Nokia Conversations have posted up that they’ll be releasing updates to several Symbian 3.2 and 5.0 handsets. These are the Symbian phones before Symbian^3 (of which remember, Anna update for August for current customers) http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/06/29/updates-to-symbian-3-2-and-5-0/ What will we be getting? Anna Browser Well, first and foremost, amazingly, we’re getting the new Symbian Anna web [...]
Mirza sends this post into us on what is titled as “Hegazy Ultimate CFW” for the N97, which is said to be the fastest and best CFW for the N97. It features: faster menu navigation 6 widget spaces and more widgets S^3 style caller Swipe to unlock in landscape as well as portrait notification 1.05 [...]
When I first looked at the video, I wasn’t actually sure it was meant to be a phone app due to the mass of detail on screen but it is. And it’s for you, S60 5th Edition users. This is a drum machine - essentially what you’re doing is arranging a pattern of beats/instruments [...]
For Nokia 5800 and 5530 users here’s a custom firmware that brings Symbian^3/N8 styling and a few additional extras. Symbian^3 style dialler, Widget homescreen Lots of animation/UI transitions – e.g. portrait/landscape v smooth, moving back/forward in menu looks v. nice. Quite speedy (at most places, bit lag in others) File manager shows hidden files/folders Music [...]
At the start of the month, we heard about a new app in Beta Labs called SoundTrckr – an internet radio streaming app with access to over 8million fully licensed songs. Nokia Beta Labs have released some new updates including: Extended compatibility to S60 5th edition devices running on Java 2.1 beta available on Nokia [...]
Twitter user? Yes? Then here’s another great alternative to the almighty Gravity. This folks is “Trill”. It’s FREE at the Ovi Store and offers quite a lot of functionality and looks great too. (yup FREE. Load on as many handsets as you like at no charge) Fast start up. Loads all previous tweets. Very fast [...]
Air Hockey. You versus the phone as you try and score a goal with the virtual air lifted puck. First to 5 wins and each round goes to a higher level with slightly harder opponents. It’s really enjoyable (I love Air Hockey at arcades!) and great for those short distractions. It’s well worth a download. [...]
I think these games are S60 5th Edition unless they’ve been updated for Symbian^3 – either way both users will be able to download these apps from the Ovi Store. Sonic Jump Can’t seem to find it on Ovi Store but it was there. Tropical Towers Save the monkeys! Only you can help them [...]
Right, as battery meters and monitors go – they’re often quite boring, just telling you how much you have left by a visual indicator. If you’re lucky it might give an estimate in time remaining based on current usage. With the Nokia Battery Monitor, it really does monitor your power usage based on what [...]
I didn’t mean to do this comparison (Sorry for the mess on the wall) but on the early hours of the morning I was just checking video on N97 to run out its battery(to test out the Powermat wireless charger for review) and noticed that the N97 digital zoom and general video quality was sooo bad in comparison to [...]
“Everybody says, that Symbian^3 hasn’t changed, but look for yourself!” I’m surprised no such detailed comparison has been done. Actually planned to do it myself this weekend but caught up on coursework (which I’m half doing as I write this). But jenjaman has done an excellent job and split it into a four round match [...]
wolftongren‘s demoes on video a new ThinkChange app called Maze lock. Basically, if you’ve seen how Android phones unlocked with a predefined numeric key swipe, this is pretty much like that. This adds to the many styles of unlock you can now have for your Symbian phone including fingerprint scanner, face lock and slide to [...]
Here’s a video demo of a game called Cannon Ball on the Nokia N8. You can get it from the Ovi Store (in some places it may be free) but for UK it’s £1. I think it’s S60 5th Ed so it will work on N97/N97 mini/X6/5800/5230/5250/C6-00 etc. The Ultimate 111
Here’s a free app available on the Ovi Store that I’ll definitely be using on a day to day basis. It’s called Weight Tracker. As you can guess it tracks your weight. The interface is simple and easy to use. Basically each day, just turn the scale to your current weight, be it in lbs [...]
Next up is a 2 part US video review by Smartphoneenvy of the Nokia C6, the ‘budget’ version of the Nokia N97 mini. As noted in the video unboxing: C6-00 Tech specs C6-00 INFO Forum Nokia Carphone Warehouse UK still lists the Nokia C6 as coming soon Nokia Shop has the C6 available for £289. [...]
On my twitterfeed, @Sheridan01 mentionoed he was updating his N97. It wasn’t the wrongly publicised V30 that Nokia mistakingly said was available, but a new firmware update is available nonetheless, from v21.0.045 to v22.0.110. I did mine OTA, just hit *#0000# and update from there. It’ll take 5 minutes depending on your connection. Not checked [...]
An experimental app from Nokia Research Centre, Beta Labs allows the automatic splitting of your videos into key frames thus making it really easy to find the thumbnail of a particular scene and quickly jump to it, instead of having to aimlessly drag the seek bar. Whilst this would of course be useful for movies [...]
Based on the demographic of this blog, the last thing you’d expect to see is the parading of the tween hit books/movie series Twilight. But this time, the star of the show is not erm (imdb check), Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, or Taylor Lautner. It’s the Nokia Nuron! (Not that any of them are actually [...]
Symbian icons and fonts – does Nokia need to change them? (Did you also know that YOU can change both icons and fonts easily with themes?) Scroll at end or click here to vote at the poll The Nokia N8 received rapturous applause in its multimedia prowess and strength of design. The resounding notion was [...]
Following on from part 1, as a new addition to Jay’s team here, here’s a look at what the second half of the last decade looked like for me, in terms of Nokia devices and the evolution of their specifications. My upgrade opportunity in 2007 was well-timed for the arrival of the iconic N95. Until [...]
If I had to guess, I suggest that very few readers of this blog would expect to come across a low quality image of an old Psion Series 5mx at the top of an article. Of course, we should never forget that Symbian, at the heart of so many modern Nokia devices, has its roots in [...]
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