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The world’s most populous smartphone platform (330,000,000 shipped), Symbian, is now fully open source. Members of the foundation include Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. In 2008, Nokia bought the rest of Symbian for $410 million…. and then gave it away. In February 2009, Nokia received $630 million 5-year loan from the European Investment Bank to drive and support Symbian’s R&D

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World’s number one mobile OS, Symbian becomes fully Open Source [#symbiancountdown]

Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s Cseries and Xseries rang of devices was discovered by Aleksi Moisio, writing for Finnish news site Digitoday, way back in July of last year . We all know about the Xseries, such as the X6, the first Nokia smartphone with a capactivie touch screen, and the Nokia X3, a lesser known, but highly important music phone for emerging economies.

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Photos: Nokia C5 leaks [2.2 inch screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, Symbian powered]

Here’s a video showing Duke Nuken 3D being played on the N900…but the controls are a Wii Remote If you’ve got a Wii Remote and a N900 you wanna hook it up to, follow instructions on connecting the two below : To step it up a bit, hook up your N900 via TV out and you’ve got yourself a pocket, made for TV, console.

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WiiMote, Duke Nukem 3D and N900

This blogpost is brought to you by the letter S and the number 12. Last week, we saw the first of the #symbiancountdown, which was then at 108 . It’s been randomly counting down and now it’s at 12.

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Something Big with Symbian Tomorrow? #symbiancountdown at 12

It resembles a super slim Game Boy Advance, with a touch of E97 ‘clone ‘; this concept called Orion by the Recombu guys is a dedicated Nokia gaming touch screen phone which relies on dedicated gaming keys as opposed to purely touch screen. The E97 part is the qwerty keyboard which appears behind the touch screen, but it has its own screen for texting too.

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Nokia Orion – Touch Screen Gaming Nokia Concept

So if you were wondering what keeps the guys and girls over at Symbian (community) busy on their breaks or what they do just to have fun? check this out: If you think about it, it is really impressive, the N95 looks at the faces of the cube from above and checks to see what position everything is and tells the Lego what to do next.

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Symbian (community) using their spare time to make auto 4×4×4 rubics cube solver!

According to Digitimes from Taiwan, Nokia are not going to skip S^2 and just go ahead and release S^3 in Quarter  3 of 2010 due to the fast paced development of the OS. Things we are to expect are include gesture and multitouch support which will be great to use on handsets like the X6 which have a capacitive screen. (I hope they make the update available for this phone!) Michael Hsu, the general manager of Nokia Taiwan added: The Symbian version 4 is believed to be based on the Qt cross-platform application development framework developed by Trolltech, which Nokia acquired in June 2008, said industry sources. The Qt will allow software developers to develop application software supporting Symbian and Maemo platforms simultaneously, added the sources. Michael Hsu also added: By 2011, smartphones based on the Symbian S60-platform will account for 55% of Nokia’s total handset shipments, followed by Symbian S40 feature phones at 35% and Maemo-based devices at 10%, according to sources who are familiar with Nokia’s product roadmap.

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Nokia to go to S^3 in Q3 of 2010 and not bother with S^2!

With the title as long as a title could be, first I’d just like to thank you for coming to MyNokiaBlog.com and reading our posts! Today we’ve hit 1 Million views! I’ve also just realised we’ve somehow broken 170,000 views in January 2010! We also won a Golden Retrevo award! I would have been very proud to make each one a separate post, but they’ve all come at once so I’ll group them all into one post! 170,000 views last month! I’ve said it before, but although this view count is probably a drop in the ocean compared to the other blogs about Nokia, for me I’m genuinely impressed considering that 9 months ago, we’d get the same views in a month that MyNokiaBlog now gets in a day. To give another perspective, you guys helped MyNokiaBlog get more views in January 2010, than the combined whole year of 2008 + Sept to December 07

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MyNokiaBlog reaches 1 million views, breaks 170,000 views in January and wins a Golden Retrevo Award!

Here’s a neat application that you would have thought was already in your phone but isn’t. What’s great about it is that it will allow you to edit your custom dictionary. Normally you can only add words, with less frequently used “added” word being phased out. Here you can edit/delete them if you want (say, if you’ve accidentally spelt it wrong). Great when you’re using predictive text and it keeps inserting the wrongly spelt word!! Open it via the app (not via message editor) Words added via QWERTY (when prediction is on) appear in T9 too and can be edited/deleted (note, you’ll need to restart the app to see newly added words via message editors) Edit by Language (it’ll ask which language at start up) View all the words in your custom dictionary Add new words to the dictionary via the app.

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Freeware: Nokia Custom Dictionary Word List Organizer V0.02(2) for S60 3rd and 5th Edition [Experimental]

On Friday, you may have read that today’s the day (February 1st 2010) at 08:00 GMT that V2.1 firmware update for the N97 will be available. The software version number will be 21.0.045 (RM-505) or 21.2.045 (RM-507) depending on your region. The release for N97 China 2G (RM-506) will follow shortly. Non-customised versions of the software, with country (SIM-free) and operator versions following over the next few days and weeks . In addition to usual bug fixes, main changes include: Improved call reliability Smooth touch screen scrolling

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New Nokia N97 firmware update V21.0.045 and 21.2.045 from Feb 1, 2010, 08:00GMT.

Imagine you could only have one device on a day’s work. View This Poll survey Steve Jobs criticized netbooks yesterday saying netbooks aren’t better than anything .  Apple are now trying to carve yet another new niche (the path pre-paved by iPhone) or at least make people think that’s what they’re doing. Really, they’re just polishing, adding sprinkles of BS (and some genuinely good stuff) so people will think this is something they need.

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iPad vs Booklet 3G/Netbook vs N900/Smartphone vs laptop: Which is the most productive device?

So we have the touch tablet, iPad (Genius name! -_-) Steve Jobs announced today that Apple is the largest mobile company in the world (in terms of revenue). Bigger than Sony, Samsung and even Nokia. They said that their new device had to be something in between a laptop and a smartphone. For simple tasks like web browsing/email/apps, Jobs says there needs to be a third category

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Just announced: Apple iPad Specifications (Should smartphones and netbooks be scared?)

Nokia Conversations reports that the N97 is now supported officially (some may have already found N97 mini’s ovi maps .sis to have worked for them) for the new Ovi Maps which brings users free turn-by-turn walk and drive navigation The new Ovi Maps is available through the software update client in the device . You simply open the Applications Folder, Software Update client (big green arrow) and choose the new Ovi Maps from the list. [You might even get a prompt from Ovi Maps itself telling you an update is available, and it'll bring you to SW update] At the big announcement last week, N97 users were shocked to find out they were not on the list of supported handsets for free turn-by-turn navigation. But very quickly, Nokia said that it would be available a week later on the 28th (technically tomorrow) You will need to be on firmware V2.0.x (some N97 users may not be able to get it yet but Nokia are apparently working on it) My N97 is on V20.0.019 – Nokia Software Updater on computer says that’s the latest firmware update

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N97 Ovi Maps Free Navigation Officially Available [UPDATE via N97 itself]

Last night, Symbian tweeted about a Symbian countdown, which you can now see over at countdown.symbian.org/ It’s not like last week with an actual clock counting down ; all we can see here is a static 108 and tweets that use the hashtag #Symbiancountdown What does it all mean? October 8? August 10?

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Countdown.Symbian.Org: 108 – Secret over at Symbian #symbiancountdown

The guy’s over at Pocket lint heard from Nokia’s UK boss Mark Loughran that on the 26th there will be a new Nokia being released…there is a lot of speculation as to what this phone is, the guy’s over at NokNok think it might be the new Maemo but in my opinion, I would doubt that very much because people are still getting used to the N900 and launching another one now would just hinder Nokia because people would stop buying the N900! No idea what it is but it looks like Nokia are trying to beat Apple to the punch my making another announcement (on top of the free maps one) a day before Apple are doing theirs!! We will just have to wait and see but in my personal opinion, I think a lot of people have forgot about Nokia’s development of their “tough” phone…so could it be that? Update : Looks like it was just the Nokia X6-16GB which I heard about a long time ago…shame it wasn’t bigger news! The 16GB version does not have the “comes with music” service as expected although almost everything else is the same but there is a larger range of colours: all black, all white, white with pink highlights and white with yellow highlights.

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News: New Nokia today?…is it true?…(It’s the X6-16GB)

Robbie and Chris from WOMWorld had 40 of Nokia’s Booklet 3G at the 1000Heads HQ – what did they do with them? Played “Guess Who” of course! Not content with just guessing faces…no. Robbie and Chris battle it out using 20 of WOM’s favourite Mobile/Nokia based websites, including Symbian-Guru, The Nokia Blog, Nokia Addict, Symbian Freak, Daily Mobile, ZOMGitsCJ, MobileBurn and World of Nokia. It’s a beautiful sight to behold, all those Nokia Booklet 3G mini laptops in one room! Om nom nom  nom!

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Video: 40 Nokia Booklet 3G and a game of guess who. Robbie Vs Chris at WOM HQ.

I saw some incoming referral links from Maemo.org about an old post I did where an unknown Nokia device had a rare four row keyboard , the top being dedicated for numbers. I revealed the first image to be simply a cheap-ass MS paint job as a concept of a proper 4-row QWERTY keyboard on a Nokia handset.

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If N900 had a 4-row keyboard and/or a tilted screen?

Ok, I’ve had the fMMS application on my phone for a little while and just recently worked out how to get it configured for my phone so thought I’d share it with you all. Note: This application is in the extras-devel application catalogue so as always be careful installing anything from there…you don’t want to mess up your phone. (sorry for the varying quality…still getting used to my camera and video editor) I hope this has helped and I just wanted to add a couple of things: Although I said in the video you can’t add another APN, I just found out you can using fAPN from the extras-testing catalogue. Always enter numbers in international format, i.e.

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N900 Video: Send & Receive MMS (using fMMS)

Numpty Physics is a brilliant game enjoyed by tablet users since the days of the 770, and its compatible for N900 owners too! The basic premise of the game is to get the red thing (may change per level; here it’s the start button) towards the yellow thing (in this case, a star). You do this by drawing a myriad of tools from other boulders, levers, pulleys, pendulums and more. Certain objects obey (or try to) the laws of physics (hence the name). e.g.

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Video: Numpty Physics on the N900 – Incredible interactive drawing puzzle game

Nokia just announced that they’re making their famous Ovi Maps and its door-to-door GPS navigation software completely free. It will come pre-installed on compatible Nokia phones with the local maps; depending on you live. Of course you’ll be able to download maps of new places if you need to

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Nokia Ovi Maps navigation now free; better than Google’s

Nokia recently released the updated version of their “Nokia Software Updater” (NSU) application that is used by different Nokia phones to install latest Firmware changes pushed across the world by Nokia. Apart from having a better USB support, the latest NSU now supports Windows 7 operating system. You can use the NSU in the same way you used it on your XP or Vista based PC/Laptop/Netbook

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Latest Nokia Software Updater Requirements