ust a quick heads up to you all. SPB Software has a sale going on at the Ovi Store! SPB TV & SPB Brain Evolution are both available at heavy discount from the Ovi Store.
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Last week, the Pro Series Golf N-Gage game’s page went offline and the downloads were pulled up from the Showroom leaving all the PSG owners stranded in case they wanted to re-install the game. But golf fans need not worry, as N-Gage is all set to get treated to another round of Golfing action with EA Sports™ Tiger Woods PGA Tour.
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Recently, Ewan explained “Why the Ovi Store is still total bollocks”. But he only carried one part of the story. The entire story is even more bollocks.
Read on for my take on why the Ovi Store is even more bollocks and the mess that was the Ovi Store & N86 compatibility.
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Fresh on the heels of the v20 firmware update for the N86, the Ovi Store client has also been updated for the N86. The version number of the latest update of the client available for download is 1.05(315). You can download the Ovi Store client for your N86 by visiting this link from your phone – Download Ovi Store client.
The N86 does it again. This phone simply doesn’t stop surprising me. This time what I stumbled upon is Time Lapse photography in the Camera on the N86. I’ll be reviewing the phone properly at length soon, but till then, I’ll be keeping these posts on the camera tests and new tweaks & features of the N86 coming in.
Continue reading for the screenshots & details on this new find.
N86 is Nokia’s first 8 Mega Pixel camera phone which made a leap not only in the mega pixel count, but also the camera optics & sensor as explained by Steve from AllAboutSymbian here – Quantifying the improvements in the Nokia N86’s camera.
A few days back, we brought you news about the new N86 firmware v20 update which packed in quite a few camera improvements according to the release notes. To check the “Improved Close-up Focus”, I went ahead and shot a few close up mode photos. The results are more than decent to say the least. I, personally, was stunned by the clarity of the shots & the crisp close ups.
Continue reading to check the photos for yourself.
Nokia N86 8MP has received the much awaited v20 firmware update bringing improvements to the camera including “Face Detection” as well as overall reliability improvements & bug fixes. This is a major firmware update & I would recommend all the N86 owners to update their phones without delay. Although the N86 supports UDP (User Data Preservation) meaning your data will be kept intact during the update, a backup never hurts and is always recommended.
Read the full story for the changelog as well as details on what all has been updated / changed.
Bought a new phone which came with Nokia Messaging integrated with the default messaging client for emails? You would have noticed that there is no direct access to Mail for Exchange client on these phones like on the other S60v3 phones. That is because Nokia has integrated the Mail for Exchange client with Nokia Messaging on the new S60v3 FP2 phones like the Nokia E75, Nokia E72, Nokia E55, Nokia E52, Nokia N86 8MP and Nokia 6710 Navigator. Due to this, users could not directly configure a Mail for Exchange profile for Google Contacts & Calendar syncing.
Read the full story for the detailed step by step guide on how to set up Google Sync on your phone.
At the Nokia World 2009, Nokia had announced the availability of Ovi Maps beta for mobile for the S60v5 Touch Screen phones. Till now, it was only available via the Nokia Betalabs.
Now, Ovi Maps beta for mobile is also available from the Ovi Store.
Ovi MapsBeta is compatible with the following Nokia devices:
To download Ovi Maps beta from the ovi store, visit this link – Download Ovi Maps beta. (Alternatively, you can also download the sis file directly from this link.)
Barely a few days since we brought you news that the Ovi Store client has been updated to support the new devices using the v7.xx of the Webkit browser, the guys over at All About Symbian are reporting that the ability to re-download purchased / already downloaded content is slowly starting to be rolled out. You can read more about this news at AAS.
This is certainly a welcome update and shows that the ovi store team is hard at work & is working on improving the ovi store experience. Yesterday, we also told you about the updated error messages in the ovi store. With the upcoming maintenance work at the store today & tomorrow, we can hopefully expect more updates rolling out soon. As always, we’ll keep you updated on whatever we come across.
