I’m Interviewed!

Norman over at Symbian World has this great series going on in which he interviews bloggers from the S60 community in which he covers questions like why did they start blogging, views on S60 and a bit of background about themselves amongst other things. This week was my turn! In case you are interested, have a read here!

Norman, thanks for the interview, really appreciate it!

QWERTY Nseries Device In The Making?

Unwired view has just brought to light this new Nokia triple slide patent called called “A layered mobile device”, which has a dedicated QWERTY keyboard, T9 keys and dedicated multimedia control keys. With the Nseries already not really known for build quality I have serious doubts about this device considering the sheer ammount to moving parts. But if Nokia can get the build quality on this thing right, boy we’d have one hell of a ‘multimedia computer’.

There’s nothing to say that this is going to be a Nseries device, but the multimedia keys sure make it seem like one. Ricky has been wanting a Nseries QWERTY, may be this is it?

Via: Intomobile

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Miscellaneous Links

I have exams going on so have very little time to put something up of my own! However these are a few posts from all around the blogging world which are a must read!

1. The Best Advice We’ll Ever Get – Steve reminds us the need to back up our data, here’s an excerpt “Do you know how they get 50,000,000,000 1s and 0s on your microSD? No, I don’t either, and I don’t trust it.”

2. Mark’s What Do You Want On Your Next Phone?

3. Rita’s What You Were Shown But Didn’t Notice, over at Symbian-Guru.

4. PC Phone release over at the Nokia Bets Labs.

 Can’t wait for these exams to end! 🙂

How To Protect Files On Your S60 Device

 

This is probably the most frequently asked question, ever! Everybody has certain photos, videos, songs and all sorts of other files which we want to hide from another person. Fortunately there are several 3rd party applications what allow us to do that, but unfortunately they are paid for!

However there are two ways in which you can not only hide files from the Gallery but also password protect them and the best part is that these methods cost nothing. In this post I will go over both of them.

 

Full YouTube On Your S60 v3 Device!

 

Yes, you read it correctly! You can now have access to any and I mean any video on youtube or any other flash video based website. There is no longer a need for converters or portals like m.vtap.com or the youtube mobile site. Forget them all!

Update: Forget all of this, just look up this post. It is a fully featured YouTube client with no effort involved.

Update: RotateMe wizard Samir has meanwhile released a Youtube player that lets you search for youtube videos and playthen directly on the phone. There’s just one glitch in the beta, you can only search for one word! Really worth a shot. Look here.

In this guide I will list out a few easy steps which will allow you to do so.

REQUIRMENTS:

1. Flash Lite 3 (Freeware) – Download! (Download if have registered at Adobe Labs or get it after registering from here)

2. Opera – Download!

3. CNPDA Flash Player (Freeware) – Download!

4. A S60v3 Phone e.g. N95, N93, N73, N83, N81, E90, E70 and so on.

Once the above is done with, lets start:

What Would You Like Nokia To Do?

Nokia had way back in June announced that it was planning a huge reorganisation beginning January 1st 2008, a date that’s now less than a month away. With Nokia World now over, Steve from over at AAS has been pondering how the company is going to integrate the Mobile Phones, Multimedia (i.e. Nseries) and Enterprise (i.e. Eseries) divisions in a workable fashion and what would he do if he was at the helm. I’ve added a few things I’d like to see happening.

N90 Marries The N95 – New Nseries Slider!

 

Generally with the Nseries range of phones we are always waiting for a device which is on its way well in advance. However after the N82 coming out there is nothing to look forward to but speculation and here is some music to our ears.

Unwired View has dug up a patent application on the USPTO site that  reveals a 6/8 Megapixel NSeries slider phone which looks like a cross between the N90 and the N95. This device in addition to a rotateable cameraon the top, also has a retractable flash assembly, which allows to hide/expose the phone flash within the body of the device.

If you look at enlarged shots of the figures in the patent application, it looks like there’s a label saying 6 megapixel on the phone, it could be 8 too but I think its 6.

[Update] Flash Video a.k.a. FLV On S60 v3!

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Update: Adobe has now released the public beta of the application for developers and is available here. They have however left out browser integration and there is no personalisation with screensavers either. For more on this jump over to The Nokia Guide. For a complete How-To on getting FLV to work read on.

The Standby Screen

 

Ever since the Active Standby Menu came out in the Nokia 6680/6681 I have been a great fan of this implementation. It started with 5 shortcuts to applications and the calender display. Slowly it graduated to showing the current music track. Next came the current FM station and so on.

Today the N95 Standby screen pictured above, incorporates 6 shortcuts, calender, To-Do, Memo, Search, Music Track info, FM Station and the WiFi Indicator.

I personally prefer clean themes and as a result hardly ever need the screen to be blank for a wallpaper and really like optimum usage of the screen’s real estate. I’m also glad that the message preview a.k.a. the E-Series has not been incorporated into the N-Series, this is because you never know when a message you do not want others to see pops up in the display!

Moreover I just wanted to put up these pictures in PiZero’s Gold Theme, so the post! 😉

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Nokia PC Suite Version 6.85 Released

 

Nokia PC Suite has been updated to 6.85 and with the updated has come quite an ovehaul and is available from the PC Suite page. The new UI looks great and here’s a rundown of some of the new featues it brings. I’ve been beta testing it for the past few weeks and must say I find this even better than the Nseries PC Suite!