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[14 May 2009 | 3 Comments | ]
New Nokia N79 Firmware v20.175 Now Available – ChangeLog Inside

On the heels of the N85, Nokia has just rolled out a new firmware for the Nokia N79. The v20.175 firmware brings changes similar to those on the N85. The standby email plugin to show your emails on the standby screen makes an appearance, so do turning controls which now allows you to flip to silence incoming calls alarms, an internet telephony set up and an email wizard to setup your Nokia Email or Nokia Messaging also find their way to the device. Full changelog below.
The new firmware is available …

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[14 May 2009 | 6 Comments | ]
New Nokia N85 Firmware v20.175 Now Available

Nokia has just rolled out a new firmware for the Nokia N85, one of the best handset in the Nseries lineup. The v20.175 firmware, up from v11, brings in bug fixes and improvements along with the standby email plugin to show your emails on the standby screen.

Other additions include turning controls which now allows you to flip to silence incoming calls alarms, internet telephony set up and an email wizard to setup your Nokia Email or Nokia Messaging …

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[14 May 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Screenshot Based Walkthrough Of The N97′s Facebook Application

The facebook integration on the N97 is one of its most awaited features and Nokia had recently given us a glimpse of it via the Interactive Demo that went up a few days ago. The folks at Last100 have taken a look at what’s on offer and based on the screenshots it looks like a pretty slick application with great functionality packed in.

Here is a small list of what the application can do. Please note that I have compiled this list based on screenshots of a demo, so the final …

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[12 May 2009 | 3 Comments | ]
Nokia India Introduces NTheater For The Nseries

Nokia NTheater, is the latest Nokia India promotion for the Nseries devices. In an effort to promote the concept of movie watching on the go and the fact that the latest Nseries are quite capable of carrying and playing multiple movies, Nokia will be giving away five movies on a 4 GB card free to the consumers purchasing the Nokia N79, N85, N95, N95 8GB and N96.

Consumers can choose between genres like action, comedy, thriller, drama and assorted from the Nseries movie library and the  movies include an assortment of …

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[9 May 2009 | 19 Comments | ]
Walkthrough: Ozone – A New Web Browser For S60

Ozone is the latest webkit based browser for S60 devices and boy, is it fast! The browser boasts of “advanced features such as client-side database support, application cache, zooming and multiple windows, but also provides the best web-standards compliant experience that’s available”.
Apart from the speed, the things about the browser that I really liked were the ability to open and manage multiple windows with ease, the ability to download any file irrespective of the extension, something that the default web browser on FP1 and older devices can’t do (or can …

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[8 May 2009 | 11 Comments | ]
Now Pre-Order A N97 For $454 – Seriously!

This is one hell of a deal. Grab it now. Nokia USA if offering the N97 on pre-order for just $524.25 today, for some reason the pre-order price just fell. But if you add the promotional code CARTP409N the price falls to a ridiculously low $454.35. The best part is that you still get the BH-703! Have a look for yourself.

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[7 May 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
You Can Now Buy N-Gage Games From Your Nearby Nokia Store

I still remember talking about this at the Mobile World Congress in 2008, and it has finally become a reality. You can now buy a N-Gage game from your nearby Nokia Priority Dealer if you are in India. N-Gage games are currently available at Nokia Priority Dealers across 9 cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi (NCR), Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. These vouchers will hopefully be making their way across the whole of India soon.

There you have it, you no longer need the Internet or a Credit Card to …

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[7 May 2009 | 7 Comments | ]
Image Samples From The N97′s Camera

A few days ago we brought you video samples from the N97′s camera, today its time for some photo samples. These pictures have been taken by James Nash from the Symbian Foundation while visiting the Banksy’s Cans Festivals in London. As you can see, despite the N97 still running proto firmware the pictures have come out quite well. If fact some of the low light shots look especially good.

Check them out for yourself!

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[6 May 2009 | 5 Comments | ]
Nokia Rolls Out v20 Firmware For The N96 – Changelog Inside

Nokia has just rolled out a new firmware for the aging Nokia N96. The v20.050 firmware, up from v12, brings in a lot of bug fixes and improvements. The new firmware makes the device faster and brings additions like the standby email plugin to show your emails on the standby screen.
Audio Themes make an appearance, so does a menu to manage the slide. The battery management has been worked on, the camera has also been tweaked and the videos should now have lesser noise. All in all this looks like …

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[6 May 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
The E52 Is The Latest Addition To Nokia’s Eseries

Nokia has just announced the latest addition to the Eseries range of devices in the form of the E52. The E52 is a conventional successor to the popular E51 (or a E55 with a T9 keyboard) and boasts of a 8 hour talk time. Other highlights include the new email UI from the Nokia E75, a 3.2 MP camera, noise cancellation and all of those Ovi Services.

The Nokia E52 will ship with a 1GB microSD card and a free 60 day trial for Files on Ovi. t’ll be available in two colours, metal grey and golden aluminium. The display has automatic landscape support and the device also sports a compass …