And here’s a note in from Micky…
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Hi Ewan,
Hope you are well. Great news about the move, however, it is a little bitter sweet, but hopefully the MIR won’t become strangers.
I was wondering, with N95users.com already merged with everythingn82.com, and now finally merging with NokiaUsers.net to create one large online Nokia community, I was wondering if you could give us a mention, and post a link please.?
Thanks in advance,
Micky
Writer/Editor Nokiausers
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Following the release of the version 30 of firmware for Nokia’s N95 and N95 8GB phones, Nokia has now made the same version of the firmware available for the N82. Steve, over at AAS, notices that the new firmware update brings similar improvements as compared to the two phones who initially got the updates, but they’re not necessarily identical. Improvements include more stable Flash Lite 3, Maps 2.0, new visualizations for the music player, increased speed and overall performance, less sensitive auto-screen rotation, Share Online 3.0 and various other bug fixes, improvements and better battery life.
Steve goes on to mention that the dim-display feature has not yet been fixed and the new UDP (User Data Preservation) feature sounds a lot comforting. However, from the comments on that article, it seems that the upgrade isn’t playing too fair with the users. So if you’re going to make the jump and play around, do let us know about the update in the comments.
Ricky here, I wanted to let you know about a new miniseries I am going to be doing on SMS Text News over the next few weeks. Its name I hear you ask? Discovering the N82, so what is this all about then?
As you may or may not as well as using Blyk, my main provider is T-Mobile with a Nokia 6300. I have never owned a Series 60 phone, so therefore I will bringing you a range of posts on how I get along with the N82. I am sure you are all wondering why a contributor on SMS Text News has never used N series; the reason is quite simple cost and T-Mobile’s crap handset offerings.
Now in preparation of getting the N82 I need your help with applications I should try out, currently I have only used the Gmail Checker on my 6300. If you have any suggestions on what applications I should try on the N82 obviously Shozu and QIK are mentioned a lot on the site, however if you can think of any more that I should try then please post them below.
WOM World has kindly put some applications on for me and some N-gage games as well.
• SkyeCaller PRO – A neat little application that lets you personalise your handset to the extreme, with incoming, outgoing video ring tones and loads more
o More information here:
• Psiloc Connect – Is basically the clever way to connect to the internet through your handset. Set priority connections, and get the most out of the connections you have, whether it be 3G or through WLAN
o More information here:
• We:offset – This application helps you off set the CO2 emissions of essential journeys. Basically helping you use mobile technology to do your bit for the environment.
o More information here:
I am looking forward to writing up my experiences with the N82 over the next few weeks, and I must also thank WOM World for providing me with the handset and making it all possible.
I had a note in from Alfie of Moblog telling me about their new competition, Lovetheaccent.com.
It’s a rather wicked proof of concept demonstrating the integration between Moblog and SpinVox. (I haven’t written much about SpinVox recently — still loving it. Still a critical service for me.)
The competition is quite simple. Call up the Moblog SpinVox number, tell the world what accent you love or hate — and why — and your message (and audio) will be posted live to the Lovetheaccent.com site.
The best caller (I’m not sure how that’s judged… so, be creative!) will win an Nokia N82 along with a year’s free subscription to both Moblog and Spinvox. On top of that, you’ll also get 250 Moo cards.
This week we talk about unlimited drinks Dublin, review the kit that the mobile geek at Glastonbury used (that’s James by the way), talk about Flirtomatic’s move into the German market, Ewan’s ‘mobile hell hole post’ and our favourite new things in the regular ‘things of the week’ slot.
…oh and one other thing too… what was that now…?
Listen now using the player below or see the links below for other options:
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The contributors:
Ewan MacLeod is turning off Motorola RAZRs and burning phone holsters he is SMS Text News.
James Whatley’s blog is here. He works for SpinVox doing clever social media stuff and their blog.
Dan Lane’s blog is at http://invalid.name. He’s CTO at Howler Tech.
Ben Smith is a management consultant. He has a blog, but anything worth reading is contributed here.
Sites mentioned in the podcast:
People we met at Unlimited Drinks Dublin:
Paschal from Mobile Travel Technologies
Connor from Connector.ie
Dave from Just Routes
Russel from Vodafone – watch this space for news of his project.
James’s Mobile Geek at Glastonbury post
Ewan’s Mobile Hell Hole post
Things of the week:
Orange’s N82
The new QIK client
The Loc8tor ’stuff finder’
JoikuSpot Premium
We’re really keen to get your feedback on the podcast – please let us know in the comments or tell Ewan – ewan@smstextnews.com.
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