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Category: Apps and Games

By Yash Maheshwari on September 05th, 2009

Nokia Messaging Updated with Improved HTML Performance

This is surprising. Nokia Email or Nokia Messaging (somebody please decide the name!) has been quietly updated, bringing the version number up to v9.6.12. Although the details about what has been updated or fixed are not know, the HTML email view has been updated it seems. The performance is better and it is much snappier now. The Gmail icon has also been updated.

Oh and to complicating the naming mess even more, the application is now called Nokia Messaging email. Yeah, email doesn’t not start with a capital “e”.

Read the full story for the screenshots showing what has been updated.

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By Yash Maheshwari on September 02nd, 2009

Nokia Messaging Expands to Social Messaging with the New Beta

The third software service announced at the Nokia World is the new Nokia Messaging with Social Messaging Beta available at the Nokia Betalabs. The new client is the start of what will become the multi-community social networking client, though currently it only supports Facebook.

Some of the highlights of this release are :

  • Contextual homescreen widget – jump directly into posts to comment
  • Post your thoughts and photos from the camera or gallery
  • Share your current location in a post or in a message using Ovi Maps; view friends’ location

    • For more details, introductory video & screenshots read on for the full story.

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    By Yash Maheshwari on September 02nd, 2009

    Ovi Maps with New Content & Services Arrives at the Betalabs for Touch Phones

    Another major services announcement at the Nokia World today was the launch of the Ovi Maps Beta for S60v5 (Touch Phones) at the Nokia Betalabs. This new beta brings with it a new starting screen giving you one touch access to a variety of new content and services from within Ovi Maps.

    Basically, What all is new in this release is :

    Weather – Get real-time weather information including a 5 day forecast for your current or any location found with the help of the Find places functionality.

    Michelin and Lonely Planet – Get dynamic access to premium editorial travel content for over 1000 destinations. Find thousands of listings for sights, restaurants, hotels, shops, nightlife, and more. Look these places up on the map, and get there with pedestrian and car navigation.

    Events – Check out the events on the map around your location or other places you have found with the help of the Find places functionality.

    Read on for more details, the introduction video & screenshots along with the download link.

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    By Yash Maheshwari on September 02nd, 2009

    Nokia Launches Ovi Lifecasting Beta to Help You Share Your Memories Instantly on Facebook

    During the Nokia World keynote speech today, Nokia announced and immediately made available the first beta of their new Ovi Lifecasting widget for the Nokia N97. This is an exclusive preview of a new Ovi service for the first early birds. Download the Ovi lifecasting widget NOW to make sure you are one of the first exclusive beta users!

    According to the Ovi Lifecasting page on Nokia Betalabs, here is an overview of what Ovi Lifecasting does.

    With Ovi, you can now keep your Facebook friends up to date where you are and what you are doing in a new way.
    Right from the home screen of your Nokia N97, you can lifecast the street address you are at, and your friends can see your location on a map. You can also share a meaningful location from the nearby places of interest or your favourite place that you have saved on Ovi MapsBeta. To show your friends what a great spot you are exploring, you can take a photo, and attach it to your Facebook post.

    To watch the Introduction video, screenshots & details on how to get Ovi Lifecasting, Read on for the details.

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    By Yash Maheshwari on August 31st, 2009

    Take a Free French Lesson with this Podcast from GoSpoken on Ovi Store

    As we have already mentioned, Ovi Store includes an “Audio & Video” section with sub categories for Audio, Video & Podcasts. Although the number of item in this section is not large, I found an interesting item under the Podcasts category.

    Titled “French I – 1st lesson”, This Podcast by GoSpoken is the Part 1 of the 5 Part Pimsleur Language Course for French language. Part 1 has been provided free of cost for Nokia phone users at the Ovi Store.

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    By Yash Maheshwari on August 27th, 2009

    10 Free Applications from the Ovi Store to Enhance your N97 Experience

    The Ovi Store has a great collection of commercial apps. But that does not mean that there are no free jewels in the store. Here are 10 applications, all free to download & use, for your Nokia N97 which will improve your experience of using the phone.

    From a fun way to browse photos to sharing your photos & videos instantly across all your social networks, Using your phone as a Compass while on treks, Recognizing the name of that track you can’t stop humming but yet have no clue about its title, the store has it all.

    Read on for the links & details..

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    By Payam Dastmalchi on August 26th, 2009

    First Augmented Reality App Comes to Symbian Devices

    This is an exciting news and something that I believe would be of interest to many of Symbian users. There has been a lot of buzz recently about Augmented Reality Apps. What is AR you ask? According to Wikipedia “AR is a term describing a live video stream of a real-world environment whose elements are supplemented with-, or augmented by Computer-generated imagery.“. There are currently several AR apps available in different platforms with Layar Reality Browser for Android being the most popular out there.

    And now it appears that Sequence Point Software from Spain have developed a Free AR app “ARound” for some of the S60 3rd and 5th edition phones. According to their website the application needs certain sensory in order to work so not all Symbian devices are supported. We don’t know much about the app and its capabilities but it available for download from their website so head on over and lets us know what you think.

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    By Yash Maheshwari on August 25th, 2009

    New Smartphoneware Apps Available in the Ovi Store

    Smartphoneware has been one of the few developers striving to make their applications available from the Ovi Store ever since the store was launched. Today, 6 more of their “Best” applications went live on the store, bringing their tally to 25 applications!

    The following softwares were released at the store today, in addition to the ones already available from the store here.

    1. Best Taskman

    “Running applications and tasks control, ability to substitute built-in system task manager or work along with it, ‘Windows Alt-Tab’ style task switcher, a unique way to access favorite applications (Quickstart), running processes control, and many more advanced functions to explore. Unlike built-in task switcher it tells you what programs exactly are running on your smartphone, where these programs reside, memory they consume and capabilities they use.“

    2. Best Jotter

    “Best Jotter allows you to write down quick notes, memos, ideas and any piece of information, organize it, and easily find at any time. You can keep your sensitive information as notes as well. Just set up a password in the application and Jotter will encrypt all your data. Additionally it’s possible to export notes to a text file that you can transfer to PC. The format of this file is very simple and you can edit the file in any text editor or Excel, transfer it back and import to Jotter.”

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    By Yash Maheshwari on August 24th, 2009

    Review : Nimbuzz – The one app to IM them all!

    I have been using Nimbuzz for the past few weeks, even before it was released on Ovi Store. I could very well finish the review in just one line, and still do justice to this excellent application. This is the “One app to IM them all”.

    Services :

    The first feature that strikes you is the number of services supported by Nimbuzz. It supports an impressive number of 15 communities for IM including the major ones like Windows Live, Yahoo, Facebook, Google Talk, AIM, MySpace, ICQ. Along with the communities, It also supports VoIP with over 14 SIP accounts, as well as an option to configure a custom SIP account.

    Chat :

    Once your accounts are configured, you reach the contact list. The contact list in Nimbuzz is a single list showing your contacts from all the configured services alphabetically. Which means you no longer have you switch between services / apps to check on which service a friend of yours has come online. All your contacts, irrespective of the service, show up in a single list. Perfect.

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    By Yash Maheshwari on August 24th, 2009

    Nimbuzz, the multi service messenger app, buzzes into Ovi Store

    Slowly, but steadily, the application line up of Ovi Store is improving with quality apps releasing in the store.

    After Palringo & EQO messenger apps, it is now the turn of Nimbuzz to hit the Ovi Store.

    Nimbuzz is a multi service IM & VoIP application supporting all the major IM services from Windows Live, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, MySpace, ICQ, AIM and many more. Along with IM services, it also supports a host of SIP accounts enabling you to make cheaper VoIP calls.

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