Over the past year or two, Nokia has actually done a much better job of getting new firmware updates rolled out to all variants and product codes than they used to. We NAM folks don’t get screwed nearly as much as we used to, which is good. Today’s news is that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic [...]
Nokia has been on a roll with firmware updates lately. Earlier they released a new firmware for the Nokia E71, E66, E63, and N86 8MP, but today we’ve got new firmwares for other popular phones, including the awesome 5800 XpressMusic and E72 smartphones. Firmware v50.0.05 for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a big one, adding [...]
Nokia recently released firmware updates for the N86 8MP, E72, and my beloved 5800 XpressMusic. They also updated the Nokia Software Updater application, making it fully compatible with Windows 7 (eliminating the need for you to follow our helpful walkthrough on how to install and use Nokia Software Updater on Windows 7). The Nokia N86 [...]
This morning, Nokia announced the second beta of its Nokia Messaging for Social Networks, v2.0, with improved Facebook support and the addition of basic Twitter functionality. I’ve been testing this new client out on my Nokia N97 over the weekend, and find it pretty interesting. For starters, Nokia Messaging for Social Networks is only supported [...]
The developer with alias Bergamot, behind the synchronization application Swim has released a prototype of a new application for multimedia purposes. Based on the headphone daemon for Maemo and how Android works, For Your Ears Only is a small application that is both simple to use and powerful in it’s function. Have you ever been [...]
Matthew Miller over at NokiaExperts just discovered that Olive Tree Bible Software has opened their previously-closed beta Bible Software for S60 5th Edition devices to everyone. You can now download this beta to check it out on your S60 5th-Edition-powered smartphone, such as the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic or the Nokia N97, to have instant access [...]
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was Nokia’s first S60 Symbian-powered touchscreen smartphone, and when it was announced, I assumed it would be a train wreck, but decided I needed to own one anyways. The first few firmwares were, indeed, train wrecks, and against the other touchscreen smartphones that Nokia has launched since, it’s definitely lacking key [...]
The website Masmil.tk was unknown to me until I came across a very handy application that was developed by Massimo Milazzo, the man behind the website. Upon browsing through some of the contents on the website I decided to share some of the applications he have developed for Symbian-powered handsets with touch screens such as [...]
Waze, the social GPS solution that allows users to report traffic incidents and updates maps with user-generated information finally became publicly available for S60 3rd Edition smartphones a few weeks ago. While this includes awesome phones like the Nokia E71, Nokia N79, and even the old Nokia N95, unfortunately it left the touchscreen phones out [...]
