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http://email.nokia.com/

“About Nokia Email service

Nokia Email service automatically delivers email from your current email address to your Nokia device.

You do not have to change your email address.

Nokia Email service enables you to do the following on your Nokia device:

• View, respond, forward, compose and delete emails
• Manage your email inbox, outbox, drafts, and sent folders”

Thoughts so far it is a 1.6 meg download once you give Nokia all your details and first born.  However it never asked me where to install.  Granted I did say I have a N95, not the N958gb but that is only because the 8gb was not an option.

Phones list currently is, E51, E61, E65, E66, E71, E9,0 N73, N80, N81, N95 plus I am sure all the variations there is of each of these model numbers 😉

But the joy is it works.  My email is on my phone.  Yet another reason to leave the umpc behind and get a bluetooth keyboard.

it is nicely laid out and it just plain works.  Good on you Nokia.

Nokia betalabs now has comments up as well…

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Awhile back, I posted a link to Nokia Beta Labs about the new Maps Loader as a beta. Well they have just announced that it has graduated.

So head on over and get it.  This makes downloading and controlling maps much easier.  And if you are a casual licence user the ability to buy maps via your pc before you go on that weekend away will be a big improvement.

and here is the direct link to save you naffing around the nokia website.

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Betalabs says..

Major fixes in the release version:

• Vista 64 issue is fixed
• S40 support added
• Included pc suite drivers in the installer that should make maploader independent from PC Suite
• Many, many bug fixes

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NeuTouch – MultiTouch Engine using Nokia N95!

more details on Symbian-Freak – but the video is just cool to show what you can do with a phone, a cardboard box and some very clever programming.

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New update to my Sport Tracker account… this is the KML of the flight from Adelaide to Melbourne.

I had the phone in flightmode and “forgot” to turn it off.. and so have the gps trace for the plane taking off and then most of the way home until it lost the signal somewhere over Victoria. If this page is blank you may need to refresh it to see this Flash app. Or you can just download the KML of the flight from the KML’S page… (look up it is in the Nav section of the site..)

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have just spent the last 20 minutes playing with a new bit of software.  And this on is fun :-).

http://www.nimbuzz.com/

it is another all in one voip chat comm system gadget.  But this one works.  I can make google voice calls nice and easy (although the feedback when you are sitting in front of the computer is bad :-)) send photos that you have taken as files straight through as well.

I can see this bit of software becoming a fav pretty quickly.

They say it works with Google, jabber, ICQ, AOL, e.t.c but I only use Google so I can not comment on that.  However comparied to Parlingo which I currently use this software is leap years ahead.

Go give it a try.

And some more info here at All About Symbian

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The same image in 3 places… the Ovi and Flickr are done straight from the phone… the Picasa wasn’t 🙂

The excerise is more to show what the acutal pages looks like for the photo when the user drills in.

(update.. this is straight to this blog via wavelog on my phone… so the image is hosted here, so that adds a 4th location.)

Self Hosted

OVI

Flickr

Picasa

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To make matters worse, It is not just the Australian maps, it seems to be my phone 🙁

I did a delete reinstall of the maps on first load,… and did another one over the weekend. And still it is all screwy.

Here are the problems I have..

the white dots are breadcrumbs… but I haven’t walked these roads…

And the Yarra river is meant to be here.. but it is not. (and it gets worse and you zoom out!)

and either Nokia knows what is coming as far as global warming is concerned, or these maps which show the correct roads, but wrong water do have issues

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Now for the fun part.

Yes the firmware installed, and yes the backup worked… but Nokia still has work to do. A whole pile of my applications didn’t reinstall properly. Divx Player, Ybrowser, s-tris 2, gmail, twibble and pac man for example had to be reinstalled from the app manager.

One of my apps just didn’t install at all, that being palringo which I use as my gtalk client.

Now see I am what I would think was a fairly high end user, but this is a pain for me. I have to now resintall all the apps from the sis files in the app manager and I have to then go to all of the trouble of moving the folder structure around to what I had and what I liked.

I use the key codes to launch apps most of the time (it is plain faster). For those of you that didn’t know this. When ever a menu is open say applications for example, if it is the third item across just press 3 and the app will start. Saves a lot of navigating once you are in a folder.

Now I am having to reinstall my maps as well, as the firmware overwrote my beta2.0 maps file. But my maps and places are still there which is good.

BIG WARNING… Assisted GPS gets turned back on! This is am not happy with at all. (Settings, General, Positioning,Positioning methods). I don’t use it, I don’t really need it. I find the gps gets a fix fast enough most of the time and I don’t have a data plan. They are just way to expensive in Australia at the moment even for the short calls that AGPS makes. I use the gps on my phone every day, it starts to add up.

One of the improvements I have noticed is that the Satellite Status in Postioning is much improved. It is now visible with a better outline of the signal strength. This used to be really hard to see even indoors, now it is really clear.

This of course is not in the change log, so make me wonder what other “improvements” have been made…

The only other thing that is a bit screwy is NGage got a little confused. I now two versions of Ngage, the trial and the full version. Very strange. Obviously the firmware doesn’t have the full release of the ngage in it… whoops me thinks that was an oversight.

Took me a bit of hunting to find the new auto rotation feature, so here it is….. settings, personalisation, display, rotate screen.

More to come as I keep installing stuff and finding what else is annoying me…

– Update

ShareOnline like maps reverted to the old version and I can not work out how to get it back on the main screen. Not a no deal situation, but annoying.

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Yeah.. it is firmware update time.

so now I am writing a blog entry based on the following update working and doing what it is meant to…. (and the backup restoring everything)

Firstly that update means one less bit of software. I bid a fond farewell to rotate-me 2.0 which had become obsolete…

What’s new in v20.0.016:

• Automatic screen rotation, driven by the accelerometer, as on the N82
• Browser and Wi-Fi bug fixes

Thanks you the folks over at Symbian for the heads up on this. http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/

and the change log care of Symbian-Freak

New features:

• Automatic Screen Rotation (ASR)
• Support for new combo memory added

Browser:

• Improvement when creating a voice call from WAP page.
• Improvements to embedded video functionality in browser.
• Sending email via browser flash plugin improvements.

Messaging:

• Mail in HTML format handling from Gmail IMAP server improved.

Connectivity:

• WLAN connection stability improvements
• BT connection stability improvements with certain BT headsets
• USB connection stability improvements

Telephony:

• Voice call handling improvements after certain type U.S.S.D message receiving.
• Stability improvements to gallery for case when there’s lot of content in Gallery
• Improvements to switch application
• Voicemail icon handling improvements

Localization corrections:

• Deletion of all contacts now possible even more than 6000 contacts in phonebook
• Startup functionality improvements

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