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Nokia Beta Labs are asking everyone who uses Nokia Maps Navigation if they use their Nokia device in portait mode, or in landscape mode whilst driving.

They have a simple survey that would like everyone to participate, so head across to Nokia Beta Labs to let them know here, or go direct to the short survey here.

Beta Labs are also interested in as to why you use your device in your particular orientation, be it something not displaying as it should of your device, for example, call screen not working in landscape etc.

You can let the team know your issues in their discussions area on Beta Labs here.

A new video popped up yesterday from Nokia on their Youtube channel, and it covers the Nokia Wellness Diary.  If you have not yet seen this application, or heard of it, you may want to learn more about looking after yourself with this great free app.

Nokia Wellness Diary is available at http://wellnessdiary.nokia.com. As a side note, Nokia Beta Labs are looking to rename Nokia Wellness Diary, so if you have any suggestions, head across to Beta Labs and cast your ideas.

A couple of new applications I have been rocking recently on my Nokia devices are well worth checking out.  The first application is called “Borg” and is a very well done facebook client with a pleasing UI, and smooth User Experience.

Borg - Facebook client , no server proxy calls, place and checkin integrated with Ovimap, photo and video upload, browse news feed, wall, friends, groups, events , messages, public pages and posts, more on the way. (version 1.1 still in beta and free). You can download Borg from Ovi Store here, or should we say, Nokia Store?

Next up, the popular News reader application for CNN has arrived on Symbian devices via Ovi Store too, and this is well worth checking out too.

To find out more on the CNN client, head across to Ovi Daily App where its covered in detail.  My early impressions on both of these apps are that, Borg is a superb facebook alternative app for your Nokia, whilst the CNN app, although functional, is not quite as polished as it could be when compared to CNN on other platforms.

I’m sure most of you Nokia users have had Angry Birds on your device by now, but what about in physical form?  That’s right, Nokia have Officially released a series of Angry Birds hard cases for the several Nokia devices including the E7, N8, C7, X7, and C6-01.

There are three types available for each Nokia device right now for just £19.95.

The following are linked to the E7 hard cases.  Just to note, these hard cases only cover the rear of the devices.

There’s the Red Bird, the Black Bird, and Pig King. Each of these variants are available for the above mentioned Nokia handsets.

You can find all the Nokia Angry Birds hard cases over at Mobilefun here.

Our good friend tehkseven has been hard at work, putting together fine examples of Original Nokia Ringtones, but like no other, he has remixed 20 of them so they are completely custom, and one of a kind.

These original Nokia ringtone remixes have a total new take on the original and as i was playing through them, i couldn’t believe what i was hearing – the imagination and thought that’s gone in to some of these is truly astounding.

Head across to tehkseven today, and check them out, they are all completely free too! Enjoy!

Nokia’s Official Blog, Nokia Conversations have today let us know that The evolution of Nokia and Ovi will result in the Ovi Branding being dropped and replaced by Nokia from July this year 2011.

Starting with first services on some of the new Nokia devices in July and August, Ovi services will be rebranded as Nokia services in a transition expected to continue into 2012. Each of the services under the Ovi umbrella will simply be rebranded as Nokia, with no planned disruption to the service roadmaps.

Nokia’s EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Jerri DeVard explains the shift:
We have made the decision to change our service branding from Ovi to Nokia. By centralizing our services identity under one brand, not two, we will reinforce the powerful master brand of Nokia and unify our brand architecture – while continuing to deliver compelling opportunities and experiences for partners and consumers alike.

Head across to Nokia Conversations for the full press release on these changes.

LinkedIn is a well known Social service for users to share their professional experiences in their line of work, build connections, and even help users change careers, and look for that new job.

Recently Nokia launched their mobile client of LinkedIn, and was created using Qt with the LinkedIn Platform, the company’s development toolkit to allow programmers to access the network from external applications.

I had a lot of difficulty installing this on my E7 due to various issues with the Qt packages I use, and to this day, i still can’t install it, but remember I do Beta test a lot of things, so this maybe isolated just to me, and few others.

N8 installation went fine however, and having had a play around with this app, I’m happy to report that it’s impressive! Very quick with a pleasant UI, and smooth User Experience, which matches the likes of the LinkedIn app on iOS, and that’s saying something.

Head across to Ovi Store to download LinkedIn for Symbian today. It’s free too!

In a brand new video posted to Youtube yesterday from Nokia, we are shown that maps.ovi.com now has the added functionality so you can now use Public Transport routing.

In this new video, we are shown this feature by way of the all new Ovi Maps 3D. Enjoy!

Nokia Beta Labs updated their Mac OSX Client of Nokia Software Updater yesterday, bringing the latest version to 3.0.400.

Support has now been added for the following devices:

• 5230 (RM-588, RM-593, RM-594, RM-629)
• E5 (RM-632, RM-634)
• E71 (RM-346, RM-357, RM-407, RM-493)
• E72-2 (RM-529)
• N97-1 (RM-506)

Known Issues

• Nokia Software Updater for Mac works only in Snow Leopard or newer operating system
• Automatic check for new phone software does not work
• Application updates are not supported
• The following devices are supported

Please remember, this is indeed a Beta release, so please help the Beta Labs team develop this client further by reporting any issues over at Beta Labs.