Author: Vikas SN

A Complete Mobile freak. Regularly Blogs about Mobiles at Techknots.com and Tweets as @tsuvik

Nokia Announces Nokia Money- Its Own Mobile Banking Service

Nokia has just introduced its new mobile financial services called as Nokia Money with a primary goal to offer access to basic financial services for all the mobile phone users. This provides every user with the possibility of using just a mobile handset to manage all your finances and also the ability to make necessary payments using only their mobile handset. Nokia believes that this service will be beneficial for many users of mobile phones and will become their first service, finance manager. Continue reading “Nokia Announces Nokia Money- Its Own Mobile Banking Service”

Microsoft Launches OneApp Platform for entry level phones

While only the premier mobile phones like the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Nokia S60 phones enjoy a lot of attention in the mobile application domain, most of the mobile subscribers around the world use only an entry level phone or any basic feature phone.

Keeping that in mind and to cater to the entry level mobile phone users, Microsoft has just introduced the “OneApp platform” with its primary goal, being able to allow developers to develop mobile apps for handsets which have a very limited processing power and low internal memory. Continue reading “Microsoft Launches OneApp Platform for entry level phones”

Nokia Messaging to get HTML and Kinetic Scrolling support

Awesome news for all Nokia 5800, 5530 and N97 users!

According to Nokia Messaging‘s latest tweet, the next S60v5 version of the Nokia Messaging will have HTML support and also will possess Kinetic scrolling. Continue reading “Nokia Messaging to get HTML and Kinetic Scrolling support”

Adobe Flash Lite gets another update for Nokia 5800


Adobe Flash Lite for Nokia 5800, that gives you access to high quality videos and enables rich content on the web to be played on you phone, has just got an update to the version 3.1.4 from its previous version 3.1.

There has been no changelog of the version 3.1.4 on the web as yet. Therefore we would have to wait for a little bit more for the official changelog. Continue reading “Adobe Flash Lite gets another update for Nokia 5800”

Ovi Mail hits the 1 million mark milestone

With over one million accounts activated in just over six months, Ovi Mail is quickly emerging as the email account for the developing world.

Since it is specifically designed for on device set-up, people can get their first email address and create and manage their accounts without any PC at all.

Tom Furlong, head of Consumer Messaging at Nokia said “More than just reaching a company milestone, this proves to us that there is a real appetite in the developing world for these types of tailored services“. He also added that “For first-time email users, Ovi Mail provides a digital identity and we are thrilled by its rapidly rising adoption rate“. Continue reading “Ovi Mail hits the 1 million mark milestone”

MyPhone v2.2 released with iPhone style SMS conversation

A few days back, we had told you about MyPhone, the application shell which can turn the UI of your S60 phone into an iPhone UI.

The Guys at MMMOOO have now released a new version of MyPhone named “MyPhone exceeding iPhone” with lot of new improvements and new features. Continue reading “MyPhone v2.2 released with iPhone style SMS conversation”

Nokia 5800i passes the FCC test: Looks very similar to 5800 but loses Wi-fi

After 5800 has turned out to be a major hit for Nokia, they are now readying for a small update to its first touch screen handset in the form of Nokia 5800i XpressMusic phone. After you hear the name, you may think that this is a upgrade over Nokia 5800 with some extra feature but sorry to disappoint, this model is not an upgrade over Nokia 5800 but in fact a downgrade over the present model, The Wi-fi connectivity has been removed from this particular model. Continue reading “Nokia 5800i passes the FCC test: Looks very similar to 5800 but loses Wi-fi”

Nokia N78 v30.0.011 Firmware Change Log

UPDATE : This change log is for the Nokia N78 . Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks to rwishi for the update

Thanks to Adrian for sending me the change log for the N78

We had recently posted about the new v30 firmware for Nokia 5800.Norman John at Symbian World has posted an interesting changelog he discovered in the new v30.0.011 firmware.


And the changes are as follows:
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Nokia 5800 XM Firmware v30.0.011 Out. So What’s New?

Yay! The much anticipated Firmware upgrade (v 30.0.011) for Nokia 5800 is out.  Once I upgraded the firmware of my phone to v30.0.011, I started searching for any visible changes on my phone and much to my dismay, found no changes at all.

But after using the phone for some time, I realized that the device has suddenly become more responsive, the RAM handling on the phone has improved a lot from its previous version. Also one of the new additions in the update has been the Home screen notifications for  E-mails. Continue reading “Nokia 5800 XM Firmware v30.0.011 Out. So What’s New?”

Create Bookmarklets on Opera Mini/ Nokia Default Browser/ Other Mobile Browsers

Have you ever been on the mobile web, reading an interesting article and wish you could quickly share it with your friends on twitter, delicious or Google reader? Well, now you can.

Just head over to http://o.yeswap.com in your mobile browser (Opera Mini or Nokia’s native web Browser). There you have lots of bookmarklets related to Twitter, Delicious, Google Reader, Stumbleupon, Zamzar etc. Continue reading “Create Bookmarklets on Opera Mini/ Nokia Default Browser/ Other Mobile Browsers”

Tata Docomo’s different pricing strategy. But will it work?

Tata Docomo is planning to introduce a 1 second pulse instead of the usual 1 minute pulse offered by other mobile service providers. This means that the consumers will be charged on a per second basis rather than the per minute basis and hence they will end up saving money on the seconds left unused. Continue reading “Tata Docomo’s different pricing strategy. But will it work?”

Mobile Big Wigs to roll out their own desi application stores

Leading Mobile Phone manufacturers like Nokia, Apple and Research in Motion (RIM) are in the process of rolling out localised versions of their application stores in India. These application stores will have a collection of applications which are customized for the Indian market.

Nokia, which recently started its Ovi Store, has plans to roll out the localised version by December this year. Though in the initial stages, Ovi Store will be available only in smartphones loaded with the Symbian S60 operating system, but Nokia has promised that it will be enabling the app store for all its phones by early next year. Continue reading “Mobile Big Wigs to roll out their own desi application stores”

Nokia launches Java Runtime 2.0 for Symbian S60

Nokia Beta Labs has launched the Nokia Java Runtime 2.0 for Symbian S60 devices today. This new release gives the the S60 devices with several usability and performance improvements like:

* One-click application installation
* Improved application launch user experience
* Improved execution performance Continue reading “Nokia launches Java Runtime 2.0 for Symbian S60”

Nokia 5800 v31.0.0.15 Firmware Update Coming soon

Good News for all the Nokia 5800 users, A new firmware update (v 31.0.0.15) is in the offing.

Recently, Nokia Conversations released their “Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 Introduction” video on Youtube.  But if you watch the video attentively, at the 0:57 second of the video, you can clearly see that the Firmware version of the Nokia 5800 is showing as v.31.0.015.  And also Steve Litchfield of All About Symbian has also quoted in one of their articles that v31 firmware was the stable release inside Nokia a couple of weeks ago and he suspects it will appear in public this week.

Here is the snapshot of the video where the phone is being updated to v31.0.0.15 of the firmware.

Continue reading “Nokia 5800 v31.0.0.15 Firmware Update Coming soon”