The new software version 30.0.015 for your Nokia N95 takes your device’s features and functions to the next level. To help you find your way.

Main features:

-Camera improvements.

-Automatic screen Rotation

-Music player has some enhancements

-New integrated Google search New Maps 2.0 with faster and better maps complete with satellite images and traffic information.

You can download the new firmware here .

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N95-1 Firmware v 30.0.015 Released

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Fellow blogger Mads has written an interesting post about future changes to the way our mobile phones look and function.

Giving eight concept models from the Nokia labs.

Nokia Aeon

The Nokia Aeon might be the closest thing to today’s mobiles in this post. It looks just like a traditional mobile if it weren’t for the big touch screen that covers the full surface of the phone.

Just imagine what a big touch screen could do to your phone. A cluttered screen would be a thing of the past and the buttons on the phone could change depending on what you were doing right now. Start messaging and you get a full keyboard to write on, start gaming and get a game pad, etc.

Read the full post here:
http://www.mobilx.dk/top-8-nokia-mobile-phones-from-the-future

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Top 8 Nokia Mobile Phones from the Future

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The Nokia N96 smartphone has started shipping, the Finnish phone giant said Wednesday.

The phone is an upgrade of the existing N95. It has a display that measures 2.8 inches, a 5-megapixel camera and support for navigation using A-GPS (Assisted Global Positioning System).

Data is stored on a 16G-byte internal memory or and on a microSD card, and users can surf the Web using either Wi-Fi or HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) at 3.6M bps (bits per second).

N96 the Key features include:

• Live TV thanks to integrated DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld) technology
• A 2.8″ Display which produces high quality images and supports a wide range of video formats
• Assisted GPS which offers turn-by-turn voice navigation using Nokia Maps
• A Massive 16GBs of internal memory with the potential for extension to a monstrous 24GB by way of an optional MicroSD card
• N-gage gaming which takes full advantage of the vivid display and the onboard 3D sound
• 5 Megapixel camera which includes superior quality optics from Carl Zeiss
• WLAN and HSDPA support

The N96 will cost around 550 Euros or £440 which makes it about £100 more expensive than the N95 8GB.

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Nokia N96 Released

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Nokia will soon pay €264 million ($412 million at today’s exchange rate) for the remaining 52% of Symbian to become the sole owner.

The new Symbian Alliance will comprise Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, AT&T, LG, Samsung, STM icroelectronics, Texas Instruments, and Vodafone

AT&T is a member of the new foundation, and here’s what AT&T’s Kris Rinne has to say about Symbian:

The Symbian Foundation will reduce fragmentation in the industry and holds the promise of incorporating leading technology and the most mature software into a unified platform for the entire industry. This will create an environment that will encourage and enable developers to build compelling applications that will positively affect our customers’ lives and support AT&T in offering its differentiated services to consumers.

But now with Nokia—the No. 1 phone manufacturer in the world—in the mix, armed with several top-tier partners and an established OS that happens to be one of the best in the business, well … Google’s open source Android platform got its work cut out for it.

Each member of the alliance will get royalty-free access to Symbian (along with UIQ, a smartphone OS owned by Motorola and Sony Ericsson, and DoCoMo’s MOAP) and will make “selected components” of the new, combined OS available as open source at launch, with additional components becoming available over the next two years, Nokia said.

It also sounds like a defensive move against other OS entries into the smartphone areas such as Linux based, RIM, Apple, Microsoft, and others.

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Nokia to buy out Symbian OS

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You can watch DivX video clips on your mobile phone for Windows Mobile or Symbian S60 . Download and install DivXPlayer using the following steps:

Register at mobile.divx.com

Then go to mobile.divx.com/login and log in using the .

Download the appropriate DivX Player for your phone’s OS.

Transfer the installation file to you phone (providing you have downloaded on a computer) via Bluetooth or cable. Then install Divx player.

When DivXPlayer is installed, a special folder for DivX media is created, Make sure to place DivX clips in this folder.

Then you can enjoy playing compressed Divx clips.

•    Accelerinvaders:

Accelerinvaders is a Space Invaders clone game (2D) for the N95 . It’s only working with phones that has Accelerometer.

Download here

• Ybrowser / Ytasks (Dr Jukka):

Y-Tasks is a collection of development helper tools for S60 3rd edition devices (Symbian OS 9 –>), as the version number shows they are beta versions and hopefully will be extended in the future, anyway have a try and let me know what you think about them.

Find More info on www.drjukka.com

• Google Maps:

You can download Google Maps from google’s official website :

http://www.google.com/mobile/gmm/

• PhoneGuard:

Psiloc PhoneGuard protects all applications you predefine against unwanted usage with a special password.

Download

• Virtual Radio:

VirtualRadio connects to the Internet through your mobile phone operator’s network and links to more than 700 radio stations from all over the world.

Get it now :

http://www.vradio.org

• LightSabre:

This applications uses the N95 accelerometer API to create a lightsaber sounds for the Nokia N95.

http://lightsaber.en.softonic.com/symbian/download

• Device Status:

Nokia Device Status is a self-diagnosis tool that allows you to collect detailed system information both from your PC and your S60 device. Your current device configuration and phone settings are presented in a detailed summary, which you can use to determine the exact cause, if you run into problems.

Device Status 1.1 is the first public release of this piece of software. Technically it’s quite mature, but as a concept still under development. Right now, the development team is evaluating different options how to make it useful for mainstream users, and how to integrate it effectively with customer care systems.

More details : http://www.nokia.com/A4596393

• MOSH:

MOSH is a Nokia service which provides a user-driven distribution channel for applications and other content created for mobile devices. It enables you to create, upload and share your applications, games, audio, images, and video instantaneously. Or you can just take it easy and enjoy what other people have decided to upload and share.

The service is available at: mosh.nokia.com.

Download from: http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/mosh

• Kyte.tv

Kyte.tv is more like a personal broadcasting platform that enables us to create our own TV channel. You can produce pictures, videos slide show or even live stream. Best of all, you can do it directly from your S60 phone and your PC. There is a Java application that allows you to create your TV channel. Please go to the address below on your S60 Web browser to download kyte.tv.

Download

Source: www.s60tips.com

• Active Notes:

Active notes is "notes" on steroids! you can add images to text notes , also you can add sounds and add the note to contacts.

More details: mosh.nokia.com

• Share Online:

Upload your photos online after taking them, but new in the 3.0 version is the added feature of automatically downloading photos from your Flickr/Ovi friends and ability to add or read comments instantly. It is free and can be downloaded from Nokia sharing and blogging.

• Podcasting:

http://europe.nokia.com/podcasting

• Papyrus:

Version 1.4.02 has been released and can be found here: http://forums.sbsh.net/index.php?showtopic=22005

It’s designed for people with busy lives, who rely on their calendar to keep them aware of their numerous appointments and meetings and whatnot. Offering a much-improved and more informative view, as well as countless more options for categorizing your appointments, Papyrus has been popular from day 1.

V1.4 of this great application brings a new New/Edit item form, with tabs and notes support, making it much easier.

• SmartMovie:

Video player for your mobile phone, with handy PC video converter.

You can find more info and download this application on Symbiangear.com

• Mail for Exchange:

Version 2.2 is now available for download.

http://www.businesssoftware.nokia.com/mail_for_exchange_downloads.php

• Heartbeat interval setting is now configured automatically. The heartbeat interval setting used for maintaining a connection to the server in Always on mode is no longer a static value. The software will attempt to find the best value for the data connection being used. This feature is completely automatic and requires no interaction from the user.
• The Company Directory application (supporting the Global Address List lookup feature) is now available as a standalone application via its own .SIS file. Anyone who wants to use only the GAL functionality of Mail for Exchange may now install just the Company Directory application. After installation the application can be found in the Installation folder (or its equivalent). The settings required for connecting to the server can be found by selecting Options>Edit profile within the Company Directory application.

Source: www.allaboutsymbian.com

• Wellness Diary / 3G Doctor:

Wellness Diary is an S60 application for storing and analyzing wellness-related data collected from everyday life.
Wellness Diary can be used for:
- Monitoring and tracking everyday wellness related issues
- Lifestyle management
- Monitoring, tracking and analyzing: weight, exercise, number of steps, eating management, fat %, sleep, … and more.

 http://handheld.softpedia.com/progDownload/Wellness-Diary-Download-35692.html

• Sic!FTP:

FTP client for Symbian S60 3rd edition phones.

Download

• ActiveFile:

ActiveFile is a FREE program to browse all folders and files in your mobile phone.

Key features:
· File management with 2 panels (File manager similar to Total Commander). so, you can view one folder in the first tab and browse to another folder in the second tab
· File sorting by name, extension, uid, size, date, and ascending, descending
· Full file management with copy, move, rename, delete, make directory, make file, file properties, and set attributes
· Compress and decompress file using gzip format
· Modify the attributes of files and directories
· Quick check of available storage on your drives
· Allow multiple instances. So, you can launch ActiveFile more than 1 instance.
· Searching thru the directories
· View running processes, tasks, kernel objects, and display system information (phone info and network info)
· SMS creator tool to create SMS (fake SMS) and save it to a destination folder (Inbox, Drafts, Outbox, Sent folder) without using your sim card credit
· Capture screenshot and save it to a file in JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, and MBM format
· Memory monitor tool
· Have an option to access inbox files
· Add shortcut

Download link:

http://handheld.softpedia.com/progDownload/ActiveFile-Download-57229.html

• Truphone:

Complete post about Truephone can be found here:

http://n95blog.com/how-to-install-truphone-on-the-new-nokia-n95/

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another 20 applications for your nokia n95

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I just spoke a friend who asked me whether I knew how to use a Nokia N95 wirelessly as modem for his Mac.

Funny thing is that I am bound to go on a short business trip where I was looking for the same. My Powerbook does not have any 3G dongle or wahtsoever and I too happen to have a plan with Vodafone…

FYI: I am using an Apple Powerbook G4 15″ with the latest update of Leopard (10.5.2) and a Nokia N95-1 with the one-but-last firmware (my bad, still have to update)

So, I searched a few forums and blogs and found the following to do for setting this up (to be clear: aim is to use a Nokia N95 as UMTS modem to connect a Apple/Mac to the internet…):

1. Go to “Ross Barkman’s Home page” and download the Nokia 3G scripts for UMTS & EDGE
2. Copy the 3 CID files into Library/Modem Scripts in Finder
3. Use the “Setup Bluetooth device” wizard to connect your Nokia N95 to your Mac. Make sure to tick the box with “Access the Internet with your phone’s data connection”.
4. In the last step, enter the following details (! Mind you, this is for Netherlands and Vodafone only! For other countries + operators, please check this list)
   • Phone vendor: Nokia
   • Phone Model: GPRS (GSM/3G)
   • Username: vodafone
   • Password: vodafone
   • APN: live.vodafone.com
   • CID: 1
5. That’s it. Click “continue” and finalize the wizard.

Now, when you have your phone connected by Bluetooth and select “connect Bluetooth” in your Mac’s modem prefs… it automatically connects over UMTS using your phone’s bluetooth connection.

Easy does it and I am ready to go!

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Using the Nokia N95 as modem for a Mac over Bluetooth on Vodafone Live in Holland

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The new firmware comes with awesome new features as:

• Flash Lite 3 so you can easily run flash video sites including my favourite site YouTube.
• The Web runtime support is now included for widgets.
• Improved Gallery performance, speed and controls.
• Improvements to Bluetooth headset interoperability.
• Standby-time improvements.
• Faster Java runtime for Java applications.
• Improvement to long text writing to web page dialogs.

In the next few days we will come to you with more features and bug fixes in this long anticipated software update.

Image source: www.allaboutsymbian.com

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Nokia N95 new firmware update version 21.0.016 released

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The phone comes with all its basic features and  HSDPA connanectivity.Also it’s shipping with six months free voice-directed navigation.

But the real downside of this awesome phone is that high price tag of $749!

Do you think N95 8GB will find success in USA? …. Personally, I doubt.

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N95 8GB Officially Released in the USA

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The new phone comes with some improvement to the current Nokia N95 with a massive 16 GB internal Memory, 5 Megapixel with double LED flash camera and DVB-H mobile TV support.

According to Nokia’s official site, N96 is expected to ship in Q3.

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Nokia N96 Release Date Rumors

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It has also advanced search functions allowing users to search by category (addresses, cities, streets, etc ……).

One great feature in Nokia Maps 2.0 is the satellite maps which are now available for over 200 cities worldwide, The satellite maps are downloaded and are saved automatically.

If you haven’t used Nokia Maps 2.0 beta yet, It’s available for all Nokia N95 users to download from nokia’s official website: http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/maps/

Please share your thoughts about this improved application and list your pros and cons .

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Nokia Maps 2.0 For Nokia N95 ... Share Your Experience

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