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Nokia rated India’s Most Trusted Brand yet again.
Nokia has been rated the most trusted brand in India for the third year in a row now. It’s not the media or a “mysterious” organization which rated them on top, but consumers (translated as, people like you and me) themselves during a survey.
This doesn’t mean that Nokia can stop improving, they still have to go a long improving Customer support here in India. Even though...
Swype for Symbian now in Beta
Hey Symbian users, Swype is gonna hit your Nokia phones pretty soon. Android users have been using Swype keyboards on their devices for quite sometime now. I use it on my Android devices, and Swype much faster than I can type using the touchscreen.
What’s Swype, you ask?
Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the...
Nokia’s Care gets social through Twitter
Nokia has gone a step further into the social cloud by offering support through Twitter. They started up a twitter account this week @NokiaHelps, and have asked you to get in touch with them with your Nokia problems. If you’re in the US, follow the US Nokia Care team over at @NokiaCareUS.
If you’re not the type to scroll through pages and pages of forums and need some quick help, get on...
Nokia Annouces the 5250
Nokia today announced the new 5250 phone, through a post at Nokia Conversions. The 5250 is yet another budget phone from the Nokia stables featuring a touch screen, runs on Symbian^1 and is targeted at the music crowd with a bundled subscription to Ovi Music unlimited and a built in FM receiver.
There’s not much storage on the phone, but it’s expandable using a MicroSD card. Nokia claims...
Theme: Earth by Pizero
This is a free theme from Pizero, which is compatible with S60 v3 and Symbian^1 devices. You can get this theme free from Ovi Store. If you are surfing from your phone, the Ovi Store link for this theme is store.ovi.com/content/26177, or just search for Earth by Pizero in the Ovi Store app.
This free theme is a lite version with the default icon-set, but if you like this theme and would like to...
Nokia acquires Analytics Company Motally
In their press release today, Nokia announced that they are going to acquire Motally, a company which provides mobile analytic service. Motally’s not a big company, but has just a 8 member team. It’s their technology which can be embedded in mobile applications for tracking demography and usage, which Nokia plans to use.
Nokia plans to use Motally’s technology to enhance developer...
Nokia debuts X3 with ‘Touch and Type’
Nokia has just announced the launch of their latest device, the X3. This device features a touch screen as well as a regular 12 button phone keypad, giving users best of both worlds. This is also aimed at the budget market with an indicative cost of €125 (around Rs. 7500) excluding taxes.
The X3 runs an updated Symbian Series 40 OS and features both 3G and WiFi connectivity. Other key features of...
Sports Tracker get a new Site and App
For those of you who were fans of the Nokia Sports Tracker Beta app, which was discontinued in June, here’s some good news. Sports Tracker now has it’s own site over at www.sports-tracker.com and a new app on Ovi Store. Sign up for the new service before August 30th and you get to import all your older data from your old Nokia Sports Tracker account over to this one.
If you haven’t...
Contest: Win a Nokia phone Every Week in August from Ovi
The Ovi Store team is giving away a Nokia device every week this month. The winner gets to choose the device from a list of Nokia devices – 5228,5233, X2, X3 and the X6. All you need to do to enter the contest is to register for an Ovi account, if you don’t already have one, and answer the Weekly Question.
Head over to the Ovi Promotions site at promotions.ovi.com to get more details...
Previewing the Nokia N8
Thanks to the Nokia India team, we were taken to Delhi last Friday to preview the upcoming Nokia N8 device before it is launched in India. Here’s a quick profile of the device along with snaps we were able to take of the N8 while we played around with it. If you want to take a look at a bigger version of these pictures, just click on them to get the bigger versions. Rather than go into a detailed...