Jouni Juntunen brings us the good news that S60v3FP2 will be shown off at 3GSM. He has is running on a Nokia 6290. He gives the OS a good once over in his write up, highly recommend you check that out, screenshots included! OR you could read the official press release below. I see that…
S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 announced
Just when the S60 3rd edition Feature pack 1 devices are set to hit the market, Nokia introduced a new Feature Pack for S60 on Symbian OS. S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 is designed for innovation and significantly facilitates the creation of compelling applications and accelerates performance. S60 3rd Edition is targeted for mid-range…
22:09 and I’m still writing zeros to my hard drive
I’m loving this whole post straight to web thing on my Nokia N93. It is so much more convenient on WiFi rather than EDGE. Anyways, I’m calling it a night. I really wanted to do a lot more blogging, especially that "Made in Finland" post, but there aren’t enough hours in my day. Hyvää huomenta…
Rogers and Nokia launch an OTA music store in Canada
Nokia and Rogers Wireless today launched the enhanced Rogers MusicStore and two new mobile handsets equipped with the Rogers Music Player to meet demand from Canadians who want their music on the go. With hundreds of thousands of tracks, the newly enhanced Rogers MusicStore is unique on the market as it gives music fans the…
Nokia and VH1 getting together to create music video from user generated content
Vh1 and Nokia will partner to launch ‘Shot by You’ an initiative which will see the creation of a music video with ‘User-Generated-Content’. The music video for Indian contemporary rock band Pentagram’s single ‘Voice’ will be created using video clips sent in by Nokia consumers. This is bound to push ‘user interactivity’ into the mainstream…
All About Symbian looks at where N-Gage came from and how it will be better in its second iteration
There has been an endless amount of text written about mobile gaming and the original N-Gage smartphone, much of it driven by personal taste ("I never use phone games" or "I never use games consoles") rather than a balancing of the facts. In order to cut through all the ideological hot air, this article will…
Nokia “gets it” when it comes to Maemo on the N800
Maemo is about as good an example of a consumer product manufacturer developing an electronic device using open-source tools and resources as you will find. It uses open-source components and tools wherever possible, and Nokia has sponsored some significant enhancements to such components as their products have needed them. The maemo cross-development model is based…
Nokia provides hosted mobile email to Wind in Italy
Nokia and Italian operator, Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A. (Wind), have signed a contract that will see Nokia integrate a customized remote mobile email platform into the operator’s network and host the commercial service. The hosting model allows Wind to focus on marketing and developing its customer relationship while Nokia takes care of mobile email operations and…
Ricky is right: Why aren’t buttons customizable?
Why is it that you can’t remap some of the buttons on your S60 device? There’s some buttons you can program. The softkeys, for example; you can pick what those do. You can also program the 5 directions of your d-pad or joystick, if you don’t have Active Standby on. And it can do nearly…
New Nokia N93 firmware out!
20.0.58 according to All About Symbian: It seems that after a gentle kick from yours truly Nokia N93 firmware updates via Nokia Software Update are finally back online after 3 months downtime. Moreover, the next-gen (masses more RAM, WLAN wizard, Search, Download!) v20.0.58 firmware is finally available, though watch out for a nasty camcorder bug.…