Nokia Image Space provides you a new view to your own photos, as well as to those from your friends and other people.
If you have Flickr account and a supported Nokia phone, you can get your content contextualized easily. Apart from geotagging from GPS, the photos will have full orientation information in the metadata. This allows spatial browsing of photos. Photos from different Image Space users are contextually linked between each other. This creates a better understanding of the place you are browsing.
The alpha version of the Skyfire web browser for Symbian S60 touch devices have been released. Browse your favorite websites on Skyfire exactly like you do on your PC. The skyfire mobile browser is the only browser to support all major Web 2.0 standards – Ajax, Javascript, Flash 10 – it just works. Follow your friends’ Facebook and Twitter updates, watch tv on phone plus keep track of news, sports, video and other content in your own customizable activity feed.
The Spotify application for Symbian has been update and fixed with a number of issues with the initial release and added support for some new models.
This release includes:
- A fix for disappearing offline tracks.
- A fix for the problem when adding tracks to existing playlists on touch screens.
- Text input of special characters now added, e.g. Norwegian and French.
- Text input on special types of keyboards now added, e.g. non-touch phones with dual keyboards.
- New devices supported include the Nokia E72, Nokia N82, Nokia 6110 Navigator, Nokia 6210, Navigator,Nokia 6290, Nokia N79.
Version 0.3.22 (61361) can be downloaded from m.spotify.com.
The TrueCaller for Symbian phones (S60v3 and S60v5) just got updated and the new version give you a few new features (check the changelog at the end of this post). TrueCaller shows you who is calling before answering if the number is not saved in contacts! With TrueCaller you can also make manual reverse number lookups in more than 25 countries by entering the phone number. You can also save the contact to your phonebook and see the location on a map.
New features:
- Increased stability
- Update phonebook feature (Automatically fill in missing data in all your contacts) !
- Tweet your phone calls/status to twitter automatically!
- Language support for: Deutsch, English, French and Swedish
- More setting options
- Better support for Symbian S60 v5
- Possibility to search for names (Not available in all countries)
- Posibility to get more information about the caller
The Nokia Messaging Social Networking Beta app is an integrated, multi-network social widget that allows Nokia mobile users to view, post, and comment on messages, to share their location and status on the go while keeping up with their social circles right from their Nokia handsets. This client currently supports Facebook and will expand to more social media networks in the near future.
The Social Networking Beta is compatible with the N97 firmware version 12.X.024, and will not function correctly on other devices. Please note that the new client will be released on December 14th.
Key Features:
- Contextual homescreen widget – jump directly into posts to comment
- Post your thoughts and photos from the camera or gallery
- 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)
- Share your current location in a post or in a message using Ovi Maps; view friends’ location
- Support for the N97. More device support coming
Shazam, the world’s leading mobile music discovery provider, today announced announced the launch of its new application onto the Ovi Store by Nokia. The enhanced application includes extra features and functionality to help Nokia users go on a greater music journey than ever before: from the point of inspiration to learning more about the track and artist and purchasing the track straight to their mobile.
Shazam is available for download from the Ovi Store by Nokia at store.ovi.com for all Symbian S60 v3.2 and v5 models including Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 and Nokia E72. Nokia will also be preloading Shazam onto many mobile handsets including the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic and Nokia X6.
“With the huge popularity of Shazam on the Ovi Store by Nokia following our summer promotion, we’re delighted to be able to offer an enhanced music journey that will let music lovers experience more about the music they hear around them,” said Andrew Fisher, CEO of Shazam. “Now many new Nokia users will get Shazam pre-loaded onto their devices in the future, and hundreds of millions more worldwide will be able to download Shazam now from the Ovi Store by Nokia.”
Shazam on Nokia allows users to:
* Share a music moment: send Tags as a Tweet to followers; to Facebook mini-feed or by email to friends so they can add the Tag to their own collection in Shazam
* Preview and purchase: preview and download tracks direct to handset in the Nokia Music StoreShazam
* Watch videos on YouTube: watch artist’s videos and other music contentShazam
* Learn more about the music: read track and album reviews and artist biographies, plus see other music from the same artist and view song lyrics Shazam
* Find what’s hot and popular: view Shazam music charts, generated by millions of other Shazamers, to keep up to date with the new tracks and players in the music sceneShazam
* Search music: easily find music by artist, album or track from Shazam’s database of 8 million songsShazam
* Personalise Tags: capture the moment by taking and adding a photo or attach an existing picture to Tags. These shots are then seamlessly added to the Nokia photo albumShazam
* Store pending Tags: even when users don’t have data connection, they can still capture the music moment. The pending Tag can be sent later when they are back within access of data coverage or WiFi connectivityShazam
* Access the world of Shazam: users can register to access their list of Tags online and receive special offers, newsletters, feature updates and moreShazam
Users will be given a 30 day free trial of the fully featured application from the first time they use it on the device. After 30 days, users can continue Shazaming for free on a limited feature and tagging basis or choose to upgrade to the fully-featured, unlimited usage version for a one-off fee of $4.99, €3.99 or £2.99, depending on location. If users have previously downloaded and used the promotional version of Shazam, they will be prompted to upgrade to the new Shazam application with a 30 day free trial. All existing users, once registered, will also be able to view their Tag history online at shazam.com.
At launch, Shazam will be available in French, Canadian-French, German, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Dutch, Bulgarian and Mexican Spanish. Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Arabic and Hebrew will be available very soon.
To enjoy the Shazam application on your Nokia device, visit store.ovi.com.
Currently there are Nokia Music Stores in 22 countries: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom.
Opera today launched the second beta versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, available as free downloads. In this second beta release, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile users can now enjoy popular desktop features, such as Opera Link and the Download Manager, from their mobile phones.
With Opera Link, users can synchronize personal browser settings with their Opera desktop browser, as well as all their connected devices, ensuring that their bookmarks, Speed Dial and search engines are always accessible. The Download Manager gives users a better way to control and speed up downloads to mobile phones.
Opera continues its mission to unify its browser products, and today’s beta release is no exception. Features further polished in the second beta release are the unified look and feel across Opera’s browser products, the visual bookmarks known as Speed Dial, and tabbed browsing, one of the most popular innovations in browsing history.
“For Opera, status quo is not an option. We are always improving our products, adding new functionality and features to deliver a faster and more personal Web experience,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “Also, unifying the look and feel, regardless of device, makes it easy for anyone to get online anywhere, anytime.”
The far-reaching popularity of Opera Mini continues to grow month after month. Opera reports that almost 40 million people used Opera Mini in October, saving the consumers 9.4 billion USD per year just by choosing Opera Mini.
Download Opera Mini 5 beta 2 / Opera Mobile 10 directly to your phone by pointing your phones browser to: m.opera.com/next/
Intuitive interface
Merging the best from our desktop browser with new innovations for phones, Opera Mobile is advanced and intuitive to use.
Faster browsing
Opera Mobile 10 beta is faster at rendering pages, zooming, panning and almost everything else you do with a browser. And pages load up to 50% faster than the previous version.
Speed Dial
Get to your favorite Web page with just one click, with a set of visual bookmarks that appear when you open a new tab. To add a new page, simply click on an empty Speed Dial slot.
Tabbed browsing
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.
Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 screenshots:
For those that just bought the Nokia N97 Mini and cannot use the phone to sync with their Mac should try to download the unofficial N97 Mini iSync plugin. According to the developer this plugin enables the Mac syncing (but its not perfect). Download the plugin from here (use this plugin as your own risk, you may damage your phone)
Current issues:
- The icon is the N97, not the Mini.
- Syncing is Bluetooth only, no USB (yet).
- This is the first time I’ve ever made an iSync plugin and I’ve no idea if it’ll work for anyone other than me! As such this is considered development software provided as-is. I take no responsibility for any of loss of data.
[Thx Daniel]
The OffScreen Wall Calendar Touch application helps you to zoom into any day on your phones calendar and write your own notes. Easy and simple! Supported devices: Nokia 5800, N97, N97 Mini and 5530.
There are a lot of programs that you test and uninstall. This one will remain in my phone. It is just too handy to quickly link specific notes to dates. Besides, for people who can’t install XpressNote, this is a very nice alternative.
The folks at Fring demoes video calls over IP on Fring. You can now make Skype/Fring video calls using Fring on your Symbian device. Supported devices: Nokia 5800, N97, N95 and N82 (more devices vill be added soon)
Now for the first time ever fringsters can make and receive internet video calls from mobile devices (for free!), picking up your fring and Skype video calls from the road, and seeing the person you’re talking to from your mobile phone.
Our forum user Hampa_D demoes the newly launched Spotify Mobile app on his Nokia N97. So how do you find out if your phone can run Spotify? Visit http://m.spotify.com from your mobile browser and find out if your phone is supported.
Suported phones:
- Nokia 5230
- Nokia 5320 XpressMusic
- Nokia 5530 XpressMusic
- Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
- Nokia 6220 classic
- Nokia 6710 Navigator
- Nokia 6720 classic
- Nokia 6730 classic
- Nokia E51
- Nokia E52
- Nokia E63
- Nokia E66
- Nokia E71
- Nokia E75
- Nokia N78
- Nokia N82
- Nokia N85
- Nokia N86 8MP
- Nokia N95
- Nokia N95 8GB
- Nokia N96
- Nokia N97
- Samsung GT-I7110
- Samsung i8910 Omnia HD
- Sony Ericsson Satio
