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Ovi Contacts updated for S60 3.2 phones

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The beta of Ovi Contacts (the service formerly known as Contacts on Ovi, which was formerly known as Nokia Chat...!) has been updated for S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 phones (e.g. the Nokia N96 and N85). For existing users, there are no major feature additions, but a number of bugs have been fixed and the application and service is more stable, which should broaden its appeal. Read on for a quick look at Ovi Contacts.

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Getting Facebook status into the 5800's Contact bar, and All About the N79 Active

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Trust Ricky and the team to come up with useful info on making more of the Nokia 5800's rather intractable Contact RSS feed home screen - here's a slightly convoluted but working walk through, focussed on seeing a friend's Facebook or Twitter status/streams. There's also a detailed review of the Nokia N79 Active 'pack' and the new Sports Tracker 2.0, with built-in heart rate monitor.

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Travel in your city - now online!

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Living in Reading in the UK, I've been used to seeing a gradual computerisation of everything to do with the city's travel network, right down to electronic signs at some of the busier bus stops - it's clear that there's now computer awareness of all trains, buses and roads. Which begs the question as to why some or all of this data couldn't be put online for Joe Public to access. There's now an answer for Reading (and for several other UK cities), thanks to mxData and their new MetroTV mobile application, screenshots and details below.

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Mobile Advertising Is Last Year's News, and That Can Only Help It Grow

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It's all about the App Stores and Content Stores now. That's the wave of the future, didn't you know? It'll drive devices sales, the revenue will get shared between developers, networks and manufacturers, and all will be well with the world. But hold on, what happened to last year's Golden Child? Let's find out.

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To Touch or not to Touch?

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In contravention of the prevailing spirit of the age, I find myself unconvinced by a touch interface on a phone, having tried using both Apple iPhone and Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, both of which I've rejected as my main device for different reasons. And, for a change, there's survey data (see the postscript) to back up my crazed(!) opinions - it seems that the majority of the great unwashed also prefer physical buttons to touch...

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The Nokia N85 and N86 8MP, Side by Side

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Ewan, proud owner of the Nokia N85, has decided to do a direct comparison of his phone with the new N86 8MP, widely leaked as originally intended on being the N85 8MP. What are the essential differences between the two devices, how significant are they, and were Nokia right to go with the new model number? Ewan says 'Yes', and Rafe agrees, in a special editorial postscript, although their reasons for agreeing are somewhat different - as you'll see.

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Python for the Samsung INNOV8 and i7110 - of sorts

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It seems that Samsung Mobile Innovator's team signed a version of Python for S60 a few weeks ago - and then forgot to tell anyone. You can grab it here, look for post no. 10. Note that this isn't a complete system, in that there's no signed 'Script shell', so you can't run scripts directly. However, Python apps packaged properly as SIS files should now work OK on the Samsung INNOV8 and i7110, which is a good start. Screens below the break. Now, Samsung programming wizards, how about a working firmware update mechanism, eh?

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Camera Nitty Gritty - The Series Overview and Conclusions

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Over the last six months on All About Symbian in my 'Camera Nitty Gritty' series, I've tackled a number of phone camera-related issues head on and tried to draw conclusions, even though they sometimes fly in face of phone marketing. In this article, I provide an index to all the Camera Nitty Gritty articles and also summarise some of the individual article conclusions. Xenon flash, resolution, apertures, branded optics, it's all here and neatly broken down. 

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