Nokia Users

Recently whilst setting up my Windows 7 laptop ready for my trip to Nokia World this year in London, I was prompted that an Update was available for Ovi Suite bringing the latest version to Version 2.2.1.23.  

Now before you say anything, I am very happy to report that my experience with this version thus far has been the best experience of Ovi Suite yet, with superb speed of syncing, to smooth transitions, and actions throughout, its clear that the Ovi team have been working very hard behind the scenes in making this one power hungry desktop utility into a now high performance work utility.

The Ovi Blog today announced this update I came across recently, detailing their changes, and upcoming changes also. They mention that the latest version of Ovi Suite now supports the Maemo powered N900, and that they are working hard on the Ovi Suite for Mac OS X.  

I have asked for an ETA on the latter as we have been waiting for this Mac support for over 24 months now. Here's what Anu Koskinen from the Ovi Blog tells us about this latest version of Ovi Suite.. (Click Read More, or head directly to the Ovi Blog here).

Yes, that's right, as the title suggests, the long awaited Nokia N8 Symbian^3 device from Nokia is finally available for pre-order, which some interesting revelations on availability of the Orange, and Blue N8 models.

Thanks to Rafe of All About Symbian for the following which he posted up in the early hours of this morning.

One note of interest is that, in the UK store, the blue variant of the N8 will not be available until October and the Orange version is described as a 'limited edition'.

Head across to All About Symbian for more, including a table outlining some of the pre-order pricing currently available. Variation in prices is not uncommon, differences can be caused by different tax rates, different retail margins and prices may also include a currency hedge (to allow for currency fluctuation).

The N8 is also available for pre-order in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the USA.

Life here in Finland as a whole is quiet, clean, green, and beautiful, but apart from these delights, Finland has a great system for recycling things, be it empty aluminium cans, plastic bottles, or even glass bottles.  Most supermarket chains here are fully set up with machines that accept these items, and the great thing about it, you get paid for recycling too.  

Once you have put your empties in the automated machines, you are then presented with a voucher, value of this voucher depends on the amount of empties you have recycled.  You can then use the voucher against the cost of your groceries, brilliant. Check out the first video below to see this automated process in action.

Now, recycling doesn't stop there, how many old mobile phones do you have lying around? One, two, three? A global consumer survey found that 44% of the world’s phones are lying unused in drawers. Rather than have them clutter up your house, you can make a real difference to the environment by recycling them.

If everyone recycled just one of their mobile phones, we could reclaim 240,000 tonnes of raw materials, which would otherwise need to be taken from the earth. That would save as much energy and reduce as much greenhouse gases as taking 4 million cars off the road! And if that’s not a good enough reason already, in many cases you can get some new cash for your old phone. 

For further details on the schemes available for recycling your old phones, head across to the NSeries Blog where there is all the information you would need to get you turning your old Nokia handsets into new electronic devices.

Simple, and to the point, here is something to get you prepared for N8 ownership, these are the Official Nokia User Manuals for the 12mp shooter from Nokia.  English Manual available here, German language here. They both document the N8's hardware, and software in great detail as you would expect from a user manual, but you will also discover some hidden treasures too, but I will leave those for you to find.  The N8 is certainly shaping up to be quite a popular choice in handset, even given the exhausting wait for it.

Having had a quick browse through the manual, it is quite big, but at the same time, introduces many new things with Symbian^3 that will be discovered for the very first time, unless of course you have already been lucky enough to have a play with an N8 prototype.

So if you are planning on buying an N8 in a few weeks time, grab the N8 User Manual for now, and get to grips with many of its amazing features which you will get used to ready, and in time for N8 ownership.

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In an attempt to drum up some much needed positive media attention, Nokia have pulled out all the stops in promoting the launch of the upcoming 12mp shooter, the Nokia N8.  

In this latest promotion, Nokia UK are holding a simple competition, which the winner will get to shoot a real Hollywood type bedroom film scene with non other than the ex Baywatch star, and popular centerfold Pamela Anderson.

So what do you have to do to stand a chance of getting up close and personal with Pam, and an N8 in a bedroom scene I hear you all asking.!  Its simple really, head across to this site here http://www.starwithpam.com/ and fill out your details, and wait to see if you have been chosen.

Now don't worry, if you are female, there is a competition for you ladies too, and again as above the winner will get to film an Hollywood bedroom scene, but instead of with Pammy, you get to start with Ed Westwick, simply head across to http://www.starwithed.com/ and fill out your details.!  Good luck ladies, and gents.!

Rules are simple, you have to reside in the Uk, but full details can be found here, which I recommend you read first before entering, as you never know what is expected of you in that bedroom scene ;-)

Thanks to ZOMGitsCJ for the early scoop on this comp.

Whilst setting up my N86 ready for Nokia World next week, predefining the hash-tag #NW10, I was quickly corrected, and pointed to the all new Ovi Blog Application, Nokia's Official #NokiaWorld news app, which displays real-time feeds from twitter as and when they are published, and not only that, you can tweet, and join in the conversations too.

The Official hash-tag for Nokia World 2010 is confirmed to be #NokiaWorld, and NOT #NW10 as I first suspected, so don't just sit there whilst all the action is going on in London this year, get yourself involved in the conversations!

Nokia news in one integrated view. Keep up-to-date with the new Ovi Blog application and follow Nokia Conversations, the Ovi Blog and Nokia events directly from your compatible Nokia touch device. With just a couple of clicks you ’ll know what’s going on in real time, wherever you are. Re-tweet and let everyone see the news topics, posts, videos and events that matter the most to you. Join the discussion.

If you owned an N95, you will know how amazing the camera was for its time back in 2007, so much so, a very successful N95 Photo Awards was launched by James Burland of Nokia Creative.

Just looking through the many photos of these awards result in a jaw dropping response, and it just goes to show, with both a great camera of its time, and creativity using the then flagship Nokia device the N95, some really inspiring photos were achieved.

Now moving on a few years, and well into the second half of 2010, James Burland is again drumming up attention for the all new Nokia N8 Photo Awards, which Im sure you will agree will be very very interesting to see what peoples imagination, creativity, and photo captures will prevail.

You can join the N8 Photo flickr Group here, and add any Award worthy photos to it as and when you feel like it. To find out more from James on this N8 Awards, and of course some history on the N95 Photo Awards, head across to James Burlands site here for the full scoop.

Of course, we all have to wait a little while longer before we actually get an N8 in our sweaty palms, but trust me, the wait is almost over folk's!

Yesterday morning I came across a tweet on twitter that I though I had to share with you all, as I know many people would like to attend Nokia World 2010, but don't have the £700 in the back pocket to cover the ticket to get is, so here is an offer worth a shot for a free ticket from Wireless Industry Partnership.

We have 10 FREE developer passes for the Nokia Developer Summit taking place in London on Sept 14 & 15, 2010.

If you want to be eligible for a FREE pass worth 700 euros, please post an answer to the following question:

“Why do you want to learn how to code in Qt at the Nokia Developer Summit?”

Entries will be accepted until Wednesday, September 8th.  We will notify the winners by September 10th.

Good Luck!

Full details can be found here. WIP registration is required.