Pencil key maps itself to Nokia 5800

I often see my cousin and I finding it difficult to actually select multiple sms’s for deletion and also for choosing photos to appear as wall papers or even multiple delete without having to each time choose the mark all, mark options in the option menu every time we wanted to in the Nokia 5800.

Thanks to Juriy Bakunin aka JBAK, who was kind enough to notify the short comings, he has released a wonderful application called the JBakPensil.  It is the key that allows you to do multiple selection. Older S60 Nokias have this, the new one don’t have it anymore. It allows you to select any 1 key to emulate the pencil key to have the multiple selection option so as to be able to do several editing, selecting and deleting actions at once.

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Nokia 5630 XpressMusic Introduced

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Nokia 5630 XpressMusic : Nokia  has announced the 5630 XpressMusic as its the latest entrant to its XpressMusic family , which is really slim at a thickness of a mere 11 mm and weighs just 83g and its the most sleek N-Gage phone

It shares a lot of features of the Nokia 5800 [specs] [unboxing]

Its unusually loaded with a lot of features which you would not expect in a music phone.

To sum it up its a great entertainment device . Lets get into more details Continue reading “Nokia 5630 XpressMusic Introduced”

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Firmware Update – v20.0.012

Just hot on the heals after announcing the first firmware update version 11 for the Nokia 5800 Nokia have taken the logs directly to Firmware version v20.0.012. This is the latest firmware version that is available for Nokia 5800 users via the NSU.

The firmware update brings about native geotagging of your photos. This new firmware re-enables the feature that allows the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to save location information from the phone’s GPS receiver to your photos, so that you can browse them by location on Flickr or Share on Ovi.

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Nokia 5800 Earpiece Problem Fixed

I have been facing a strange problem with my Nokia 5800 while taking calls ..

The volume keeps dropping and suddenly its back to normal..

The Earpiece which seems to be responsible

This chip which is behind the front panel of the phone seems to have a problem .

We warn you that the following was done by trained technicians and if you attempt to do the same .. be prepared to loose your warranty ..

We opened up the front panel in order to find the ear piece chip ..

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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic crosses 1 Million in Sales

Nokia today announced that it had sold 1 million or 1,000,000 5800 XpressMusic Handsets which is currently its first mass market touch screen device.

The phone has also made a good start at UK

The phone was first launched in India earlier last year

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Tons Of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Pictures

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic aka the Tube has been officially announced less than 2 weeks ago, yet more and more photos of the handset are appearing online. Here are a few images and links so you can feast your eyes on the S60 touchscreen goodness.

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Google Phone in India for 8200

The HTC G1 or the first Google Android phone has already sold 1 .5 million units (pre-orders)

Its priced at $179 in America and comes with a 2 year contract.

Reports suggest that HTC is in talks with Indian operators to bring the Google Phone to India for as little as Rs.8200 but reports also suggest that the handset could be priced as high as Rs.20000

Anyhow thats much cheaper than the Apple iPhone price which is Rs.30000 approx.

So all your users who felt disappointed or fooled by the iphone pricing .. are u listening ?

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How Nokia might win the Touchscreen War in India !

Ever since Steve Jobs rolled out the iPhone in Jan’07 MacWorld, mobile phone manufacturers were highly uncomfortable of missing the touch screen bandwagon.
The Finnish mobile giant is now armouring its artillery with Nokia 5800 a touch screen gizmo code named “tube”.With just three physical buttons and equipped with 8GB microSD memory card it can be further expanded up to 16GB. Unlike the iPhone the 5800 will not zoom out at the finger touch on the screen. Continue reading “How Nokia might win the Touchscreen War in India !”

Whats inside the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

The first S60 5th Edition based device, designed for music lovers, has been announced – the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.  Nokia 5800 XpressMusic takes advantages of S60 5th Edition OS which features touch screen interface optimised for one-hand use and full support for tactile feedback along with Enhanced display resolution support a new Widescreen mode further compliments the touch UI.

It is among the first devices to support Comes With Music, Nokia’s music service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalogue

We wanted to quickly run through the features in this phone

Some of the key features of Nokia 5800 include:

Sensor: Sensors enable very intuitive and smart usability for the key S60 applications. For example, silence the phone ringing by turning the phone upside down. Also, Internet browsing is made more convenient by enabling scrolling Web pages and interacting directly with Web content by touching with a finger or the use of keys or stylus. Continue reading “Whats inside the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic”

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is officially out

Nokia just unveiled its iPhone competitor Nokia 5800 XpressMusic minutes ago at Nokia Remix London.

We guessed it right as we covered the leaked pictures of this touch phone from Nokia 

October 2nd was supposed to be the launch of the device

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