No 6310, but here are the others
GLOBAL – With myriad devices to choose from, selecting my top three favourites was never going to be easy. My relationship with Nokia devices is a long one, and there’s no shortage of highlights from it. There’s a few lowlights too, but most of those I’ve forgotten about now. My first Nokia smartphone (pre mobile computers) was the Nokia N91. Four big burly gigabytes of storage (you could hear it whirring, sometimes) and a metal case so solid, in some countries it could be considered an offensive weapon. It was a music device, and I loved it. But it didn’t make my top three. Read on to find out what did.
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LONDON, UK – Lucky music fans will be able to snag a free copy of Shazam from inside Ovi Store between now and November 30. The promotion is running to celebrate the recent launch of the N97 and is running on a limited first-come-first served basis.
At the end of the trial period users will be able to continue using a limited version of the app or upgrade to the full version for £4 (€5, depending on location). Read on for more details.
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GLOBAL – Earlier in the week we announced our Summer Blowout with the news of our comment of the week promo, where we’re giving away a Gravity license for the best comment made on Conversations every week. Also earlier this week, we ran a poll asking what you expect from a software update. Well, what a hot potatoe that turned out to be (results and hopefully some follow up coming next week). There were many points, all well made, but one for me stood out more than most. Read on to find out who said what, and why it mattered.
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GLOBAL – Every now and then you read a story that just seems to resonate somehow. Not every story can do it, but when they do it lets that nice Friday Feeling sink in and gives a gentle elbow in the ribs to remind you the weekend is here. Well, it’s Friday and we have a story to tell. You might remember the Nokia that was found in a fish, or the one that made it through a large animal in India, or even our own recent attempts to test a device to destruction. Well, when Mateen Sadiq was given a white E71 for Christmas last year, what happened next was beyond what even we expected. Read on and have a great weekend!
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GLOBAL – The resurgence of QWERTY interfaces in tandem with touchscreen trends sparked us to ask you the question, “What’s your perfect mobile input interface?”. We kick-started this poll at the beginning of the week (it’s still open, so if you haven’t already, vote now!) and already hundreds of you have voted. Granted it’s early days but there’s one clear front-runner – the pairing of touchscreen and QWERTY, as found on the upcoming Nokia N97 (watch making of the N97 video).
Which mobile input method do you think is sitting in second place? Read on to discover where dedicated touchscreens, QWERTY keyboards, numeric keypads and other input methods rank at the moment.
You might be surprised to find out…
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EVEREST, Himalayas – The Nokia E71 mightn’t appear the athletic sort, but it recently earned some extreme endurance kudos courtesy of climbing Mount Everest alongside world-renowned climber Marc Batard, with Nathalie Lamoureux (pictured) video blogging and reporting on the climb using Nokia’s extreme Eseries smartphone.
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ESPOO, Finland – Wow. Today is our first anniversary (we went public on 21 April 2008*) and it’s amazing what we’ve accomplished in one year. When we set off on this adventure, we sort of had our own ideas on how it would be received, what challenges we would face, and where we would be at this stage. But, we really came to this with open minds and few expectations, keeping us ready to grow and respond to conditions as needed.
As with many milestones, we’d like to pause and take stock of some of our highlights (and “lowlights”) and even think a bit about the coming year. Please read on and see if you remember the year the same way we do.
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HELSINKI, Finland – I’m not shy of the fact that I spend a lot of time on my Nokia E71 each month, but likewise I’m aware that the amount of time spent chatting to people has decreased drastically over the past couple of years as I increasingly communicate via SMS, email and more recently Twitter.
Last week, whilst sat in a hotel lobby in Helsinki, where I was meeting fellow Conversations writer James, I decided to check my call log in a moment of aching boredom. On checking I was met with a very surprising number – I’d spent over 24 hours speaking on my phone in the last 30 days. An entire day chatting in a month where I’d probably only spent just over six of those days sleeping, and two days eating. I asked James to check his (he likes to talk), and he was mildly alarmed to see he’d broken the 50-hour mark.
Have you ever checked how much you talk on your phone each month? All you have to do is go into your phone menu, select the log, and call duration. It should be set to the last 30 days. Check it out and share your stats and thoughts on whether your findings were surprising or what you expected.
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GLOBAL – Text Art is an exclusive new mobile app for the Nokia E71. It has just become freely available for download, enabling you to type messages that automatically get generated into mind-bending art that you can share via MMS.
Part of a Nokia’s new Beautiful Connections project for the Nokia E71, the Text Art app is the brainchild of artist Marius Watz, a pioneer in a new digital medium called generative art – this fresh approach sees art automatically and organically created, brought to life by some pretty unique methods. Not a paintbrush or charcoal stick in sight.
Read on to find out how the Text Art app works, and to discover how you can create generative art desktop wallpaper, simply by talking, moving your arms or typing.
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GLOBAL – Four times in the last 10 days, things that I deal with on a daily (hourly, sometimes continuous) basis have run out of memory. There was the server that hosts this very site (sorry!), my laptop (so small at its launch it was pulled out of a manila envelope) and my phone. With our computers, we sometimes expect it. Over ambitious in our use of applications on our computers (I discovered that I had, hidden in the dock, some 30+ websites open, amongst pretty much every useful app I have on the machine) we tend to occasionally ask more than they’re capable of delivering. For our poor server it was some bad settings, some rogue scripts and the sudden excitement of our readership that combined to take us out. For my phone, similar to my laptop I was simply trying to do too much at once.
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