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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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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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.
Due to the new 7.1 version of the webkit browser shipping with the new S60v3 phones, the Ovi Store client did not work with these phones. The only option was to use the Ovi Store website. It worked, but it wasn’t as feature rich as the client. One would have expected Nokia to work on the client & release it sooner, but better late than never. When I checked the Ovi Store website sometime back, I was prompted to install the Ovi Store client.
Continue reading for the download links & screenshots.
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After the impressive Fissure & Shi themes, Tehk from Tehkseven Studios has been working on his next featured theme, Evo. We have got hold of the Evo (Bold) version for you. This theme should be available for purchase from their website in a few days time.
Read the full story for the screenshots to catch the theme in all its glory!
One of the features which should have set the Ovi Store apart from the other stores is the inclusion of Personalisation content such as Themes, Wallpapers & Ringtones along with Audio & Video content in the store itself. But what the people behind the store don’t seem to be understanding is that merely adding support or making provision for such content is not enough. They need to make it easier for artists & developers to get their content published and made available at the store. At present, the high cost of getting the content published to the store is the biggest barrier stopping the artists from getting their theme published to the store.
Starting today, we shall highlight a theme every week at our site. The theme could be a premium theme or even a free theme, but all the themes will be worth having on your phone.
The first theme to get highlighted is a premium theme by tehkSeven Studios called Fissure.
Read on for more details & screenshots.
