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Nokia: The Unsual N Odd Uses

2010-06-23T17:23:00.008+05:30

So its been a little while since I updated this blog of mine after I moved to mymobilescoop.com . Everytime I think of coming back and posting some news here but that just didnt happen for last 8 months or so.
Finally i squeezed in some time to share this tiny tips. So I have a 5800 and its one of the best devices I've ever used from Nokia. Although initially it was nothing more than a phone to me, last few months its been a better half of me(I know I need some help ;-)

So to get into those unusual uses,

1. I'm a student going to college. My life now is full of assignments, presentations etc. And that explains the plenty of papers on my desk. And here is the simplest use of my phone, the Paper Weight. Yeah, my study table is next to the window and yep I see all these papers flying all over when a small breeze of wind come in. Not that I dont have a paper weight, but sometimes just one won't help and you have to use something else. Oh yeah, your Phone ;)

2. If your living in my part of the world, you are probably used to this, Power Failures. And sometimes this happens the night before my exams. And yeah that aint an excuse for flunking in your exams, says my dad ;)
Anyway, with this app from Ovi store, i found out that I have an emergency lantern with me. And its not so bright enough to light up the entire room and cause trouble to my sleeping roomies. It just lights up my table and I'm good to go. Thats so so helpful. And for the record, I did pass that exam.

3. Similarly, my laptop did not come with a backlit keyboard. So during these power failures or during late nights when the lights are off, its to difficult to type something until I found this trick. It just Works !

4. Another main use I've found is that sometimes you are so busy with your works, you just dont have enough time to read notices displayed at college or any ads or articles that come in the newspaper/magazines. Normally I just had to pass them but now with my phone, I snap them in Macro mode and read them later on my computer or phone itself when I'm free. How cool is that ?? It's like the Read It Later website, but offline ;)

5. Sometimes after long hours of reading my neck muscles hurt me a lot. I dont have a massager, but I have a phone that can vibrate. I just set the alarm to the nearest time and turn vibrate feature on and tone to least. When clock hits the time, I have my massage. Not at the spa, but right at my study table. Yay !

6. If you are like me, looking good should be very important to you. And yeah, in college that matter a lot. You know why ;-)
Thanks to the secondary cam on my phone, I can look at my face anytime anywhere. Comb hair, apply gel or just praise my look, lol.

www.mymobilescoop.com

2009-08-15T08:42:00.002+05:30

Hey guys, thanks for all your support. After blogging tech stuff here in blogger, then moving to gadgetworld4u.com, NOW i bought and started a site of my own..Yes guys just for you. Feel free to visit and comment and ask anything you wanted to know. We will try our best to answer you. So welcome to www.mymobilescoop.com

Top 5 free apps for nokia 5800

2009-07-02T11:52:00.002+05:30

1. Nokia messaging: Its an email client from nokia to send and receive mail from gmail, hotmail and yahoo. It also supports attachment to be sent. Hence i like it over gmail app from google which is java based and does not support attachments. This also has touch support. be sure to read instructions. The app is free for now in most places but will be converted to a paid app later.
http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/nokia-messaging-s60-5th-edition

2. Nimbuzz: Instant messaging client with support to numerous services like gmail,yahoo,msn/hotmail,facebook,gadu gadu,myspace and more. you can share pictures and videos with friends, send voice messages. You can also call your google tak and msn buddies through wifi or network connection. So you dont need a pc to voice chat. Good interface and touch support. Go to nimbuzz.com from pc or go to m.nimbuzz.com from your mobile web browser.

3. Tweets60: This is free twitter client with touch support. This may not be as good as gravity or twittix which are paid apps. But its a good choice over twitter mobile site and best for quick updates, direct messages, favourites and replies.
go to www.tweets60.com

4. Sms preview: We all get busy in our life. Remember that situation when you are quite busy with something and an sms arrives. Then you quickly grab your phone to browse to messaging application and you realize it was one of the forward message you get daily. Well, not any more. This apps displays a small window which shows a preview of sms that just arrived and disappears. You can also set the time for how long it can be should be displayed.
http://www.getjar.com/products/25386/SMSPreview
known issue: the ovi store versio does not show the message properly, hence use the link above.

5.Google maps: Allows you to search places, calculate route and shows directions. Now with latitude feature you can see where your friends are and can see directions to see them. go to m.google.com and select maps.
See screenshots at my site:
http://tinyurl.com/l6orww

The blog is back..

2009-07-01T00:33:00.002+05:30

Yes friends, i cant stop saying what i get to know daily...and hence i have decided to be back in personal bogging. And to all twitter followers, all i have to say is, ' you are my inspiration in resuming this blog...thanks a lot'.

Moved To New Site

2009-05-22T22:05:00.000+05:30


	We've moved.

	Hi guys, as announced through my twitter account, I have finally moved to a new website. All the news you were seeing here will be now available at gadgetworld4u as iam working for them. So rename your bookmark to gadgetworld4u.com Take a tour of our new home: http://www.gadgetworld4u.com Sajin Seethi

Vopium hits Android devices

2009-05-20T16:55:00.000+05:30

Vopium has launched its award winning mobile VoIP application in the Android Market. The application follows the recent launch of Vopium on the iPhone App StoreSM and BlackBerry App World(tm) and cements Vopium's commitment to offering mobile users worldwide a cheaper, high quality international communications channel.

Now the only question among users is when Indians can see Vopium running in their already supported devices.

Bharati Airtel hits 100 MILLION

2009-05-16T17:55:00.000+05:30

Yes friends, if you are an airtel user then you are one among 100 million users under airtel network. The company is in third position after the two leading chinese operators. Way to go Airtel.

Number Portability by september 20 in India

2009-05-15T16:17:00.001+05:30

Ever wished if you could switch between operators without having to change your number ? if Yes, that dream is about to come true on september 20th. Telecom Authority of India has confirmed it recently.

Nokia 5900 ?

2009-05-09T20:46:00.001+05:30

Rumors say nokia is working on their next xpressmusic touchscreen
device. The phone as for now is expected to have a 3.5" display, 5mp
camera and s60 5th edition OS. However, this doesnt sound as a worthy
upgrade to Nokia 5800 users. But anyone who has not experienced nokia
touchscreen phones can add it to their wishlist.

Nokia 5800 finally gets Nimbuzz

2009-05-05T22:22:00.000+05:30

Claimed to be the best client ever, Nimbuzz for nokia 5800 xpressmusic goes live. If you own a nokia 5800 and yet has not installed nimbuzZ then click here to get it.
get.nimbuzz.com

Nokia 5800 xpressmusic outnumbers apple ipod sales in UK

2009-04-21T09:51:00.000+05:30

Just 5 months after release, nokia has sold over 3 million 5800s aka tube on internet. Nokia official said, now every month nearly 1 million phones are being shipped.

After all this records, yesterday nokia UK claimed 5800 to be the no: 1 selling music player in UK with a figure higher than apple ipod sales. It is after a very long time something has crossed the apple domination in the market.

Download Vopium & Save Money

2009-04-18T13:31:00.003+05:30

Yes friends, the time has come. Now call your friends across the globe as if they are living just two blocks away. A new service called vopium has hit the market few weeks ago.

Vopium is a free software program installed on your mobile phone. When you make an international call, Vopium re-routes your call as a local call to a Vopium gateway and then via premium global traffic carriers to ensure top-notch voice quality. You pay your mobile provider for a local call and Vopium for the international add-on.

Similarly, when you send a text message (SMS) with Vopium the message is sent as a small data package over your data connection (GPRS, 3G or WiFi) via a Vopium gateway. You pay your operator close to zero for using your data connection and Vopium for the international SMS. In addition vopium offers free online back up of mobile contacts and calendar entries through their service called Vopium sync.

So what you waiting for go to www.vopium.com or visit m.vopium.com on your mobile web browser.
Vopium is now available in selected countries, but in no time you will under their network.

Introducing nokia Easy Meet.

2009-04-15T12:11:00.001+05:30

Nokia recently announced their new service called Nokia easy meet. The new service offers users to meet their friends and coworkers online. In addition, the service offers file sharing with users on pc as well as on their mobile devices real time. If that doesnt make you happy, you have online chat feature so that you can talk about the files you shared by watching it at the same time. For group workers, the chat also features confefencing facility. Whats more you dont have to install any software, just login at easymeet.nokia.com

Nimbuzz Beta On Nokia 5800

2009-04-11T00:18:00.003+05:30

Hey guys, as told in the last post. iam now participating in the nimbuzz beta program. The program looks good. It uses the system theme and dont expect the orange squashy theme. Works well. It has good interface and performance. But my phone restarted once or twice. May be that will be fixed. Should say its better than fring. One good thing is you can see your contacts icon as their community like whether gtalk, yahoo or msn and they also have buddy pictures. In addition you can set status message which gets posted on twitter too. So for more details check out the screen shots. Still need more, contact me by commenting down. Thank you.

The Long Awaited shozu on 5800

2009-04-11T00:10:00.003+05:30

Hey guys, i participated in the shozu beta program and Nimbuzz. Iam sorry i couldnt bring these shots during the beta time as i was real busy. However i still see many of you want to see the screen shots of shozu. You asked and here they are..please rate and comment.

Nokia 5800 quick look

2009-04-09T12:26:00.003+05:30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwV62X45u9g

Here's an express look throught the nokia 5800 express music.

watch and njoy...

rate it...and comment it...

Long Term Evolution

2009-04-01T08:21:00.000+05:30

Reports say that LTE, the future of web access gave speeds upto 120mbps. Thats a big number for a wireless access. The test was conducted in Japan. This is also known as 4th generation or as super 3g.

A quick look @ Nokia 5800

2009-03-29T21:43:00.002+05:30

Hey guys, here's quick and brief tour of Nokia 5800. Just follow the link and enjoy. Oh yeah, dont forget to comment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwV62X45u9g

The Next level of mobile computing

2009-03-27T16:40:00.003+05:30

Pranav Mistry, a 28-year old Indian-born researcher at the Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is the brain behind the "Sixth Sense" device. The "Sixth Sense" device (patented by MIT) contains a pocket projector, mirror and web camera bunched together in a wearable pendant-like mobile.

The device actually responds to our hand gestures. However it requires us to wear a little hand glove probably very skinny one, so that the camera can understand our gestures.

A "square frame" gesture will prompt the device to click a photo. The user can also stop by any surface or wall and flick through the photos taken. The device also allows a user to draw icons or symbols in the air using the index finger which is being recognized as interaction instructions. For instance, drawing an "@" symbol will let a user check his/her mail. The digital Sixth Sense device is an effort to bridge the gap between intangible and tangible world, allowing us to interact with the information via natural hand gestures.

SamsungLogo

2009-03-19T21:10:00.001+05:30

Samsung all set for 2009

2009-03-19T20:54:00.002+05:30

My Sources say that samsung is planning to roll out 13 touchscreen phones to the market. Reports also say that the mobile giant sold about 10000 omnia hd handsets. Since samsung's active participation in mobile industry, the traditional phone makes found a major drop in mobile phone market besides a poor quarterly sales

Introducing The new Ipod Shuffle

2009-03-18T18:10:00.001+05:30

Apple announced their new addition to the ipod line up a few days
back. The latest update comes to the ipod shuffle. The older ipod
shuffles have been replaced with a 4GB capacity product even smaller
in size, small like a door key. Apple claims that it can store up to
1000 songs. The more interesting feature about this product is that
it can actually talk to you the songs and playlist which is very handy
for a product that has no screen. The playlist feature is also new to
it. However, the voice over is a male for mac users and female for
windows users. I dont understand why that is. However we know alex in
mac which reads out everything on the screen for us.

The price saw a hike from $49 to $79. Apart from the
enhancements for the software, the new ipod shuffle also showcased
some hardware changes. In the picture as you can see there are no
controls on the device. They have been moved on to the headset. Well
that a little tricky way to stick you to the use apple in ear
headphones. Or you will have to buy an adapter with controls and then
hook your 3rd party headphones on to it. An adapter will again cause
you $15-20. And dont expect to roll out one. Anyway this is a much
more stylish and interesting device. If you were saving for an ipod,
then its time to buy.

Nokia adds support for 5800 at Ovi

2009-03-11T21:11:00.000+05:30

Nokia's online service ovi which means door in Finnish has added support for 5800 express music. The long awaited support has been appreciated by all the 5800 users. So far users were using Nseries settings for the phone and it was completely compatible. Anyway thanks to nokia.

Nokia 5800 firmware update V20 available for indian phones

2009-03-08T10:30:00.003+05:30

Nokia yesterday released firmware update for nokia 5800 phones in india. The update is available through nokia software updater (NSU). The update is around 100-150mb. No data including contacts, calender entries are affected by the update. The update brings following major changes in your phone.

1. Geo Tagging for photos & videos.
2. Search: a tool to search the phone contents including pics, videos, contacts etc.
3. A built in dictionary. Can even speak the word.
4. Performance boost and increased battery life.
5. All the dialling numbers, icons and tabs are little bigger now. and a little darker in colour.
6. Music player icon changed, podcasts option in music player menu. You can come back and browse podcasts while another podcast is playing. And a few more.

Birthday bash

2009-03-06T16:09:00.000+05:30

Steven and neethu celebrated their birthday yesterday. They looked like this after the party

Sports day 2009

2009-02-28T08:42:00.000+05:30

After 2 years of break, i was finally on the track yesterday. Although i wasnt too tensed yet i realised that two years of no practice had drained all my stamina and power. The first round went easy but the second was just too difficult. Anyway i finished 4th putting 2 behind me. In a way i was happy considering the fact that it was a debut run after 2 years.

Nokia N97 To hit shelves in june 2009

2009-02-25T21:47:00.002+05:30

For the nokia N97 aspirants, its a good news that n97 will be out in june 2009. Get ready queue up and be the first to own one. the n97 comes with 5mp camera, 3.5" multi touch display and 32gb onboard memory. Thats not it, it also memory card upto 16gb. Features like gps, HSDPA etc need no special mentioning. The phone is the second among the S60 5th edition smartphones, the first being the succssful nokia 5800 XM. The phone is called as a mobile computer by the nokia. The only question is how well will it perform in a market where others have already built their empire in this segment. Lets wait and see.

Nasa's carbon observatory crashes

2009-02-25T21:25:00.004+05:30

Nasa's 9 years of hard work got blown up in 5 minutes. Yeasterday NASA's latest girl into space crashed into black waters of the south pole. Thank god it didnt hit any residential area in our continents. The satellite was launched aiming to learn how CO2 enters and leaves the atmosphere. The $278 million project thus became a failure. I could have spent it well on shopping !!!!

3g services kicks off

2009-02-23T15:04:00.000+05:30

Finally we are also on the 3g spectrum. Chennai got its 3g services through aircel. With 2megabytes of speed services like video calling, mobile tv, and internet services are available. Aircel also expanded their services to kerala, but without 3g services.

Windows 7 is no longer available for download

2009-02-23T11:11:00.000+05:30

Good morning everyone. Microsoft's latest operatin system beta download has been closed by microsoft. The new os has increased stability and speed. Its also highly backwards compatible. The picture shows it running on a macbook. I liked the os well. However a lot of mac features and styles have been copied as such. Please dont do that microsoft. You are better at being unique.

Will Slumdog Millionare make it to oscars?

2009-02-23T01:52:00.003+05:30

Tomorrow its a great day for us. Slumdog millionare released last year has been a hit in almost all the countries wherever it was relesed. The musical touch by AR Rahman is another great plus point of this movie. Lets hope it will win.

My sql creator leaves sun

2009-02-23T01:34:00.000+05:30

My sql creator left microsystems a few days back. In his blog he said that it was for a personal reason he left and didnt have any connection with companies performance. Actually the company had a good performance in the last quarter. Sun said its a great loss for them as he was one of the master brains.

Dont carry mobile phone any more, just tie it

2009-02-22T19:40:00.001+05:30

Apple introduced a, no lg introduced a new 3g phone watch in mobile world congress held at Barcelona. Now you can easily watch time when you talk.

Nokia 5800

2009-02-22T15:59:00.001+05:30

Detailed review of nokia 5800 coming soon. Watch this space.

Nokia N86 Announced

2009-02-22T13:58:00.002+05:30

Nokia announced their first 8 megapixel two way slider in the n-series
category at the Mobile world congress held at Barcelona. The phone
features an eight megapixel carl zeiss camera, 2.6 inch oled display,
two way slider form factor, 8gb internal memory, gps. The design is
not so attractive so are the features too(nothing unique to this
phone). Yet for those looking for high megapixel camera phones, this
would be a good option.

My First Blog Entry

2009-02-22T11:29:00.000+05:30

Hi All,

This is my first blog entry. Just created a blog now. Iam planning to do a lot of things like podcasting, picures, videos, reviews etc. So I want your help people. Please rate and suggest. Iam a tech geek, and hence my entries will be mostly on this. So mostly all things related to tech will be here. In addition I would like to expand my friend's network too. So feel free to add me. Iam sure you wont make a mistake. Bye for Now. And See Ya Soon.