Sep 26 2011

New Nokia Store

Category: Mobile Phones,Nokia,Symbianksg91 @ 4:17 pm

After Nokia announcing dropping of Ovi branding, you will have seen Ovi being dropped gradually, first social accounts then website etc, and finally Ovi Store is going to be replaced by Nokia Store.

Before Nokia Store is pushed as Software Update, Nokia has given its sneak peak to its betalab testers.

Nokia said on Betalabs:

We are offering members of the Nokia Beta Labs community a preview of the new Store client.  Please help us in testing it before it is deployed in a software update.

This beta Store client will replace the current Store client on your Symbian^3 or Symbian Anna device, and it supports nearly all of the features as the official Store client (Web Runtime).  The key new features this client brings include:

  • Easier navigation
  • Improved product details view, for a rich and fluid discovery experience
  • Quicker, smoother and more responsive than WRT client

 

This new Nokia Store has Symbian Belle look. You can see that Belle style Status Bar and Toolbar at bottom.  New store is made using QML components. Looks is quite stylish and smoother experience. Now there is no more blank tables when apps are being loaded but it is replaced by a rotating animation.

Well, seeing all these updates coming soon, I can say, we, N8 and first batch of S^3 devices, are getting Symbian Belle soon. 😀

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Sep 25 2011

Nokia 701 Available in India

Category: Mobile Phones,Nokia,Symbianksg91 @ 1:57 pm

Last month, Nokia announced Nokia 701, with its brand new Symbian OS, Symbian Belle. It was expected that it will be launched in India on 28 septemeber but it is available on India Plaza now, at Rs. 16,999. If you can’t wait for official launch, just head over to http://l.ksg91.com/op31uT

Price of the phone is displayed Rs. 18,999 but as an offer you get it for just Rs. 16,999. IMO, it is priced pretty well.

This new Nokia 701 features 1 GHz processor, 3.5″  IPS-LCD display with nHD resolution , 8GB Internal Memory and 512 MB RAM. For more specific specification visit above link.

 

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Sep 19 2011

This Is Why I Love Nokia!

Category: Mobile Phones,Nokiaksg91 @ 8:39 pm

It was the era when Mobile Phones came to India and they were something everybody wanted to have one but not affordable to everyone! And finally we decided to buy a phone. The only company that was known those days was Nokia and so we bought Nokia 3310. And the story started. Its been about 10 years and I still remember those days. Since then, I have been using various Nokia phones till date and quite obsessed with them. There lies a Nokia fan here. I have several big debates with friends in real life or online, all they say is Nokia is not so good! But I never let them win those debates! 😛

Ok, it seems I am boring you, lets come to the point, why I love Nokia. Nokia is not so famous just for producing nice Phone but something, that many companies fail to have, i.e. after-sales service, great customer support and customer relationship. This is what has made them be the most trusted brand in India. There have been many incidence that really made me a Nokia Fan and not to mention all, I am just wanna share what they did for me today.

Those who love Nokia may probably know WOMWorld/Nokia pretty well. Those who don’t know, WOMWorld/Nokia is a Nokia sponsored resource providing latest news, comment and feedback on all things about Nokia from around the world. Since I became active on twitter, I wasn’t an exception to follow them. I follow many bloggers too. I saw WOMWorld/Nokia sending trial Nokia devices to many bloggers, developers and some non-geeks too! I recently started blogging and wanted to try some Nokia too but I was afraid to ask as my blog is quite new and so I left the thought of asking for one review unit.

Later I got some issue with my Nokia N8 in USB port and went to Nokia Care. Due to design of N8, they have to send my N8 to Delhi for about 12 days. I refused to give for now as all my spare phones were not working and phones are something I depends a lot these days. I thought “why not try to ask for a review unit from WOMWorld/Nokia? ” and I explained the situation and asked for a review unit. I mailed on weekends. I waited for couple of days but no reply! I thought I wont be getting one. But on this great monday, I received a mail from them and I was quite surprised to read the mail. They were late  (not actually late) to reply because it was weekends. This was what written in it:

Hi Kishan

We can definitely get you something to trial at least while your N8 is being repaired. The question is which would you like? At the moment we have the C7, E7, N8, X7, and E7 available. Also some BH-905i or Nokia 806’s accessories to go with the phone.

Let me know which phone you would like and we’ll take it from there.

Thanks,
Paul

Can you imaging, you will get choice of such high end phones? And the unexpected offer of having such a great headsets with phones without even asking for it too! Man, they really won my heart today. Have you ever saw any company like this?

I asked for one review unit of simple accessory from a company (can’t mension their name, sorry) and their first question was “Can you please send us the visitors stats of your site” and it was obvious to fail here for a new blogger like me. While WOMWorld/Nokia, without asking for anything about my blogging site’s stats, replied that mail so greatly! I really thank them for such an awesome response.

All I wanna say is THIS IS WHY I LOVE NOKIA! And after this post if you call me a fanboi, who cares? These points are enough for me to love a company! Thank you all at Nokia and WOMWorld/Nokia, especially Paul. 🙂

NOTE TO OTHER COMPANIES: Learn From Nokia, guys! 😛

UPDATE: Even before I publish this post, I received another mail from them with agreement form for all formalities to get device and here we go. Hurrrray.. 😀

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Aug 25 2011

Symbian Belle Announced Officially, Nokia 600,700 and 701 Official

Category: Mobile Phones,Nokia,Symbianksg91 @ 1:14 am

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2l0AkY07PKs]

As I posted yesterday here , Today Nokia at an event at Hong Kong announced Symbian Belle officially and announced new three phones 600, 700 and 701.

You can see the tech specs’ comparision of above three phones here: – http://l.ksg91.com/r43jkB

These phones will be launched in Q3 2011. Symbian Belle will be available for N8, E7, C7, etc in Q4 (hoping they meant 2011 :P)

This event has been very interesting for Symbian fans. Kudos, Nokia!

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Aug 23 2011

Symbian Belle going to be Official?

Category: Mobile Phones,Nokia,Symbianksg91 @ 7:21 pm

Nokia has something new for all us in its Facebook Fan Page.

Check it https://www.facebook.com/nokia?sk=app_222130677837526

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Teased??  There is much more to be teased about!

Nokia put this countdown for 48 hours. This flash file initially had url

https://facebookapps.nokia.com/belle/teaser/belle_fb_TeaserMain.swf

Got idea what is main teaser? 😛 It is something to do with new Symbian Belle. Its going to be official in 23 hours! 😀

After that, url being noticed by several persons and posted on few blogs, nokia changed url to https://facebookapps.nokia.com/somethingnew/TeaserMain.swf

Dear Nokia, don’t you think you are too late to do that? 😛

Anyway, it is expected that Nokia is also going to announce its new handsets like 600, 700 and 701. Whatever it may be, its going to be quite exciting just because its belle! If you have any update on this, do post it in comments. 🙂

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Aug 21 2011

Symbian Anna – Changelog

Category: Mobile Phones,Nokia,Symbianksg91 @ 4:29 pm

17th and 18th Aug would be one of the happiest day for Symbian^3 users. Most awaited Symbian Anna became available on 17th Evening (IST) via Nokia Care Suite only but later next morning, it was available via OTA as posted here:  http://l.ksg91.com/paas0N

 

Nokia, along with N8, released Symbian Anna for other first generation Symbian^3 phones – C7, E7 and C6-01. It is available in European and Asian markets including the UK, France, Russia, Indonesia, China and India and more countries in upcoming three weeks.

Well, now back to the topic,  Symbian Anna update was 25 MB in size.

yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/h4d6ktsj Shared by ksg91yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/h76qftaj Shared by ksg91

Symbian Anna update was followed by the four updates from SW Update.

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Aug 18 2011

Symbian Anna for Nokia N8 Available

Category: Mobile Phones,Nokia,Symbianksg91 @ 11:46 am

The most awaited Symbian^3 update, Symbian Anna, for Nokia N8 finally started rolling out yesterday evening. It was first available through only Nokia Care Suite. But finally before several minutes, It became available Over the air.

yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/h4d6ktsj Shared by ksg91yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/h76qftaj Shared by ksg91

 

 

To update your Nokia N8 simply follow three steps:

  1. Press *#0000#
  2. Check for Update
  3. Accept and Done!
🙂
If you are trying to find this update in SWUpdate from menu, it won’t show it there.
As you can see in image above, its just around 25 MB.
I will posting more about this after I finish installing this on my Nokia N8. 🙂

 

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Aug 17 2011

1930mAh Battery for Nokia N8?

Category: Mobile Phones,Nokiaksg91 @ 1:52 pm

“Battery Low!!” We always feel worried seeing this message on our phone, especially when we are out door. Gadget geeks’ power hungry smartphones always crave for more power! And there comes the batteries from the well known company for extended batteries, Mugen Power Batteries. They produce extended batteries (upto 4800mAh for Motorola Atrix!) for almost all smartphones but… but Nokia N8. Well, it isn’t their fault though. Nokia N8’s non-user removable battery design makes too hard to fit any batteries thicker than original battery.

After many request from N8 users, Mugen Power Batteries decided to start research for possibility of developing extended batteries for Nokia N8 only if they get 500 votes on twittion.

But before even they reach 500 votes, they said this to me in one talk,

@ksg91 This is currently in discussion. We have collected enough votes on twitition to initiate the development evaluation

They told me that they will post result soon. But as rumors said, they may make 2000mAh battery. Asking them about this, they

@ksg91 I think it’s not going to be 2000mAh but around 1500mAh. N8 is not too flexible for extension as it turns out.

Couple of days ago, I asked them about this and they replied that they haven’t come to any conclusion yet but result will be available soon.

 

But today, while wandering over the Internet, I came across extended batteries for Nokia N8! Yes, extended battery of 1930mAh. The possibility of extended battery more than 1500mAh was  declined by Mugen Batteries while the product I come across claimed to be of the same size of the original battery and still having 1930mAh power!



The product is on ebay UK.  The product costs just £6.15 (Rs. 400 only) . Here is the link to battery: http://l.ksg91.com/owWhjG

Looking at the price and other factor, product seems to be unrealistic. If anybody have any information about this, do comment here. 🙂

 

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Aug 17 2011

Symbian Belle for Nokia N8 Leaked

Category: Mobile Phones,Nokia,Symbianksg91 @ 10:52 am

Last night, suddenly, my twitter timeline was filled with Symbian Belle leak tweets. I checked few sources and all seems to say its valid news. I really wanted to blog about this but I was too sleepy and already in my bed. 🙁 So as soon as I waked up, I decided to blog about it.

Symbian Belle! Really, it is a dream OS for any Symbian Lover. Symbian Anna is not yet officially available for Nokia N8 and still Symbian Belle, major FW update, leak must be a great news. 😛

orvvan from Daily Mobile Forum, posted that he has already tested this Belle FW on his Nokia N8 and uploaded test video on youtube.

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