Nokia presented Nokia 808 PureView cameraphone monster

Despite the fact that Symbian is not favorite child in Nokia family it got excellent present on MWC 2012. The name of the new product based on Symbian is Nokia 808 PureView. This is a best cameraphone ever - it got a camera whose sensor consists of 41 megapixels.

We must say that Nokia 808 PureView does not use all 41 megapixels but only 38 as the maximum. The resulted stored picture in flash memory will be just five interpolated megapixels, also it can be 8 Mpx . This is because the Nokia 808 PureView uses seven pixels in each resulting pixel to be able to zoom in and get very clear pictures even in the details.

Device got thick upper part where the camera module requires extra space so it looks more like digital camera from behind than cellphone. Nokia PureView is a phone running Nokia Belle and it will cost around 450 Euros and is expected to be shipped in May 2012.

Nokia 500 Belle firmware appeared

This site  posted information that Belle firmware update for Nokia 500 is available for download in form of binary image and can be flashed with help of Phoenix flashing software. Belle still isn't available for Nokia 500 via Nokia Suite but will be available in few days. Nokia smartphone users who can't wait may right now download and flash Belle to their phones. Flashing requires installing Phoenix flasher and downloading binary image of Belle firmware.

Nokia MWC leaks - Nokia 808, Lumia 610

Last few days we've heard a lot new numbers from Nokia: 803, Lumia 719, Lumia 730, Lumia 910 and now they added more - 808 and Lumia 610.
Two days ago our attention were focused on leak of probably the last Nokia smartphone running Symbian Nokia 803. This maybe true or not, but sources was speaking about it as a phone with the best camera ever built-in the mobile phone. Its camera probably would get an optical zoom. The title of the best camera smartphone for now belongs to Nokia N8, whose 12 megapixel camera captures great photos and record 720p HD video with continuous auto-focus.
Let's look at the specifications of the Nokia 803. It has an optical zoom, Xenon flash, the physical protection of the sensor and Full HD video at 30 fps. Other specs shows that Nokia 803 will run Belle flavor os Symbian OS, also it will have AMOLED 4-inch display, HDMI port, Bluetooth connectivity, NFC, HSPA+ network connectivity. The Nokia 803 supposed to be presented at MWC 2012.
The other leaked announcement are Windows Phone Tango featured Nokia Lumia 900 in international version and a new low-end WP7  smartphone called the Lumia 610 (probably renamed Lumia 730).

Kik Messenger for Symbian and Win Phone 7 free in Nokia Store

Today you can download cool messaging app Kik from Nokia Store (Ovi) for free. Kik Messenger is available not only for Nokia Symbian N8, 701, 700, Nokia 603, 500 but for Windows Phone handsets too. This means you cat get it for your new shiny Nokia Lumia 800. Kik is the same cool messenger such as WhatsApp, which already has been available for Symbian Anna and WinPhone 7. With Kik's super easy to use UI you can fast text your friends for free. It has real-time notifications about message status and peer typing. Kik IM also allows you to send media files like photos to your friends.
Hurry up download it from the Nokia Store and the Win Phone Marketplace.

Ovi Store client for Symbian updated

Nokia sent user emails about Ovi Store servers down this Wednesday because of Nokia Ovi Store client received an update. Still no official update list available, but you can fell that the app is more smooth and quicker in navigating and actions.

Nokia Loop in Ovi Store - mix music on the phone

Nokia is running a promo campaign "It's not technology it' s what you do with it", developed by Wieden + Kennedy, addressed to Nokia N8 and Nokia C7 phones. As part of this campaing Nokia has published in Ovi Store the "Loop" application. This software allows Nokia users to mix different musical tracks. With this app users are able to record, edit and loop up to four tracks. Also users may upload their mixes and share it with friends.

Nokia's global marketing director Kari Tuutti said: "We are super excited to bring the Nokia Loop App into Ovi Store. We cannot wait to see the innovative ways that music lovers will use this fun app and share their loops with friends and social networks."

Nokia uploaded to YouTube a clip about extreme poodle styling, "Poodle Loop", which been produced to demonstrate the app capabilities. You may watch it too here.

Opera Mini 5.1 for Nokia Symbian phones now in sis installer

Opera Software finally ported it's superb web browser to native Symbian sis format. The main question now is - where to download this app to your Nokia phone? You can do it the same way as with regular J2ME version of Opera Mini app, just follow this link m.opera.com and scroll down web page until you see link to Opera Mini for Symbian sisx installer. This version supports all modern Symbian S60 versions from 3rd edition to 5th and Symbian^3.
The Opera Mini 5.1 native app got some improvements to the J2ME version of Opera Mini:
- Significantly faster (2x-3x) loading time
- Support for more Nokia devices
- Faster page-load and scrolling
- Native device text input and FEP support, including narrative like Talks
- Symbian clipboard integration for copy & paste, email, web browser
In wrap-up I can say that the new, optimized native version has excellent performance and is better integrated with native applications and Symbian OS. I waited this release a long time, now I'm happy to use it in my phone.
Today Opera Software released Beta 2 version of Opera Mini for Symbian. It has improved stability and FEP input support.

Nokia Ovi Guide magazine - Top apps and games reviewed

Nokia releases first issue of its new Nokia Ovi Guide magazine. In this release you will read about:

• Ovi features like Mail, Share, Contacts, Music, Files
• App reviews
• Game reviews
• Nokia recommendations
• Social networking and location-based apps which you can find in Ovi Store

Some apps which were covered:
Social networking - Gravity a mobile twitter client, Fring - a VoIP app, BuddyCloud, ShoZu - mobile content uploader and Nimbuzz - multi IM networks client.
Location-based apps - PinPoints, Endomondo Tracker, Dad's Cab, Near Here, I Parked Here.
Also were covered MobNotes, Vringo, Qik, Shazam, Twittle and much more. So, don't wait, rush to read this guide in Ovi world.

Where to find Ovi store app and games reviews

Today Ovi Store is the great place to find free apps, games and multimedia content for your Nokia devices. But description of apps in store is really short, and you can't get enough screenshots. Don't worry, Nokia now has a blog with reviews of the best content in Ovi store. MyDailyApp blog publish every day a new review of app or game or other store content. They mostly pick free and the best content in the store. Go there and start browsing for new free apps and games for your Nokia device.

How to use Ovi store on Nokia phone

Today Ovi Store has officially opened for users worldwide. Millions of people with Nokia devices now can benefit from tons of free and premium content. This service available for more than 50 Nokia S60 and Series 40 devices right now. But how to open and use Ovi Store on your phone? This is really easy - just select the Ovi Store icon in the Download folder on your device and open the Ovi Store page. Or you can get to the Ovi Store by visiting store.ovi.com with your phone web browser. There you can login to your account and start downloading apps to your phone. I will post my first impressions of this service soon.

Upgrade your Nokia 5800 with free apps

6 April Nokia has released a new TV commercial with its first touch-screen device Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. This video shows what a cool things you can do with your 5800 device like Internet messaging and browsing with web video support, GPS navigation, picture and video uploading to Flickr and YouTube.

I wonder how we can extend these rich capabilities of this perfect device with freeware applications? The first thing I thought was extended messaging to many IM networks with Nimbuzz, Octrotalk, Palringo, Yeigo, Bombus and other such applications. The second thing would be free and low-cost VoIP telephony with great VoIP clients like Fring or Truphone. Other interesting option would be making from your phone a wireless webcam or microphone for your laptop which is possible with help of WWIGO or Mobiola Webcam and Mobiola Headset application.

My question to readers: how else we can upgrade our 5800 touch devices with Symbian freeware?

Free Skype VoIP client in Nokia phones

Finally Skype will embed its VoIP application to the Nokia mobile phones running Symbian S60. The first one will be the new N97 device. Moreover Skype software will be available to download onto other Nokia Symbian S60 models. But standalone version is less integrated into address books, messaging and other phone's built-in features. Integrated version of Skype client in Nokia N97 will be able to show when Skype contacts are online, send messages to them, launch free Skype-to-Skype voice calls, and use native phone client to make Skype Out calls.

Looks like we move to Skype availability on all Nokia Symbian smartphones.

Symbian freeware in Ovi Store

Today at MWC 2009 Nokia has announced its new great service for smartphone consumers. This is a new Ovi Store - an application and content download service that will be launched in early May of this year. I've reviewed existing Nokia MOSH freeware download service which will be part of new Nokia Ovi Store. This means that Ovi Store will have a lot of free applications, games, themes, ringtones and other rich and free audio-video content. Supported Nokia devices contains a wide range of new and existing Symbian S60 smartphones and Series 40 devices. Since this service will be launched in May we doesn't have link to it yet, but we still can go to Nokia MOSH and enjoy free stuff.

Free VoIP Symbian app Fring now on Nokia E71

Free VoIP Symbian application now is available for Nokia E71. This is Fring. Nokia E71 smartphone is another new device supported by this great free VoIP application. A few days ago Fring team also announced support of Samsung i550w smartphone. More information about Fring features you can find in previous post about Symbian VoIP SIP applications.

Nokia S60 Symbian Windows Live client available in Europe

Mail and IM application for Nokia S60 E50, E51, E61, E62 devices provide access to Microsoft's services as Hotmail, MSN IM, Windows Live Spaces and Live Search. Now you can download it for free in all Europe and US carriers. Just go to "Download!" tool in your device and get this great free symbian application.

Free Symbian games, ringtones, apps from Nokia MOSH

Nokia's mobile portal MOSH became a great source of free content for Symbian devices. Mosh has a lot of downloads such as themes, games, ringtones, applications, animations, videos, pictures. These files are broken into set of categories. If you haven't found desired file you can ask the community to help find it. You can type http://mosh.nokia.mobi in your smartphones' browser or download files to PC from regular site and transfer them to your device using Nokia PC Suite.

New VoIP freeware for Symbian with SIP support - Talkonaut

Yesterday was presented a new great Symbian S60 VoIP application Talkonaut. The main feature of this app is messaging in Jabber, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, AIM and Yahoo networks. But also this is a great free VoIP client which supports VoIP over GPRS including SIP stack. This means that you can freely call with such services as Voipstunt, VoipDiscount, NetAppel, VoipBuster, VoipCheap, SparVoip and other Finarea-Betamax. If you haven't a SIP account this app offer to you cheap voice calls over IP with help of GTalk 2 VoIP service. With help of Talkonaut you able to make free VoIP calls to Google Talk users, Yahoo, MSN, AIM and ICQ voice capable IM clients, as well as to other Talkonaut users.
This awesome application is available for most of all Nokia Symbian S60 smartphones 2nd and 3rd Editions: E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E70, E90, 3250, 5500, 5700, 6110, 6120, 6121, 6290, N71, N73, N75, N76, N80, N81, N82, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95. Direct download link for Symbian S60 v3 is here and for Symbian S60 v2 here. Delivery of download link via SMS message also is available. I will post my experience with Talkonaut app very soon.

FlipSilent - mute your phone by flip it over

With new 2008 year we got new awesome free applications for our Symbian S60 mobile phones. The first one is a Flip Silent application. Do you know what FlipSilent is? This is freeware app which makes phone to be muted off with one simple gesture - flip over. This is really helpful when you are in a meeting and a call starts ringing all of the sudden. You just can quickly flipover your smartphone to mute the ringer or hang up the phone call or make it go into the silent profile. You don't need to find those small buttons, lose your attention - just flip it over and your smartphone will go into silence! The app supports this Symbian S60 3rd Edition and 3rd Edition FP1 phones with an accelerometer: Phones N95, N95 8GB, N82, N93i, 5500. The app supports 10 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Dutch, Romanian etc.

S60 freeware YouTube video player

Today we all got a new great freeware application for our S60 devices. This is a freeware YouTube player which is most wanted app of this year. Its name is emTube. This is standalone S60 application allows you to Search, List and Watch YouTube video clips directly on your mobile. It can play videos while they downloading to your device. Also you can store downloaded videos to device's memory. I'm not sure if it supports YouTube authentication to access to restricted content, but anyway functionality of this app is just awesome. Here more screenshots of this app:

Thanks for the review to Allabout.

S60 and UIQ PC remote file manager and backup

Sometimes we need to transfer a huge amount of files to or from the phone (often to the MMC card). Also we need to transfer a whole directory structure or do backup operations for phone's memory card in case if we what to change it to a new one without losing all the data and without using PC card-reader. Here the solutions I've found at some "PC phone tools" forum thread. The first one is PC File Manager. This application from Epocware gives you an opportunity to manage files on your phone from your PC. It works only for old versions of Nokia and SE devices like Nokia 7650, 3650, 6600 ans SE UIQ P800, P900. Moreover this is shareware application.

The second application was Symbian FileExplorer. This is just devices sis app. Symbian FileExplorer gives you full access to your Symbian phone file system from your PC over Bluetooth (OBEX). Using this application you can access via BT to the all content of your phone memory and do all file operations in bulk mode. This is also a shareware application.

There is also Oxygen Phone Manager but it can't transfer plain files. The only freeware solution for this task for Nokia S60 is the original Nokia PC Suite application, but backup and file transfer in this application doesn't copy all files. For UIQ there is free Symbianware DesktopFileMan.