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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

Amazon’s Kindle free on Blackberry

Kindle, Amazon’s reader for Blackberry comes for free. Check out this Zdnet article here..

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Vic Sharma | February 20, 2010 19:11 | 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

Skype coming to Blackberry this March

Skype is upping its ante in the mobile market and announcing mobile versions of its app one after the other. Expect Skype for Blackberry this March. So in case you are planning to renew your long distance caller, hold up..More on appmodo here.

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Vic Sharma | February 19, 2010 09:21 | 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

Nokia Ovi Suite 2.1 released

Nokia’s official Ovi blog today announced that development of Nokia Ovi Suite v. 2.1.0.87.

  • Ovi.com contacts sync -> keep your contacts synced and safe in Ovi.com
  • Video transfer and playback -> Share and play your best video clips in Ovi.com
  • Device application updates -> Get great new device applications like Maps

Development of version 2.1.0.# means that 2.1.0 is done.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 18, 2010 10:21 | 0 comments

Preview of upcoming apps and games for the Nokia N900

From Mobile World Congress comes a preview video of games and apps for the Nokia N900. The titles seen in the video should hit the Ovi Store soon.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 17, 2010 13:12 | 0 comments

Fring video calling support added for E71, E51, E66 and more

Start video-calling your friends for free, from anywhere, on your mobile phone today!

After fring launched the world’s 1st video calling over Internet on Nokia touch devices, 2 months ago, we heard lots of requests for video on more phones, thus we are adding today video support to most of Nokia’s popular 9.2 series phones, including the ever-popular E71, E51, E66 and more. So download your video version today!

Video after the break.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 15, 2010 19:51 | 0 comments

Spotify for Symbian updated

Spotify for Symbian got updated today. Version 0.3.23 (64201) can be downloaded from m.spotify.com.

Along with several bug fixes this release includes:

  • 4 new devices are now supported: Nokia X6, Nokia 6760 slide, Nokia 6700 slide, and Nokia E55.
  • Text input on touchscreen devices has been rewritten. Supports special/unusual characters and hardware qwerty keyboards.
  • Text input optimizations.
  • Seeking on non-touchscreen devices is now much faster
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Jonne Eilimö | February 11, 2010 19:13 | 0 comments

Video: Super Tux game for Nokia N900

Every real Linux OS needs its own Tux game, and here is Super Tux for the Nokia N900.

Video after the break.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 11, 2010 08:23 | 0 comments

IMDb for Windows Mobile released

IMDb version 0.45(beta) was yesterday released for Windows Mobile. Check out the video after the break.

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Jonne Eilimö | February 6, 2010 10:53 | 0 comments
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