Following up from user feedback, the team behind Nokia Messaging for Social Networks has released a second beta of the application. Improvements in the handling for both Twitter and Facebook are included, plus support for S40 based devices. You can download from the site, but caveat emporer, this is clearly a beta and will have rough edges.

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Towards the end of last month, I told you all about the Nokia Service, Point & Find finally going Live in the UK.  The guys over at Nokia Conversations have now actually put this service to the test in the real world, armed with a trusty Nokia N95, loaded up with Nokia's Point & Find application, the Nokia Conversations team headed to Colchester where the service has been live for a couple of weeks or so now.  This is what they got up to..

Scanning for treasure
Arriving in Colchester, we soon came across one of the Point & Find enabled bus shelters, replete with the set of scannable icons (pictured below)

Pictured: From left to right, Download Nokia Point & Find, Local news (BBC news and sport), Entertainment (cinemas, theatre, clubs, bars), Eating (restaurants, pubs, fast food), Shopping (stores and supermarkets), Info (about town, such as nearest ATM), Travel (local taxis, train times, parking and hotel booking).

The team thought they’d start with the basics, and tried scanning this series of icons(above) using the Point & Find app. Once you’ve opened the app and entered the ‘Here and Now’ mode, you’re screen acts a a simple viewfinder, much like if you’d expect when taking a regular photo. They then began with the orange News icon. Holding their N95 phone far away enough from the icon so it filled the viewfinder was enough for the Point & Find app to recognize it, resulting in the relevant location-based info being sent to the N95 within moments.

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The calculator genre has been a popular one in all handheld and phone ecosystems over the years. Here I look at TouchCalc Lite, a recent addition to the genre explicitly for S60 5th Edition phones, finding that an austere interface hides an evaluation engine which is surprisingly powerful.

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The Nokia X6 16GB is coming and it looks like Vodafone will be offering the new version of this knock-out music phone first. How do we know, well the pre-order page has just been updated on the company’s website. Find out how to get your hands on the Nokia X6 16GB from Vodafone after the [...] Related posts:

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Over the past couple of years Nokia has become famed for the camera quality on smartphones such as the Nokia N95 and Nokia 5800, helped no doubt by the Carl Zeiss optics. Nokia has taken this to the next step, however, and created an entire music video for the Noisettes using just Nokia smartphones. Find [...] Related posts:

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As you may already know, for the first time we have been running the 'Member Of The Year' competition during January to find the person who have done remarkably a lot to make this site stand where it is.

We have also offered some really cool prizes for the first SF's Member Of The Year as well as for the voters and now we are truly pleased to announce the lucky winners and send out prizes!

This contest was created with the hope of establishing a bridge between the new and "experienced, well-established members". We are truly grateful for all the votes we rece... .. .

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COLCHESTER, England – Nokia Point & Find has generated a bunch of interest here on Conversations in recent months. So when we recently discovered that a real-world pilot project of the new service was taking place in the nearby city of Colchester in Essex, we hopped on a train to find out what it was like [...]
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The Nokia X6, the music phone we’ve been reviewing of late, has received a firmware update to Version 12.0.091. This isn’t a major update, just a minor release to iron out a few bugs and add greater stability to the handset. Join us after the jump to find out how to get the Nokia X6 [...] Related posts:

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In All About Symbian Insight 104 (AAS Podcast 168), Rafe and Steve start with a quick look ahead to Mobile World Congress and then round up a number of small news items, including multiple firmware updates (N97 mini, X6, 5730, E52), details of a new version of the Ovi Store client, information on Greystripe and the Ovi Store and  the lowdown on 1.4 million Ovi Maps downloads. In the second half of the podcast we discuss the big news that the the open sourcing (EPL) of the Symbian platform (40 million lines of code) has been completed four months ahead of schedule. You can listen to AAS Insight 104 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.

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In the February 2010 Update:

S40 support, bug fixes to improve client performance, and minor feature enhancements:

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Just a few days ago, Nokia published a video to their Youtube channel, a video, of a Music video, being recorded on over 100 Nokia Camera Phones.  How does that work I hear you ask. Well, put them all in an empty swimming pool, throw in some shiney floating balloons, some coloured lighting, and let the band start playing, and singing, and what you have, is a very unique Music Video.  Well, of course after all those camera phones footage has been edited of course.  I bet that was no easy feat.  Anyway, to get the full rundown on what all this is about, including some short interviews with the band, The Noisettes, checkout the video below.

Once you have watched the video above, head over to www.shotbyfans.com which details all the various video footage from all Nokia camera phones used to shoot the Music Video, and you can mix and match these, and make your very own version of the video.

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The Nokia X6 was launched before Christmas and in the coming weeks we’ll see it starting to ship on T-Mobile and Vodafone networks, as well as in the Carphone Warehouse. The Nokia X3 by comparison is an entry-level handset that still comes with a number of interesting feature. Want to see what they look like [...] Related posts:

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GLOBAL – Fishing in Ovi Store’s pool of apps is getting harder. Not because there’s not enough apps in the pool, but because every week there’s more to choose from. Never fear though, as the DailyApp folks have been doing the hard work and once again this week we’ve chosen three from their picks to [...]
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If you’re you owner of a Nokia E52, check to make sure you’re running the latest software, as Nokia has recently released Firmware Version v31.012. With a number of bugs fixed, the phone should run slightly more smoothly with the new firmware, and you’ll also find a few more changes to the software itself. To [...] Related posts:

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Following on from Strategy Analytics and Tomi's stats for smartphone sales in the whole of 2009, summarised here by me last week, we now have confirmation, courtesy of the USA-based IDC, of the very latest Q4 2009 smartphone world unit sales: again, Nokia lead the market with 38% for its S60-based smartphones, while RIM's Blackberrys are in second place with 20%. Q1 2010 results will be even more interesting, expect these in the first week of April.

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While you can argue about what the numbers actually mean, it’s nice to see that the main players in mobile browser are all feeding back changes to the WebKit open-source project. Alongside Nokia (and Trolltech), Apple, Google and RIM are all contributing in some form, as shown in Evan Martin's blog post to the Chromium web

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It’s been making it’s way around the various territories in the last few days, and now we’re happy to say that we have the updated firmware running on the Nokia X6 here at AAS (link to our review). The update to v12.0.091 can be installed (once available) either Over the Air or via the Nokia Software Updater on your PC. Even though your data should be preserved during the update, we would always recommend backing up any phone before an update is started.

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The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic has received a minor software overhaul in the form of Firmware Update v200.12.87. This stylish handset, which features a sliding QWERTY keypad and a range of cool colours, should now be more stable and faster than before, and also features visible updates to software itself. To find out more, read on [...] Related posts:

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For those of you who use FourSquare (a geo-location social network and game all rolled into one), you might be interested to know that you can check-in to the game via a third party service, Waze. Details are over on SmashPop if you’d happier using this method than SMS or the mobile website.

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