Nokia wants to help Indian tigers

Finnish-based mobile telephone giant Nokia has joined hands with the wildlife conservation organization, World Wide Fund for Nature, (WWF) to help conserve tigers in India.

Under this initiative, Nokia and WWF-India, will work jointly towards providing education for sustainable growth, increasing knowledge on tiger conservation in the villages surrounding tiger reserves.

Full story here.

Free E71 or What?

Yesterday while googling something I came across this sponsored link


The Nokia Prize contest link led me to this page


Submitting the page gives a HTTP Error 500 :(

What I understand is, it's just information to get in touch with you and market the E71 but whats the CONTEST thing all about.

Nokia buys Symbian . Now what?

Very Very Interesting post.

Everyone knows about Nokia buying Symbian and TrollTech, Michael Mace from Mobile Opportunity tells us more.

Check it out here.

Also read:
CrunchGear
Russell Beattie

Nokia : "I Love you too" in templates

Don't see it in my N95 but seems like this new "I love you too" template has been included in the new S40 phones. Now thats not much of an effort as its easy to create a new template ourself but don't recall creating a template ever, though I've used the existing ones some times.

Whatever, this new inclusion "I Love you too" will surely save some texting time ;)

Found this here.

Nokia : Indias most trusted brand

"Following a stellar four-year run, the Finnish telecom brand has climbed 70 ranks to become India’s No 1 trusted brand, according to this year’s Most Trusted Brands survey. The survey was conducted nationwide across 12 cities, involving over 8,000 respondents across socio-economic class, age and income groups."

Read what Nokia's CEO has to say about that, full story here.

N82 makes a good picture for Scoble

The Scobleizer surely likes pictures taken from his N82. The best reason for this, its always there with him. But looking at his photos on Flickr, I surely admit I won't regret having a Cannon 5D. The picture quality is amazing, although I haven't seen the pictures in full res, they seem good enough for the moment been captured.

From all that I've been reading so far it seems that there is no competition to the N82 as a camera phone.

Scoble compares it to a pro camera
Vaibhav Sharma gives a thumbs up to the N82 when comparing it to the N958G
Wins Best Mobile Imaging Device in Europe (TIPA Awards)

Enough reasons for shutterbugs to own this phone.
N82 Site

Nokia & A.R. Rahman Connection

Seems like A.R. Rahman and Nokia have really good connections.

Can't find any links for this but a long time ago there was this contest where one was supposed to post the name of the most influential person who has left a mark on India's music industry. The name which came out as the winner was undoubtedly A.R. Rahman. This was when they launched the N91.

After that Nokia and Rahman teamed up for "Pray for Me, Brother" music initiative. This was to promote the N91.

Now there is this contest going on "Nokia XpressMusic presents REMIX RAHMANS ADA". ADA is Rahmans new movie and the contest is to Remix 2 of its songs.

Winners :
• Winner of the contest will get a chance to spend a day with Rahman in Studio and remix one of the songs.
• Ten other winners get a chance to star with Rahman in the Music Video of the remixed song

Check it out here.

Nokia N78, first brush with FP2

My first S60 FP2 experience, with the N78. Lots of new features

-UI Effects : Transitions, Slide in etc...
-3 softkeys like the S40 3rd Ed
-Standby Theme : Horizontal Icon bar/Basic/Vertical icon bar
-Menu View : Grid/List/Horseshoe/V-Shaped
-Access point priority
-The N78 has a sensitive navigation dial for menu/list navigation(something like ipod)
-FM Transmitter :Play songs in device through any compatible FM receiver.
-Radio shows 2 options : Visual Radio and Internet Radio
-Themes Icon now present in Tools

Nice features. Didn't get much time to spend with it but I think what they've done is added a lot of personalization. I personally didn't like the keypad. But even with so much of UI enhancements the phone felt quite fast.

Nokia is No.1 in India

Nokia is the No.1 handset vendor in India and China and Rediff has put an interesting article about why it is so. Although, I agree about its numero uno status, I never got any convincing answers about why it remains on top.

Every other brand out there has an equivalent phone to almost every Nokia model make-wise and price-wise. If you search the net there are plenty of posts about bad customer service at Nokia Care. Then there was this exploding battery thing last year.

I think that a few earlier models have done the trick for Nokia. It was the time when incoming calls were made free and the Nokia 3310 was within 10K. It was the top selling phone at that time with every other person with it. Then there was 3315, which even lowered the 3310 rates. At this time 3310 reached even the villages/rural areas. With incoming charges gone every one with a slightly higher budget would go for the 3315 else the 3310. Both these phones were very sturdy, without any flaws and had user friendly menus. So the word was spread, Nokia phones are sturdy with a good resell value and easier to use. This cycle keeps going on with Nokia coming up with just another model every year that was a hit. I think that this phone (3310) gave Nokia its loyal customers in India.

The Morph Concept , Nokia demos bendable phone

Nokia + Research center + nanotechnology = a bendable phone, Morph. The phone of the future, wear it as a wrist band or just put it in your pocket.

Read more:
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No secrets with Nokia

Interesting flash game, keep no secrets between you and your Nokia.

Find SCARAB's
Identify if they are genuine.
Meet Maya
Deliver SCARAB.

Was able to solve the mystery but took around 30 mins.

Check it out here.

S60 Feature Pack 2 : Transitions

Check out the transitions on Menu movement and screen changes on this Nokia 6220,

Nokia "Remade"

A Nokia concept phone made from recyclable materials


"Nokia has released a short video showing a new concept from our design team exploring how recycled materials could be used to make mobiles in the future. ..."

Video and text are from this page.

More here.

Share on Ovi

The only time Ovi was all over the blogsphere was when it was announced. Nothing much since then. I've been using twango for quiet a few months now and first came to know about it when it was acquired by Nokia. Today twango looks OVIzed. I uploaded quiet some stuff on twango yesterday but the site looks revamped today.

So out of the 'Share,Music,Maps,N-Gage,Calendar & Contacts', links on ovi Share seems to be of some use now.

OpenC Challenge winners announced

Nokia World 2007 has kicked off in Amsterdam and the winners of the OpenC challenge have been announced.

Read more here.

Made a difference at workplace?

Have you made a difference at your workplace with some witty activity. Then post your story here and stand a chance to win the latest E51.

(only for APAC that too only Australia,Thailand and Singapore listed as entrants)

Amazzing Accelerometer

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Are you a real Technoholic : Take the Challenge

This is some challenge Nokia has put together for all the technology freaks out there in India.

Its a reality challenge where 4 shortlisted people will be monitored by cameras in a room for 3 days.
One who doesn't get eliminated gets a grand prize and the title Nations resident Technoholic and the 4 shortlisted get an N81 each.

Check it out here.

2 new apps : Earthcomber and Slifter

'Download' now includes two applications Earthcomber and Slifter, both targeted for the US market.













More screenshots here.

N95-1 users , guinea pigs?

There's an interesting post on ForumNokia, it says that N95-1 users have been used as guinea pigs and after they reported all the features needed in this phone in which hey have put their hard earned salaries Nokia came out with N95-2.
Checked out the petition url and was surprised to see 200+ people already signed it. But it seems that the guy is right in a way, N95 does come close to what low-end laptops come now a days. There are people who would just buy another phone and there are people who must have waited and saved their salaries to get their dream phone, the N95.
I am one of the earlier people who got the N95 , I am with version 12 now and I surely know that with v13 the keypress bug will be gone and there will be lots of improvements. But what about that wobbly slider. A friend of mine who just bought the N95 does not have it, in fact he bought it even cheaper. I really hate the wobbly slider, if I would've dropped my phone and had the slider gone wobbly I wouldn't have minded it much. But it came that way. I really really hate it. I also wish the battery was better.
I think I should sign the petition too.

Here's the link.