Its Ramadan Time and all of you might have got ready with your mind and body to enter the holy month. Well this time you can also have your mobile ready for ramadan. See the video to see how.
Author: sajinseethi
Youtube for s60v5 gets a major update
Say goodbye to the tiny screen of youtube client and welcome the new full screen support. Google’s native S60 YouTube client has just got itself a significant update, to v2.2.17 on S60 5th Edition phones like the N97, 5800 and Samsung i8910 HD and with new countries and languages added to its officially supported list: Brazil, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Sweden. Grab your updated client by pointing your mobile web browser to m.google.com
Nokia N97 gets firmware Update to v12
Yesterday Nokia N97 received a firmware update with a few changes. The current version of n97 is v11 and has been upgraded to v12. You can read the change log below.
* Following cases have been corrected and/or improved
– Fix for browser cache consuming more than specified in C drive
– Battery indictor showing wrong status (2-3bars) when charging completes
– Firmware over the air (FOTA) setting correction
– User interaction to device while FOTA may cause need for user to power on/off
– Fix for calendar entry lost
– Fix for mail that may get duplicated
– Fix to resolve GPRS access point selection even if WLAN access point is available
– Fix to not to ask user to do new profile while there is already one available
– Fix to display messaging application correctly when theme effect is set to ON
– Fix for Ovi store client may not properly installed if user has a client already installed earlier version
* Applications changes
– Ovi store application is now updated
Tell us what changes you noticed after the upgrade. There is enough space in the comment section 😉
The Nokia Tale
I bought my phone on 3rd January 2009. The phone worked very well eventhough i wasnt pretty much happy with symbian os. But since purchase, my phone use to lose sound while in a call. So january 9th i went to nokia care and they fixed it. Then phone started working well but then it often restarted while working. I took it nokia care in february and they said that could be a virus and they formatted my phone and memory card. I lost my contacts, calendar and all the settings and customizations i have done. They gave me the phone back and the same restarting problem continued in march for which i again went to the nokia care, in april and in may. All the time they sighted a chance for virus attack and they formatted my phone. That never fixed my problem and i got sick of visiting nokia care.
Finally i spoke to a very famous tech blogger who assured me nokia 5800 will not get viruses due to the signing procedure. I felt sad, angry and pity (on nokia). Just imagine nokia people itself doesnt know about their stuff. So i wrote a mail to nokia telling all this and they asked me to submit phone for one more time. I reluctantly submitted the phone and its my final hope. Just imagine in 7 months a phone visits its service centre 6 times.
So guys, share your experiences with your phone and how the manufacturer delt with it. Its time we look into who provides best after sales service.
Vopium doubles minutes for all packages
“Now you can save even more when you purchase one of Vopium’s attractive call packages. If you buy a package before 23rd of September, they will double the number of minutes during the campaign period.
With this offer, the Call World package for example gives you 2000 min instead of 1000 to more than 49 popular countries for only 12.95 Euros.
Likewise you can Call India 800 min instead of 400, Call Pakistan 500 min instead of 250, and Call Turkey 1000 min instead of 500. The price for all packages is only 12.95 Euros per month.
Existing customers who have signed up for a package will automatically benefit from this offer.”
This is a good news to all the customers. Hope they extend their support to india soon.
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Access facebook: Quick N Easy !!!
Facebook is one of our favourite sites. Setting statuses, sharing pictures and commenting have become a part of our daily life. The only little problem is on accessing facebook site. Since the page has a lot of items, it would take sometime on a slow connection to load up. Moreover, what if you just signed in to check something serious. Say you wanted to get the number of your friend so you wouldnt want to see all those apps and notifications etc but just get the number at the earliest. We have found out some easy ways to access facebook without having to load everything.
1. The facebook iphone site: iphone.facebook.com
The page can be loaded from PCs, Macs and mobiles(touchscreens, we havent tried on non touchscreen phones).
click here for a screenshot taken on a mac.
The page has good UI. I have never seen such graphics on such a small site before. This best to do simple tasks quickly and easily.
2. The facebook mobile site: m.facebook.com
The page can be loaded from PCs, Macs and mobiles(touchscreens, we havent tried on non touchscreen phones).
click here for a screenshot taken on a mac.
3. There is a lite version facebook under development. It is said that, it is being developed to compete with the twitter page. Unfortunately, we couldnt test the page as its not available here. The url is lite.facebook.com
Here are the screenshots of same pages on a mobile
4. Our Favourite facebook app for mobiles. Its also quick and easy way to access facebook without much hassles. It also allows you to comment, upload and share pictures. There are even more functions it can do. Check out the screen shot taken on a nokia phone.
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How well have you customized your phone ???
Ok guys, just like we make the best look out of us, we also customize our phones with themes, programs and menu reorganisation to give it the best look. Eventhough phones come with a lot of choices for customization, we still find something else to add to the beauty. So we thought its time we show off our phones look to each other. This is not just to show off but also to see various ways how you can do it.
To post a screenshot, you would need screen snap which you can download from here
or go to smartphoneware.com to get it.
Then mail it to us at administrator(at)uaescoop(dot)com
we will post it here with your name 😉
Hope you liked my phone’s screen shot. comments column is waiting to hear you..
What’s wrong with Nokia ???
One of the best competion is going on in the mobile world now. Apple iphone 3gs just launched with smashing record sales, highly anticipated nokia N97 is also out and failed to make the wow. HTC is rolling out cool new phones and samsung is pushing limitless number of touchscreens at extremely cheap prices. At this stage, nokia seems to continuously lose the market share even after rolling out the best phones like n97, 5800xm, 5530xm etc. Nokia also made many services free like the files on ovi to catch up the market. But that doesnt seem to work either.
Here’s what many of our readers think. Nokia phones come equipped with good hardware. Its strong, sturdy and advanced by specifications. However, the nokia operating system is light years behind the others. The current phones from apple, htc and samsung all have a very eye catching UI. The symbian has been the same since its introduction. All the symbian 5th edition rolled out, we could see no signinficant change in UI other than added touch support. We know how good the Win Mo phones, android phones and iphone os looks like. In addition, these os’ works very smooth. We can get things done quickly. In symbian, its a little pain. You will have to face some freezing and cold bloodedness. So dear nokia, you know you are the best in what you do. But to keep up with the changing world, please ditch or develop symbian to a new level.
Top s60v5 Apps
1.Gmail: Email is an inevitable part of life. So is Gmail. Here is a gmail java client to check, send and receive emails. However, emails with attachment can only be received, no sending attachments is supported for now. A great alternative to native mail client in the phone.
Download Here
2. Nimbuzz: What if you wanna chat ??? Not just with the gmail friends, but also with msn/hotmail, yahoo, facebook, twitter, icq, Aim, gadu gadu, oh gimme some water 😉 Nimbuzz for s60v5 is one of the best client ever !!! The eye catching UI, ability to send photos and videos and even voice message is great. In addition we can also call and share location through this amazing software.
Download Here
3. Google Maps: What about going to your favourite destinations without getting lost?? Google Maps with latitude lets you search and navigate to any place on earth. you can also see where your friends are, what they are upto etc. Now with layers you also get to know information about places from online places like wikipedia.
Download Here: m.google.com/maps (phone browser)
4. Tweet s60: Its hard to live without answering ” what are you doing now”. Tweet s60 is a free twitter client for s60 which helps you to read, update, reply, DM your tweets. As a free app, its one of the best available.
Download Here
5. Sms preview: Since sms’ are cheap and some free, you may receive a lot of forwarded messages. Sometimes you receive them just when you are busy. You seriously open the sms’ just to realize that it was a poor joke you saw on tv last night. Well not anymore, with sms preview in your phone, a notification window gives you a inside scoop of the sms that arrived. It disappears after a preset time. So now on don’t open the wrong sms in the wrong time but install the right software in the right time.
Download here
Nokia 5530 is now available
The stripped down version of nokia 5800 xm, nokia 5530 is now available for purchase from stores. The phone is now available Europe and will be soon available in other places. The phone is loaded with all the features that nokia 5800 xm is loaded with except for the 3G and GPS. The screen has also been stripped down to 2.9 inches from 3.2 inches as seen 5800. On the bright side, the cost will be low and affordable to many.
UPDATE: The phone is now available in India for Rs 13999/-
However, the phone comes with some software enhancements that 5800 users have been dying to see in their phone. Of these is the kinetic scrolling feature which you might have seen in the video. In addition to that the 20 contacts carousel and shortcuts together on the homescreen is another dream come true for nokia 5800 users.