4squick is a foursquare client for Symbian that just came out over a month ago, it was simple and it was fast, not to mention the great looking UI. Today its received an update that brings the ability to share your check-ins on Facebook and Twitter.

In addition to that it also launches faster and lets you check-in privately. Other changes include the ability to view the leaderboard to see how you’re doing compared to your friends and the ability to view profiles.
While the official foursquare app was also updated today, …

The people at the helm at Nokia could see this and say, heh, do you even know our N9 strategy? Or may be that you’re missing the bigger picture, and how its now a war of ecosystems. I get that. This is in part a rant and in part a post on thinking aloud about what could Nokia do to stem the impending bloodbath that the next two quarters would bring.
We could all get together and blame Nokia’s new CEO for announcing the Windows Phone switch so soon and say …

The travel website Kayak has just released its all new mobile app for Nokia devices on the Ovi Store, and like its Android and iOS offering, the Symbian version is also top notch. The app includes the ability the search for and book flights, a flight status tracker, airline fee listings and hotel and car search functionality.

As you can see from the screenshots, it marries great functionality including GPS lookup for nearby airports with a pleasing UI. The app is fast and has the potential of becoming your …

Nokia Sweden is looking for 30 people to test drive the N9, and by test drive they mean – they give you the device, you play with it, you talk about it, and after all that is done, you get to keep it. That’s not all, they’ll even award one person from the lucky 30 with a weekend in London if they think he or she did the best job in that role. Brilliant.

So whats the catch? First, the contest (English translation) is only open those of you in Sweden, …

Remember yesterday’s 9 second Nokia N9 ads? Yes, the ones that are over if you decide to blink. Well there’s more to them than what meets the eye. Accompanying the ads is a brand new contest that can win you a Nokia smartphone, I’m guess a N9! Hit n9seconds.com and you’ll see the following screen awaiting a six character code.

The answer to this code it seems is hidden the videos, there’s 6 of them so I’m guessing each video gives you one character, fill them in and perhaps you’ll be …

The Nokia YouTube page has just been updated, its all about the N9 now. But Nokia doesn’t believe in simple videos these days, remember the pretty cool interactive N8 unboxing? This time they’re bringing something new to the table, 6 ads in less that 60 seconds, making them perhaps the world’s Quickest ads.

Hit the page to see a set of 6 ads that run for about 9 seconds on average covering the N9′s design, camera, maps, social functionality, browser and its general awesomeness. You may be surprised how the message …

Nokia recently made it clear that other manufactures of Windows Phone based devices would also have access to their famed Ovi Maps, slightly surprising, but I guess that was part of the deal they struck with Microsoft. But what’ll come as another pleasant surprise is that users on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android will not be left bereft either.

Nokia’s soft launched a brand new HTML5 powered, mobile optimized Nokia Maps website that as you will see below works perfectly on Android and iOS.

With iOS and Android doing WIFI tethering natively, Nokia has also been concentrating on giving users access to this useful piece of technology for free. New devices like the N9 and E6 already come pre-loaded with Joikuspot, and it looks like some older Eseries devices are also getting the love.

So if you have the E52, E72 or the E5, hit the Ovi Store and get yourself free copy of the Joikuspot premium app for free!

We’ve known that the N9 would come with an all new version of Ovi Music very different from the clients we’ve seen on other Symbian devices. But one thing that comes as a very pleasant surprise is that the client on the N9 in-addition to a new UI, also supports streaming radio.

You can browse music by genre as you would normally, but now you will also see a ‘Play genre radio’ button there and with one tap you can have Ovi Music stream tracks from that genre. The streaming service …

Google Maps for Android just got a pretty impressive update that adds transition navigation into the mix, this means that your phone will now be able to tell you when its time to get off the bus, great when you don’t speak the local language or if your attention waivers. But more than that, it also brings a little hidden gem that a lot of people have been looking forward to in the form of downloadable maps.

The feature is tucked away in the labs option and once you enable it, …