January 2009

Train’em Young

by Farhan on January 31, 2009

Finally a perfect gift for a geek’s kid ,  I’m sick and tired of those plastic Razr’s my kid has playing ghastly music and also with the Tiny Tot animal phone none of them are Smartphone lookalikes . At last my prayers are answered and  Lead Frog has a made a plastic Blackberry , a [...]

Is Nokia in Financial Crunch

by Farhan on January 28, 2009

Nokia is in process to sell 1.75 billion Euro worth of bonds , 1.25 billion Euros having 5 year maturity spread on 250 ( 2.5 % ) basis points  and rest 500 million Euro having 10 year maturity spread on 315 ( 3.15 % )  basis points ( a basis point is one hundredth of [...]

Audio Smilies

by Farhan on January 28, 2009

Nokia Beta Labs has come up with a less ‘serious application’ cute little application Audio Smilyes . The application plays funny sounds to express your feelings from a flirting whistle to howling wolf above all you can create your own Smiley with Smiley Editor adding your own image and sound . What’s the purpose of [...]

Audio Smilies

by Farhan on January 28, 2009

Nokia Beta Labs has come up with a less ‘serious application’ cute little application Audio Smilyes . The application plays funny sounds to express your feelings from a flirting whistle to howling wolf above all you can create your own Smiley with Smiley Editor adding your own image and sound . What’s the purpose of [...]

Nokia + HCL = A Billion Consumers

by Farhan on January 28, 2009

Nokia has just announced their upcoming Joint Venture with Hindustan Computers Limited to give the Indian Consumers an easy access to mobile entertainment and other Value Added Services . The JV will be in full effect once the regulatory approvals are met . India has always been a lucrative market with it’s huge customer base [...]

Nokia Acquires Bit-Side GMBH

by Farhan on January 27, 2009

  Nokia has just announced their acquisition of 39 employee – Berlin based firm Bit-Side GMBH well known for their photo stitch application Pano Man . According to Nokia this acquisition will help them in enhancing their mapping business “Acquiring bit-side enables Nokia to offer consumers the world-leading mobile location applications, such as Maps, along [...]

What does an exquisite Black Diamond and Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte have in common , they both are black , have carbon and only a few have it not to mention they have limited utility. Recently , courtesy Nokia Pakistan , I got a 8800 Carbon Arte for review and I found it to be [...]

Running Palm Apps On Nokia

by Farhan on January 24, 2009

So Pre had been all the rage , it’s backward compatibility is still in the shadows and here comes Style Tap Style Tap ( www.styletap.com ) is capable of running old Palm applications on Nokia S60v3 along with Win MO and now apart from thousands of Java and SISX applications , a huge library of [...]

Bypassing Unhackable Firmware

by Farhan on January 24, 2009

Those who have ungraded your Nokia E71 /  E66  to firmware 110 or 200.21.118 or N95-8GB to Firmware 30. with more new firmware coming up making hacking them impossible here’s a simple method to install unsigned applications on your ‘unhackable’ Nokia . Step 1 :  Get a Certificate to sign , now Symbian Sign does [...]

Bypassing Unhackable Software

by Farhan on January 24, 2009

Those who have ungraded your Nokia E71 /  E66  to firmware 110 or 200.21.118 or N95-8GB to Firmware 30. with more new firmware coming up making hacking them impossible here’s a simple method to install unsigned applications on your ‘unhackable’ Nokia . Step 1 :  Get a Certificate to sign , now Symbian Sign does [...]