Category Archives: Nokia/S60

Sad but true, Symbian-Guru.com is Over

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Rob

This is a sad story, but one that’s happening frequently, guys and girls who once cheered for Nokia are making the leap away. Symbian-Guru, like me, has moved to Android, others have moved to iPhone, atmaspheric endeavors for example; As … Continue reading →

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Gravity will soon allow you to forward a Tweet as an SMS.

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Rob

A few days back I tweeted the message below, wishing that the awesome app Gravity had the feature to forward tweets as an SMS. A couple of days latter @janole tweets back; Now that’s what I call a service. The … Continue reading →

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Truphone could wipe the floor with Google voice

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Rob

There’s a lot of buzz on the web right now about Google voice going public. But there’s still a huge problem, text messages. What people are looking to do is disconnect their number from their sim card. People are keen … Continue reading →

Posted in life, Mobile, Nokia/S60, Telecom | 7 Comments

Palm Pre has a shocking boot up time

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Rob

Just watched CNET Asia’s ‘prize fight’ between the iPhone 3G, 3GS and the Pre and I was shocked as to how long the Pre and the iPhone 3G takes to boot up. My N95 takes about 25 seconds including entering … Continue reading →

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Featuring in other people’s pic

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Rob

It always make me jump when I’m scrolling through Google reader and an image appears with a mug shot of me in it. The above appeared a few days back and made me jump (again). All I can see is … Continue reading →

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The E71 is back as the king of phones

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Rob

..well it is in my view. Having had an E71 from WOM ages ago, I was seduced by the keyboard and the screen, but the camera was a little flaky. I purchased one back in September of last year and … Continue reading →

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Google’s Latitude

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Rob

Over the last few weeks I’ve been testing the new Google Latitude application, and have found it to be a useful tool. It allows users to locate “friends” – other contacts- and display these locations on their mobile phone via … Continue reading →

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Google latitude blip – I’m not in Liberia.

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Rob

I was sat in Frankfurt airport late on Friday evening when I fired up Google’s latitude to see where folks were. When I fired the app up, i tend to use the network location feature as opposed to GPS to … Continue reading →

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Crapberry replaced by N95

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Rob

A while back the wife wanted to her replace her ageing Sony Ericsson with a new phone that could sync her calendar and get emails instantly. I wanted her to have a Nokia but she wasn’t bothered and the only … Continue reading →

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E71 new firmware – the camera still poor

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Rob

Nokia released new firmware for the E71 Euro, v200.21.118 last week, there’s a change log here. The new firmware makes the browser much much faster and adds a couple of new themes which are nice. It looks like a major … Continue reading →

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Connection Managers for S60

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Rob

I’ve been playing with the two main connection managers for S60, Psiloc Connect and Birdsteps Connect. The idea of these apps is that they manage the connection your apps use, for example when at home they will prefer the faster … Continue reading →

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Nokia Music app is a fail

Posted on December 21, 2008 by Rob

I installed the Nokia Music App v1.0 a few days back to give it a try and see if I could manage my music on my E71 using it. The clue here is version 1.0, that’s the key point, it’s … Continue reading →

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Nokia FM Transmitter CA-300

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Rob

You may have noticed I’ve been offline a little of late, well it’s been my Birthday so I’ve been taking it easy. One thing I have been testing (besides the E63) is Nokia’s FM Transmitter the CA-300. I already have … Continue reading →

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E63 your questions answered

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Rob

Following on from the other E63 posts I’m going to answer the questions in one go… First up from sarvajeet does the E63 support 8gb, the answer is yes see the photo below. The next question I was asked was … Continue reading →

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The E71 is the social media device of choice.

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Rob

I was just reading Glen’s post on his belief that the E71 is the social media users dream. I’d have to agree with him, the keyboard makes messaging and replying on social media sites such as Twitter and Jaiku a … Continue reading →

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