Archive for September, 2009

Video: SNES runs beautifully on N900, makes out hearts flutter

Filed under: Games, Handsets, Nokia, Linux

We’ve already seen Nokia’s Maemo 5-powered N900 pull off some pretty fanciful tricks, but without qualification this is the one most dear to our hearts. Somehow or another, Konttori managed to get his palms around an N900 of his own, and rather than testing out the social… Continue reading

Nokia 5800 App Review: Heart Rate Monitor

With people worldwide, increasingly relying on fast food (read junk food) for most of their daily food intake, obesity is spreading like a wildfire in developing and developed nations. Couple this with sedatory lifestyle of most of the tech jobs today and we have a killer combination. Not surprisingly fitness awareness is on the rise and thanks to Picobrothers

Maemo 5 reviewed in breathtakingly granular detail

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Linux

It’s one thing to read a product preview here and there, but if you really want the Maemo 5 experience before you’re even able to set foot in a store and buy an N900, look no further than mobile-review’s characteristically exhaustive look at the platform. From the endless array of screenshots… Continue reading

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXVI: Nokia N900 rip shows no trademark fear

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Others, GSM

It’s pretty typical for serial KIRFers to make minor changes to the names of the brands they’re ripping — take Sany Ericssan, for example — but we’ve never really known why. “Go big or go home” is the KIRF mantra we prefer to live by, and if you’re… Continue reading

Ovi Store loosens the leash a bit, allows re-downloads

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

One of the purely theoretical benefits of an on-device app store is that you don’t need to worry about archiving and managing apps you’ve bought in the past — your download and purchase histories are magically managed up in the cloud, and if you need anything again in the future, it’s there waiting… Continue reading

Want Kinetic Scrolling on 5800? Lets Sign a Petition

Does Nokia always punish early adopters? Thats the question almost every geek who has ever owned a Nokia device would have asked himself atleast with one of their products. While the saga of Internet tablets from Nokia is a classical example of the Finnish company being hard on early adopters, our very own 5800 hasn’t been spared either.

Nokia 5800, which was Nokia’s… Continue reading

Fingerpring Goes v2.0, Get Exclusive 30% Off

Fingerprint, yeah we are talking about the same application which makes you look like James Bond or if you prefer Ethan Hunt or whatever secret agent you aspire to be. One of the most “seemingly” sophisticated application got an update from its developers recently.

While followers of our blog are no strangers to this application, which we gave away in one of our… Continue reading

Tube5800 Contest: FExplorer Pro - 10 Licenses Giveaway

Its been a while (around a fortnight) since our last contest and yeah we do sense our readers getting restless to get their hands on some of the best applications for our iPhone killer- 5800s.

As we have made it a habit at our blog here, we are back with yet another Tube 5800 contest and this time, we are offering the latest… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Nokia N97 mini’s FCC docs gain full disclosure

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

The N97 mini’s back on its whirlwind tour of the FCC approval process, this time coming off confidentiality so we can get a good, hard look at its externals, internals, and user manuals. We’re still not seeing a market… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Vlingo- Voice Control Comes to Nokia 5800

Ever since we say the voice command feature of the iPhone we have been hoping we would get that function on iPhone killer-5800s. We are not actually surprised that the best selling phone in Europe got an app for using voice commands on our 5800s.

Vlingo is one of the coolest apps we have seen on our 5800s. Not only is it an… Continue reading