It has been only two days with the N81 8GB and it feels as if I have had it for ages and in this post I answer why! This post is also not about hardware improvements or cutting edge features, it is about something that as an idea is very basic, yet increasingly difficult to achieve, seamlessness. It is about user experience, about ease of use, about connectivity.
Generally a lot of people are wary of changing phones for the simple reason that it is very tiresome and sometimes even tough to …

Courtesy of the good people at WOM World, I have recieved a special edition N81 8GB Special Edition. (Thanks Guys!) The great thing about it, apart from the packaging is that it ships with a set of Bose Quiet Comfort 3 Headphones! Thats right, an ultra deadly combo!
The N81 8GB has been out for a while now, but a beauty such as this deserved an unboxing and I decided to give it a shot. I was in college with friends when I was attempting to shoot this video and invariably we would end up …

 
Another Update! Verison 1.03 is out!
Samir has been very busy with Nokmote and Rotate Me and therefore has had very little time to work on Shut Up the application that is based on the Touch UI demo, in which you just flip the phone to cut the call.
Tong Ren meanwhile has released his very own application called Flip Silent with the above functionality. It works well both with calls and alarms, with the alarm being snoozed and the caller getting a busy/unreachable signal.

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This is a week of leaks, and the Boy Genius has the scoop of the year so far! He has published the entire vodafone lineup for 2008. It includes BlackBerrys, HP’s new Windows Mobile phones, the new Nokia Symbian devices, and even the new Palm devices! What is of importantance to me (us) are two Symbian Nokia devices, the Nokia Liam and Dora both Eseries.

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The specs for both devices are good and the E65 successor, Dora looks much more beautiful than its successor. Can’t wait for the official announcement. CES?

Upcoming Nokia devices have a tendancy of getting leaked close to their release. The upcoming E71 is no exception. Here it is in its full glory.

These days we are witnessing great freeware development in S60 applications and the best part is that they are plugging the gap for certain essentials, S60 should have had in the first place. Here are a few I really like and use frequently.

But before that here’s a post by Ricky Cadden aka The Guru over at Symbian-Guru which lists some of the must have freewares around. It includes Mobile Signer, GPSed Beta, Call Filter, Log Exporter amongst others. They are all hosted on his mosh account for easy download, jump over for a read.

 
With the current way of life, every other day we are signing up for a new services online and that means more usernames, passwords and so on to remember in addition to the thousand other things the mind is already occupied with. I personally have been faced with the situation of forgetting my passwords for sites I do not use much, many a time.
There was a time when most Nokia S60 phones came with a built in wallet application called wallet which could encrypt and store all your usernames, passwords, …

I might be a little late in wishing all of you a very Happy New Year ahead. Hope all of you had a great new year’s eve and partied till the wee hours! ‘07 was the year I started blogging and boy, has it been fun. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and promise that I’ll try and come up with something even better in 2008.
With that in mind, I had thought of revamping the site a bit.
- As you can see I now have a new three column theme which, hopefully …