Today the Ovi Mail team has just released Ovi Mail 2.0. With this release, your Ovi Mail contacts and Ovi Contacts are merged into one contacts list. You can view, edit, delete or create your contacts from Ovi Contacts or Ovi Mail. You can also sync your device phonebook with Ovi Contacts and Ovi Mail. This was the most desired feature by Ovi Mail users and we are excited to bring this to you.
Nokia on March 2nd, 2010 unveiled the Nokia C5, a smartphone optimized for social networking and sharing. The compact device includes access to Nokia’s range of mobile services, such as free navigation, in one affordable package, with an estimated retail price of EUR 135, before taxes and subsidies.
Nokia Beta Labs just announced today an updated for its Ovi Maps Beta to version 3.04.
With the Ovi MapsBeta (v3.04) exploring new places and getting to your destination is easier and faster than ever. This new Beta release is all about performance improvement. Nokia has made a few tweaks to improve the performance of Ovi Maps such as improved positioning speed and accuracy, map zooming with faster speed, improved search for cities with zoom out to city level.
Symbian^3, the next version of Symbian OS, would be the future of all Symbian handsets based-on. Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President of Nokia smartphones already confirmed that. Symbian^3 will enhance the user experience with better graphics performance, the speed of the UI, and less user prompts, making the experience “WOW but familiar.”
Here is a video of Symbian^3 Design Preview with HD video.
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For smarter browsing, get the best internet experience on your smartphones by using Opera Mobile 10 beta 3 that just released. Many new features has been added to the new release such as Opera Link that able to synchronized your bookmarks and Speed Dial between your mobile phone and desktop computer, faster browsing at rendering pages, zooming, panning and almost everything else you do with a browser, Speed Dial to get your favorite web pages with just one click, Tabbed browsing so you can browse several Web sites at the same time. Check your email in one window, Facebook in another, and Twitter in a third, all while easily jumping from one tab to another and many more.
On Monday, Feb 15th, 2010 Skype released a new version of its VOIP application for Symbian S60 v3 and v5 phones such as Nokia 5800, Nokia E51, Nokia E63, and Nokia X6. At launch only Nokia phones are supported, Skype will become availabe for other Symbian phone models soon such as Sony Ericsson and Samsung. You can check and review for download the new version from here.
The Nokia N900 has just received a new firmware update taking it up to v3.2010.02-8 (PR 1.1.1).
New firmware updates generally contain bug fixes and optimizations necessary for the software on your device to perform properly, therefore we recommend you always keep your device up to date. Unfortunately there is no official changelog but we will update this article as soon as we know more. The new firmware will gradually make its way round to you over the coming weeks depending on your region and product code.
Yesterday Nokia just updated the Beta release of Nokia Messaging for Social Networks.
Warm up your Twitter fingers, the latest Nokia Messaging for social networks beta has now added support for Twitter, making tweeting even more convenient from the homescreen of your Nokia handset.
S40 support, bug fixes to improve client performance, and minor feature enhancements:
A hacker, nicknamed as PNHT, has successfully hacked the Nokia 5800 firmware v40. By hacking the latest firmware it means that you now can install unsigned application within signing them. For more detail how to hack the firmware, go to the forum thread. However, the hacker warning that by doing this you may damage your phone. Do at your own risk.
As we know, Nokia just released a firmware update to v40.0.005 for Nokia 5800. Many 5800 users around the globe has been waiting for this update for a long time.
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Nokia reported a third-quarter loss of €559 million (US$833 million) that it blamed on charges related to its Nokia Siemens business. Sales of €9.8 billion were down 20 percent compared to last year, the company said on Thursday.The main reason for the loss is a €908 million impairment charge related to Nokia Siemens. It is also paying €29 million restructuring charge related to the infrastructure company, according to Nokia. Both tough competition and adverse market conditions played a part in Nokia Siemens’ problems, it said. continue reading…
