Recent News - Page 324

N95 v12 firmware on the way?

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So there I was chatting to the AAS team yesterday and wondering how long it would take until the N95 received its next firmware update - and it turns out that v12 firmware is on the horizon at least, Ricky Cadden has got himself a preview and some screenshots. The main addition so far noticed seems to be Assisted GPS, in an attempt to solve the N95's legendary GPS lock-on problems.

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S60.com comes up trumps again

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Kudos to Nokia's S60.com lifestyle site for constantly coming up with interesting freebies. 'SMS Export' for S60 3rd Edition is this month's limited edition download, plus there are new themes to grab and more. Note that you do need to register on the site, but it's free.

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Hello? Hello! Yes! I'm - in - a - plane!!

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The latest Airbus aircraft have been cleared to run the OnAir mobile roaming service (reports SMS Text News ). In essence a low powered base station in the sky, it will allow SMS, email and voice calls to be made while above the regulation 10,000 feet. Air France (France), TAP (Portugal), BMI (UK) and Ryanair (Ireland) have expressed an interest. Looks like I'll be continuing to fly BA and American then.

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YouTube H.264 windfall to benefit S60 smartphones?

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It's interesting watching some of the side deals being done around the iPhone. Apparently YouTube are going to make all their video catalog available in higher quality H.264 format. Ostensibly for iPhone compatibility, but note that all S60 3rd Edition FP1 devices and many older Nseries devices (e.g. N73, N93, N80, etc.) have H.264 video compatibility. Hopefully YouTube pages will soon come with a hook or link for smartphones to follow and play?

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Fring Breaks out of Symbian

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It's probably worth pointing out that the VoIP and Multi Platform IM application Fring is now available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 (The Register). Given Windows Mobile already has a Skype client expect a lot more focus on the VoIP angle in the coming months, which of course will have a nice knock-on effect with the Symbian version!

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v5 for the N80

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It seems that the Nokia N80 has had a major firmware update, to 5.0719.0.2 (from v4.x), which is already available in your Nokia Software Update. For unbranded/unlocked devices, anyway. (Via Symbian-Freak)

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Nokia reorganises corporate structure

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Nokia is set to reorganise its corporate structure from January 2008 as part its move towards becoming an 'Internet company'. Nokia's current structure of business groups and horizontal group will change to three main units: devices, software and services and markets. Currently S60 devices are produced by the Multimedia group (Nseries), Enterprise group (Eseries) and Mobile Phones group. The new structure sees a greater emphasis on software and services a main stay of which will presumably be the S60 Platform.

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Opera Mini 4 Beta now available

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The beta of Opera Mini 4 is now available from the Opera website. The new version renders a full page overview from which you can then zoom in to read the page (very reminiscent of S60's browser overview / minimap mode). Other new features include the introduction of a mouse and power scrolling making it easier to move around pages and a quick access context menu. Read on for more and screenshots.

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Yet another way to 'Skweeze' the Web

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Another nail in the coffin of over-fancy, bloated web sites. In addition to Opera Mini, Google Mobile and operator-branded proxies (e.g. the new Vodafone system, bought in from Novarra), you can also now surf to your heart's content without wasting bandwidth using the new version 4 of Skweezer. Start by pointing your smartphone browser at http://www.skweezer.net/.

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Nokia Mobile Web Server - the future of smartphones or a geeky blind alley?

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"Would you like to preview Nokia Mobile Web Server?", I was asked. "Not really my cup of tea", I said, "but I know someone else for whom this would be extremely interesting." And I was right. Our own Rafe Blandford gets to grips with Mobile Web Server, shows what it can do, demonstrates a real live phone-hosted micro site and then points to a possible smartphone future.

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