Things have been a little hectic for me lately, but that will not stop me for bringing you the N97 Mini unboxing, filmed in Helsinki on the first day of ‘The Way We Live Next 3.0′ event.
The video is divided into two parts, the first is a good old unboxing and the second is a N97 Mini overview and comparison with the N97. If I sound a little tired, it is because of all the interview and demoes that I had earlier in the day. Stay tuned for a lot …

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I have the immense pleasure of telling you that in a few minutes I will be boarding a plane for Helsinki to attend this year’s ‘The Way We Live Next 3.0′ event at Nokia House. ‘The Way We Live Next 3.0’, in Nokia’s words, aims at providing a dynamic experience, co-created by the community, arranged by Nokia and focused on developing new business opportunities. It offers products, services and solutions that connect communities, help realize potential, entertain and celebrate people’s lives.

At the event we will hear from a host of …

I have the pleasure of letting you know that I have been invited to a Nokia Digital Design Bootcamp in New Delhi today. The meetup will be an opportunity for us to understand what goes on behind the scenes the create the Nokia UI that we recognize in an instant today.
I especially glad and excited to attend because we will be joined by senior members of the Nokia design team including the Head of Digital Design at Nokia, Nikki Barton. On the agenda is a discussion around Nokia’s Digital Design …

We have just wrapped up the Q&A about the N97’s new 2.0 firmware. We had limited time, so I could unfortunately not get through all the questions that you had asked. With that said, here are the key aspects I’m sure you would like to read about.

Our questions were answered by Frank Zillikens and Catalin Gheorghiu from Nokia. Frank headed up the N97 v20 Firmware, and Catalin works on the Firmware Development Team.

At 17:30 GMT today I and a few other invitees will be attending a Q&A around the N97’s v20 firmware. We will be joined by Nokia representatives Frank Zillikens, the Lead Firmware Developer and Catalin Gheorghiu, a member of the technical team responsible for the recent firmware upgrade.

I’m sure you have questions, so please put them down below and I will try and get an answer for you. Although I doubt questions like, ‘When will v20 be out for my region?’ will get a specific answer. Time is running out.

The first beta of the Opera Mobile 10 for Symbian devices is now available for both S60 3rd and 5th Edition devices. The browser supports multiple tabs, a speed dial and a very speedy performance which gets an even bigger boost when you enable the ‘Turbo’ mode which uses server side compression akin to its sibling Opera Mini.
The browser also features on screen keyboards QWERTY keyboards (both Portrait and Landscape) similar to the Opera Mini application. The tabs are very easy to navigate and the whole interface seems snappy with …