MyPhone, The 5800 app launcher which converts your 5800 to iPhone has just released a new version 2.40 with many new feature additions.

The Main Attractions of MyPhone 2.40 are:

1. Speed dial.
2. Memo Deduction game.
3. Memo Mosaic game.
4. Enhanced performance.

To use the Speed dial function, just go to MySetting -> MyAPP & Links, Replace the appname with your preferred friend’s name and the exename with the respective friends phone number. Then choose an icon and click add to find the speed dial icon on your homescreen.

The Application is available for trial and if you liked the application, then you can buy the full version for 12.99 USD.

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Its been 5 months since Nokia’s Ovi Store has launched. Bill Perry, the Sr. Services Marketing Manager for Forum Nokia, California has written about the statistics of Ovi Store so far.

Quoting from his blog mobileperry, the following stats of Ovi Store are from 26 May 2009 through the 31st October 2009:

• Available on over 100 different Nokia devices (60+ Symbian S60 devices)
• Active users from over 180 countries
• Developers from 65 countries are distributing content
• 8 countries today have local content, local language support and mobile billing: UK, Spain, France, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Italy, Russia. By the end of Q1 2010 there will be more than 20 countries.
• Top 10 Ovi Store Markets by performance in alphabetic order: Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Russia & UK
• In almost all of the top 10 Ovi Store countries, 5800 XpressMusic and N97 are the #1 and  #2 devices for Ovi Store activity and consumer engagement
• Re-Download now available and search is much improved.
• Ovi Store will ship embedded on most new compatible Nokia devices including Symbian S60 and Series 40 from Q4 2009
• On average, each registered user has downloaded at least 8 items from Ovi Store
• In October, the number of content items downloaded was over 70% higher than in Sept.

Hmmm Looks like the Ovi Store is doing pretty well. Isnt it?

Also it seems like the rise in the sales of touchscreen phones like Nokia 5800 and Nokia N97 are showing on the Ovi Store as well. What do you think?

Have you used Ovi Store? What do you think about it? Pass on your views below.

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Today, we come with great news for many of you. The Nokia N900 will start selling in the USA starting from today. The Nokia N900 has already begun shipping to customers who had pre-ordered it. The N900 is also expected to hit other countries in the coming weeks.

The Nokia N900 will be sold as a sim-free model without any network branding or restrictions at a price of 649 US$ at the flagship stores, retail stores and various online retailers including Amazon. The pre-order price was cheaper at 559 US$. But the Nokia N900 is worth the 649 US$ nevertheless.

Nokia hopes that the N900 will enable it to regain its market share and will fix the errors it made with its recent releases.

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The GSMA has announced the Winners of its 2009 Mobile Awards and a real good surprise for Nokia. The N97 Mini which has been launched in India recently has won the Award for the Best Mobile Handset Best Mobile Broadband Handset/Device . I played with the Mini at Nokia World and most recently at the Nokia N-Tourage Event in Blore and this handset is very impressive in terms of build quality , speed and kinetic scrolling and much better than the big brother. Enjoy our Nokia N97 Mini Gallery

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“We are delighted with the number of high quality entries we received for this year’s Asian Mobile Awards and Mobile Innovation Grand Prix – Asia Tournament,” said Rob Conway, CEO and Member of the Board for the GSMA. “These awards reflect the strong growth of mobile communications in Asia – in the last year alone mobile connections in the region have risen by 370 million, and this growth is driven by innovative new services, applications and ever richer mobile content. These awards recognise the leaders, pioneers and innovators that are making this happen. Our congratulations to the winners, and our thanks to all those who participated.”

The winners of the Asia Mobile Awards 2009 are:

Best Mobile Game

• Gameloft for  ‘Hero of Sparta’

Best Mobile Music Service

• Singapore Telecom Mobile for  ‘SingTel AMPed’

Best Mobile TV or Video Service

• Telegent Systems for  ‘Telegent Free-to-Air Mobile TV – TLG1120 Mobile TV Receiver’

Best Mobile Advertising or Marketing

• Smart Communications and Unilever – AXE for  ‘AXE on Phone’

Best Mobile Enterprise Application Product or Service

• Orascom Telecom Bangladesh for  ‘Banglalink Jigyasha’

Best Mobile Internet Service

• Geodesic for  ‘Mundu IM’

Best Mobile Money Service

• Smart Communications for  ‘Smart Money’s expanded mobile-based security feature for online purchases’

Mobile Money for the Unbanked Award

• Smart Communications for  ‘Smart Islands Activation Program (IAP)’

The Green Mobile Award

• Grameenphone and Huawei for  ‘Building a Greener Mobile Network’

Best Mobile Broadband Handset/Device

• Nokia for N97 Mini

The Asia Mobile Awards were created by the GSMA as a platform to showcase leadership and diversity for mobile content, products and services across Asia. Judged by a panel of independent analysts, journalists and industry experts, this year’s Awards attracted more than 100 entries from operators, vendors and the broad value chain from across the mobile industry that provide products and services that are commercially available in at least one Asian market. For the first time, this year’s winners will also be shortlisted for the Global Mobile Awards, which take place next year at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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Nokia India has planned a tete-a-tete with Mr. Jonne Harju, Senior Design Manager, Nokia Design Studio in Bangalore today in an event named as “Nokia N-Tour-Age“. For the people who don’t know him, he is a part of Nokia Nseries global design team and works with a team of experts and researchers. He has also been responsible for designing the Nokia N97 Mini, which got launched in India yesterday.

He will be here to share a perspective on:

1. Nokia Nseries design strategy: how digital meets physical
2. User Insights: consumer research, behavioral trends
3. How Nokia takes these forward and makes it available through the hardware and digital interface
4. Nokia N97 Mini design story, India launch an availability
5. Nokia’s services strategy: How Nokia is creating an ecosystem and working with developers to give consumers a more content rich experience (Ovi store)

Additionally, he will also be holding sessions along with an Indian mobile content developer who works very closely with Nokia.

Fonearena Team will be there to cover the event, so keep watching at this space for more details or you could also follow us on twitter for live updates from the event.

So if you have any questions/queries to Mr Jonne Harju that you would want to get answered, do let us know. We will try to get it answered by him today.

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Last week, we were invited to visit the Nokia Research Center located in Bangalore, where the Nokia Research Team demoed us a pilot project called “We Meet“, a Location Aware SMS Based application.

This application allows the users to create groups and chat with group in realtime. And also since the application supports location sharing based on the CBS i.e Cell Broadcast Service, the user can even broadcast their location with the rest of the group members without a GPS enabled device.

We Meet works on Java and hence can be easily run on all S60 and S40 Devices. Using the Java application, you can create create a group, add members to a particular group, participate in a real time chat with a specific group,  modify application settings like turning on/off the location sharing service to protect your privacy, turning on/off the whole service etc. You can also keep track of the sent and received SMS using the inbuilt SMS Counter.

However if your phone does not support Java, you can still use the “We Meet” service by making use of the text commands listed here.

So if you are interested in trying out this group SMS application, just head over to the application’s home page and download the application.

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Some users are also reporting that their pre-orders have been shipped in the UK and Europe

Press release

Espoo, Finland – The highly-anticipated Nokia E72, a device tailor-made for business and personal messaging is now available in stores. To coincide with the arrival of the Nokia E72, Nokia has also released research* revealing that more people rely on email than on traditional phone calls or text messaging when sending and responding to critical information.
Speaking about the research results, Nokia vice president Ukko Lappalainen said, “The research shows that people are spending an average of five full days per year – equivalent to a full work week – responding to emails. Half of us (46 percent) choose email over voice or text to send and receive important information. The Nokia E72 was designed exactly with this kind of person in mind – it allows the owner to be more responsive and communicate how they want, whenever they want and wherever they are.”

The Nokia E72 builds on the formula from Nokia’s most successful full QWERTY keyboard device, the Nokia E71, and adds important new functionality such as desktop-like email and chat experiences. Morevoer, the latest version of Ovi Maps with A-GPS navigation and compass, an optical navi key and 5 megapixel camera are all packed into the sleek, beautifully-designed handset.

The Nokia E72 also comes with Nokia’s push consumer email service, Nokia Messaging, and now for the first time people can set up instant messaging (IM) directly from the homescreen, accessing communities such as Windows Live(TM) Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi Chat. Just like chatting via the desktop, people can respond to friends and colleagues across multiple communities in real-time.

The Nokia E72 can also accommodate multiple work and personal email accounts and, with separate profiles for work and play, allows people to be flexible when it comes to choosing how, when, where and who to respond to. While work emails rank as the most important messages to receive, they are not necessarily the most urgent messages to respond to. According to Nokia’s research, half of respondents (49 percent) prioritise their partners ahead of their bosses or managers (29 percent), colleagues (23 percent) and even customers (31 percent).

The Nokia responsiveness research was commissioned to examine the various factors that influence how people respond to various issues and situations. In addition to the research, an online campaign that invites people around the world to respond to various issues and comments from TED Fellows.

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Ranesh was a Nokia fan for a long time and had owned few Nokia’s including an E70. But he made the transition to Verizon for a decent deal on a Voyager two years ago (because he likes qwerty keyboards and that was the only one he liked at the time). Ranesh couldn’t wait for a decent Nokia device to hit the market he liked, so he took the plunge. When he tested out the N97, he was terribly disappointed with the overall OS and decided to hold out for the Christmas season of this year to see what was around the corner and settled on the Motorola Droid running the Android 2.0 OS.

Nokia is readying the release of their flagship handset, the N900. Unfortunately, Nokia posted it’s first loss in 10 years.(We know Nokia Siemens Networks was to blame.) The problem wasn’t lack of phones worldwide but the Chinese “bandit” or known as “shanzhai” manufacturers eating away at Nokia’s bottom line. Several of these manufactures including Shenzhen Evien Co., Ltd., SZ Telstar Co Ltd., T-Link Industrial Development Company Limited, ZTE Corp., Lenovo and Huawei Tech have already infiltrated the Chinese market with a variety of cell phones. This doesn’t include big boys like HTC and Dell, among others that are making a splash into the worldwide market.

Nokia is the largest mobile phone manufacturer but is feeling the confined spaces of the Mobile market more than ever. RIM’s Blackberry (the business mainstay), Apple’s iPhone (of course) and Palm’s Pre (and soon to be Pixi line), have all cut into Nokia’s overall market share. Not to mention Google’s Android is having huge success with HTC building some great quality phones and across other manufacturers too. While still fighting off fierce competition in the high end cell phone range, Nokia has to contend with middle and low end all at the same time. A feat never before performed for his Helsinki, Finland company.

Step in Maemo: Nokia decided to strike back with the flagship N900 which runs its latest OS based off of Linux called Maemo. This new handset is set to change the direction for Nokia in the mid to higher end device range. Nokia began shipments on November 10^th and are expected to hit retailers shortly, for an estimated price of EUR 500 ($746.00 USD).

Will Nokia be able to break through the obstacles of intruders into its once dominant domain? The N900 comes packed with plenty of features WAY ahead of phones in its class: ARM Cortex-A8 processor, up to 1GB of total application memory. widgets, contacts and shortcuts all on the desktop,. Pictures and videos taken with the 5Mpx Carl Zeiss camera automatically are tagged where they were taken, SMS and IM, standard built-in 32 GB storage is big enough to store up to 7,000 songs or 40 hours of DVD-quality video, and it can be expanded up to 48GB with an external microSD card.

Image Courtesy of tnkgrl

The phone is amazing and packs an MMA like punch compared to other phones in the market place at this time, but Nokia will have to bring the beautiful Maemo OS down to the mid and perhaps even lower range handsets to regain what market share has already been lost. If anyone can do this, Nokia can and with the N900, where they proved that they are listening to the consumer.

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