Now available exclusively on Nokia's Music Store is Kylie Minouge's latest album, X. With a street date of November 26th, this is a big coup for a store that's only been around for less than a month. The album will sell for £8 (a saving of 98p compared to Amazon's list price) over at music.nokia.com .
In the final part of his review of the Nokia N81 Ewan looks at two applications that add a little something to the multimedia and music credentials of the N81: Podcasting and Visual Radio. Ewan then brings us some thoughts about the positioning of this music and gaming orientated Nseries device before coming to an overall conclusion.
ShoZu has rightly been applauded for providing a quick and easy route to uploading media (including pictures to Flickr and videos to YouTube) from your handset. They’ve now introduced “round-tripping” into the latest version of the application (downloadable from www.shozu.com ), which allows you to pull down pictures from your Contact’s Flickr streams (not just your own) and also to stream video from your favourite YouTube content.
Nokia Beta Labs is currently running a beta on an advertising supported version of Nokia Download! (UK market only). Nokia Download! is an application that acts as a 'shop window' and offers a variety of software, services and content for download. It is testing the concept of using advertising to subsidise some on the content available in the Download! application. Read on for some example screenshots.
Power users are always on the look out for ways of getting to information just that little bit quicker. In this review of SkyeQuiKey Steve examines one potential option. SkyeQuiKey is an utility application that integrates with the idle screen of S60 3rd Edition phones and offers quick matching against contacts and applications stored on the phone.
Nokia Ad Business today announced an agreement with Handmark to provide a mobile advertising solution for its Pocket Express mobile data application. Nokia Ad Business is a marketplace for mobile advertising, it was formed out of the fusion of Nokia's recent Enpocket acquisition together with the existing Nokia Ad Service and Nokia Advertising Connector. We expect to see further such announcements in the future as more services move to an advertising funded model.
Nokia Beta labs have announced the renewed availability of the beta of Nseries PC Suite 2.0. The software gets a new look and feel and a major new addition, Nokia Photos, is integrated into Nseries PC Suite. Other improvements include single click sync and drag and drop file copying to a device. Installation is also easier thanks to a web based installer. Read on for more details and screenshots.
It has been informallyannounced that a PHP and MySQL implementation is going to be added to Nokia's Web Server software Raccoon. PHP is an open source scripting language usually used to create dynamic web pages. There will also a number of PHP extension modules that provide access to the core functionality of the phone. Read on for more thoughts.
OK, don't get too excited, a forum member (Vineeth) on Symbian Freak has been playing with a build of the upcoming firmware (v21) for the Nokia N95, demoing version number and some features via Remote Device Access. The new firmware isn't public yet (though the number of people trying every day must be in the 10s of thousands by now) but the good news is that it includes demand paging and the active standby Search integration.
Thanks to Ed for pointing out that firmware 2.0633.65.01 is now available for the Nokia E61i in many regions (updating people from 1.0633 etc). There's no changelog as yet, someone please comment as to what's new!
If it's nearly Christmas then it must be time for an icy puzzler. Right on cue come Herocraft with Snow Lines, and our very own Attila Katona has been playing it for days to bring you a detailed review. Not that one is needed, to be honest, it's a great game, you already know how to play it and there's a trial version for every platform under the sun....
