While Nokia’s new Symbian devices come with Ovi Sync pre-loaded, there are chances that you might want to keep your contacts in sync with your Google Account as opposed to being backed up on Ovi. Here come the good and bad things, the good thing is that your new N8, C7 or whatever device you have can sync your contacts with Google out of the box, and the bad thing is that the way to do is isn’t very obvious.
Fortunately, the setup is very easy and should take hardly a …

WhatsApp is a cross platform app that allows you to exchange messages with your friends and contacts using a data connection (or WIFI) in the same way as SMS. Additionally you can also send multimedia files and share your location from within the app. The best thing about the way it works is that you do not need to add people to your friend list, if they are in your phonebook and use WhatsApp, they will automatically show up in your friend list.
Until today, the Symbian version did not support …

SMS Spam is a glowing menace, but if you own a N900, you won’t have to live with it anymore. Giovanni Cognome‘s Auto Remove SMS written in Qt and C++ lets you delete text messages based on their text, sender or the received date. The application is a free download and even has  a background version that can be scheduled with the Alarmed app to auto remove SMS.

AutoRemoveSMS should be available in the extras-devel repository, if you don’t know what that is, read this. If you want to install it …

I’m in New Delhi for Nokia India’s Nokia Conversations event which is an industry platform that aims to bring together decision makers  and stakeholders from various industries to discuss and debate  industry relevant issues and key developments in the telecom sector. Started in late 2008, Nokia Conversations has explored topics ranging from The Rural Opportunity in India to Infrastructure Issues to Monetizing Music Piracy.
Today Nokia India is hosting the 6th episode and the theme is ‘Demystifying 3G for the consumer’ and it is being held in partnership with NDTV …

If you recall that the Symbian Foundation closed down last month, then you will also remember that Nokia said that they will continue to develop and evolve Symbian. Well, the first steps in that direction have been taken. A brand new symbian.nokia.com page is up on the Nokia website proclaiming that it will be ‘…the channel for technology and business ecosystem members to find further news and information on our progress towards the new Symbian’.

So there you have it, going forward Nokia will refer to Symbian^3+ as the …

Pixelpipe is easily a must have application on any platform, specially so if you own a Symbian^3 device. It allows you to upload images and videos from your device directly to multiple outlets such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and a bunch of other popular services in one go.

The latest 1.03 version brings the ability to automatically upload your pictures and videos to the service(s) of your choice the moment to take them.

There has been a pretty impressive beta of Ovi Maps floating around on Nokia’s Beta Labs over the last few weeks. It among other things like a new UI and a ton of new features, it brings pinch to zoom to multitouch capable Symbian^3 devices. That beta has just gotten a whole lot better with the ability to download street maps of complete countries over the air without you ever having to touch the Map Loader application on your PC. This also means that Mac users have one less reason …

The #N8Producers Competition has just gone live and what’s on stake is a zero gravity flight experience for 8 people from anywhere in the world.
To put it simply, you shoot some awesome (read as: innovative, creative and exciting!) video on your N8, share it and if it finds a mention in the top 8 submissions you and a friend (that’s 16 people in total) will be headed to an exclusive N8 Producers Zero Gravity flight in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
But what if you don’t have a N8? Don’t worry, just head …