Protect your Nokia Smartphone

Here's an excellent tip for any company that's ever gone through the head-aches associated with having a corporate mobile device, notebook etc... lost or stolen - Yougetitback.com. The sales pitch... Yougetitback protects and helps recover mobile devices—such as phones, PDAs, cameras, iPods and laptops—while preserving the sensitive information they may contain. The company’s premium service will even replace the device, if it is not recovered. See more here

Locago, a free mobile map browser for N95 - locate and Go!

Locago, a free mobile map browser with an open interface to third party content and services. The simple and intuitive interface, much like a web browser, presents a clear picture of your surroundings, automatically activating the GPS and directions when needed. More... Locago is a mobile map browser where we combine many sources of information, Flickr, Wikipedia, Zvents, WCities, Weather forecast, UK housing ads etc. And we have an open XML interface if anyone wants to create their own mobile mashup. More info at www.locago.com - move around, find places, create routes and more.

Wanted movie trailer on MOSH, content Ad or WTF?

I can't for the life of me figure out MOSH.. the business model, the community, the goal... don'[t get me wrong, it's an awesome mobile community resource, but who's running it and is it about community? I notice that the homepage spotlight is turned on to a movie trailer for the movie Wanted (Angelina Jolie). follow the link and you go to a user's page where you can view teh trailer. Nowe, copyright material is not allowed on MOSH so this trailer must be provided by the creator or perhaps this is a clever advertisement... I'm not sure. The page of user "wantedmovie" also seems to have a banner ad for the movie which leads to the official website. So, what's up MOSH, is this paid-for premium content disguised as MOSH user content or ??

Topographic Maps, GPS Navigation and more for Nokia N95

Topographic Maps, GPS Navigation and Location-Based Services for the Outdoor Enthusiast - ViewRanger is satnav specifically designed for the off-road user, whether hill-walker, mountain biker, geo-cacher, birdwatcher, or rural tourist. It offers a unique combination of 2D and 3D mapping, GPS navigation, sports-GPS analysis, content sharing, and buddy tracking. Running ViewRanger on Symbian S60 handsets with integrated GPS, such as the Nokia N95, N82, E66 and 6220, removes the need for a separate outdoors GPS device. See www.viewranger.com

Google News for your Nokia smartphone

A tip for those needed Google news wherever they are... simply key in m.google.com/news from your mobile and you'll have it! Read up on the latest news from anywhere at anytime.
Search for news on any topic
Personalize your news page
Compare news from different sources

So you think you can text?

Enter the new LG Texting Champ... Beating more than 15,000 entrants, Nathan Schwartz, a 20-year-old Clyde, Ohio resident, took home the title of $50,000 in prize money and indisputable bragging rights for his speed-texting skills. The winning phrase was "Does everybody here know the alphabet? Let's text. Here it goes… AbcDeFghiJKlmNoPQrStuvWXy & Z! Now I know my A-B-C's, next time won't you text with me?" which Schwartz completed in sixty seconds. The contestants used any LG phones that featured full QWERTY keypads including the enV2, enV and Voyager. Beating more than 15,000 entrants, Nathan Schwartz, a 20-year-old Clyde, Ohio resident, took home the title of $50,000 in prize money and indisputable bragging rights for his speed-texting skills.

Nokia Chat from Beta Labs

From the Labs... Nokia Chat is more than just messaging. You can share your status and your location, giving you physical presence! Start a Nokia Chat with your friends with instant and voice messaging and finish it face-to-face. Get together with Nokia Chat – it’s where we are now. http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/chat

Nokia’s WidSets free downloadable, standalone widgets

A tip from my friends at Nokia... Nokia now offers free downloadable, standalone widgets enabled by Web Runtime Technology (WRT) for the latest S60-based devices. The new widgets are available on widgets.nokia.mobi.

Some of the features:

WRT makes it easy for anyone with Web development and design skills to create mobile applications. Developers can port desktop widgets to WRT with very little effort — using existing authoring tools.

WRT supports standard Web technologies (html, Ajax, JavaScript, etc.), which opens up a whole new range of possibilities for social networking and location based services.

The new Nokia WRT widgets use the same service back-end as Nokia’s WidSets mobile widget community to optimize content for mobile environments, so the operations end of the equation is taken care of.

See widgets.nokia.mobi and test for yourself

Nokia free downloadable, standalone widgets

Nokia now offers free downloadable, standalone widgets enabled by Web Runtime Technology (WRT) for the latest S60-based devices. The new widgets are available on widgets.nokia.mobi.

WRT makes it easy for anyone with Web development and design skills to create mobile applications. Developers can port desktop widgets to WRT with very little effort — using existing authoring tools.

WRT supports standard Web technologies (html, Ajax, JavaScript, etc.), which opens up a whole new range of possibilities for social networking and location based services.

Kyte TV - live, mobile broadcast to the web

Mobile TV broadcasting... experience the full power of Kyte! When you install the Kyte mobile application on your java-enabled phone, your pictures are instantly broadcast. Interact with your audience with text, video and audio chatmobile.kyte.tv - see www.kyte.tv

Tip on new Nokia push email

A tip on a great service (Beta) that enables you to receive any email account on your mobile (some devices supported) via this great new service from Nokia.

Simply select your device, specify the email account you wish to access, verify info, then install the app on your device if supported - currently I don't see a Nokia N95 8GB???

You can grab it at http://email.nokia.com/

Simple email alerts via text message

Here's a mobile tip for you that could save you plenty of time and even help you make some cash. Ever wanted to have immediate text message alerts when something happens of if you received an email or order etc... while away from your PC? No problemmo, you can easily email messages to your mobile via simple text message using your "special" email address from your carrier. For example, I now receive a txt alert is someone orders a job posting on our website. The system that receives our orders and provides notification simply also sends an email to phonenumber@tmomail.net - very simple. Below are the codes required so that anyone (almost) can do this themselves. Enjoy and give a try for yourself by sending an email to your number in the format appropriate for your carrier.

T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com

where phonenumber = your 10 digit phone number

Nokia Maps 3 and Location-Based Triggers

Interesting to see that on the heels of the official release of Nokia Maps 2, the company already has hinted at Nokia Maps 3, or at least what may be part of Maps 3... enter Location-based Triggers. Case in point, a filing at the World Intellectual Property Organization

So, what are location-based triggers? From the filing document, Location based triggering (LBT) can be utilized when providing services for various users to define actions that are triggered based on physical locations of objects, people, or any other point of interest (POI).

See more at WIPO - http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2008056283

Thanks to TechAHA for providing us with this tip - See http://techaha.blogspot.com/2008/06/nokia-hints-at-nokia-maps-30.html

Several leaked Nokia devices Nokia N85, N79

Looks like someone blew it again and posted some photos on flickr showing devices from Nokia that have not yet been released. Among them, the Nokia N79, Nokia 5800 Express Music, Nokia N85 (slider), and Nokia 6260. See more
Seems to me that perhaps if an app like Geomarc was embedded into cameras it would be useful in tracking metadata on such "leaked" images

Forum Nokia Code Camp Competition winners - Flickret and CityLite

Forum Nokia has announced the winners of the 2008 Code Camp Competition - CityLite by MSCorp of Coral Springs, Florida. A mobile guide to night life and Flickret a mashup that combines the Flickr photo-sharing app with MapQuest APIs. The contest aimed at inspiring Forum Nokia Code Camp attendees to build Web Runtime (WRT) widgets and Flash applications. See more

Job opp J2ME mobile app developer

I have another colleague in search of developers if your interested. Company X is looking at developing a very cool mobile application - J2ME - supported by Symbian S60 smartphones like the N73, N95 etc... Ideally the app will also involve streaming data (like vids, photos) to a web server from the mobile and perhaps integration of the gMaps API into the web service. this is a very interesting opportunity for those interested also with a short timeline so someone is needed ASAP. Contact glenn at gisuser dot com if you want to be considered or need more info.

Qik live video streaming on my N95 8GB

Thanks to Robert Scoble for introducing me to Qik, a way cool app that enables smartphone users to stream live video to the Quik site. You can also chat in real time... way cool! See quik.com

N-Gage Game Inspires Human Snake

This out of the Nokia Press Bulletin Board... Snake, the most iconic mobile game franchise of all time, was the inspiration behind what could be arguably the world’s longest human snake. The streets of Lisbon, Portugal set the scene for the stop-motion film titled ‘Get out and play’ where more than one thousand volunteers took part in forming the famous snake.