Google's drive for world domination around your country has been going nicely, judging from the fact that Street View just went live for virtually all the UK. Yes, every last track, every last estate road - it's all there in glorious technicolour on your smartphone. Google Maps for Mobile itself is available from the usual m.google.com/gmm and to see Street View you need to long tap on any location and pick 'Street View' from the pop-up menu.
GLOBAL - We can’t wait to see Symbian^3 running on handset as it’s looking set to boast some brilliant improvements over previous versions. We’ve already seen some UI demos of what the next generation of the OS will look like, but this week David Rivas, VP of Technology Management at Nokia, revealed some more in [...]
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It feels like only yesterday that the Nokia 7230 went up for pre-order over at Nokia Online and what’s this turning up on our doorstep? Why it’s the Nokia 7230 looking for a little attention. Join us after the break as we take a look inside the box..
The Nokia 7230 isn’t a smartphone, it’s very [...]
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The Nokia N900 has proved itself time and time again as a smartphone where the only limits are your own, with the latest clever application letting you turn this handset into a Wi-Fi hotspot. Unlike lots of hacks – such as the ability to install Mac OS X on the Nokia N900 – you won’t [...]
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For the third year in a row, Nokia’s Calling All Innovators contest is all about inspiring creativity and developing change. Inspiring creativity in the projects submitted by developers working on mobile applications and content for use on Nokia’s latest devices. Developing change in the ways we continue to think about how we use our mobile [...]
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7 winning widgets have now been made available for free download from Ovi Store. If you have a Nokia N97 – head on over to Ovi Store to download them straight away.
To get the monkey that claps the more Nokia is being mentioned, click here.
If you want the blackboard showing the most mentioned word [...]
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The Online as it happens competition continues and we are pleased to be able to announce the following two winning widgets.
Pavel Marius from Romania is a winner with this widget:
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The meat alphabet widget instantly allows you to keep track of who’s who and what’s what in the world of show business. Gathering the information from [...]
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The Nokia C5 is the first device set to be launched as part of the brand spanking new Nokia C Series but apart from a press shots no one has really seen what it looks like, until now that is. Want to know what the Nokia C5 looks like in detail, including up close against [...]
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According to zomgitscj.com, Emoze Pro now can be enjoyed for free. For your information, Emoze is a 3rd party of push email aggregator (that available before Nokia Messaging). While previously the Emoze Pro was not free, now you can get it, Emoze Pro without charge. For more information, just take a look at Emoze Blog [...]
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We’ve had access to the Nokia E72 in this country since November, and it’s turning out to be a fantastic little handset. With one of the best QWERTY keyboards available, and outstanding build quality, it’s a formidable package for corporate users. A slight update has been spotted, however, in the form of the Nokia E72i. [...]
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Is your phone working properly? We have no idea – its in your pocket, after all, not ours – but the chances are you may not know either. Sure, you can check the onscreen display to see if you have a 3G signal, or if the Internet is working and so on, but if you [...]
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The last year or so has seen one of the biggest changes in distributing mobile applications – the rise of the App Store. It has had a huge effect on all areas of development, especially in the gaming sector, which thrives on snack-sized gaming sessions. Here in San Francisco at the tenth Game Developer Conference (GDC), a number of sessions and panels have been specifically focussed on this new distribution channel. To call it a new channel though is a little bit short-sighted, given that stores have been around since the end of the twentieth century (such as Handango), and Nokia's N-Gage store is widely seen as the first mobile gaming app store for a single handset family. Read on...
Thanks to ZOMGitsCJ for the heads up on this great news. Youtube has now released a brand new Symbian Client, version, 2.4, and the long awaited sign in that we have been waiting for is finally here in this version, allowing you to sign into your Youtube account, offering more user focused control of your content, subscriptions, favorites, and more. Quote from Youtube Blog below..
In today’s release we have added search query suggestions, ‘My Account’ support, and a new homescreen user interface that is optimized for larger screens. Now when you log into your YouTube account on our phone, you can view your favorites, subscriptions and playlists from wherever you are.
Let’s say you have recently found an amazing basketball shot video and favorited it on your desktop PC. When you’re at the basketball court with your friends, all you need to do is launch the YouTube app and go to your “Favorites” to show it to them.
The Nokia C5-00 is mobile phone supporting quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900), dual band WCDMA (900/2100) and HSDPA/HSUPA (3.5G). Enjoy videos, music, and graphics on the 2.2” QVGA TFT display. Take photos with a 3.2-megapixel FullFocus (EDOF) camera. Additional features include integrated A-GPS and Ovi Maps 3.0, USB charging with simultaneous [...]
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Nokia is currently transforming itself from a hardware company to a hardware+services (solutions) company. At MWC 2010, we spoke to Tero Ojanperä, EVP of Services, in order to get an insight into current progress. Over a wide-ranging interview we cover a number of topics around Nokia's service strategy including how Ovi fits into Nokia's software platform strategy, the thought processes that led to free navigation, the importance of services compared to phone hardware, getting content onto the Ovi Store, the importance of partners and much more.
Google has rolled out a new version of its mobile YouTube client for S60 devices that brings the long-awaited end-user account support, improves performance and introduces several new feature.
YouTube Mobile Application allows you easily and quickly search and watch YouTube videos Nokia S60 phones wherever you are.
Of course, S60's web browser is good enough to browse both, mobile and desktop version of the YouTube, but a dedicated client simply offers easier manipulating and more rich experience. In today's release they have added search query suggestions, 'My Account' support, and a new homescreen user int... .. .
The YouTube Mobile client for S60 has gone through more versions than I've had flavours of ice cream recently, but at last the one we've all been waiting for has appeared. Version 2.4 has full support for YouTube favourites, plus search suggestions and a revamped layout on S60 5th Edition phones like the Nokia 5800.
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz has arrived for review, enabling me to start testing its unique HD autofocus camera. See below for an embedded version of my test footage, plus a little sunlight video taken in London by Sony Ericsson a few days ago. The good news: the video is excellent, the autofocus quick and silent; the bad news: audio's a little on the quiet side. Still, pretty astounding for such a small camera unit in such a small smartphone. See below.
Some say he plays tiddlywinks with 50p pieces. Some say he plays electric guitar secretly at 5am each morning. All we know is, he's called Ewan Spence. Part 2 of a series of short videos from Ewan is embedded below, along with some of his 'diary' commentary, as part of his gaming and blogging spring trip to San Francisco (GDC) and Austin (SXSW). Rafe set him a series of challenges.
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