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Nokia is abandoning the N97 Download! applicaton!

2009-10-14T12:12:35Z

To day I checked the Download! application in my N97. To my merry amazement there was only 1 application left in Download!: The OVI store application. I do have to say that the download application does seem a bit overkill on the N97 with both the...

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Mobile Illusions, part 2: Hardware illusions

2009-05-23T21:30:08Z

There are so many technological innovations nowadays. I wonder how many of them are really innovation and not mere eyecandy? Consumer lure. How practical are all these fancy options? Do we really want them, do we need them or are there better sol...

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Mobile Illusions, article 1: Phone security

2009-05-08T12:12:58Z

This is article 1 of a short series about mobile illusions. For many of us a mobile phone has become a very personal device with modern phones having extended communication and media features. They take pictures, video's, send and receive e-mail,...

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Mobile Mumblings 2: The Crop of MWC `09

2009-02-19T13:01:18Z

It seems the full crop of new mobiles phones at the MWC '09 is in. While The Symbian-Guru Guru was pretty excited and had big expectations of the MWC `09, I on the other hand did not expect anything really wowable. Merely more megapixels and more...

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Mobile Mumbelings: No worthwhile expectations for the MWC '09

2009-02-10T15:58:39Z

The Mobile World Conference is coming up in 6 more days and I am not feeling any worthwhile amount of anticipation. Why? As a consumer I feel misunderstood. There is no real phone that does it right for me, while could have been in the market for...

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Nokia's N97, well done Nokia

2008-12-02T16:46:03Z

Nokia did well with the announcements of Nokia World. Biggest news in mobile town being the N97. It has all a n-series phone needs: Wopping battery life, 5MPixel photo, 30 fps 640x480 Video and all the trimmings of the N95-class phones. I have onl...

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N95 Quality Poll, please post

2008-11-07T12:23:29Z

I had two N95's that did not outlast a year of heavy usage. So time to ask the community. How many months did/do you own a N95. How many times in that period did it get a new IMEI number? Meaning having it's inner hardware replaced. Please post a...

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The Not so Economical Lifespan of a Mobile Smartphone

2008-10-17T12:09:22Z

Nokia Conversations has a nice post about the beatings your phone gets, wear and tear of misuse and abuse. Sometimes ending the lifespan of your phone abruptly. Or remarkable stories of people reviving their phone through extraordinair care aft...

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User Data Preservation on the N82

2008-10-09T19:09:52Z

Well, I have been skittish about upgrading to 3.0 the last few weeks. The N82 is supposed to have user data preservation, meaning I can upgrade the OS (like in Unix) without loosing any applications or userdata. Painless and troublefree. Still th...

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Swype? The latest and greatest on touchscreen typing?

2008-09-11T15:08:28Z

The T9 inventors developped a new, fast input system for touchscreen typing. Tweakers.net a dutch site has a interesting post about it right here, but it's in dutch. You simple drag your finger from key to key instead of actually typing,more like ...

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