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By Payam Dastmalchi on July 29th, 2009

ShoZu changes its business model; comes to Ovi store

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ShoZu, the social media hub, has today announced its availability from the Ovi store. The award wining photo sharing site allows consumer to enjoy one-click uploading of camera phone photos and videos to a growing list of over two dozen of today’s most popular web destinations including Flickr, Facebook, Youtube and Twitter.

The interesting thing about this announcement is that ShoZu which was previously available for S60 device owners for free, now has a one-time charge to new users downloading the application from the Ovi store. The charge does not affect any of the existing users but new users have to pay to play! ShoZu’s new strategy reflects the company’s decision not to sell advertising in order to support expanding demand for its service.

The ShoZu app for the OVI Store provides two-way interactivity with dozens of social networking sites, including real-time status updates and uploading high-resolution images and video. Other benefits include: uploading via Wi-Fi (for devices supporting Wi-Fi) for free and fast service; automatically continuing uploads in the event of service disruptions; and reducing download size to save users money if their data plan isn’t unlimited.

Users may download ShoZu’s mobile social media hub application for a one-off fee of €7 for the life of the Nokia handset, in line with Nokia’s commercial arrangement with content providers for the OVI Store. For those Symbian Series 60 users already using the application, ShoZu recommends they backup the application when they reset their device’s firmware so they don’t incur a fee to download the service again.

The service is initially available on all Series 60 Version 3 devices and the Nokia 5800 with support for the N97 device coming soon. A complete, frequently updated list of supported handset models is available at www.shozu.com and m.shozu.com.

The ShoZu mobile client is part of the ShoZu social media hub service. The ShoZu social media hub service is free for both existing and new users through picture messaging/(MMS), mobile e-mail, desktop e-mail and ShoZu Desktop, based on the Adobe Air platform, that works on both Macs and Windows PCs.

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By Payam Dastmalchi on June 11th, 2009

Coming Soon: Prestige Theme for S60 5th Edition

If you’ve ever used any of the themes from Tehk7 , you know the man is just full of talent and has a great deal of passion for what he does. He’s invested countless hours in desiging premium themes for Symbian devices and best of all, they are all available to download for FREE. His previous theme Prestige (Solace) for S60 3rd edition has been a big hit between the users and has made many people like myself become a fan of his art.

And now Tehk is hard at work re-developing the same Prestige theme for the 5th edition devices and making it available for Nokia 5800 and the newly release N97. The theme is not available to download yet but he released some sneak peak screenshots to get us all excited. For good reasons!

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I will make sure to update this post once the theme is available to public. In the meantime please head on over to Tehk7 site and check out his other work and make sure to donate to his efforts if you appreciate great art!

UPDATE: The theme is now available to download. Please download, donate and let us know what you think in the comments.

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By Payam Dastmalchi on June 03rd, 2009

Interview with Tom Ojala of JoikuSoft

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Oviapplications caught up this morning with Tom Ojala, Founder and Chairman of JoikuSoft, developers of popular JoikuSpot Symbian application.

Can you talk about JoikuSoft, your target market and how do mobile users benefit from your various products?

Joikusoft is a small Mobile Software company, founded in Finland 2007 and financed by its Founders. We focus 100% on developing innovative mobile software products and solutions for the S60 Smartphone platform.

Users benefit of our products as they do add rich new value-adding capabilities for the phone use. Our main product is called JOIKUSPOT which transforms a mobile phone into a 3G WiFi Router. People can connect their laptops or other WiFi devices to internet using their mobile phone’s 3G internet over WiFi. This practically replaces the need for carry-on USB dongles or Bluetooth/cable connectivity or costly WiFi access points of e.g. hotels/airports, and users also save money as they do not need additional subscriptions with their carriers. Their mobile phones SIM and data plan with their carrier is enough, and the only device they need is their Nokia phone for a “1 click internet access anywhere”.

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