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FM Aerial Accessory For Nokia N95 or similar

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FM Radio Aerial For Nokia N95, N95 8Gb, and other Smartphones

Aerial for Nokia N95This simple aerial enables Smartphones such as the Nokia N95 to be operated as a stand-alone high quality FM radio, using the phones’ own loudspeakers.It conveniently replaces the headphone lead as an aerial source, and can be easily adjusted for optimum reception in any environment where listening on the supplied headphones was previously possible.The aerial is simply inserted into the 3.5mm audio jack socket, “Visual Radio” is selected as an application, and the speakers are switched on via , .All other radio functions operate as normal, including volume, station selection and storage etc.

The aerial has to be removed to answer an incoming or make an outgoing call, but the radio is easily re-instated afterwards by following the above procedure.

The aerial is 150mm long, 4mm diameter, can be adjusted through 180 degrees, is made of flexible wire and plastic coated for safety.

The aerial will probably work successfully with other Nokia Smartphones and other manufacturers’ phones, if they have a built-in FM radio which normally uses the headphone lead as an aerial, a 3.5mm headphone socket, and the facility for enabling built-in speakers when the FM radio is on.

Priced at only £3.99, it’s the most useful, low cost accessory I have found yet for my mobile phone.

Find it on ebay (UK) - search for “FM Aerial for Nokia N95″

Posted 05 March 2008 by 0511steve § Not just N95 § N95 Advanced ‡ Comments (12)

Nokia S60 Phones to turn on Microsoft’s Silverlight

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Nokia announced today plans to make Microsoft Silverlight available for S60 on Symbian OS. Microsoft will also develop a version of Silverlight to run on Nokia’s older S40 platform, as well as Nokia’s Internet tablets

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in which can be used for a wide variety of interactive multimedia applications similar to Adobe dominant Flash player. Microsoft Silverlight allows designers and developers to produce rich web applications that are independent of browser, operating system and handset.

www.microsoft.com/silverlight

It is used in the upcoming Nokia’s N96 smartphone.And I think this is a great shot for Microsoft to partner with Nokia ,The market leader of smartphone technology.

“This is an important relationship on so many levels. Working with Nokia means we are easily able to reach a huge number of mobile users, including customers of all S60 licensees. This is a significant step in gaining broad acceptance for Silverlight and ensuring it is platform agnostic. This is critical since we want to make sure developers and designers don’t have to constantly recreate the wheel and build different versions of applications and services for multiple operating systems, browsers and platforms,” said S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division.

According to Adobe, 450 million devices have been shipped with a version of Flash, known as Flash Lite.And the question now is , Will Micrsosoft Silverlight be able to compete with Flash?

Posted 04 March 2008 by ahmed § N96 § Not just N95 ‡ Comments (8)
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Change of ownership at N95blog

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Dear all,

After quite a period of silence after the announcement of N95blog being for sale, I am happy to say that the blog has been sold and thus has found a new owner.

I wish Ahmed a lot of joy and all the best in his new position and trust that he will do his utmost to maintain the exposure and status of this blog.

I say Thank You to all readers and visitors of this blog for their contributions and feedback in the past year.

More information on the process of the sale and my experiences during the sale can be found in this post: “N95blog.com in retrospect: The Rise and Sale of a blog”

Signing off for now, hope that you give Ahmed feedback that he can use and keep on providing this blog with the N95 information and experiences that it needs!

Kindest regards and take care,

Jan
(http://ipears.com)

PS Yes, I will keep an eye on this blog and maybe post every now and then for good ol’ sake. :D

Posted 01 March 2008 by jan § n95blog ‡ Comments (8)

Newbie Question: Download my Videos from Nokia N95 8GB to my laptop?

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I’m wondering if anyone can help me?

I’ve just brought the N95 8GB and I can’t download any of my videos to my laptop it just won’t accept them. I’ve even downloaded “realplayer” to my laptop as that’s the app on the phone but stil nothing. It will let me view the file but when I try and Copy, transfer, send the file it won’t work.

Has anyone had any problems with this before?

Any help would be great, thanks

Posted 29 February 2008 by nwaite § N95 Talk ‡ Comments (7)

An in-depth look into S60 feature pack 2: Screenshot galore at Mobile-Review

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In this case it totally does NOT matter whether you can read Russian or not.

Mobile-Review reviewed S60’s feature pack 2 and has put up all details in one huge post… containing an amazing load of screenshots of all possible screen in this version of S60.

“See” the full review here. 

Posted 29 February 2008 by jan § Not just N95 ‡ Comments (8)

Mad Monday: Nokia N95 and S60 linkage

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After a very dynamic weekend, time for some linky-love to some very interesting posts:

Yup, enough reading stuff again… ENJOY!

Oh, by the way, if you are designing applications for the Nokia N95 and you want them to be promoted here on N95blog, please do not hesitate to ask!

Posted 25 February 2008 by jan § N95 Tips § N95 Talk ‡ Comments (1)

Bad Guy in Knight Rider 2008 uses black N95 8GB… with touchscreen. Ha!

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Knight Rider 2008Maybe should not support these kind of sites and darn this movie is bad… Knight Rider 2008 (TV version) is some combination of the old Knight Rider and Viper.

One of the bad guys uses a black N95 8GB which in one scene shows the screen with a numerical touchpad. Always fun to see that in movies they never use a mobile phone showing a UI that actually acts the way it acts for real.

Would you like to see the N95 with a touchpad?

Posted 18 February 2008 by jan § N95 Talk ‡ Comments (10)

Nokia N95 Travel Blog: Reporting back home with minimal digital luggage

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I received a message from Aaron, who soon will be relying on his Nokia N95 8GB full time, while travelling through South-East Asia.

From his blog:

soon im off going travelling to south-east asia, for quite some time, and i wanted to be able to stay in touch with everyone back home, i wanted to be able to easily keep an online diary and upload pictures and even plot the pics on a map, but…

i want to keep it simple, i didnt want to be lugging around expensive laptops or sitting in internet cafe’s for hours on end or even having lots of devices with miles of cables and chargers. what i wanted was a simple and very portable solution that fully intergrates all my blogs and facebook etc with as few clicks and hastle as possible.

So after much research i settled on a nokia n95 8g, a wicked smartphone which in theory could do all the above.

So, he now has all the needed equipment and tools:

  • Nokia N95 8GB
  • Nokia SU-8W wireless keyboard
  • Typepad blog (this is because it allows the upload of “text notes”)
  • FlogBlog (blog integration with Facebook)
  • Flickr account (for the pictures)
  • Shozu account (for Geotagging)

The trip has not started yet, but I guess it is interesting to see how Aaron has managed to prepare himself for blogging while traveling:

http://aaronandgeorgie.typepad.com/n95travelblog/

Posted 18 February 2008 by jan § N95 Talk § N95 Advanced ‡ Comments (23)

Using CalSync for S60 on Nokia N95

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This neat little application has not gotten much attention yet, most probably because it is a very early beta.
Still, it needs to get more attention as it has great potential.

CalSyncS60 provides two-way synchronization between S60 calendar and Google Calendar.
For example, when you add appointment to Google Calendar it will appear also in your phone.
Just start the application and hit sync.

I tested the application yesterday:

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Biggest irritation so far is that it can only sync correctly when connecting over WiFi… which is a bummer, cause it certainly limits its possibilities.

The entries it is not able to retrieve are the entries belonging to other than the main calendar. I am using 5 differently dedicated calendars, but it only syncs those entries belonging to my main calendar.

So, head over, download the app and give feedback to S60Addons, cause this app deserves to be developed further into a solid synchronization tool between S60 and gCalendar!

Posted 15 February 2008 by jan § Not just N95 § N95 Tips ‡ Comments (11)

Riding the Wavelog: testdrive from Nokia N95

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So, there we go. I am writing this post from my Apple keyboard o my Nokia N95… using Wavelog.Still have to get used to the different workflow while writing a post, did not read any manual in order to test how it works “out of the box”. No idea what will happen with what I insert “down” or “right”, as the two options mention.Okay, enough text for now. Will edit this further later on.

So, the above written was posted from my Nokia N95.

The setup and usage of Wavelog is very simple. Now that I see the output, I am quite amazed. It puts the different objects (text, images) in a table structure, rather than simple markup.

Still, it is a simple and effective tool for blogging to WordPress or Drupal, as it very neatly uses XML-RPC to publish content. The picture added above was easily added, though I noticed that I could not access other folders than my gallery folder (too bad I keep my screenshots in another folder…).

Neither could I add categories (only general), nor tags…
Anyhow. Wavelog does open up possibilities and with future adjustments will be a good onboard blogging tool for the Nokia N95 and other phones.

I say onboard, as there is of course also a mobile admin plugin for WordPress… to use in a mobile browser.

Some screenshots uploaded from my Mac:

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Posted 14 February 2008 by jan § n95blog § N95 Talk ‡ Comments (8)