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Nokia Admits That The N97 Sucked, Working to Improve Their Phones [Nokia]
about 2 weeks ago - No comments
So the Nokia N97 was a bit of a disaster. Normally, companies pretend that all of their products are great, even when they aren’t. But one Nokia VP is willing to admit that the N97 was a steamer.
Nokia’s VP of Markets Anssi Vanjoki recently said in an interview that the N97 was a “tremendous disappointment in terms of the experience quality for the consumers and something [they] did not anticipate.” How refreshingly candid!
Of course, he’s using such candidness as an excuse to claim that they’ve learned their lesson and are working to make the N97 a real contender via firmware updates. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that it might be a little late for firmware to save the N97, but if Nokia really is learning from its mistakes, bring on the next gen devices. If Microsoft can retool its mobile division after the abortion that was WinMo 6.5, there’s no reason Nokia can’t do the same. [All About Symbian via Engadget]
Mobileways Gravity v1.30.6325 S60v3 S60v5 SymbianOS9.x Unsigned By CwPlace
about 3 weeks ago - No comments
Gravity is the first fully-featured and native Twitter client for the S60 platform. It supports multiple accounts, Twitter Search, Laconica, Ping.fm, posting of pictures via MobyPicture & TwitPic and wraps everything into a gorgeous looking interface.
Overview of Gravitys Features:
· Compatible with Twitter and Laconica
· All functions available on your S60 phone: tweet, reply, retweet, DM, follow & unfollow, block, create favourites, search, auto-update and many more
· Tabbed view of your Timeline, Replies, Messages, Friends,
· Profile View to see information about a Twitter User
· Configurable Audio Alerts for Timeline/Replies/DMs & Searches
· Auto-Connect to any Access Point and Auto-Fallback to WLAN
· Setup and use as many accounts as you want at the same time
· Group support for creating custom tabs with user-defined filters
· Post URLs from tweets to del.icio.us or Instapaper
· Twitter-Search section with multiple search tabs and Twitter Trends
· Post pictures to MobyPicture, TwitPic, TwitGoo, Posterous, Yfrog or img.ly
· Preview pictures from MobyPicture, TwitPic, TwitGoo, Flic.kr, Yfrog and img.ly
· Ping.fm support by simply sending message or #group message
· Open URLs from any Tweet
· Kinetic scrolling on S60v5 ( Nokia 5800 and Nokia N97 )
· Theme support ( fixed dark and bright theme )
· Full-Screen mode
· Includes a Homescreen Widget for the Nokia N97
· Built-in auto-update function and beta access for testing the latest features
What’s New in This Release:
- To use Foursquare, just add a new account
Not much in there so far, – more to come later.-To send a new-style retweet, just click on the Retweet button w/o editing the tweet (the char counter will say “RT”)
- You can touch the GPS symbol in the editor on v5 now. On v3fp2, click on cursor up
- Hey,the Nearby button will be fixed very soon. Stupid bug
- For all people with WLAN, #Gravity now caches the GPS position for an active WLAN, making GPS very fast …
Nokia: Ovi Maps With Free Navigation Averages A Download Per Second, 1.4M Total
about 1 month ago - No comments
I’m starting to suspect people like free stuff – a shocker, I know.
Nokia says the new version of Ovi Maps that includes free walk and drive navigation has been downloaded over 1.4 million times since its introduction on 21 January 2010.
Nokia says the 1 million mark was reached after just one week following the launch, and the company’s Executive VP Anssi Vanjoki adds that they’re currently seeing ‘a download a second, 24 hours a day’.