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Skype now available in Ovi Store

Skype is now available for Nokia smartphones from the Ovi Store.

Over 200 million more of you around the world can now download a great, full-featured Skype app to your mobile phones.

It’s ready to download now from our website or from the Ovi store, and it does everything you’d expect a great Skype app to do. Mark explains all in the video above, but in short, you can:

  • make free Skype-to-Skype calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world
  • save money on calls and texts with our low rates
  • send and receive instant messages to and from individuals or groups
  • share pictures, videos and other files
  • receive calls to your online number
  • see when Skype contacts are online and available to call or IM
  • easily import names and numbers from the phone’s address book

You can call, text, IM and everything else whether you’re on a 3G or WiFi connection, so when you’re abroad, just pop in a local SIM card with an unlimited data plan – or find a WiFi zone – and you’ll be able to avoid those pesky roaming charges.

Skype for Symbian will run on any Nokia smartphone using Symbian^1, the latest version of the Symbian platform. Soon, we’ll update the app so that it works on Symbian mobiles from other manufacturers, including Sony Ericsson.

This version of Skype for Symbian application is compatible with the following Nokia touchscreen models: Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia 5530 and the following non-touch devices: Nokia E72, Nokia E71, Nokia E90, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia E51, Nokia N96, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8Gb, Nokia N85, Nokia N82, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8 Gb, Nokia N79, Nokia N78, Nokia 6220 classic, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia 5320.

And for those wondering where I am, and why I haven’t posted anything in a while. I’m on a short(three week :)) vacation in Thailand, and therefore haven’t had time to post anything. Vic has been able to post all the important bits of information during this time, but this is the reason why you don’t get 5-10 new posts every day.

I’ll be back in action on March 15th. Take care everyone!!

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Jonne Eilimö | March 5, 2010 15:19 | 0 comments

Nokia X10 leaked – Symbian^3 and QWERTY-slider

A leaked Nokia document shows info of a previously unknown X-series phone, called most probably Nokia X10. This will also be the first phone to come with Symbian^3 on board, and it will basically be a X6 with Symbian^3 and a QWERTY-keyboard. Here is what is known so far:

  • ARM Cortex A8 600MHz
  • 3.2″ AMOLED capacitive touch screen
  • 16GB or 32GB internal memory
  • 256MB RAM
  • QWERTY-slider
  • Symbian^3
  • WiFi
  • 5 megapixel camera
  • HSDPA
  • GPS

Video and pictures after the break.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 21, 2010 21:55 | 0 comments

Video Chat feature coming to future iPhones

In the depths of the current iPhone SDK lays evidence of a Video Chat feature, that will most probably be used in future iPhones. This means that we will in fact see a front facing camera on the coming iPhone.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 21, 2010 15:34 | 0 comments

Original Windows Mobile 7 UI demoed – Before the change to Windows Phone 7

In the leaked video you can see what the Windows Mobile 7 UI would have looked like, if Microsoft hadn’t decided to scrap the plans of a new Windows Mobile, and go with a whole new design that we today know as Metro UI on Windows Phone 7 Series.

The Metro UI seen in Windows Phone 7 Series is much more user friendly than what the WiMo7 UI. I think it was a good decision to start the whole work from scratch, which led to the fact that we today are waiting for Windows Phone 7 Series.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 21, 2010 09:20 | 0 comments

Google Mobile App for iPhone updated

Google today released a new version of the Google Mobile App for the iPhone. The changelog can be seen in the image above.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 20, 2010 23:46 | 0 comments

Firefox for Nokia N900 now available in the Ovi Store

Firefox for Nokia’s N900 is now available in the Ovi Store.

GLOBAL – N900 users rejoice, Firefox is ready to download directly from the Ovi Store. Officially released at the start of the month on the Mozilla website, the app has been working its way through the Ovi Store approval process and is now ready for N900 users to download.

This is a big leap for Firefox, as this sparks the first release of the full Firefox experience on a mobile device. There’s a ton of great functionality to get stuck into, and some new mobile-specific functions as well.

One of the best parts of Firefox mobile is the ability to sync with your desktop or laptop browser. Using the Weave Sync plugin, you can keep create a Weave account and keep all your browers in Sync. As Jay shows off in the video below, you’ll be able to pull up pages from your history on a mobile device, which you previously browsed on your desktop.

Check out the video after the break.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 20, 2010 09:30 | 0 comments

Nokia Software Updater updated to version 2.4.5

Nokia Beta Labs just updated the Nokia Software Updater program to version 2.4.5.

New features

This release candidate supports Microsoft Windows 7 and improved USB connectivity. This release also includes “What’s New” release notes for the software (only available for some products/languages) to conveniently highlight the improvements and new features for your device.

After you have updated your device software*, please give feedback on the forum.

Any critical improvements needed will be included in the actual release, while smaller items will be fixed in coming releases.  We would like to hear especially if you have any problems with the USB connection and which kind of PC hardware you used.

* As with any software update, please be sure to follow the on-screen advice before starting the update process to avoid possible data loss.

Read more from Nokia’s Beta Labs here, and download it here(needs account at Nokia Beta Labs).

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Jonne Eilimö | February 19, 2010 15:41 | 0 comments

Fennec Alpha 4 now available for Windows Mobile

Mozilla just released a new development version (Alpha 4) of their Mobile Firefox Fennec browser for Windows Mobile.

New in this release:

  • Improved interactions with the software keyboard
  • Fixed painting artefacts from panning
  • Faster .exe installer option
  • More responsive “fuzzy” zoom
  • Option to become default browser
  • Opening downloads from download manager fixed
  • Password echoing
  • Improved panning/scrolling performance
  • Improved start-up time
  • Numerous bug fixes
  • Improved painting performance
  • Improved UI polish
  • Improved kinetic panning with directional locking
  • Ability to scroll frames
  • Improved zooming support

The 10.2MB file can be downloaded here.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 19, 2010 10:08 | 0 comments

Nokia phone with Snapdragon onboard coming this year?

In an article in yesterdays Helsingin Sanomat, Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm talks about their co-operation with Nokia and what it will bring us. Currently, the only Nokia device to have a Qualcomm chip inside, is the Nokia Booklet 3G.

According to the article, we will see a Symbian powered device by Nokia that runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU. This is the same chip that for instance the Google Nexus One is using. These new phones will be targeted at North-American markets, where Nokia is currently facing the strongest competition. This Windows Phone 7 Series phone should hit the market before Christmas.

Another interesting fact from the article, is that Nokia will next time announce new smart phones in March 2010.

If you understand Finnish hit read more (image of the original article).

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Jonne Eilimö | February 19, 2010 09:39 | 0 comments

Lettered passcode on your iPhone

Here’s an interesting passcode hack for the iPhone. Actually, this one isn’t even a hack, since it has been made with Apple’s own tools and can be used on a non-jailbroken device. 9to5mac used Apple’s Corporate Development kit to make this.

The hack will let you use letters in your passcode, and it forces you to combine numbers and letters in it, and will not let you use sequences of any kind. For instance ‘abcd1234′ is not allowed, when ‘adbc4132′ is allowed.

To apply this hack, you just simply have to open this file with your iPhone. If you ever need to get rid of this, simply go to Settings/General/Profiles/9to5mac/ and remove the file.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 19, 2010 07:32 | 0 comments

Windows Phone 7 Series ad leaked?

Not sure if this one is real, but at least it looks good. What do you think about this?

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Jonne Eilimö | February 18, 2010 20:30 | 0 comments

Apple raises 3G app download limit to 20MB

Apple has quietly raised the app download limit over 3G to 20MB. According to 9to5mac this update has hit at least Germany and Canada, and I can confirm that it is also 20MB here in Finland. So I guess we could call it global.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 18, 2010 17:31 | 0 comments

HTC HD mini compared with HTC HD2 – Pictures and video

Neowin has made an interesting comparison between the recently announced HTC HD mini and the older and bigger HTC HD2. The HTC HD mini packs these features:

  • 3.2″ capacitive touch screen with a HVGA resolution (320 x 480)
  • 600MHz CPU
  • 512MB ROM and 384MB RAM
  • 5 megapixel auto focus camera
  • A-GPS
  • WiFi 802.11 b/g
  • Windows Mobile 6.5 with HTC Sense
  • HSPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz
  • GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

So basically this is a HTC HD2 but with a less powerful processor, and a smaller screen. Neowin also commented on this and said that they where experiencing small lag issues with the Sense UI. More pictures and a video after the break.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 18, 2010 10:51 | 0 comments
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