Nokia Music becomes Nokia OVI Player

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Nokia Music, Nokia’s PC Client for transferring music to devices has been renamed to Nokia OVI Player.This change is quite anticipated after Nokia’s recent trend of transferring everything to OVI. Continue reading “Nokia Music becomes Nokia OVI Player”

N97 mini launch today?

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The N97 mini is launching in India finally today after a delay. It was expected to be out in October. I know many of you might be disappointed with Nokia’s Diwali Lineup as both the N97mini and 5530 were missing. We really like the build quality of the mini as it has a metallic feel and the kinetic scrolling is pretty good in this device and getting a lot of attention since it launched at NokiaWorld

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Download E72 Copper theme if you can’t wait for the launch

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I know many of you are eagerly waiting for the launch of the E72 and while the handset is expected to be launched this month in India , TehkSeven has surprised us with a wonderful E72 Copper theme for Nokia S60 Phones. Continue reading “Download E72 Copper theme if you can’t wait for the launch”

2nd iPhone Virus Targetting Jailbroken Handsets

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It has been reported that an Australian programmer under the codename of lkee wrote a virus (worm) for the Apple iPhone specially the one that had been jailbroken.

The worm was programmed to scan the networks of Telus, Optus and Vodafone in Australia. Once infected, the worm would automatically change the wallpaper of the iPhone. Continue reading “2nd iPhone Virus Targetting Jailbroken Handsets”

Which mobile platform do you love and why ?

mobile-platforms There are so many mobile platforms out there – Symbian , Android,  iPhone , Blackberry , Windows Mobile , Palm , Maemo and now Bada.  The handset market which was once dominated by Symbian and WinMo now has fierce competition from iPhone and Blackberry. Android is growing fast too. Maemo was was never destined to be used in a phone until the Nokia N900. Palm was almost out of the radar until the Palm Pre which came with the WebOS platform. But which is the best ?  As a user which platform do you love and why ? Let us know in the comments !

Nokia E71 Price falls as the launch of its Successor is round the corner

The E71 is a great phone from Nokia and its been around for more than a year now and doing really well in terms of sales worldwide. for the users who complained about the price of the E71 . Nokia launched the E63 which packs a 3.5 mm port which even the E71 lacks. Now the price of Nokia E71 has fallen sharply over the last few weeks indicating that its successor the E72 is round the corner. The price is hovering at around Rs.16000 in India

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Apple More Profitable Than Nokia in handset business

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Apple has been setting records everywhere it goes and the cellphone industry is not an exception. Apple has enjoyed tremendous success with the launch of the Apple iPhone.

Now according to sources, Apple also seems to be making more profit by selling it’s iPhone than the profit made by the cellphone giant-Nokia. Apple surpassed Nokia or the first time in the 3rd quarter of 2009 to become the most profitable handset maker. Continue reading “Apple More Profitable Than Nokia in handset business”

iPhone Facebook Developer Quits!

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Joe Hewitt, the brains behind the Facebook application for the Apple iPhone has quit further development of the application.

“Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I’m onto a new project. My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies.” – Joe Hewitt Continue reading “iPhone Facebook Developer Quits!”

Nokia to launch Point and Find in India by 2011

“What You See is What You Can Get”. Wondering what does this statement mean? This is what Nokia’s ‘Point & Find’ will do.  Nokia has announced its plan to start rolling out its augmented reality tool ‘Point & Find’ for mobile phones next year. The US and Europe will be the first to get the new tool in early 2010, while it will be launched in India in 2011.nokia-point-and-find Continue reading “Nokia to launch Point and Find in India by 2011”

Nokia announces 3 new CDMA handsets – 6316s, 3806, 1506

Nokia has announced the release of three new CDMA mobile phones, Nokia 6316s, Nokia 3806 and Nokia 1506.  With this launch, Nokia sets to expand its CDMA range of handset in China and the Far East.

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Fujitsu Phone can swim and take pictures under Water

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The Fujitsu F-08A works 1.5m under water and it clicks pics too . At the Fujitsu booth at Symbian Exchange last month, i saw this cool phone dipped inside a bowl of water. Its got a 5MP Camera , GSM/3G Network support, NFC,GPS , MobileTV and a Music player. I just put the camera in self timer mode and wanted to see if the camera worked fine. ( and the handset runs Symbian )

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RIM unveiled a new service platform for Blackberry developers

RIM unveiled a new service platform for Blackberry developers which will enable the developers to build highly responsive, location-aware and revenue-generating applications for BlackBerry smartphones. This new services platform will offer advertising, payment, content push and new location services.

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RIM and Adobe tieup to bring Adobe tools to Blackberry

Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) and Adobe Systems expanded their collaboration and announced that creative professionals and application developers will be able to use the Adobe Flash Platform technology and Adobe Creative Suite content development and authoring tools to easily create rich content and application experiences for BlackBerry smartphones.

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Channel99.in Mobile Magazine – Download loads of content for free for a limited time

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Have you ever heard of pocket magazine? A magazine that has almost all the information anywhere, anytime you want, including entertainment, information services, live news, live sports etc and the most important point is its free for the user (Except the charges charged by operators for browsing & content download charges )

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