Nokia has released Nokia Video Manager for Windows PC. The software helps you copy videos to your phone and transcodes them on the fly (converts them to an optimal format). Nokia Video Manager supports conversion from avi, mpeg, wmv and mov (DivX, XVid, MPEG-2 and Quicktime codecs) to mp4 (H.264). As such it is only compatible with devices that can play back the H.264 format.
The Nseries team always do a pretty good job on these video promotionals.... This one minute short film, aired on the Nseries Arena blog, demonstrates the Nokia N73, N95 and N80 used to help avoid cooking disasters and to bring a group of friends together for a meal...
In How To Build Your Own Web Home Page Ewan describes how you can create a custom start page for your phone's web browser. Intended for novices this feature explains the basics of page construction and how to get the page set up on your phone.
Part 5 of our Nokia N95 review sees its battery life put under intense scrutiny. Injecting some reality into the voices of doom around the world, the truth is that it isn't quite as bad as the critics claim, although you do have to bear in mind the limited 950mAh capacity and there's definitely room for an aftermarket higher capacity alternative.
In this in-depth editorial feature Krisse asks whether non-portable game systems are doomed? Home consoles and home computers have played such a big part in the history of gaming, it seems inconceivable that they would ever disappear. But is gaming about to become 100% mobile?
Nokia have released iSync plug-ins for a number of their recent phones including the Nokia N95, Nokia E65, and Nokia N76. The release of these plug-ins mean all currently available S60 phones will sync with a computer running Mac OS X.
It's all very well Apple announcing 100 million iPods sold since the first player hit the market in late 2001, but when you compare it to the mobile arena, where over 80 million smartphone devices with music and video capability were sold in the last tweleve months, you realise that while it might have the zeitgeist, the iPod is quite clearly no longer the top selling family of music devices.
Thanks to the User Agent Profile lists on Nokia.com we know there is another S60 device on the way. The 6120 runs S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (Symbian 9.2), is a 3G device (including HSDPA) and has a QVGA screen. The device is referred to as the 6120c indicating its full name will be the Nokia 6120 Classic.
The Easter weekend break has snuck up on us, with several Nokia N95 review parts still unfinished. But if you've now got some time off and want to catch up, here's a reminder of the N95 review part 1 (GPS/Navigation), part 2 (Music) and part 3 (Camera). Happy Easter!
Eagle eyed James has spotted that the Nokia N95 detects whether photos are snapped in portrait or landscape mode - it seems the device has a level sensor! Which begs the question why the general interface and other apps don't use this, of course..... Still, pretty cool.
Thanks to Darla for the scoop on the new version of PC Suite, available now, with selective content restoring, full Windows Vista support and firmware update notifications.
Continuing the current N95 surge of content, there's a torrent of new devices hitting the high street, with AAS readers now owning them out in the real world. Here's the AAS N95 discussion forum - it's your first port of call for asking questions.
In the fourth part of our definitive review of the Nokia N95, Steve Litchfield looks in detail at its video recording capabilities. How does it stand up in terms of picture and audio quality, what can you do with recorded videos and are there any gotchas?
The Easter weekend break has snuck up on us, with several Nokia N95 review parts still unfinished. But if you've now got some time off and want to catch up, here's a reminder of the N95 review part 1 (GPS/Navigation), part 2 (Music) and part 3 (Camera). Happy Easter!