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Nokia has released the first screenshots of the upcoming Symbian^4 platform, and we’ll admit, it does look a lot more up-to-date compared with the Symbian OS that’s currently used on the most of the Finnish company’s touchscreen phone offerings. Actually, it sort of reminds us of Android with its use of a large clock on its homescreen, but hey, that’s just our opinion. This new and improved version of Symbian also features pop-up menus, widget support, and what many are wishing for, a generally more touch-friendly user interface. This is still continuously being tweaked and developed so don’t surprised if there will be some more changes prior to its final version

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First Symbian^4 screenshots hits the web

Now before you say anything about the uneven base, you’ve got to know there’s some function behind it. (Thanks for the heads up Keith!) As described in the blurb, “The Nokia Kinetic is a magical mobile phone that makes receiving a call, text, or email more playful by converting digital information into kinetic movement” Basically, for incoming notification, the phone will spontaneously stand up.

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Concept Nokias: The Nokia Kinetic

Here’s a little GEM of an application that’s free on Ovi Store for your Nokia N900. This is by far the most promising user interface for a music player I’ve ever come across on a Nokia handset. It’s called “instinctiv”, download it from the Ovi Store on your N900. The player supports wma, flac, ogg, aac, mp3 and can be synced with the instinctiv desktop player (I think Mac only at the moment) CLICK HERE FOR THE CONCLUSION The first thing to note is that it’s entirely designed for portrait, which IMO is great on a music player. I’m often on the move when I’m listening to music and such only have one hand available to browse the music player.

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Gallery & Video: Portait Music Player “Instinctiv” free on the Ovi Store – What Nokia Music player should be

Sometimes you feel tired when using SMS in Symbian 3rd Edition phones, because there is no menu insert smiley (emotion) such as the S40 mobile phone. Well, these SMS Avatar Applications can slightly reduce the boredom when using sms to friends or your spouse

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SMS becomes more exciting with Avatars SMS

In the video below, you’ll see the Nokia N8 connecting to a load of different devices, acting as a USB host and accessing the files on the respective devices. From E72, N900 to powered external hard drives and portable (non powered) external hard drives.

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Video: Nokia N8 USB On The Go tests – E72, N900, portable hard drive, powered external hard drive and DivX AVI playback

Grab the N900 for the low-low price of $369, shipped. Dell, it seems, is doing a slam-bang job of clearancing out Nokia phones. The latest deal is the absolute cheapest price that I’ve ever seen on a Nokia N900 : $369 with free 3-5 day shipping. To get it, first go to Dell and add the N900 to your shopping cart: Nokia N900 at Dell Then click the “Proceed to Cart and Checkout” button

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Deal: Nokia N900 for $369 Shipped at Dell

StreamThru is the newest iPhone App in the App store. It’s a dedicated Travel app for people who are always on the move and need such apps and services to keep a track of their travel itinerary and also inform them about other services that add value to their travel plans. StreamThru takes the best of all the travel apps you get on the App store. You just need to feed in your travel itinerary.

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StreamThru App for iPhone and Nokia

You know the tech have been talking about Nokia’s decline for a long time with the iPhone and Android innovating in certain areas but especially this week when Steve Jobs unveiled iPhone 4 with a certain feature that we are all so familiar with here in Europe for what it feels like forever. The feature of course is Video calling rather the ridiculous name of “FaceTime”. Now `Video calling has been a rather ancient technology in Nokia’s phones and I would like to remember the folks on this planet how great the Nokia N900 really is with this video underneath

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Video: Video Call and Skype Chat on the Nokia N900

If I had to guess, I suggest that very few readers of this blog would expect to come across a low quality image of an old Psion Series 5mx at the top of an article. Of course, we should never forget that Symbian, at the heart of so many modern Nokia devices, has its roots in the EPOC operating system running on the Psion palmtop devices, and that’s where this article begins.

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Memory Lane, Part 1

Hello World, I have been a frequent visitor to Jay’s excellent blog for a while and have had a lot of opinions on the tech world, in particular the Smartphone world for a while and, but never had the time or patience to write a blog. Well now that I have the loooong summer holidays ( I go to University) I have decided to volunteer and write for Jay’s blog and offer some of my opinions on the Smartphone world shenanigans. Well, who am I ?… you ask I am John and study BA Product design and have had an interest in Technology and  design for a long time and have had too may opinions kept in my head for waaay to long anyway I hope you enjoy my posts and don’t forget to comment good or bad

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Yesterday, Camb078 has some facetime (badaboom, oh dear…) with the Nokia N8 and today has posted his first impressions as well as a stunning photo galleryon blog-n8.fr .  Though it’s the same silver N8, it hasn’t looked as good as in these photos. Some interesting points from Camb078: Excellent manufacturing quality

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Gallery: Silver N8 – Blog-N8′s first impressions

Hmm…this house has no windows or doors (ovi) Today it appears that the New S series has been confirmed as well as the Nokia N9. N9 by common sense was already known when Nokia mentioned their new naming conventions of single letter 1-9 handsets – 9 being the highest – though never explicitly confirming N9. N9 will therefore be Nokia’s Flagship, and first Nokia MeeGo device that will push the extremes of high end for Nokia. Check out this interview with Alberto Torres, Nokia EVP,MeeGo Computers ..

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House of Nokia: New Sseries and Nokia N9 MeeGo phone Confirmed? 7 top limit of C, E, and X phones.

In case you missed it, Ovi Daily App are running a fantastic competition where by you have a great chance of bagging yourself the latest Nokia E73 Mode or the Nokia E72 (if you’re outside US) Remember the exciting search for N competition last year? This is a little bit like that! Every (business) day from last Thursday (3rd June) to Next Wednesday (16th) you will have to scavenge for clues/answers in order to be eligible to win a Nokia E73. How To Enter: You’ll need to have a Nokia Ovi Email account

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Competition: Win the Nokia E73 Mode (Or Nokia E72) in an online scavenger hunt!

Chris Bennets is back again with part 2 of 3 in the Nokia N8 Walkthrough! Presentation skills aside we can see: Smooth pinch and zooming of 12 megapixel images. Photo Editor demo (ooh prepare for cheese) Video Editor demo – it looks pretty capable, especially considering we’re editing 720p videos.

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Video: Nokia N8 Part 2 of 3 Walkthrough!

This is mainly a tongue in cheek rant, written very late so it probably may not make sense.  Note – if you are reading this, you are not the “public” which is described in this article. Again, press X now or prepare for walls of text

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What Nokia needs to learn from Apple Keynotes. Pointers from Steve Job’s iPhone 4 announcement.

Engadget has made a comparison of the iPhone 4 against what they call the smartphone elite – representatives of respective Mobile OS – HTC Evo 4G for Android, Nokia N8 for Symbian, Palm Pre Plus for WebOS and HTC HD2 for Windows Mobile. Based on the hardware categories chosen, the N8 stacks up surprisingly well (and nice of engadget to recognize N8 amongst the “elite”). Well if history is an indicator, this will be it for Apple’s iPhone over the next 12 months. MeeGo phones and S^4 can still improve heavily hardware wise (given the non-flagship price of Nokia N8, it suggests we should expect more from the main Nokia flagship that would unequivocally put it head and shoulders above this list) VIA Engadget

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Nokia N8 vs. the smartphone elite: iPhone 4, HTC EVO 4G, Palm Pre Plus, and HTC HD2

Nokia’s strongest competitor has officially announced a new iteration of their handset, the iPhone4. What does Nokia have to compete with on the hardware front? Safe to say, if you like mobile photography, iPhone is still no match for Nokia

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Apple announces New iPhone 4 – Not much for Nokia to worry about?

Nokia conversations are running an Accent Competition to celebrate their new “ Own Voice ” App to record your own voice packs for Ovi Maps Voice/Turn by Turn Navigation. Check out this cool video above.  At first, the lady (Amy Walker) came across as pretty crazy (wasn’t expecting such contrast of accent, thought she was going loopy!), but after a second watch I found her really charming

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Video: Own Voice Competition: How good is your accent? (Your own or impersonation!)

On Talk.maemo.org , Frals, creator of fMMS (bringing MMS to Maemo 5/N900 users) is working with wOOt to create a portrait keyboard for the N900. I’m glad they chose to do the traditional T9 input as that’s much easier to use with one hand  (for me anyways -I know there are also many who would prefer portrait QWERTY) which would probably be most of the reason you’d want to be using the N900 in portrait mode. As this is an early project there are some known issues: No fast input. Multi-tap to enter a letter, it’s slow and *very* painful. Changing orientation results in the text you’ve written so far being lost To use it, you’ll need to ‘killall hildon-input-method’ after installing the package (or reboot your n900) It’s (a bit) painful to use in landscape mode (the QWERTY keyboard does not show up) Future directions include: Seperate layout for landscape mode, for easier use Fast, predictive input Automatic capitalisation Talk.maemo.org , VIA @gerrymoth

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Nokia N900 Portrait T9 keyboard in the works for Maemo 5

jedibeeftrix shares an interesting post, asking whether Nokia and MeeGo tablet phone could be the ultimate convergence device. In the post is an interesting render of what MeeGo phone could look like (updated with better render) A wonderful wish list of core specifications include: At least 4″, WVGA (the standard of Nokia’s first 3 Maemo tablets) AMOLED screens Dual Core ARM Cortex A9 (Nokia already confirmed first MeeGo phone from Nokia will be on ARM architecture) No hardware keyboard, rely on good capacitive multitouch (so that interface is truly all built for touch) Must be slim so a 4″ heft is more acceptable. jedibeeftrix also wants Nokia to open up Ovi Store to other manufacturers, like Intel is with AppUp. I totally agree with that and the specs wishlist. I’d also like to have some decent N8 like imaging (w/ xenon!) – hopefully that won’t push the thickness too much

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Pic: Nokia MeeGo Phone – Ultimate Convergence Device?

Great choice of app to advertise there. Hope this is not some bad omen. To collate all the MeeGo apps, there’s gonna be of course an App Store. This seems to be coming in the flavour of Intel’s AppUp store. MeeGo manufacturers like Asus are said to be putting their own app store but this will be compatible with Intel’s AppUp.

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Video: Closer look at MeeGo App Store – Intel’s AppUp on MeeGo Tablet.