It has been a while since we’ve heard any Microsoft-Nokia related news but things are slowly starting to change. Nokia has finally announced this week that Microsoft Communicator Mobile is now available on the OVI Store initially for Nokia E72 and Nokia E52. Back in august of last year Microsoft and Nokia signed a deal and form a global alliance to develop, design and market mobile productivity solutions. This weeks release of Microsoft’s Office Communicator is the first (tiny) step:
Continue reading Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia Debuts →
Skype for Windows Mobile may be “dead” but this won’t stop loyal Nokia user from enjoying it. Nokia & Skype have announced today that the IP Calling application is now available to more than 200 Million Symbian users via the Nokia Ovi Store.
Skype for Symbian enables Nokia smartphone users to:
- Make free Skype-to-Skype calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world*
- Save money on calls and texts (SMS) to phones abroad
- Send and receive instant messages to and from individuals or groups
- Share pictures, videos and other files
- Receive calls to their existing online number
- See when Skype contacts are online and available to call or IM
- Easily import names and numbers from the phone’s address book
Source: Skype
Nokia has just made available what must be one of the coolest mobile games, Ovi Maps Racing. The game basically lets you race anywhere you want in the world just by selecting a location on the Ovi Maps data base. You can create a race track in your neighborhood for example and start racing right away. Check out the video below to see it in action:
The game is available now for free in the Ovi Store.
Source: Nokia
Here’s some big news folks,
Nokia just launched their new OVI Maps navigation application featuring free turn-by-turn walk & drive navigation for its handsets. Sounds familiar? Yes Google did the same thing with
Google Navigation for
Android 2.0 not long ago. But this is the real deal this time around, unlike
Google offering which is only available in the US and needs an active connection to work (maps are stream live to the Android device) the new OVI Maps offers support for 74 countries, in 46 languages, and traffic information for more than 10 countries, as well as detailed maps for more than 180 countries and the whole maps are stored on your device!
Head over to Nokia’s annnouncement website
here for more info and videos. Nokia is also promising to offer a streeview like feature in the future. Here’s the list of compatible devices:
Nokia X6, Nokia N97 mini, E72, E55, E52, Nokia 6730 classic, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia 5230
The N97 version shoud be out on Jan 28th but no news about the N900 yet.
Source: Nokia
Nokia’s OVI Store (the company’s application store) is now availalbe on the N900 Maemo5 smartphone following yesterday’s OTA update. Users can now access it through the browser or directly in Maemo 5 (you’ll launch the same OVI store app in either casses) and download application directly to their N900.
Source: Nokia Coversations
N900 users should expect to see a small update being pushed to their devices in the next 24 hours according to Nokia. The update is meant to prepare the N900 for the opening othe the Maemo Ovi Store (some users are already reporting that the store is up and running..).
Source: Nokia Conversations
Forgot to post this yesterday, Nokia launched their Ovi SDK (beta) and a new Ovi Navigation Player API. The SDK will enable developers to code for Symbian, Maemo & web apps. Coding can be done using standard web-based technologies including HTML, CSS and Javascript. Formore information head over here.
Source: Nokia Conversations
Recent Comments