By Mike on 26 October 2009
GLOBAL – Last week I posted an piece on how the N900 is designed to get better the more you use it, and over the past few days I’ve experienced yet more evidence of this first hand in the form of some subtle usability flourishes that I came across by happy accident… although they’ve clearly been designed with calculated and well-considered intent. Read on to find out more and to share your thoughts.
By Mike on 26 October 2009
GLOBAL – Our Forum Nokia friends over at MyDailyApp.com have spent the last seven days seeking out some of the smartest new apps to emerge on the Ovi Store, and this week we’ve homed in on a trio of top highlights. Including an intriguing new social network gaming app curiously dubbed Bobba, a handy automatic CallRecorder app, and a clever unit converter designed for touchscreen Symbian OS devices. Read on to find out more and to watch a great little video of Bobba in action.
By JBC on 23 October 2009
LONDON, England – Good things got a boost this morning with the unveiling of the Good Things signpost. Twice the size of a double decker bus, the signpost is hanging from a crane near London’s Tower Bridge. The interactive signpost is pretty difficult to miss and marks the start of a campaign to help highlight Good Things and Ovi Maps and the incoming Nokia N97 mini.
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By Mike on 23 October 2009
SAN DIEGO, USA – The doors closed on this year’s CTIA 2009 wireless and entertainment show a couple of weeks back, but we thought you might like to see a few of the cooler and lesser-spotted videos from the event. Including a smart video demo of Primordial Ground Guidance, one of the best examples of an app exploiting the Ovi SDK with Ovi Maps navigation. Plus, there’s a must-see video of a smart app called Pixelpipe being demoed on the Nokia N900. Watch the video highlights of Nokia at CTIA 2009 right here…
By JBC on 22 October 2009
GLOBAL – We all like to win free stuff which is why I’m pretty chuffed to be reporting a new competition over at Ovi Store. All you need to do is show yourself using something you’ve downloaded from the Ovi Store through images or video, upload it to the competition page and you could be in with a chance of winning top prizes including a Nokia N97, N97 mini, N900 and smart Nokia BH-905 headphones.
By JBC on 21 October 2009
GLOBAL – The folks over at Betalabs have been running a survey relating to data back up and security. It throws up some pretty interesting questions (and if you have a couple of minutes, we’d urge you to head over and let them know what your views) about data back up and recovery. Enough that we thought we’d run our own poll on the topic. With Ovi Suite 2.0 now graduated from Betalabs, it’s never been easier to back up the data on your device. That doesn’t mean it couldn’t become even easier, or that there’s a lot more functionality to be had around data security.
What tickles our fancy though is what kind of data you consider most important to back up. About five years ago my phone was stolen. I’d just recently been through all of my contacts to clean them up, but before I had a chance to back up, I lost the whole lot.
Today, my contacts and calendar live in the cloud (along with most of my working documents) and my phone, computer and laptop are becoming dumber and dumber. Replacing any of them shouldn’t be too much heartache, except now my concern about loss has more to do with settings and applications (images and video tend to synced the same day they’re shot).
And that’s where I think we’ve seen a big shift. Sure, for regular phone users, backing up their contacts would be a wise thing. Not having to plug a device into a computer to back them up would be even wiser (Ovi Contacts, anyone?). For those of us who spend more of their time with higher end devices though, our needs are entirely different. With myriad apps, advanced device settings and things like Bookmarks, map waypoints and myriad other bits of information to collect, our needs are rapidly changing.
Given the different tools we have at our disposal to store and back up information, I’m going to focus this week’s poll on understanding what you’d find hardest to restore. You can choose up to four options, and there’s an “other” box for anything I haven’t already included. Happy voting.
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