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Via All About Symbian, Nokia has released Ovi Maps 3.0 to the world for most (but not all) S60 3rd Edition FP1, FP2 and S60 5th Edition phones. The download is a 20MB Windows installer, so you do have to own a PC.

"Install Ovi Maps
         
Connect your mobile to your compatible computer via USB cable or Bluetooth in PC Suite mode*.

Open Maps Updater on your computer.

Follow the installation instructions on your computer and mobile screens to install Ovi Maps on your mobile.

*To use Maps Updater, you need Nokia PC Suite installed on your compatible computer

Open Ovi Maps on your mobile
Go online to download the map of your current location over-the-air, or use Map Loader to add several locations and save time and money downloading map data.

Get going
Select your destination with the Navi™ key and choose Drive to or Walk to to get going with Premium navigation services on Ovi Maps."

The very popular Nokia 5800 theme “iPhone 5th by Dsma” with iPhone UI got another update!

Changelog:

• added the maximum number of third-party applications to 9.4
• replacement of all standard 9.4
• restyling many old icons
• graphical component, drawn in accordance with all the features of 5800

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The Nokia 6500 Classic, housed in anodized aluminum, measures only 9.5mm (.37") in thickness and weighs only 94g (3.3oz). Nokia says that the polished finish on each individual 6500 Classic will be different, making sure that no two phones are exactly alike. The display front face also gets the benefit of some polishing, but in this case it is done with diamonds.

The 6500 Classic comes with a unique configuration of dual-band WCDMA support on top of its more conventional quad-band GSM/EDGE support. This candy bar handset supports the normal 2100MHz band used in Europe and much of the rest of the world, as well as one of the two North American UMTS bands: 850MHz. This means that the 6500 Classic should be able to get EDGE data on any GSM network, and manage 3G UMTS connections in most parts of the world, where available, as well. It doesn’t have tri-band UMTS support, which would have been great, but this is certainly a step in the right direction.

The Nokia 6500 Classic sports a generous 1GB of internal storage capacity for use with music tracks or photos shot with its built-in 2 megapixel camera. Like the other two devices released today by Nokia, the 6500 Classic uses the new micro-USB connector for charging, headsets, and data connectivity.

With all the 5 megapixel cameras on offer today it can be difficult to choose one to suit your needs. For those who require a decent camera, but don’t want to fork out for unnecessary features, the LG KC550 could be the perfect choice. Touted as the cheapest 5 megapixel camera phone on the market, the KC550 is sure to worry its competitors. We take a closer look to find out if there’s a catch to this great deal.

Physical Aspects

Despite its keen pricing, the design of the LG KC550 certainly hasn’t been affected. It sports a simplistic, classy look, with lashings of chrome and fingerprint-loving glossy black plastic. It shares the same slider layout as LG’s range-topping Secret, and the sliding action is just as smooth. Happily, the KC550 has rectified my main gripe with the Secret, and provides a ‘proper’ tactile 4-way d-pad and enter button. It seems that cost-cutting has its perks.

Either side of the d-pad you’ll find the device’s softkeys and call/end keys, as well as the dedicated cancel button. Oddly, the cancel button didn’t function as expected. Rather than offering a quick way to delete things, it is instead used to go back one screen. However, when entering numbers or text, it resumes its expected role as a backspace button. The red ‘end’ key also doubles-up as the device’s on/off button.

The front of the device is otherwise dominated by the 2.4" screen, with its bright 262,000 colors and 240 x 320 pixel QVGA resolution. The display appears to be the same as the LG Secret’s, but without touch-sensitive capabilities. However, unlike the Secret, the KC550 doesn’t have a mirrored finish over the display, making it much easier to view in bright environments. Just above the display is a discreet slit housing the earpiece. Overall the front of the device is very simplistic and stylish - very LG.

The rear of the phone is clad with grippy soft-touch plastic, so you don’t have to worry about fingerprints here. There are also a few slits for the loudspeaker, next to the camera’s brushed metal effect lens cover. The lens cover slides across with a satisfying click into place, but is fairly stiff, so you might find yourself opening the phone instead. Opening and closing the lens cover automatically activates and deactivates the camera.

The left side of the device is home to a single headphone/data/charger port, covered by a plastic door that slides across to keep grime out. The right side is a little busier, with a covered microSD slot, zoom/volume keys, and the camera shutter button. At the top corner of this side you’ll also find a neat lanyard fixing. The microphone and button to unclip the back panel can be found on the bottom of the device.

Giving the fascia a push upwards will reveal the KC550’s large 12-key keypad. It sports an attractive checkered design, with some keys being black, and others in a grey spun metal effect, similar to the d-pad’s enter button. The keys are perfectly flat, but offer good feedback with a satisfying click.

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Take Twitter in your pocket! Twittix, the mobile Twitter solution published by MojosMobile is a fully powered communication solution for your needs. Offering all features of the original you can send, receive, update and share Tweets wherever you are.

Functions available on your S60 Smartphone: Tweet, Reply, ReTweet, Message, DM, Follow & Unfollow, Favorites, Search, Auto-Update and many more…

Twittix is fully embedded in the operation system, supports English and German language and is Symbian Signed certificated.

Features:

1. Gravity

Gravity is a Twitter client, letting you post updates (tweet) and receive updates from all your friends and contacts.

Buy it here. Cost: £7

2. WorldMate Pro

This item’s cheating to a degree because WorldMate straddles the worlds of freeware and commercial software. By default, you get a slick and free utility, offering weather forecasts, a currency converter and world clock. But then pay the commercial premium (go ‘gold’) and you get real time flight status and alerts, flight schedules and satellite imagery for weather. If you’re a regular traveller then this becomes a time and money saver and will easily pay for itself.

Buy it here. Cost:$30 a year

3. Twittix

It’s yet another Twitter client and isn’t quite so pretty, but can’t be ignored because it offers much of the functionality of Gravity at 60% of the price. 

Buy it here. Cost: $7

4. ZingMagic Backgammon Pro II/Chess

Another cheat, in that I’m listing two separate games. but I’m guessing that you’ll prefer one over the other, so pick the one you’re better at. As usual, the ZingMagic games are slick and friendly to your phone’s OS. The price is a little high, but then each will give hundreds of hours of gameplay and fun, so….

Buy Chess Pro II here. Buy Backgammon Pro II here. Cost: $15 each

5. Handy Safe Pro

I hesitate to suggest this application, in view of the cost, but you still can’t beat the way it syncs all its data seamlessly to a fully functioning Windows desktop version, right down to record level. Used properly, this can hold all the secrets of your life, in a maintainable and easy-to-backup fashion. And you can’t really put a price on that, surely?

Buy it here. Cost:$35

6. OfficeSuite

Yet again there’s a caveat. This time because MobiSystems seem to have rushed their office editing suite to market. It’s buggy, but at least they know it’s buggy and are working on it. And it’s on special offer at the moment, so I recommend you buy it now and then take advantage of the fixes as and when they come along.

Buy it here. Cost:$20 (usually a whopping $60)

7. Resco Bubbles

One of the better and trickier accelerometer games, this one’ll have you tearing your hair out. In a good way. The screenshot’s self-explanatory, but the game’s harder than it looks. Persevere past the weird setup interface.

Cost: $10

8. Can’t Stop Solitaire

Horrifically expensive by modern standards, for a humble game, this solitaire collection has almost infinite interest and playability, and deserves a recommendation on this alone. Over two hundred card solitaire variants are here, so something for everyone.

Buy it here. Cost: $30

9. Handy Shell

Epocware’s vision for what the Symbian home screen should look like, you’ll either love this or hate it. There’s no denying the number of apps represented, plus you get another three optional ‘views’, plus a year’s worth of weather, but it’s a;; rather overkill for the average user. Still, perfect for the road warrior!

Buy it here. Cost: $20

10. Best TaskMan

Think of this as the built-in S60 ‘Open Applications’ list on steroids. You get extra views, including the all important ‘free RAM’ figure, plus detailed info on how much RAM each application and process is using, a must for geeky troubleshooting.

Buy it here. Cost:$12

Via All About Symbian

Espoo, Finland - The Nokia E75 has arrived in stores, bringing the company’s best efficiency and productivity solution to the market. The new arrival is the first device to ship with the new email user interface, offering full desktop email functionality, and complete integration of Nokia’s email and messaging services.
 
Made from the quality materials one expects from Nokia Eseries, the Nokia E75 has a slide out QWERTY keyboard and efficient three-step email setup. This simplicity is achieved with the integration of Nokia Messaging, which ships with a device for the first time in the Nokia E75. Nokia Messaging is a service that opens up the world’s leading consumer email accounts - including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail - and is joined by Nokia’s corporate email clients, Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, which provide direct access to over 90 percent of the world’s corporate inboxes as well.
 
The richer email experience in the Nokia E75 brings all of the owner’s accounts into one simple to access and easy to use UI, which supports the most common features for desktop email including expanding views, one click reply and sub-folder and HTML support. Added to the enhanced email functionality, upgraded personal information management features such as the ability to create and respond to meeting requests, and contacts lookup and auto-complete, also make their debut in the Nokia E75.
 
The Nokia E75 also integrates tightly to other Ovi services and ships with Ovi Files, for storing files online, Nokia Maps, which works with the onboard A-GPS, and Nokia’s games service N-Gage which is supported for the first time in a Nokia Eseries device.

[Via All About Symbian]

02 April 2009 - The Symbian Foundation had announced the start of its beta website test programme marking a significant milestone in the launch of the Symbian Foundation. Community involvement is paramount to the evolution of the Symbian Foundation platform and as such several thousand friends and members of the Symbian community are being invited to feedback on the website which will launch as a public beta in this quarter.

The website will include a full developer offering which includes platform release information, council charters, wikis, forums as well as access to the SDK, code repository, tools, documentation, wiki, bugtracker and forums.

The foundation continues to receive encouraging support from companies across the industry. Since the membership programme first opened in February, 81 companies have applied for membership and are either going through the formal process or have become members, 50 of which are first time endorsers.

Members will be entitled to the following, royalty free:

    * to license, modify and distribute source code
    * to gain access to council meeting plans and deliverables
    * to participate in Working Groups & annual member meetings
    * be eligible for Board and Council seats
    * to foundation support incl. branding, marketing, legal, and business development

This innovative product offers FullScreen Photos and Pictures for your Message Inbox, two more views: FullScreen Text and Normal Text size with Photo, an own Message Editor, Emotion Icons support, direct Call Back function and a fully customizable User Interface

PhotoInbox is fully embedded in the operation system, supports English and German language and is Symbian Signed certificated.

Supported Devices: Nokia 3250, 5320 XpressMusic, 5500, 5700, 6110, 6120, 6121, 6210, 6220, 6290, 6650, E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E63, E65, E66, E70, E71, E90, N71, N73, N76, N77, N78, N80, N81, N82, N91, N92, N93, N95, N95 8GB and N96. Nokia 5800 Xpress Music.

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Via Daily Mobile, the new review on Nokia E55.

The Nokia E55 is a messaging device supporting EGPRS, WCDMA, HSDPA/HSUPA (3.5G) and WLAN. The device features two customizable Home Screen modes, noice cancellation, a 3.2 Mpix camera with Full focus / EDOF and a compact qwerty keyboard. Write messages with intelligent text input, enjoy videos, music, and graphics on the 2.4” QVGA display. Additional features include GPS and Nokia Maps 3.0, UPnP, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, and USB 2.0 High-Speed.

Added to the Nokia Messaging service, Nokia E55 comes with full Nokia Maps and assisted GPS with integrated 3-month license for turn-by-turn navigation, and a great gaming experience with N-Gage on board. With Ovi Files, also included on the Nokia E55, important files stored on a PC can be remotely managed and shared, even when your PC is switched off.