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It’s Friday, which means that you’ve likely suffered through a long week of work, getting things done, and are ready to kick back and relax. We are too, and we like to celebrate that with our weekly Friday Fun video. Now, normally, we like to make sure that the video has at least *some* tie [...]
Hot on the heels of the hubbub over the sliding camera cover on the Nokia N97, I’ve received a few tips from Nokia CARE, detailing how to best care for the lens, to prevent scratches from showing up. The scratches appear when debris gets trapped under the sliding cover, which then grinds them against the [...]
Nokia has released an update to the beta of its Ovi Suite 2.0, over at the Nokia Beta Labs. The new version should be offered to you the next time you launch the existing beta, and includes a host of bug fixes, as well as new localization options. There are quite a few new features [...]
Quickoffice just announced that today, every Nokia Symbian-powered smartphone on the market will receive a free upgrade to Quickoffice 6, the latest version of their office document suite. The level of upgrade corresponds with what your device shipped with, though, so Eseries owners will get the full viewing/editing capabilities, while other Nokia Symbian-powered devices will [...]
Earlier this week, I noticed that Nokia has been neglecting the SportsTracker service over the past several months. You can read the full post here, but basically, Nokia is not making the touch version readily available, silently discontinuing the Facebook app, and making it a hassle to post workouts to Twitter and other social networks. [...]
Just a few days ago, we brought word that many users were finding that the sliding lens cover on the Nokia N97 was actually scratching the camera glass, destroying itself. While Nokia has not, to my knowledge, released an official response to this major issue, a few enterprising users have come up with their own [...]
We’ve talked a lot about Gravity which is a Twitter client for your Symbian-powered phone. The application lets you retweet, forward, reply and other advanced features which you would expect from a Twitter client. In addition to being feature rich it also works great on handsets such as the 5800 and N97 which have a [...]
We told you just recently about the Quick Search Widget From Russell Beattie which is a widget that offers searches from different search engines. This widget took Russel Beattie 3 hours and 30 lines of codes to finish. Moubail have released their own iSearch widget which was inspired by Russell’s creation. Their iSearch lets you [...]
One of the biggest knocks against the Symbian operating system is always the UI – naysayers complain that it is ancient looking and old-fashioned, desperately needing an overhaul. A few weeks ago, Stefan interviewed Symbian’s man in charge of UI, Scott Weiss. Weiss admits in the interview that he currently carries an iPhone, and constantly [...]
