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web browserGreat post over at All about Symbian:
Ewan Spence has written about his testing of 5 iPhone applications on his Nokia N95.
You do need to be aware of some issues when running these ‘apps’. Firstly, the browser screen is smaller, so use the ‘#’ shortcut to reduce the magnification to 75%. This will allow everything to be on the one screen. Also, the mouse pointer that S60 uses will duplicate your finger but sometimes will force the app to scroll away at the right or bottom edge. No worries, just scroll it back again.
The second is that unless you have a flat rate data plan, or are using Wi-fi, these applets will talk to their servers a lot, so be aware of the bandwidth you are using. Right then, on with five of the iPhone applets that I’ve been enjoying on my N95!
- iChess - http://ichess.morfik.com/
- iPhone Network Test - http://www.iphonenetworktest.com/
- Brick Shooter - http://www.brickshooter.com/online/?iphone
- Hahlo - http://www.hahlo.com
- Avalanche - http://homepage.mac.com/hockey2891/Widgetaria/Avalanche/
Cool, for playing at home over WiFi, this is great fun…
For the full article and the links, please check the full post over at AAS
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Just hooked my N95 up to the Nokia Software updater, said OK to install the 114.0 KB MB update and here we go:
Firmware updated to version 12.0.013
One of the most anticipated features of course is the Assisted-GPS. Will test and revert later on this and other improvements.
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While the blogosphere is being flooded with rumors about a 8 GB music-edition (say what? every N95 is a music edition… and a video edition!) I think that I am not gonna jump this train…
I found the following post [quoted] over at mobile-review forums:
ok people, it really is time to forget this thread, There is NO N95-8GB hard drive handset, Nokia Wont be doing this 100%, Its is another model in the work running under the n95 software profiles, UAPROF Developers have renamed the profile to keep to device name secret! So lets all still talk about N95 because its not going to change in spec! ok
Spec sheet can be found here.
The picture that is going around is a very nice but not so good mock-up of a N95 in black, but I am not falling for it (I hope). Somehow it does not make sense to me that Nokia would promote a multimedia computer “music edition”. To me that is a contradictio in terminis. There might come a fully black edition of the N95 though… maybe even a fully white!
Anyhow, move along now… nothing to see here! 
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Ricky Cadden (Symbian Guru) has posted a video in which he made simple kite flying a bit more interesting by attaching his Nokia N95 to it:
Although it did not really take off, together with the music it makes for a hilarious video…
And with some more background information as well as some better results, so did Eirik Solheim of eirikso.com:
He did manage to get lift-off. Here is the result:
I know what I will bring during my holidays!
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Received a pointer to this in the mail yesterday (thanks Tom!)
Great post over at iFoNfo covering iPhone apps running on Series 60:
Unlike the iPhone, Series 60 devices are not limited to web-based applications. A large market of native 3rd-party applications already exist including console emulators, multi-protocol instant messaging, IR remote controls, and much more. Series 60 also supports Java and Flash.
That said, there will surely be plenty of interesting web applications that could benefit from the kind of rich mobile interface possible with Safari. Hopefully the designers of those apps will consider the possibility of running them on devices other than the iPhone; making the UI work at slightly different resolutions would be most of the effort. The N95 has a 2.6″, 240×320 pixel screen whereas the iPhone’s is 3.5″, 320×480 pixels.
The iPhone’s touch interface looks nicer than the typical Series 60 phone’s method of moving a cursor with a directional pad, but it works well enough for pointing and clicking.
You can try the apps yourself, justguide your N95 browser to http://www.iphonefanclub.com/
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Grrreat! While WWIGO did a great job letting my N95 act as a webcam on Windows, now Movino does a super job streaming video from my N95 to my Powerbook… and even let Skype use it as a webcam!
Movino:
Movino is a collection of applications for streaming and broadcasting live video from smartphones. The main applications are the following:
- A client for S60 smartphones
- A smartphone client for J2ME
- A gui application and a QuickTime component for OS X
- A video server for linux
- A drupal web front end
This has been developed during a project course at Åbo Akademi University. There’s currently no fixed plans for further development, but that doesn’t exclude the possibilty, if time permits and we find enough motivation.
The S60 client is used to record video and stream it to a receiving computer. It can encode data in a few different formats (raw YUV, abbreviated JPEG, MPEG for the video frames and AMR and μlaw for audio) and send them over Bluetooth or TCP/IP (over GPRS/EDGE/3G och WLAN). The lite version omits the MPEG encoder, reducing the size of the package.
The OS X gui application can be used to receive a movino stream (over Bluetooth or TCP/IP), preview it, record it to a local file, serve the content as a multiplexed ogg/theora stream over http. The application can also relay the content to the video server (e.g. for a setup where the computer has faster/cheaper network connections than the phone).
Installing and in action:
The camera and phone were being slowed down a lot with the above displayed settings… I changed them to JPEG compression and a smaller video size.
For using this with Skype on a Mac without built-in iSight, this is a great solution. Furthermore, the possibility to save a stream makes it an ideal tool for generating your own videocasts.
And the fact that it is open source… I applaud this! Guess that this will open up a few more doors and possibilities.
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nseriesOfficial N-Series N95 site revamped:
Now with the possibility to create your own commercial.
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youtubeStefan and Ricky Cadden have teamed up for a series of videos in which they kinda ridicule the iPhone…
Here is the first:
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Check out the new Nokia USA website…
Nokia N95 unlocked for US$ 749,-
[PureMobile is still cheaper by the way…]
