September 2009

Nokia N900 Low Base Memory explained

by Farhan on September 30, 2009

my-symbian.com gave a very good explanation of low base memory on the Nokia N900 as Eldar’s pic showed to have only 18mb installable memory remaining while the My-Symbian unit only has 52mb , according to him , in Linux based phones , the phone memory is not limited to the physical memory available but uses [...]

Strobe Light – Nokia 5800

by Taha on September 29, 2009

Need to get instant attention or want others to find you or simply want to light up your party , the Strobe Light for Nokia 5800 is here to help you .  Developed by OffScreen , the application turns the Nokia 5800’s Dual LED flash into a high intensity strobe light .  Watch the video [...]

Banner – Send the message across

by Taha on September 29, 2009

Want to send the message while standing far away and don’t have the voice for it , Banner for Nokia 5800 is here to assist you . Just type in the message , choose one of the four colors and press ok , your phone will convert into a LED based scrolling Sign .  A [...]

If you live in Karachi like me , Bright Light on Nokia 5800 is a must have application for us where we have electricity load shedding for hours a day .  Install the application turn it on and with the simple touch turn your phone LED into a bright Torch , KESC ( Karachi Electric [...]

Just two months ago Apple announced they have reached 1.5 billion downloads and today they are hitting 2,000,000,000 downloads that’s 500million in just 2 months or 8.3 million downloads a day or 347,222 Downloads in an hour or 5787 Downloads a min 96 Downloads a Sec and that on 45 million iphone and iPod Touches [...]

Nokia should remain Resistive

by Farhan on September 28, 2009

I’d been a big critic of Nokia for using Resistive screens on their Touch Screen Nokia 5800 Xpress Music and N97 phones , infatuated by my iPhone until a couple of days ago when I saw my mom using a Nokia 5800 . As an Eid gift , I got my mom a Nokia 5800 [...]

OVI Maps – The future is Navigation

by Taha on September 27, 2009

It all started in 2006 when Nokia realized that Navigation is going to be big given the popularity of their then flagship Nokia N95 and it’s follow-up Nokia N95 – 8 GB both of which were the first phones to feature GPS and changed the way we look at mobile phones today . The purchasing [...]

First N900 App on OVI Store

by Farhan on September 23, 2009

Developers Rejoice , the first app for N900 is available on OVI Store and it’s a paid App  High Speed 3D is an action -  Racing themed Game with the synopsis   “ Get ready to take to the streets in High Speed 3D, finally the true street racing experience has arrived on your phone. [...]

Touched by OVI

by Farhan on September 23, 2009

Just check on OVI Store for applications for Nokia Touch phones , they have updated the range to include N900 and N97 Mini ,  Still X6 and X3 are  missing  

Just saw this picture at  http://www.nokia-n900.org/browser/maemo5-exclusive-screenshots-on-nokia-n900-andgtandgtandgt/ where they have posted exclusive pics of Nokia N900 and this one pic there raises my concerns Memory for Installable Applications 18.9 MB ,  I understand it’s a prototype and all but still what happened to the 1GB of memory where is that ? if not 1GB atleast on [...]