Built-in (Official Nokia) Video Centre for S60 v3 FP1

Here is the Official N-Series Video Center (Built-in for N95) attached. Install it on any FP1 phone and enjoy!
Though the program is official, the download is unofficial.

Video_Center_EURO_V_3_1_0_S60_31.rar

Worldmate for s60 3rd edition v7.00.41

Worldmate for s60 3rd edition v7.00.41 [UPDATED]

Worldmate for s60 3rd edition v7.0041 (updated)
The heart of the new version of worldmate is the new home screen or "Dashboard" that gives you some of the key info you need at a glance, including the current location,date,weather and status of your upcoming flight.

P.S. Its free version,not PRO.

WorldMate v7.0014.zip

Samsung gets official with 8 megapixel SCH-W740

We first caught wind of Samsung's SCH-W740 way back on Halloween of last year, and at long last the handset has gone official over in South Korea. Matching up with LG's Renoir, Nokia's N86 and a slew of other emerging 8 megapixel phones, the W740 packs a pretty stellar camera along with a 3.3-inch touchscreen, HSUPA, Bluetooth 2.0, an e-dictionary, T-DMB TV tuner and loads of haptic feedback. As for the camera itself, it features face detection, scene modes, a Xenon flash and a smile shutter for good measure. Word on the street has it surfacing soon for ₩900,000 ($660).

Nokia Intrigue for Verizon hands-on

Nokia isn't typically known for its virtually non-existent CDMA fare, but the situation's gotten better in the last year or so -- ostensibly to capitalize on Nokia's already commanding position in the Chinese market, but also possibly to help the boys and girls from Espoo win some points with Verizon ahead of the LTE migration. It's no secret that Nokia intends to invest big in LTE, and seeing how Verizon is one of the larger carriers in the world, it only stands to reason that manufacturers would be doing everything in their power right now to get in on the ground floor. To that end, Nokia has worked with Verizon to introduce the 2605 and 6205 in recent months, but let's be very honest -- they're forgettable devices with little to differentiate them from their countless competitors in the dog-eat-dog midrange. They're not phones that you aspire to own.

Enter the Intrigue. This is the phone has Nokia screaming "we do give a crap about CDMA" from the tops of the hills; a phone so good, so pretty, and so uncharacteristically Nokia for this market segment, that we're a little bewildered by the whole thing. Read on for our quick take.

Nokia shows off song-inspired Bluetooth headset designs

It didn't exactly cause that big a stir when it was first announced, but it looks like Nokia's Music Almighty headset design competition still managed to attract a respectable 6,000 entrants, and Nokia is now showing off the five winners that have been manufactured as fully-functional, one-off headsets. The hook of the contest is that all of the headsets had to be inspired by a song, which expectedly drew a whole range of designs from the stylish Daft Punk "Robot Rock" set above to feat of subtlety that is the R. Kelly "I Believe I Can Fly" headset after the break. Hit up the link below to check out the remaining winners, including not one but two Michael Jackson-inspired sets, and look for the whole lot to make their way to the Nokia Regent Street Flagship store in London next month.

Acer F1 coming in September, powered by Snapdragon?

Is one of Acer's mysterious smartphones packing a Qualcomm Snapdragon? According to the folks at All About Phones who reportedly attended an Acer event recently, the F1 will be running the 800MHz ARM chip, which is a tad slower than the 1000MHz equivalent in the TG01. The device will be Windows Mobile 6.5-based, but that's supposedly gonna be shrouded by a Flash-based Acer Suite 2.0 shell. The report also mentions a September release, which jibes with what we saw on that makeshift roadmap at Mobile World Congress, and a 560 Euro ($760) price tag. Nothing's confirmed, but between Acer, HTC, Samsung, and LG, surely someone's gearing up to join Toshiba in the Snapdragon bandwagon.

Nokia's 7205 Intrigue for Verizon now available

Right on schedule, the Nokia 7205 Intrigue for Verizon Wireless is online and ready for purchase. Price is exactly in-line with expectations as well, at $180 with a two-year contract, plus a handy $50 rebate to bring it down to $130. Design-wise the flip phone is already a long ways ahead of the frumpy Nokia 6205, at a mere 0.55-inches thick, but there's nothing much here to get Nokia's GSM customers jealous -- other than that subsidized price, of course. The handset has a 2 megapixel camera, A2DP Bluetooth, a fancy new homescreen (including Habitat Mode), PMOLED display on the back cover, and a microSD slot.

Smartphoneware Best Birthday v1.07 Incl Key.gen-HSpda

Best Birthday is a useful utility that helps you organizing and viewing anniversaries in a handy way: monthly anniversaries view of contacts found in Contacts applications, alarms in Calendar associated with them, ability to perform fully customizable export of anniversaries from Contacts to Calendar and much more.

Best Birthday user guide




Best Birthday is a useful utility that helps you organizing and viewing anniversaries in a handy way: monthly anniversaries view of contacts found in Contacts applications, alarms in Calendar associated with them, ability to perform fully customizable export of anniversaries from Contacts to Calendar and much more.
Features

• Uses information from native Contacts and Calendar databases, so you don't have to enter contact information twice
• Gives the possibility to create greeting messages based on templates
• Easy to use and intuitive user interface
• Ability to sort birthdays by different criteria
• Allows making a call right from within the application
• Possibility to divide anniversaries view by month and Zodiac sign

Anniversaries view

Best Birthday is fully integrated with built-in Calendar and Contacts applications. It collects all anniversaries found in Contacts and associates them with records in Calendar.
You can easily customize order, in which you'd like birthdays to be shown. This can be done with the help of menu command "Sort by":

• Order ascending / descending;
• Sort by name;
• Sort by date;
• Sort by days left;
• Sort by months left;
• Split by month - lets you divide all birthdays into months. All the birthdays of a chosen month will be shown on one page, to change current month just press Left/Right arrow;
• Split by zodiac - works similarly to "Split by month", but divides birthdays by Zodiac signs;

Best Birthday has a reach set of functions, such as:

• Add/Edit/Delete Contact;
• Add/Delete Calendar reminder;
• Find birthday by name;
• Send greeting message to contact,
  For convenient greetings sending you can use a template defined in the Settings dialog.
  You can enter patterns "%FirstName%" and "%LastName%" in the template, which will be replaced by contact data at the time of specific message creation basing on template;
• Call contact directly from Best Birthday;

How to add a birthday:



All data about a birthday is stored in Contacts.
In order to add a birthday to an existing contact choose command New from contact.
If you want to add a birth date but you don't have a corresponding contact use command New to create a new contact with birth date.
How to add Calendar reminder:
Best Birthday lets you add Anniversary type reminders in your Calendar. When you add a calendar event, you can configure the following settings:

• Alarm enabled / disabled;
• Days before;
• Alarm time;

Note: If you want to add a lot of records in the calendar at one time, use the Mark all command from menu Mark.



Some useful features:

• Find birthday (hot key: 5) - lets you easily find any contact by name or surname;
• Find next birthday (hot key: Pen+5) ;
• Go to today - finds the closest birthday to the current date;
• Refresh contacts - refreshes contacts, happens every time Best Birthday starts;

SmartPhoneWare Best Birthday v1.07 Incl Key.gen-HSpda.rar

HTC Dream comes to Italy's TIM for €429 on prepaid

HTC's first Android device is pretty much all over the place now -- either as the G1 or the Dream -- and TIM is the latest to go live with it over in Italy. Like most European carriers, TIM is happy to get you a Dream for as little as €0, but where it gets interesting is with the prepaid option: for €429 (about $583), you can just have the darn thing outright and pay as you go. T-Mobile USA: there's a lesson to be learned here. Maybe.

Nokia slashes 1,700 jobs due to "pruned" demand

Finland-based Nokia has just announced that they will cut 1,700 jobs in the corporate development and global functions departments. These cuts will equal about 1 percent of Nokia's entire workforce, and are more than double in number than earlier reports suggested. The company says that the cuts are being driven by "pruned" worldwide demand for its products. Shares of its stock fell 2.6 percent in Helsinki trading after the announcement, while our hopes and dreams fell just 1 percent. Onward and upward, dear Nokia!

Apple previews iPhone OS 3.0, adds copy and paste, Spotlight search, plenty more

As promised, Apple just debuted its upcoming iPhone OS 3.0. Much of the news seemed developer-centric, but there are certainly plenty of consumer implications down the road, along with long-awaited functions like copy and paste, A2DP, MMS and universal Spotlight search. Improvements include:

App and developer functionality (more here)

• Peer-to-peer connectivity over Bluetooth for gaming and other info-swapping.
• Paid apps will have the potential to be subscription fee-based, and can include optional paid content that can be bought from right inside the app.
• Developers can now build apps that call out to Google Maps, and can also finally bring Apple-blessed turn-by-turn to the phone.
• Devs can also connect with hardware accessories over in their apps now, such as a blood pressure monitor -- or perhaps a keyboard? Connectivity works through the dock connector or over Bluetooth.
  
• Long-promised push functionality will at last be included, but apps won't run in the background.
• Developers can add streaming video and audio to their apps, along with in-game voice use.

General functionality

• Cut, copy and paste. At last! You can shake the phone to undo and redo the action, and it works with both text and photos, allowing Mail to send multiple photos at a time.
  
• MMS, along with forward and delete for multiple messages.
  
• A2DP stereo Bluetooth.
• Unlocked Bluetooth functionality on 2G iPod touch.
  
• Spotlight has been added to a new home screen page to the left of existing pages, allowing for universal search on the phone.
• Tethering is built into 3.0, and Apple will work with carriers on that -- who will have the last say on its implementation, most likely.
• App Store will be available in 77 countries.
• Parental controls for TV shows, movies and App Store apps.
• Auto-login for WiFi hotspots.

Apple apps

• A new app called Voice Memos which lets you record notes and reminders.
• A revised Stocks app, with news stories and a landscape view.
• Landscape view available for Mail, Text and Notes.
  
• CalDAV support has been added to Calendar, along with subscriptions support in the .ics format.
  
• Apple's major apps have all been expanded with search functionality.
• Note syncing to Mac and PC.
• YouTube account support.
• Form auto-fill.
• Phishing protection.
• Shake the shuffle iPod playback.

A developer beta of OS 3.0 is available today, and the 3.0 update will be coming to consumers this summer as a free update to all iPhone 3G customers. It'll also work for 1st gen iPhone owners, though they won't receive A2DP or MMS due to hardware limitations. iPod touch owners will be able to update for $9.95, just like last time.

Gallery: Apple previews iPhone OS 3.0

HTC has at least two more Android phones up its sleeves this year

While we've seen just about all there is to see regarding HTC's Magic (including the innards that make the magic happen), the company's latest foray into the world of Google's OS will unsurprisingly be far from all it its last. HTC's CEO Peter Chou was recently asked whether rumors of five Googlephones from the company in 2009 were true. He played coy, but only slightly, saying to expect "at least" three on top of all the other Windows Mobile handsets we've seen bandied about for release this year. Subtract the pearly white handset above and that leaves two more surprises in store for us before 2010, meaning its going to be a busy year for HTC -- and for our favorite little green mascot.

Sony Ericsson Idou

Sony Ericsson Idou

The new Sony Ericsson Idou will probably create as much hype as the original XPERIA. Not only it is the first 12 megapixel GSM cameraphone, but it's also the first device presented to ever run on the brand new open source Symbian user interface that's still being developed by the Symbian Foundation. The 3.5-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels, GPS and Wi-Fi and the relatively compact size are just an added bonus to that already impressive novel package.

Sony Ericsson Idou sees broad daylight for the first time at this year's MWC

The Sony Ericsson Idou is nowhere near complete - they haven't even come up with a marketing model name yet as Idou is still code name for the device. The show-off devices that the Sony Ericsson staff had at the event varied from graphically rich dummy phones to basic early-stage prototypes. Amazingly though the new user interface is perhaps faster and more fluid than everything else that we have seen (including iPhone). We really hope that the final product will be as responsive as the units showed today.

Check out how it looks on video:

Perhaps the design of the Sony Ericsson Idou is not totally final, however at this stage it certainly looks like a nice mix of LG Viewty and Sony Ericsson C905.

Sony Ericsson Idou is a serious attention grabber

Interestingly enough, the Idou uses microSD card slot (visible on the side), which hints that the manufacturer of the device is not Sony Ericsson themselves - much like with the XPERIA X1.

Sony Ericsson Idou held in hand: the design traits of C905 are evident

Much like XPERIA X1 last year, it would take Sony Ericsson at least half a year to get the device rolling into production. Actually, we bet it won't be before October or November that we see an actual retail Idou.

The only commitment regarding the Idou availability that Sony Ericsson are taking right now is second half of 2009. Well, guess what - they said exactly the same thing about XPERIA X1 last February and it took them 8 months to push it to the market. Just don't hold your breath just yet.

Sony Ericsson W995 a.k.a. Hikaru

The Sony Ericsson Idou might have stolen the spotlight off the Sony Ericsson W995 but the truth is that the W995 is one of the most well equipped feature phones of the company.

At their press conference Sony Ericsson announced their strategic plans to converge their separate product lines such as Walkman and Cyber-shot into single powerful high-end products so that users will no longer have to choose between enhanced music or imaging capabilities. Lower range phones may still get some kind of specialization - be it Walkman or Cyber-shot, but that would be more of an added bonus feature than anything else.

Sony Ericsson W995 a.k.a. Hikaru goes officially live

As we already mentioned, the Sony Ericsson W995 (previously codenamed Hikaru)combines both music and imaging prowess and additionally it takes a shot at a field Sony Ericsson have never turned attention to - video playback.

The neat kickstand on the back of the W995 is used for watching videos, while the device is in landscape position on your desk for example.

Sony Ericsson W995

Unfortunately, the W995 2.6-inch display (the largest on a SE feature phone to-date) doesn't have a widescreen aspect ratio. The handset doesn't even have DivX or XviD support - that's a certainly a downside for a product with ambitions in video playback. So all in all, the only specialized video feature of the W995 remains its kick stand - not quite enough to qualify for a portable video player.

An additional disappointment is that SE have not done anything serious to pump up the video recording capabilities of the W995. While their competition is going for 720p HD video recording, the best that Sony Ericsson can offer with their top multimedia device W995 is 30fps video in WQVGA resolution.

Having said all that, we still favor the W995 since its feature package seems rather well balanced. The relatively large screen is coupled with Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity, there's a standard 3.5mm audio jack, and most of all the device is quite compact.

Sony Ericsson W995 in Cosmic Silver and Energetic Red