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Nokia naming conventions
Nokia Conversations explains the naming conventions for Nokia Phones. The N series remains, which will have the flagship handsets, the X series will have devices that focus on social entertainment, the E series will continue to have devices for business and productivity and the C series represents the core range of devices.
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Nokia C5 Unveiled
Nokia unveiled the Nokia C5 handset today, as part of the new C series of handsets. The C5 is a S60 V3 phone with a 2.2″ QVGA screen, 3.2 MP Autofocus camera, HSDPA and A-GPS. It comes preloaded with the latest Ovi Maps, that includes free walk and drive navigation, and Nokia Messaging built it.
What sets the C5 apart, is that it’s a Social Networking centric device. You can view your friends...
Nokia Music to become Ovi Music
Just got this in the email today from Nokia Music. In the next week or so, Nokia Music India’s going to be part of Ovi Music. The good news about this move is that all the tracks you download will be DRM-free. This means that the tracks you download can be played on any device, not just Nokia phones.
This move may be in preparation of getting the Comes With Music program into India.
Here’s...
Skype for Symbian – Short Review
Skype announced yesterday that a beta version of their mobile application was available for most Symbian phones, including the v5 phones. I tried it out, for a short while and here is an initial review.
It’s a quick download from the mobile Skype site (actually it is around 5 mb). Once installed, it prompts you to either log in with your Skype ID, or you can create an account from the application...
N900 firmware update PR 1.1.1
Nokia has just released their latest firmware update for the Nokia N900. The new firmware version is v3.2010.02-8 (PR 1.1.1). You can get this through OTA updates and the download weighs in around 16MB. Apart from a few bug-fixes there are new features in this release.
When you install this application, make sure you’ve got 42MB free in your application install memory. If you don’t uninstall...
Some cool apps soon to hit your N900
Nokia Conversations has posted a video which shows some cool upcoming apps for the N900. The roller coaster game looks way too cool! Check ‘em out here:
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Market Analysis – Smart Phones
This news excerpt was tweeted by Lee M Williams of the Symbian Foundation
It shows the exponential growth Nokia has had in the Smart phone arena in the year 2009.
The report can the found at the link below
http://www.canalys.com/pr/2010/r2010021.html
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Symbian goes Open Source!
Everyone expected Symbian to go completely Open source sometime during the second quarter this year, so seeing the countdown on the Symbian site was a bit confusing.
The announcement came 4 months ahead of schedule, less than 20 months from the time of the initial announcement, the main objective being creating a mature and diverse open source community.
Symbian seems to be in a rather giving mood...
Ovi Maps – 1.4 Million Downloads!
It was only on the 21st of January this year that Nokia announced that Navigation for Ovi maps was going to be free for all its GPS enabled phones.
Within a week of the announcement Nokia announced that the Ovi maps had been downloaded 1 million times, and now the figure is up to 1.4 million!
Also, starting next month all new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will include the new version of Maps, pre-loaded...
More on Nokia’s Mobile Radar
There are some cool uses for Nokia’s Mobile Radar which can be incorporated in a mobile device, which they demoed recently. They showed an actual working radar on a modified version a N95 handset.
In the video shown below, you’ll see researcher Jani Ollikainen use his hand to adjust the music player’s volume, without ever touching the hardware. Even with an object in his way (like your pants...
