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David Dueblin, Product Manager, Ovi Mail at Nokia Betalabs today introduce Ovi Mail Setup app for S60 and support for 4 additional languages on webmail. This handy small Ovi mail app helps to sign-up for new ovi mail account directly on Nokia device and  also configure the Nokia email client.



"-What it is

This application allows you to sign-up for an Ovi Mail account directly from your S60 device. Or if you already have an Ovi account it will provision Ovi Mail and configure the email client on the device. And it installs a handy icon in the Installations folder for easy access to Ovi Mail.

-What it isn’t

This is not an email client. You will continue using the existing email client on your device. If you’re already successfully using Ovi Mail on your device you don’t need to install this.

-Webmail

We have also silently launched an update to our webmail interface. We have simplified the navigation on the left and made it more consistent from page to page. And we’re trying to keep up with the global expansion of Ovi Mail and have added 4 additional languages: Thai, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Finnish. Go to https://mail.ovi.com to see these changes."



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My friend Aditya over symbian-lifeblog is having cool contest where he is giving away upto 10 activation codes to the M1 – Android application. This application is designed to mimic the Android UI on Symbian S60 device

To join the contest you only need to:
- Comment in this post at over symbian-lifeblog , saying something like: “I am in”, “I want to get a M1 App”, simply comment;
-On the comment you must put a real e-mail so that we can contact you
…that’s it.

To know more about Rules and Date please head over symbian-lifeblog.com!

Best of Luck.....!

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TuneWiki now developed its social media player for Symbian S60 5th Edition devices. The company reviewed its application at this year’s DEMOfall 09 demoing it on Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s recently announced X6 smartphone.According to TuneWiki the app can work on both S60 touch & non-touch devices, and users of Series 40 feature phones has to wait as its S60 TuneWiki app is under development.

What’s especially interesting about the S60 version of TuneWiki is that it offers a “Follow Me” feature, allowing a user’s social network to see what that user is listening to. The player also allows music videos to be viewed with subtitled lyrics, and the user can “blip” a link to his or her social networks to display the music being played.

You can download TuneWiki at Ovi Store.


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Nice Nokia theme for S60 V3 Pre FP1, FP1 & FP2 devices my Moncc

-Full SVG
-9 Picture
-900 + Icon Pack

Share & Enjoy!


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DateQuota now updated to version 0.1.6, 'Setting quota to zero stops the application working' -issue resolved


With this tiny free S60 apps which I found very useful to S60 Mobile users who use Packet Data as their internet carrier. Data Quota simply shows how much of your packet data quota you’ve used so far this month. On the first of each month (or whenever your quota resets on billing day), clear the packet data counter.

Download DataQuota.0.1.6.sisx here!
License : Free

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Today Nokia acquires Dopplr - Dopplr provide service for smart travelers, Dopplr help its members share personal and business travel plans privately with their networks, and highlight interesting places to stay, eat and explore in cities around the world.



Straight from Nokia Press:-

"Espoo, Finland - Nokia and Dopplr announced today that Nokia has acquired Dopplr Oy, a privately-held mobile service provider for international travelers. Dopplr has a team of seven people with offices in London and Helsinki. The Dopplr team brings to Nokia's Services unit unique know-how in creating internet-based communities and showing their journeys, experiences and tastes collectively on the web.

The acquisition does not change the current Dopplr service which is available at Dopplr.com and on platforms where Dopplr is integrated."

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Nice Reddish S60 theme fully updated with new NaHiD iconset by Nahid

Compatible with 3rd edition devices.
Default and custom icons version added.
Added more than 325+ 3rd party icons.

Share & Enjoy.....!

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The Symbian Blog today posted about 'Symbian Wiki Books'-Symbian Wiki is a online book about Python development on the Symbian platform, aimed to Python newbies. This Book is being created in collaboration with number of authors, all of them contributing to this book online. The book is already up with 10 chapters and taking shape of Online symbian Wiki, where you can also contribute.


"The book is aimed at those new to Python (on Symbian or indeed on any platform). Although the wiki text is not yet complete, it already forms an excellent resource. Mike Jipping’s chapter on Basic Python Elements is a great guide to the fundamentals of the language, while for those who already know Python, a chapter on Standalone Applications explains how to make Python much more accessible to users of Symbian devices. There are also chapters on User Interface Basics, the Touch User Interface, and Location Based Services.

If you’re interested in learning about Python, the wiki book is a very good place to start – and as you read it, if you have any corrections, feedback or ideas for improvement, please leave them as comments at the bottom of the wiki page. We’ll acknowledge all contributions in the finished book, and are very keen to get your ideas as the text evolves."

Contribute to a Wiki Book!

You could get involved in one of sumbian wiki book projects by:

-Proposing a book topic
-Proposing a table of contents (or part of a table of contents) for a book
-Writing one or more of the sections proposed in an existing wiki book project
-Leading an authoring team on new book project
-Reviewing sections of wiki books as they take shape.

You can find out how to contribute to a Symbian book project here!

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WeeWheel is a freeware Symbian application for Nokia S60 3rd & 5th edition mobile devices that uses the built in accelerometer of nokia smartphone to detect motion and convert it into joystick, mouse or keyboard signals for computer using a simple Bluetooth connectivity, This allow you to control the PC by just moving your mobile device.

Key features of WeeWheel for Nokia S60 include:

- Remote joystick emulation with an acceleromenter through Bluetooth.
- Mouse & Keyboard emulation.
- Up to 8 Joystick button emulation through the mobile phone’s keypad.
- Macro: Record and play phone actions.



WeeWheel is compatible with Nokia S60 3rd and 5th Edition and Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Quick Installation instructions:

Download and install Python on your Nokia S60 mobile device from here.

Install the PC component:
1. Download and extract PP Joy on your PC from here and run setup.exe
2. Go to Control Panel and select the Parallel Port Joysticks icon
3. Click the Add button
4. Click on the Parallel Port dropdown menu and select Virtual Port.
5. Click Add. Now select the newly created Virtual Joystick
6. Click on Mapping. Click Next. Choose 2 axes, 8 buttons, 0 POV hats. Click Next three times and click Finish.
7. Install WeeWheel

For more instructions download WeeWheel manual here [PDF].

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Three free themes to light up your Nokia device.



Description:Cubes by Igmonius is nice s60 theme, with very strong glass texture and  reflective effects.



Description: Leo S60 theme by Leo with nice background and glassy icon .



Description: Reflections by Danni supports the complete conversion of icons and also offers original Nokia default icons.

These are nice free themes for S60 V3 Pre FP1, FP1 & FP2 Nokia Devices from  Igmonius, Danni And  Leo.

Share and Enjoy...!



Download all free themes in a single ZIP here!

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This is nice free game for Nokia Touch devices,where the main objective is to touch-trace your way from the yellow start position to the red end position without touching any of the walls. Playing is game is real fun and challenging, try out your self.

I am sure you will enjoy this touch game.


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Roope over Nokia Betlabs Blog today introduce a new software for visually impaired called Nokia Braille Reader- which Nokia has developed as a joint project with Tampere University and the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired.
Nokia Betalabs:-
"We here at Nokia, and our partners as well, have been thinking of how to do something concrete about accessibility for quite some while. And now, our new Nokia Braille Reader application gives SMS for the blind and visually impaired. It captures received SMS messages and brings them to the foreground for reading using Braille and tactile feedback. The application was concepted together with actual users and researchers focusing on the topic, and we are now happy to show the first experimental version of the concept. We hope to get your comments and feedback so this application could be truly optimized to your use. We also want to share our enthusiasm in creating innovations for you and with you."

Note:-Compatible with Nokia devices based on S60 5th Edition, including Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the newly released N97 mini, 5530, 5230 and X6.

Head over Nokia Betalabs to Download!

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Nokia Java Runtime team over Nokia Belatabs has today release an update for Java Runtime 2.0 on S60. The update brings several smaller bug corrections, but the most significant fix is the change to the conversion functionality. The most noticeable thing I noticed is one-click application installation & improved execution performance.
Fixed in this update:
1-MIDlets are converted to internal mass storage if possible
2-MIDlet with large RMS can be started
3-MIDlets can access memory card root folder
4-Support all Nokia specific JAD attributes
5-Conversion will avoid situations where disk space might go below critical level
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Minor changes:
1-Updates to eSWT widgets
2-Minor changes to bluetooth
3-Reduced the amount of debug logging, which should give minor performance improvement
Please visit below link to know more about installation process and known issue.

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This is nice S60 theme for Nokia touch device by DavdeMars with facebook like icon and other icon by Zylam. Facebook fan will surly love the facebook like icon.

Share and enjoy!

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After six day's Nokia's N-gage Ducati Moto finally available for download on N-Gage client and at n-gage showroom page. Just update your N-gage client showroom to download the game directly on device.

Feel the rush as you race across the globe with Ducati® Moto!

"Experience the thrill of street bike racing with Ducati Moto, the pulse-pounding racing title from the celebrated game creators at Vir2L Studios, a ZeniMax Media company. Choose from official Ducati bikes and compete in Championship events as you tear through the streets of Hong Kong, burn up the asphalt in the deserts of Morocco, and power around the dizzying cliffs of Amalfi!

Ducati Moto features:

-Race in five Championship Events including Time Attack, Race, Eliminator, Race Line, and Stunt Challenge.

-Challenge yourself in exotic locations such as Morocco, Italy, Hong Kong, and more.

-Choose from 11 Ducati motorcycles including the Monster, Hypermotard, 848 & 1098 Superbikes, and Desmosedici RR.

-Choose from eight unique characters each in their own colorful and distinctive leathers.

-New stunt modes including wheelies, burnouts and jumps."


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Opera today just released the Beta version of its lite mobile browser Opera Mini 5, Opera called it "The next generation of mobile browsing". So let's see what this new next generation mobile browser is going to deliver to Mobile Internet users.

Opera mini 5 is Java based browser supports server-based browsing, which means that it passes all of the requested content through Opera’s servers which compress and optimize the data for mobile browsing, before delivering it to mobile device. This process speed's up the web page loading with better support for full desktop browsing like experience.
Opera Mini 5 got lot's of new features which makes it next generation mobile browser.

1- Tabs Browsing.
2- Password Manager.
3- Full Web overview.
4- Full Touch Support.
5- Speed Dial.
6- Power Scrolling.
7- Faster Webpage Search.
8- High Speed With up to 90% Data Compression.
9- Ability to Copy/Paste.

Top new features


1-Tabbed browsing:Browse several Web sites at the same time. Jump easily from one to another.

2-Speed Dial:Your favorite sites are just one click away.

3-Touch & Keypad:The interface optimizes the display for both touchscreen and keypad phones.


4-Password manager:Log on to your e-mail, social network and other sites with just one click.



To try Opera Mini 5 beta, simply visit the address m.opera.com/next, using your phone’s default Web browser or download to your computer. And it is completely free.

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Steve Litchfield over AAS has reported that the next firmware for the Nokia N86 8MP includes a 'Face Detection with Face Tracking' feature. The most wanted feature Mobile Photographer needed, now the Camera application can scan for human faces and will automatically focus on any that it finds.
 With this new feature the new firmware will also improve photo quality (less artefacts, better colours). This is first time Nokia incorporated its device with 'Face Detection' camera feature. As nokia N86 going to have it, I think Nokia should consider to make it available on its most lovable camera device the Nokia N82. What do you think please comment if you want to see this feature in Nokia N82. 

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Nokia has started the competition PUSH N900,a unique design, hacking & modding project for developers to make the most of N900 handset and open  Maemo software.

N900 surprised Nokia when it received the title of most popular device on display at Nokia World 09. Now Nokia is working on feed received on N900 by encouraging developers via Nokia PUSH N900 competition.


"The brief is simple: tell us how you would hack and mod the N900 & Maemo to connect the N900 to something you love. PUSH N900, participants need to submit their written, visual or video submission by October 5th. Submissions will be judged by an expert panel and winners announced on October 25th and the groups behind them will receive N900 devices, funding and support to develop their PUSH idea. And once they’re complete, we’ll share them with the rest of the world with a series of installations in Nokia Flagship Stores across the globe."

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From last few weeks we have rumors of firmware update for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, but today Nokia made it finally available to world through the Nokia Software Update tool.The 5800 XpressMusic Firmware now goes to v31.2.008.



Update v31.0.008 include:

-Updates Nokia Maps to Ovi Maps 3.1
-Updated Ovi Store client to v1.05(231)
-Performance improvements.

What usually 5800 user are experted in this update:

-Kinetic Scrolling.
-New type Homescreen Layout.

It looks like Nokia dosen't want to bring the new look and feel of its new Touch Device Nokia 5530- so the new frimware is just a regular update with some patches and fixes with RAM boosting .

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic support UDP (User Data Preservation)-This means you should be able to update firmware without loosing your phone data. But we always recommend you to backup your all critical data using Nokia OVI Suite new Phone backup system.


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This is very eye catching S60 full SVG theme by Taieb. Having 300+ 3 party icon by Zylam, equipped with really cool colorful wallpaper in Xpress Music style.


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At Nokia World 2009 Nokia released some of the hottest devices including Nokia New Booklet 3G and X Series device, But Nokia is still working out under some of its area which lagged behind during NW09- Yes Nokia is working on its luxury section, you got it right nokia is working on successor of Nokia 8800 and its going to be based on Symbian S60 smatphone OS Code Name -Nokia Erdos a new class of smartphone.


So Nokia is making its Masterpiece, The new Nokia Erdos will have all the built quality of 8800, made up with single piece of steel, powered by symbian S60 OS, 5 MP Carl Zeiss and the most interesting thing is about its display which is "invisible", it will be covered with tempered glass with a mirror functionality in case of inactivity.When activated the beauty lights up with diagonal 2.4 "AMOLED technology.

Rough Estimation about Erdos Spec:-

Dimensions: 116.9 x 50.3 x 15.0 mm
Display: 2.4 "QVGA 320x240, OLED
Connectivity: Wi-Fi, A-GPS, microUSB, Bluetooth with A2DP
Camera: 5 megapixel, Carl Zeiss AF with dual LED
Video performance: 288x352 @ 30 fps & 480x640 @ 15 fps
Memory: 8 GB without the possibility of extending the microSD

So keep your eye at S60 Betalabs to know more about New Nokia Erdos.


[Read More at Cellpassion]

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Yes yes yes ,I know that 5800 doesn't have in-built magnetic compass. However, this Navi Machine app can help you determine the direction to some extent. Navi machine is very simple to use, as long as the phone targeting the sun, the compass will automatically tell you what direction north statement: This is not a true navigation software, only for recreational use. If there is need for outdoor navigation, please use the GPS.

By the way here to tell you a little sense of life to use a pointer you can watch in a case of judging the direction of the sun. Applies only to the northern hemisphere will first convert the current time a 24-hour, and then divided by 2. Then the sun aligned with the proceeds of points, 12 point is the North.

For example: It is now 16:00, converted to 16 points, divided by two, with 8:00 aligned the sun, 12-point is the North.

Of course there's no built in compass in 5800 but if you know the time and see the sun it's easy to figure where's north. And that is what Navi Machine does. Just point the phone toward the sun and "N" tells you where north is .

Note:-This is not a real navigation device, use real compass or GPS when going outdoors.

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Good news for music lovers: Nokia Music Store is running Promotional Offers under its UK & Australia sites.

Nokia UK is running promotion where when you setup your Nokia Music Account, you’ll entitled to get 5 Free Tracks of your choice to download from the Nokia Music Store.


Click here to Register Nokia Music Account!


Nokia AU is running promotion where they are giving 5 signed memorabilia packs to celebrate Paul Dempsey's music album, all you have to do is download anything Paul Dempsey.

Click here to enter Nokia AU promotional site.

Note-Nokia Music Store only supports Internet Explorer, link will only be open on Internet Explorer browsera. .

Download Nokia Music Store PC Client!

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N-gage game's page shows that Vir2L Studios Ducati Moto is now available for download on N-Gage, At the time of writing this post- I didn't find the download on N-gage client on my N82- Hope it will be updated soon.


Feel the rush as you race across the globe with Ducati® Moto!

"Experience the thrill of street bike racing with Ducati Moto, the pulse-pounding racing title from the celebrated game creators at Vir2L Studios, a ZeniMax Media company. Choose from official Ducati bikes and compete in Championship events as you tear through the streets of Hong Kong, burn up the asphalt in the deserts of Morocco, and power around the dizzying cliffs of Amalfi!

Ducati Moto features:

-Race in five Championship Events including Time Attack, Race, Eliminator, Race Line, and Stunt Challenge.

-Challenge yourself in exotic locations such as Morocco, Italy, Hong Kong, and more.

-Choose from 11 Ducati motorcycles including the Monster, Hypermotard, 848 & 1098 Superbikes, and Desmosedici RR.

-Choose from eight unique characters each in their own colorful and distinctive leathers.

-New stunt modes including wheelies, burnouts and jumps."


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These are the Original Nokia E52 themes with Nokia default icon, extracted from the New E52 device, All themes are very light on system and compatible with Nokia N & E series device's.

Share and Enjoy....!

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A lot of buzz was going around about Nokia Location Based Gaming aka “Casual Location Gaming " in last few months, Folks from Nokia Conversation were lucky enough to grab a quick chat with Mark Ollila at NW09, Director of X-Media Solutions at Nokia about the next generation gaming. Hope so we will soon see some hot title coming on N-gage games loaded with Casual Location Gaming.


So what is “Casual location” gaming ?

In Location Based Gaming aka “Casual location” gaming you play with maps and do not need to be physically involved, but get a true game experience using your location. Casual location gaming utilizes your GPS together with GPRS, Wi-Fi Or 3G Internet to play.


"GLOBAL – Recently we were lucky enough to grab a quick chat with Mark Ollila, Director of X-Media Solutions at Nokia. An intriguing job title, indeed, backed up by an exciting role. See, Mark is responsible for running a worldwide team focused on creating new cross-media services, cross-media games (including N-Gage) and evolution of current services such as Ovi Share (whilst juggling and balancing plates on his head). Certainly, no small task. We spoke to him briefly at NW09 about the hot topic of location-based gaming and he gave us a better idea of when we can expect what he calls “casual location” games to leap out of the conceptual arena and spring to life


Back in March at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Mark openly talked about a concept for a “casual location” driving game that enabled you to plot a racetrack on a satellite image of your current location. The idea being that rather than running around and physically moving location to affect the outcome of a game, the “casual location” approach means you can get an easier enriched and contextually aware gaming experience purely by tapping into your current position. So should you be stood by Trafalgar Square or the Taj Mahal, the game lets you exploit your surroundings and translate them into scenario for a gaming experience."

Read the full story at Nokia Conversation!

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Davis Fields (Product Manager-USA) over Nokia Betalabs Blog has just announced that Nokia Messaging IM Beta Updated to version 2.0 and now brings support to Nokia E71 & E61. This beta version also add-on's a new feature - the IM experience on your S60 device, Now you can connects to the IM service like Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, and Ovi Chat with invisibly support.



"The Nokia Messaging team is pleased to announce version 2.0 of the IM Beta! We’re adding support for the E71 and E63 devices as well as support for the Google Talk community. Nokia Messaging offers a desktop-like IM experience on your Nokia device. You can stay in contact with your friends across multiple communities, easily switch between and save conversations and login invisibly. We continue to add support for more devices and communities in all parts of Nokia Messaging. We welcome your feedback in the discussion forums here on BetaLabs."

Head over to Nokia Betalabs to Download!

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My favorite Themer and my friend Tehk7 has again made it- He released another great paid theme called "Evo Bold". The theme highlight is clear, and the background features very bold lines, which provides a cascading three-dimensional appearance, with much more clear and readable background. A must for every S60 device user.


One of the top S60 theme maker Tehk7 is doing some serious hard work to make our Nokia S60 devices more charming, generally all Nokia S60 user doesn't know the hard work behind creating the wallpaper, icon and the hard work of testing it in each and every device, believe me it take a lot of time to release any S60 theme. As new Nokia device's are coming day by day the art of making s60 theme is becoming harder and harder, As themer have to test every aspect of the theme relate to each and every version of Symbian device's and I don't think it's unreasonable for such a hard working theme makers to charge a small amount for their precious time and laborious effort.

Tehk has also provide us some of the best S60 theme's free of cost time to time, Hat's off to Tehk7 from S60 Betalabs.


Evo Theme cost.

1-For the complete pack - 422.531 INR or €6.00

Description - Great package for those who own multiple Nokia devices. Contains 6 theme files with in the zipped package to support all N and E S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition devices. This packace comes with the premium Seven icon theme version of the theme files.

2-For a 7 icon version - 140.844 INR or €2.00

Description - The theme comes with an original custom icon set with over 500+ premium icons. These icons cover all default system icons, as well as over 175+ popular third party icons.

3-For a default icon version - 70.4219 INR or €1.00

Description -The theme uses the system default icons of the device that it is installed on. This theme size is small, which optimizes performance and saves storage space.

S60 Device's Supported-S60 3rd Pre-Feature Pack 1, Feature Pack 1, and Feature Pack 2 Devices and S60 5th Touch Devices.

Head over Tehk7 page to Download!

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Symbian Foundation has added a new Goodies page, And guess what - it contain Twitter powered screensaver for PC & MAC users- Which display twitter feed of Symbian in comic-like bubble pops-good to find out what everyone is saying about Symbian.



Download here!

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Spotify has now launched its application for Symbian S60 powered devices.
Spotify offers you legal and free access to a huge library of music with streaming on the go,It also allows you to share songs and playlists with friends, and even work together on collaborative playlists.



What is this 'Spotify' ?

Spotify is a proprietary peer-to-peer music streaming service that allows instant listening to specific tracks or albums with almost no buffering delay. Music can be browsed by artists, albums or created playlists as well as by direct searches. Although, due to the system's DRM, it is not possible to save the streamed music for use outside the application; a link is provided to allow the listener to directly purchase the material via partner retailers. The program/service in its free version is only available in parts of western Europe during the ongoing beta programme although the subscription model should be available in almost all countries.

For more details visit Spotify blog.

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Download two new nice looking themes, First one is Pyramids by Zozo with aero-matched triangles (almost Ovi colors) in the background.And the second one is Brushed by AJ23.

Download in Single Zip here!

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Nokia is giving away new nokia devices in Nokia CityMan Competition, after seeing all of the great reactions to the Cityman Antitheft Nokia has decided to hold auditions in order to find the next Cityman! For those who don’t know, the Cityman Antitheft is designed to keep your N97 safe from criminally insane tech freaks


To enter, here’s what you do:

1. Use the Cityman Antitheft device and get someone to take a photo of you (80’s style gives you extra points!) If you haven’t managed to get your hands on the Super limited edition Cityman Antitheft, print this PDF and make your own.

2.Upload your picture to http://share.ovi.com/album/nokia_cityman.NokiaCitmanComp (By uploading a picture to this share online account you agree with competition terms and conditions and to be able to upload you need to be signed in to your Ovi account)

The deadline for submitting pictures is 5.10.09. Nokia jury selects the 10 best pictures that will be running towards becoming the Cityman 2009. The shortlisted pictures will be posted here at the Nseries blog where the visitors have two weeks to vote for the winner.

3. The winner gets it all! The 1st prize is of course the title of official Cityman 2009, but with this prestigious position come benefits, such as being among the first in the whole world to get one of the newly announced Nseries products Nokia N97mini or Nokia N900, the choice is yours. The winner is announced in the Nseries blog and will be contacted through Ovi mail, so please activate it on Ovi when you submit your entry.

To get the right feeling, we suggest you to download the Cityman application. It will make your N97 look and feel like the original Cityman-mobile phone. Who needs these multimedia devices anyways?

Donna and Tom over at WOM World/Nokia have already got involved so take a look for inspiration.

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Nokia Beta Labs has just release as update to Ovi Maps with few fixes like- crashes in the application is now fixed and Ovi Map gets slight improvements to the functionality/layout of the Premium services.


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SMS TAG is a smart Web Runtime widget for S60 5th edition devices, that allows you to apply labels to your SMS messages, to easily categorize and find them.


Current features of SMS TAG include:

» Ability to choose a color for each label
» Text based search of SMS messages (currently, Inbox only)
» Integrated SMS forwarding and deleting
» Integrated auto-update functionality: widget can update without the need to install a new version

Developer-Jappit
SMS TAG is available for free on the OVI Store
Click here to download SMS TAG from OVI Store.

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Nokia Messaging released a new update now called ‘Nokia Messaging Email’, bringing HTML support to S60 touchscreen devices, such as the Nokia N97 ,Nokia 5800 and Nokia 5530 XpressMusic. The new HTML support can be enabled as the default view, or set to manual, just like the previous S60v3 devices.

The update version also adds an adjustment to the synchronization frequency settings, with better support to touch screen.

You can get the new version of Nokia Messaging from Email.Nokia.com.


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Kero Mobile is next generation mobile content store. Kero Mobile allows mobile users to access mobile applications, games, media, music, social networking communities, news, sport news, blogs, city information, RSS feeds and more.

Kero Mobile App(Via Biskero)is Semi Finalist at the Adobe MAX 2009 Awards.

Support's Nokia S60 v3 & S60 V5 (Touch Device).

Download Kero Mobile!

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NaHiD from NaHiD Themes has decide to share his own touch iconpack –with professionaly designed 100+ 3rd party icons. All this icons are totally free to download. I really much appreciate his work behind touch icon pack and the good thing is that, he is sharing his hard work with other themer's.

Download Now!

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Silent Flower is nice cool theme for S60 device by Shmily.

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Battery Level is a simple widget that shows you the battery level and an estimated usage time remaining.
It will give you complete information about the state of your battery, the remaining hours of call time and call minutes.If you want to have quick access to information on the battery, you can use application shortcuts in the standby mode.
Download for N97. Download for 5800 & 5530.

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Symbian Planet Theme.
A collaborative project by Tehk, Mauikek and Dockside.
Theme Support:-
This theme is 100% SVG. This theme supports all Symbian S60 3rd, S60 Feature Pack 1, S60 Feature Pack 2, and S60 E Series devices.
The theme is available with Nokia default icon set and the Seven icon set ( By Tehk ). Seven icon set contains more than 500 individual icons. This icon set changes all themable default folders and applications. Along with over 175 additional 3rd party icons.

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Samuli Ylinen over Nokia Betalabs has just announced that Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 Beta has now updated and now support applications installation into device.

New enhancements on Ovi Suite 2.0 Beta:-

1- Now application installation is working, you can install app on device by just double clicking your device application (.jar, .sisx) in PC.
2- Increased performance with less memory consumption and optimize load times.
3- Lots of error fixes have been made in photos and music sync section.




You will get new Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 Beta package and can start using that. If you don’t have an old Beta installed, just download our latest build from the download page.

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Today at Nokia World 09 Nokia releases Nokia Tej bringing scalable & customizable business at you fingertip.

"Nokia Tej is a mobile order and supply chain management solution for companies working in a communication intensive and networked business environment. Nokia provides the solution as a hosted giving you and your business partners more time to focus on growing the business. It will enhance your order, distribution and sales management process by reducing the amount of paper work and improving the flow of information within your business network. Thus users are not required to invest in IT systems to be able to enjoy the benefits of an efficient mobile business solution. Nokia Tej has been developed in close cooperation with actual users, making sure that it truly answers the needs and challenges of businesses."


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On the second day of Nokia World 2009 Nokia has opened Ovi platform to developers worldwide. With Ovi SDK Beta, Now mobile developers can create applications, using Ovi’s rich mapping and positioning functionalities.Enriching applications with embed Ovi Maps within their website using the Ovi Maps Player API.




Ovi SDK Beta is your toolkit to create Ovi apps, which are easy to develop, mobile applications based on web technology that take user location as a starting point. Fully web-based, the Ovi SDK Beta runs as an extension to your PC browser, and includes:

-High-level JavaScript APIs to a rich set of Ovi functionality including 3D mapping and positioning (GPS) as well as turn-by-turn Walk and Drive navigation.
-UI framework and style guide takes you through the design process.
-UI library makes it easy to develop for mobile. UI components like lists, search boxes and menus, reduce the complexity of different screen sizes and device types.

Ovi apps are based on standard web technologies, such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Start building this new class of mobile apps and join our vibrant developer community.



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"Creating applications for Nokia devices has just got a whole lot easier. This morning on the second day of Nokia World 09 the Ovi SDK Beta was unveiled, along with a new navigation API. What’s more the new SDK will enable developers to deploy applications across multiple devices, quickly and easily. The new navigation API offers developers the opportunity to bring navigation directly into applications.



The new web-based toolbox offers developers an SDK which will not only enable them to develop for Symbian and Maemo but also for the web. It also brings in a new, distinct, user interface made up of a series of libraries, alongside integrated Ovi features. The Ovi SDK Beta utilizes standard web-based technologies including HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Forming part of the SDK is the Ovi Navigation Player API. This sits alongside the previously launched Ovi Maps Player API which developers have already being using to create innovative new applications. Adding navigation to the mix offers a wealth of new app opportunities (apportunities anyone?) including the ability to guide app users to specific destinations."



The SDK Beta is available now by invitation, go to Forum Nokia to register your interest.


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Today Nokia Betalabs has announce another new service- Social Messaging with Nokia Messaging. Now you can choose how you want to respond to a friends post directly from the post (e.g. post a comment, call, SMS, or send a message) even share your current location in a post or in a message using Ovi Maps; view friends’ location.

"The Nokia Messaging team is pleased to announce the Social Messaging beta! This new client is the start of what will become the multi-community social networking client. As a part of Nokia Messaging, we expect operators to offer email, IM and in the future, mobile social networking all for one fixed low price. If you aren’t using the email or IM with Nokia Messaging, be sure to visit the email site and the E75 IM Beta to set up email and IM on your Nokia device. We continue to add support for more devices and communities in all parts of Nokia Messaging."

Introduction video of the new Social messaging Beta


Key features:-

-Contextual homescreen widget – jump directly into posts to comment
-Post your thoughts and photos from the camera or gallery
-Share your current location in a post or in a message using Ovi Maps; view friends’ location
-Support for the N97 and 6700 classic. More device support coming
-Communication choices – choose how you want to respond to a friends post directly from the post (e.g. post a comment, call, SMS, or send a message)

But this service is currently compatible with the N97 firmware version 12.X.024 or higher and the 6700 Classic -strange their is no support for S60 V3 device. According to Nokia Betalabs more devices will be supported eventually.

Download Nokia Messaging with Social Messaging Beta at Nokia Betalabs.

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Here are some live pictures of Nokia Booklet 3G at Nokia World 2009 [Via Phone Arena].


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Interview with the Nokia Booklet 3G designer John Hwang
[Via DailyMobile.se]


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With new Nokia Lifecasting Ovi Service, you can now keep your Facebook friends up to date with you online location ,Like - where you are right now and what you are doing, Even more you can lifecast the coordinates of address you are at, and your friends can see your location in realtime on map plus you can also show your friends what a great spot you are exploring, you can take a photo, and attach it to your Facebook post.You can also share your location of interest or your favorite place that you have saved on Ovi MapsBeta.





This is an exclusive preview of a new Ovi service for the first early birds.


Download the lifecasting with Ovi widget at betalabs.nokia.com!

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The Nokia Beta Labs today announced the Ovi Maps beta for Nokia Touch devices with addition to new services.With new improved Ovi maps for touch devices apart from finding place and navigation you can get more services live weather, event , real-time car and pedestrian navigation etc. always at your fingertips on your mobile and PC or Mac .














































"With Ovi Maps, you can easily find your current location, places nearby, and addresses you are looking for, and save all your favourite places. Get to your destination safe and sound with Drive and Walk, real-time car and pedestrian navigation. If you preload the map data on your compatible Nokia device with Map Loader, you can also use all these features and services offline.


Online you can check out the weather forecasts and events around you. Explore premium travel content by Lonely Planet and Michelin for over 1000 destinations, and find thousands of listings for sights, restaurants, hotels, shops, nightlife, and more."




What is different from the previous release?

* Improved application start up
* Brand new menu with one touch access to content and services
* New and improved one-box search
* New features in car navigation service: ‘Drive home’ and ‘Track me’,
* New features in the pedestrian navigation service: ‘Walk home’ and ‘Track me’,
* Text-to-speech for voice guidance in car and pedestrian navigation, currently available for English and German. More languages will follow for the commercial release.
* Features currently not supported in this release:
o English only for the application language:
o Other languages will follow in the commercial release
o No satellite and terrain maps (only in Walk mode)
o Traffic updates options are only manual or timed, e.g. Every 5, 10, 20, 40 minutes.


Download Ovi Maps Beta for Nokia touch device at Nokia Betalabs.

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Today at Nokia World - Nokia Announced Two X-Series Device The New Nokia X6 and Nokia X3 for Music Lover.

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Straight from the press release:-

"The Comes With Music story continues with the Nokia X6

Pioneering new ways for the world to experience music, Nokia today announced the launch of the new Nokia X6. Capable of playing up to 35 hours of music, the Nokia X6 is a powerful entertainment device, combining 32GB of on-board memory with a slick 3.2" finger touch interface.

The ultimate device for music lovers and social butterflies, the Nokia X6 has a 16:9 widescreen optimised for photos, videos and browsing. With direct access to Ovi Store, the Nokia X6 is a hive of activity that brings 20 friends and virtual communities, like Facebook, to your homescreen.




Jo Harlow, Vice President, Nokia, commented: "The Nokia X6 and Comes With Music is a powerful combination, enabling music fans to download all the music they could ever want - quickly, easily and for free. We're giving people convenient access to and ownership of a vast music library and an exciting new touchscreen device to play their music on."

Click here to get detail's of Nokia X6

The new Nokia X3 also joins Nokia's music portfolio. The Nokia X3 is designed for music lovers and is the first Series 40 Ovi Store-enabled device. The Nokia X3 is a sleek and compact music device that comes with stereo speakers, built-in FM radio, and a 3.2 megapixel camera.



To make the most of the entertainment experience, Nokia introduced the Nokia Mini Speaker MD-9, a pocket-size speaker for big sound, and the Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-505, an ergonomic and lightweight neckband headset for great music and call audio quality also in noisy environments.


The Nokia X6 has an estimated retail price of EUR 450, with the Nokia X3 retailing for an estimated EUR 115. Prices are before taxes and subsidies, and both devices will ship during the fourth quarter of 2009."

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Today at Nokia World 2009- Nokia announced the new Nokia X6 and sister X3 Music Device.



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VideoRoll:- Nokia X6 Short Intro.


Download the data sheet to have a closer look at the spec of X series device.

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Leena Oiva over Nokia Betalabs has just announced release of new version of Green Explorer.The new Green Explorer gets the Ovi look and feel and now you can access it by your Ovi account, URL has also changed to Ovi.com instead of Nokia.com.


There is a new category called Get Inspired in the web service, where you can find inspiring articles from eco-minded bloggers on sustainable lifestyle and green places & events.Green Explorer is using Ovi Maps so that you can see the destination you are interested in on a map. This is currently only available on the web, but soon it will be available on mobile.

"Green Explorer works with its partners to provide sustainable tips and advice on how to live green and travel clean. Share your experiences and ideas here and help make a world of difference.

We all love to travel, but as global warming, greenhouse gasses, and carbon emissions become part of our everyday vocabulary, we have to be sure we don't end up loving our planet to death. Treat the world like home, protect the places you love, and remember that sometimes the most exciting adventures happen right in your own backyard. Go Green!"




Download Green Explorer Widget!
Visit Green Explorer site.

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