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- Limited Time Offer: Get Quickoffice Premier 5.0 for 1$!
Just a heads-up guy's, may be of use to some of you! Quickoffice Premier 5.0 is on a special price today for and you can get it for only $1!! I believe this usually retails for a lot more, so better be quick because this is just a limited 24h sale only!
Quickoffice Premier 5.0 is the FIRST and ONLY mobile solution to support Microsoft Office 2007® on S60 3rd Edition devices. Enjoy all of the great features of Quickoffice Premier 4.5 + the ability to edit and create new Microsoft Office 2007 documents on your device. Unlock the full potential of your smartphone and turn your device into a powerful mobile office. Quickoffice preserves documents during editing preventing docu... .. .
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22 Jul 2008 20:23:01 GMT - Nokia N85: User agent profile leaked - Our worst fear was confirmed to be true!
Over the last few months there has been a lot of speculation, rumors and bunch of blurry photos of the two upcoming Nokia Nseries devices. Now thanks to the new UAP's on the Nokia NDS site Nokia has finally confirmed speculation and the existence of the Nokia N85. UAProf (User agent profile) is an XML document that contains information about the user agent type and device capabilities. It is a standard defined and maintained by the Open Mobile Alliance (formerly the WAP Forum) and it clearly confirms that Nokia will release those device very soon.
Unfortunately, it seems that our worst fear was confirmed to be true! Just leaked user agent profile reveals that Nokia N85 is just another Nseries phone with crappy and outdated QV... .. .
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22 Jul 2008 19:54:05 GMT - S60 Touch UI Screenshots Show Hidden S60 Philosopy Switch?!
In light of the recent S60 Touch UI screenshots seen all across the internet, I noticed some important cues about the new utilization of touch into the S60 environment, and I am particularly turned off. If you look closely, the Menu/Task Switcher element is in the upper left corner. This might go unnoticed by Symbian S60 neophytes, but hard core users like myself will notice a complete shift in Symbian and Nokia's philosophy of one-handed operation.
How so, you might ask? I'll explain. The majority of the world is right handed, hence, devices are usually designed with a right handed person in mind. If this were so, and the devi... .. .
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Hidden Philosophy behind the leaked touch UI screenshots - full story
22 Jul 2008 10:05:37 GMT - Stop Call: Freeware Call Filter for S60 3rd Ed - Get Rid of Unwanted and Harassing Phone Calls!
Unwanted phone calls can be one of the most stressful and frightening invasions of privacy a person experiences. Fortunately, there is freeware solution that can help you to put an end to these unwelcome disturbances. My friend Damian who is by far one of the most talented developers I have ever seen has been busy again and brought to us a new, simple, but yet useful and easy to use freeware application. I've been testing it for the past few days and now we are finally ready to share StopCall with the publicand to hear your initial impressions. Damian will keep working on application depending on your feedback and suggestions. Anyway, StopCall is the classic call filter application, simple and convenient tool for blocking and rej... .. .
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21 Jul 2008 20:59:48 GMT - Codding: The Next Great Developer Story!
The mobile market offers vast and varied opportunities for developers, with platforms such as Nokia's Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux-based platforms vying for developer mindshare.However, as a group of leaders at a recent meeting of the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) here said, developers are most likely to go to the platform that makes things efficient for them and where they can make the most money building applications.
Right now, Symbian is the mobile market leader with the largest number of smart phones based on the SymbianOS, but as the market evolves that could change. "We want to enable developers to take what they know and build what they wan... .. .
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21 Jul 2008 11:44:33 GMT - Qik Is Out Of Private Beta With Changes To The Symbian Client
Qik, pronounced "quick," service has been in private beta since late last year and available just for a select group of video bloggers, some network news organizations and even Vatican officials with a way to report and document developments with the camera on a smart phone.Qik is no longer limited to select group of testers, Qik is out of private beta and opens up today with the first public beta version. Along with its debut to the masses, Qik has made some tweaks and has expanded its hardware reach and added more compatible handsets to the list of Symbian devices it currently supports. They also made some significant chan... .. .
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21 Jul 2008 10:29:49 GMT - Set 3G Free, Quit Fooling Customers; Part II
I'm sure everyone read my rant on how OEM's have ruined the state of international 3G. Right now, your phones only work in certain places on the globe. Manufacturers and carriers has somehow conspired to control our travel, phone choices, and carrier selection. It's stupid that they think European, African, Australian, and Asian users should be able to have a common uninterrupted 3G footprint UNTIL THEY COME TO NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA, and vice versa. I, myself, would like to be paired with Asia and Africa, the emerging mobile and business market.
I know alot of British energy industry people that'd love a phone that worked there as well as Venezuela's oil and gas fields, and could care less about Asia and Australia. For wha... .. .
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20 Jul 2008 19:09:52 GMT - Video: Plazes founder Felix Petersen about Nokia acquisition
This week Nokia completed the acquisition of the Plazes, a small, privately-owned start-up company that's based in Berlin with all of 13 employees. Plazes technology is another important element for its web/service strategy under the Ovi brand and it will helps Nokia to accelerate its vision of bringing people and places closer together.
With Plazes and other recent acquisitions Nokia is clearly trying to offer the best solution for connecting people through the location-based services, maps and communities. Plazes adds the elements of location to social networking through featu... .. .
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Plazes's Founder about the Nokia acquisition - full story
20 Jul 2008 10:54:41 GMT - OMG: Nokia S60 Touch UI - First Screenshot Leaked in VGA resolution!The folks over at Just Another Mobile Phone blog have somehow managed to get the first screenshot of the long awaited 5th edition of the Symbian S60 platform that is also know as S60 touch UI but the revelation is not as exciting as it is supposed to be, unfortunately!
It's kind of hard to say something cleaver about upcoming touch UI that hasn't been said before and make an interesting story based on the single screenshot which is by the way obviously taken out of the S60 5th edition SDK emulator not from the real device!
The UI core basically remains the same and it looks like the classic S60 FP2 UI with slightly redesigned interface to make it optimized for both finger or stylus optimized input. In a matter of fact, judging by the leaked screenshot the main chan.. .. .
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Nokia S60 Touch UI Screenshot (VGA) Leaked- full story
19 Jul 2008 15:39:27 GMT - ContentGuard Licenses Digital Rights Management Patents to Nokia Corporation
ContentGuard Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of digital rights management (DRM) technology, today announced a worldwide patent licensing agreement with Nokia Corporation, a global leader in mobile products and services. ContentGuard technology enables the consumer-friendly implementation of digital content distribution models such as content rental, content subscription, variable pricing, and secure peer-to-peer distribution. Terms of the licensing agreement were not disclosed.
"We are extremely pleased that Nokia will be able to use our technology in its business to advance the delivery and consumption of digital content," said Rob Log... .. .
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19 Jul 2008 11:11:41 GMT - Sony Ericsson Q2 2008 report arrives - Operating loss of EUR 2m!
Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson reported today an operating loss of EUR 2m for the second quarter 2008, down from the profit of EUR 315m a year ago. Sales in the three-month period decreased to EUR 2,820m from EUR 3,112m a year ago while the number of shipped mobile units decreased to 24.4m, as compared to 24.9m in the Q2, 2007.
Sony Ericsson is feeling the effects of a dependence on mature markets which are being impacted by the global economic downturn. Its second quarter sales and profit are also negatively affected by "moderating demand of mid-to-high end mo... .. .
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18 Jul 2008 19:41:57 GMT - Nokia Tube spotted in The Dark Knight movie!??
Hey has anyone of you guys seen the new Batman movie? I think that Nokia tube phone plays meaty role in The Dark Knight :] I saw a scene where Morgan Freeman using a touchscreen phone labeled as Nokia!?!? ..and oh yeah, the 6630 was seen too.. ..a lot of Nokia phones are seen in movies nowadays...
The tube phone looked really great.. ..it made me drool over the place.. (I'm exaggerating) like I wanted to have a grab on that phone. What's interesting though in the movie is, it was used to jam the electric power system of the whole buil... .. .
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Nokia 5800 (Tube) In The Batman Movie - full story
18 Jul 2008 17:59:51 GMT - OEM's Must Set American 3G Free, Quit Fooling CustomersI was wondering something. I read at EngadgetMobile that the xda devs have figured out how to unlock the 850mhz GSM frequency on the Touch Diamond!! This is simply amazing, as some have complained that it didn't support the 850mhz spectrum.
Now what I wonder is this: I don't know the actual radio chip's physical construction, but if a GSM radio can be hacked and given another additional frequency, how possible or difficult would it be to alter the 3G frequency of an Nseries device?
If this could be done, Euro versions would be obsolete, and Americans could finally choose the device they wish, regardless of carrier or world region! I wished that it wouldn't need to come to that. The technology is there where it shouldn't be necess... .. .
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OEM's Must Set American 3G Free - full story
18 Jul 2008 17:02:55 GMT - Comming soon: Major Update for Resco Photo Viewer
After the successful beta testing period I am proud to announce that major update for the best 3rd party gallery application for S60 phones is on the way. Lots of considerable improvements and new features have been implemented and once again Resco Photo Viewer is proving to be the only serious alternative to default S60 Gallery application!Although I know most of you will not agree with me, default S60 gallery is the pretty bad solution in my personal opinion! OK, there is no doubt that it looks awesome, it causes a wow-effect at first sight but after some time it could become very annoy... .. .
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18 Jul 2008 11:26:24 GMT - First Nokia's touch device will be mid-range phone for the volume part of the market!!
In the highlights from a second-quarter conference call, Nokia Executive Vice President of Devices Kai Oistamo officially said that they remain at work on their touchscreen phones line and first phone should hit the market before the end of the year. Apparently Nokia is planning to release a bunch of touchscreen phones from the low end over the mid range models to the high-end devices. They'll will definitely start with the mid-range model Nokia 5800 XpressMedia also know as Tube and then continue to treat the markets with touch enabled phones in all price ranges. "We are fully committed to bringing to the market a complete portfolio of the touch devices, for the mass market, the high end and ev... .. .
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17 Jul 2008 18:53:32 GMT
