made a big deal of Web TV when the Nokia N8 was first announced and promised new “channels” would appear [...]
Ovi Store Updated to version 2.06.00042!
Woke up this morning to emails from Adam, Sameer and Giorgos (plus a tweet from vishal400) to tell us that Ovi Store got an update! Yay!(email to tips@mynokiablog.com – my twitter is @jaymontano) You may have noticed it go down yesterday for a bit so this is why. I had barely just gotten up so [...]
Ovi Store higher revenues than Android Market
Some interesting numbers comparing the App Stores from Apple, BlackBerry, Nokia and Google. Interestingly, despite having 150,000 less apps than Android Market, Ovi Store is raking it in with 105 Million Dollars in revenue. That’s a 719.4% growth over the previous year Apple grew 131.9% in the same time frame (though with understandably huge revenues). [...]
Advantages to Nokia adopting Windows Phone 7
There have been a ton of negative comments from Nokia fanatics, me, enthusiasts or some general tech writers on the news and rumours that Nokia might announce a WIndows Phone 7 powered device to conquer the decreasing market share that Nokia is experiencing right now. So thought I might post up some advantages to Nokia [...]
Ovi Store Updated to 2.04.00038
I was wondering why Ovi Store was playing up on me yesterday late afternoon. Georgios has emailed us (tips@mynokiablog.com) that his Ovi Store had been updated to version 2.04.00038. You’ll have to update before proceeding any further with Ovi Store so there’s no missing this update. It’s just one button click update. If you’ve been [...]
Sparkle for Symbian^3
Odd title for a blog post but having watched a few videos of the game, i gotta say, name or not it’s worth a buy. Sparkle is a game much like Zuma where the objective is to fire coloured beads at a moving line of other beads in order to destroy it before it gets [...]
Update to Nokia Social App
The Social network integration app and service from Nokia just received one of a few planned updates for the year 2011. Minor here is the sticking point because the changelog indicates there will be little to assuage the frustrations of current users of the service. Changes include improvements to the contact card such that Facebook status’ are [...]
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