Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
The web monster from Nokia, which has an ARM Cortex A8 CPU with a stock clock speed of 600MHz, has successfully been overclocked to boot at over 1GHz. I too have tested the device at 900MHz and 800MHz speeds and I have had no stability issues at all. Especially at 900MHz, everything feels snappier, and even an already great and responsive phone line N900 benefits from the speed increase dramatically.
Now I would never encourage anyone to go out and overclock their devices, especially when very little, if not nothing, is known about how efficiently the device is cooled (passively of course) and how overclocking the ARM Cortex A8 CPU would affect its and the surrounding components’ lifespan. However, if you are willing to take the risks, you can find how by following the below links…
Here’s the loooong thread, where it all started: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39753
And here’s how: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=595582&postcount=774
Tags: Nokia N900, overclock
Posted in MIDs, Maemo, Maemo 5, Mobile Phones, Nokia, Software | No Comments »
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
The first firmware release for Nokia N97 mini, v10.0.20 / v10.2.20, is now online through Navifirm. This obviously sheds light on N97 mini’s (regional) availability, and while the much anticipated v2 firmware for the larger N97 still remains unavailable, this shows that it will be released very soon. Also we should note that v20.0.19 firmware for N97 can be tried out through RDA via Forum Nokia (another good sign).
Tags: Firmware Update, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 Mini
Posted in Mobile Phones, Nokia, Software, Symbian S60v5 | No Comments »
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Real-time strategy fans rejoice! One of the most popular RTS games of all times, Command & Conquer: Red Alert is coming to your iPhone/iPod Touch this October. Check out the video after the break!
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Tags: Apple iPod Touch, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, RTS, Video
Posted in Gaming, Mobile Phones, Other Mobile, Software, iPhone, iPhone / iPod Touch, iPhone/iPod Touch, iPod | No Comments »
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Sascha from MobilPresse.com has written a nice preview for gReader, the upcoming Google Reader client by MojosStuios, which I have been looking forward to for some time now! Originally written in German, Sascha was kind enough to send us an English version of the preview. Hit the read link for more…
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Tags: Google Reader, gReader
Posted in Mobile Phones, Nokia, Software, Symbian S60v3, Symbian S60v5 | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
This one’s for anyone who’s into football (or soccer depending on which side of the pond you are). Plusmo have created a great little widget for the N97 and all other S60 5th Edition devices, ESPNsoccernet, with which you choose and follow the league of your liking with live game visualization, commentaries, detailed fixtures. The widget is free on Ovi Store, so click that little blue paper-bag icon on your phone and download the widget already! N97 users can also place the widget on their homescreen, so what more can you ask for?
via SymbianWorld
Tags: ESPNsoccernet, Homescreen, Nokia N97, Ovi Store, Widget
Posted in Mobile Phones, Nokia, Software, Symbian S60v5 | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
This was expected, but nevertheless news this promising can’t be taken for granted! Nokia made it official the other day that Qt, the popular cross-platform application and UI framework was ported to Maemo 5. This implies that Maemo 5 and other mobile devices that support the platform (ie. Symbian) will be even richer in terms native applications. The N900 must be smiling! Video showing Qt running on an N900 and the press release from Espoo after the break…
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Tags: Maemo 5, Nokia N900, Qt, Video
Posted in Maemo, Maemo 5, Mobile Phones, Nokia, Software | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
One of my favorite apps for Symbian S60 v5, also a favorite for many others on other mobile OS’s, is now available through the newly launched Windows Mobile Marketplace for Mobile for Windows Mobile users. Here’s the press release right from Shazam:
Shazam launches music discovery applications on Windows® Marketplace for Mobile
Hugely popular mobile music application now available on yet another platform
London, UK – October 06, 2009 – Shazam, the world’s leading mobile music discovery provider, today announced the availability of its music discovery application for Windows® phones via the just-launched Windows® Marketplace for Mobile. Shazam will be offering a free version as well as a separate full-featured version which users can access for a one-time fee. This will be the first time Shazam is simultaneously offering two versions of its applications at once, giving Windows phone users the choice as to how they want to experience and use Shazam.
Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft Corp.’s new mobile store that allows users to browse and download mobile applications to more than 50 million existing Windows® Mobile devices, operates on an innovative new operating system that gives users access to quality applications through a seamless shopping experience. Shazam allows users to discover and share music simply by holding a phone up to a song as it is playing. The Shazam application has been downloaded by more than 8 million users on the iPhone App Store and is among the most popularly downloaded applications on BlackBerry App World, Nokia’s Ovi Store and Google’s Market.
“Windows Mobile is the latest platform for which we have developed our music discovery application that has been used and enjoyed by so many people around the world already,” said Andrew Fisher, CEO of Shazam. “We are delighted to have been included as part of the debut of Windows Marketplace and we are very pleased to be working together with Microsoft to deliver the Shazam service to a whole new population of users.”
Users of the free Shazam application will have the ability to discover up to five songs per month and have the option to share their discovered music. Premium users will get unlimited tagging capabilities plus additional features that include:
- Access to Shazam’s Tag Charts which indicate what music and which artists are hot and are being tagged by Shazam users in country
- Recommendations for similar tracks based on the tagged songs and artists
- Biographies of tagged artists and bands
- Music and album reviews, and discographies
New users will be offered the opportunity to trial the full-featured Shazam application for seven days, after which they will be prompted to purchase it or revert to the limited, free edition.
“Shazam has proven to be a popular application across numerous devices and platforms,” said Jason Lim, director of ISV and developer experience at Microsoft. “With this in mind, we’re excited to have Shazam as part of the global launch of Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The Shazam application will provide people with a unique and compelling music discovery experience and we’re very pleased to offer it.”
At launch, the Shazam applications on Windows Marketplace for Mobile will be available in English in more than thirty markets around the world. Shazam expects to roll out multi-language versions in the coming weeks.
Tags: Press Releases, Shazam, Windows Marketplace for Mobile
Posted in Mobile Phones, Software, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile | No Comments »
Monday, October 12th, 2009
When the 5800 Xpressmusic was announced I was pretty excited that I was going to be able to use a stylus to take notes with my very-hard-to-read handwriting. But the application for taking notes with a stylus was nowhere to be found. Enter Xpress Note! Xpress Note does just that, and nothing more. The application is compatible with 5800 Xpressmusic, N97 and the 5530 Xpressmusic. If you, like me, would like to quickly scrap a note on your phone, you can download the app here…
via Dailymobile
Tags: Xpress Note
Posted in Mobile Phones, Nokia, Software, Symbian S60v5 | No Comments »
Monday, October 12th, 2009
The latest version of Fring for iPhone was caught on video. Version 2.0.0.4 of the great instant messaging / voip client has an improved interface, as well as links support in chat, an easy mood text updating, disabling push notifications for Twitter and user profiles and picture upload. Video after the break!
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Tags: Apple, Apple iPod Touch, Video
Posted in Mobile Phones, Portable A/V, Software, iPhone, iPhone / iPod Touch, iPod | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Nokia N85 received a new firmware the other day, v30.101. The firmware improves copying contacts from the SIM card to the phone in addition to a few bug fixes. The firmware is available thru FOTA (Firmware Over The Air) and NSU (Nokia Software Updater)…
Posted in Mobile Phones, Nokia, Software, Symbian S60v3 | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
It’s only a matter of days, but I can’t help but be impatient about this. The following is only a rumoured release schedule for the 2.0 N97 firmware.
Stage 1
Date: (10/10)
Region: ASIA & Middle-East with Arab Gulf
Type: Un-branded Phones
Stage 2
Date: (11/10)
Region: EUROPE
Type: Un-branded Phones
Stage 3
Date: (12/10)
Region: USA, Canada & North America
Type: Un-branded Phones
Stage 4
Date: (13/10)
Region: South America, South Africa & Australia
Type: Un-branded Phones
Stage 5
Date: From (14/10) To (20/10)
Region: Worldwide
Type: Branded Phones
(Vodafone, Orange, At&t, Zain…etc)
Tags: Firmware Update, Nokia N97
Posted in Mobile Phones, Nokia, Software, Symbian S60v5 | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
According to statistics from NPD Group published on The Inquirer page, 85% of Mac users “have a pragmatic approach to their machines and use the best tool for the job at hand, whatever they want when they want it”. Additionally, having a Mac was a status symbol and the average household income of those with Macs was around $100,000. The study further revealed that, I love the irony this part implies, 85% of Mac users also have a PC. I agree with ctitanic of Mobility Site that “symbols sometimes are not enough to live in [the] current modern world controlled by PCs”.
via Mobility Site
Posted in Computers, Software | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
This one, I’m really looking forward to. As someone almost solely depending on RSS feeds to know what’s going on in the world, I was in desparate need of a good client to follow my Google Reader account on my N97, as I believe many others were. The good news is, it’s almost here! MojoStudios is on the brink of releasing gReader, a Google Reader client for Symbian S60 v3 and v5 phones. The software will be in English and German and the following devices will be supported (at first at least):
Nokia 3250, 5320, 5500, 5530, 5700, 5800, 6110, 6120, 6121, 6210, 6220, 6290, 6650, E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E63, E65, E66, E70, E71, E75, E90, N71, N73, N76, N77, N78, N80, N81, N82, N91, N92, N93, N95, N95 8GB, N96, N97, N97 Mini and X6.
You can get the latest on gReader via Twitter
via Nokia Mobile Talk via MojoStudios
We are proud to announce that our long awaited gReader is in the final stage of testing and will be released very soon. For more information and screenshots follow us on Twitter. Stay tuned for and be the first to know about the fully featured GoogleReader for Symbian.
Tags: Google Reader, gReader
Posted in Mobile Phones, Nokia, Samsung, Software, Sony Ericsson, Symbian S60v3, Symbian S60v5 | No Comments »
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
The title says it all actually. Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 was still available as a Release Candidate until today. We soon will be able to download the final version of the software…
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows XP Mode
Posted in Computers, Software | No Comments »
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
A bit earlier than expected, nevertheless as a very welcome surprise to all I’d presume, N86’s v20 firmware was released the other day through FOTA.
Here’s the changelog:
Camera improvements:
- Improved still image quality
- Improved video quality
- Face detection added
- Red-eye removal added (Nokia note: “this is image processing which removes the red-eye. You need to be in red-eye reduction flash mode for it to be operational. Other flash modes it is disabled as there is a small shot to shot impact due to the extra image processing.”)
- New focus point indication - this shows where in the scene the camera is focussing
- Improved Close-up focus. (Nokia note: “As a result you will find in most situations you can focus much closer than before. The new focus point indication will also help in confirming which part of your subject is used for critical focus checking”)
Significant bug fixes to:
- Web
- Music store client
- RealPlayer
- Ovi Maps (including faster calibration of the digital compass)
- Here and Now
- N-Gage client
- Nokia Messaging
Other New Features:
- Automatic VoIP re-registration.
- Ovi Chat shortcut on the homescreen
- An new Ovi services splash screen
- An Ovi Store client (though it’s buggy, selections from the Options menu are problematic…. – best use the mobile Ovi Store site in the meantime?)
- An initial option to check for software updates when a customer first boots up the phone
Also reported, there’s more free space on C: (around 70MB with a “freshly hard resetted” phone) with v20. There’s more free RAM (around 65MB after booting).
via All About Symbian
Tags: Firmware Update, Nokia N86
Posted in Imaging, Mobile Phones, Nokia, Software, Still Image, Symbian S60v3 | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
This one’s only a rumour, but as GSM Arena’s stated, it’s too important to pass on. According to Bloomberg, Nokia is planning to acquire Palm, which despite having an R&D budget of a tenth of Nokia, managed to develop a touch-ui OS that is more fluid and usable than Nokia’s own. Hit the via link to read more.
via GSMArena, via Bloomberg
Tags: WebOS
Posted in Mobile Phones, Nokia, Palm, Symbian S60v5 | No Comments »
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Google Sync was useful on its own, for sure, but it lacked one big feature: Push e-mail support for Gmail. Now it’s here… Go to m.google.com/sync to get acquainted with the new feature…
via Official Google Mobile Blog
Tags: Gmail, Google Sync
Posted in Mobile Phones, Software, Symbian S60v3, Symbian S60v5 | No Comments »
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
I installed this to my N97 a few days ago, and while it has a few shortcomings. For example, it can’t get the status of to-do notes, whether they were completed or not, so when you run the application it shows all your to-dos. You have to delete the old ones if you’d like to use this app.
But let’s get to the bright side, shall we? Calender Outlook 1.7 shows your calender events, tasks, to-do notes in a way that somewhat resembles Microsoft Outlook’s “Today View”. It gets better with the homescreen widget for the N97. The widget shows up to 4 lines of calender stuff on your homescreen, gently scrolling up and down for any number of entries more than 4.
This app easily replaced other calender related widgets on my homescreen… You can download the file below, or visit the official project page on Sourceforge…
Calender Outlook 1.7 (0)
Tags: Homescreen, Nokia N97
Posted in Mobile Phones, Nokia, Software, Symbian S60v5 | No Comments »
Friday, September 18th, 2009
I’ve extended my license with ESET software the other day, after seeing that it was finally added to the list of Antivirus software supported by Windows 7 . However, when downloading large amounts of data (especially at high speeds) the amount of physical memory in use gets bloated until the PC’s not usable anymore. This happens regardless of which download manager one uses, and does not happen with any other antivirus software I’ve tried. This has been tried with the 64-bit version of Windows 7 (which is very enjoyable to use by the way) and I haven’t tried the 32-bit version so I can’t say anything about it… I hope this gets fixed soon…
Tags: ESET Nod32, Windows 7
Posted in Computers, Software | No Comments »
