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Nokia is starting with unified accounts, get one now!

2008-07-15T08:41:23Z

AAS had the scoop I think. Anyway it means one login for all their services. Pretty neat. However currently the create-new-account is disabled. Still you can register an unified account by following this procedure: Go to http://my.nokia.com/nl...

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Nokia 5800 ExpressMedia = Nokia Touchscreen device

2008-06-17T08:06:47Z

Hi Folks, The internet has a few more rumors going more and more solid: Nokia 5800 Tube - Quad-Band GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz), EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA connectivity - 3.2″ 640×360 px (16:9 ratio) 16M color touchscreen display - 3.2 Megapixel c...

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Dutch NOS starts streaming news and 6 channels of live Olympics channels video for mobile phones

2008-06-03T15:19:50Z

The dutch NOS (national broadcast service) has now started streaming their news videos as well as live streams of the olympics for the mobile phone platform. At the same time they upgraded their mobile site and added a dedicated new application a...

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Golf Tour a free golf game for the N95 and others

2008-05-28T13:58:00Z

A post in AAS called my attention to a nice, simpel and free java golf game. It's really a nice game you can play by your self or with others. A such it is a great pub game for the mobile phone to play with very good friends when having a beer, pe...

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Nokia Maps 2.0 Final released

2008-05-22T14:35:56Z

Hi Folks, AAS beat me to the news. Nokia Maps 2.0 is out of beta. Maps 2.0 is a huge improvement on 1.0. In the netherlands they directions now correspond with roadsigns info, routing is much improved. Pedestrian routing added. New improved userin...

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Internal GPS hack for TomTom for those who should not want it...

2008-05-21T14:31:24Z

Altough TomTom Navigator works on the N95 and other S60 3rd edition phones. It does not support the internal N95 GPS. For over a year now the N95-owners were forced to buy an external bluetooth GPS if they wanted TomTom to work on their phone. In ...

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The Art of Cramming Music into the N95

2008-05-11T11:49:32Z

The world is full of mp3 players and many people own and carry them around next to their mobile phone. You can find anything from 1 GB microsized music dice to slimwaisted 160GB iPod-classic's. When only parts of my music collection fits on my ph...

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What is your Nokia N95 experience after a year?

2008-04-22T15:55:27Z

Quietly and without fanfare the N95 has now been around for about a year in most countries. Time to think back and remember last year and ask yourself: What reasons did I have to buy this phone? And be completely honest with yourself. Feel fre...

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Nokia's music store opened now for the Netherlands

2008-04-09T08:11:31Z

www.tweakers.net reported it yesterday evening. It's really there including audio streaming of 30 second song samples. Nice. Still a music shop selling drm is not my beef. Actually I prefere the real CD's. They are like a free backup copy, rip'em ...

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N-gage the second week

2008-04-07T08:03:09Z

Nokia's OVI site suggests playing Fifa `08. Nokia's nseries now carries 'N-Gage is Live'. We could say it is now officially online. The game of the week changed this monday from System Rush to Hooked On and they added Fifa `08 to the list of avail...

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