App Review :Belle Shell

With Nokia S^3 users getting their smartphones updated to the fresh new Nokia Belle, the S^1 smartphone users particularly those having s60v5 touchscreen smartphones are a bit worried about having the outdated Symbian OS with a dull look as Belle is not compatible with those s60v5 smartphones due to hardware capability. This is over as s60v5 users can also have the 100% Belle look on their smartphones with the new app called Belle Shell. 

This is quite a great app which gives the complete look of Nokia Belle including all six homescreens and fully customisable widgets with separate wallpapers on each home screen. We can also add shortcuts of apps in the homescreen. Although this app is bit memory consuming, it is worth using.  Another feature that is like in this is the live scrolling between the homecreens and also the drop down bar which includes Flash option too so that a third party app may not be needed to use the flash as torch.

We can fully customize the homescreen with the widgets that come with this app and also add our own shortcuts for our apps too. There are five widgets that come with this app- Digital and Analog clock, profile, calender and also contacts widgets.

And with this app, we can also get the menu bar as found in Belle with customisable folders giving a all new look to the s60v5 smartphone.

Though this app is not available for free, this app is much worth than its given price. This app can be downloaded from Nokia store here. The app developer has given the app demo on a Nokia 5800. This app is available for 5230, 5800, N97, 5530, and X6.

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Foursquare update adds NFC support for Android 4.0

Foursquare launched its update with the new improved "Explore" feature for Android and iPhone four days ago. The location based social app received its new update yesterday with all new NFC (Near Field Communication) support for Android 4.0 smartphones which is Galaxy Nexus only at present. With this update, Android 4.0 users can use their NFC phones to check-in by tapping against a NFC tag and also can share the places they have visited by tapping with other NFC enabled phones.

According to  Holger Luedorf, VP of Mobile and International at Foursquare,

The user experience is great. You just hold your phone against the tap [point]. The checkin screen automatically pops up with the right venue. You’re basically shaving very valuable seconds off the checkin process. We try to leverage the native experiences and APIs that are available through the platform as those usually drive the best user experience. We’re trying to leverage this because we feel that pinpointing someone down to a location through an NFC chip definitely has some value.

via Engadget

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Nokia Belle roll out starts today

For all Nokia users out there, after months of waiting and expectations, Nokia has officially begin its Nokia Belle update Roll outs from today. This update is available for Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia E6, Nokia X7, Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7. 

The new Nokia Belle update brings out more personalisation with six home screens and also includes fully customisable widgets. Microsoft Business Apps such as Lync, One Note also will be available for free for the Belle devices. This update will be available from today for India, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Poland, UK, Germany, Italy, Vietnam and Indonesia. Here is a step by step tutorial for updating your Nokia Anna device to Nokia Belle. This requires the latest version of Nokia suite.

via Nokia Conversations

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Corning's "A Day Made of Glass"

You may be aware that Corning, the famous maker of hard Gorilla Glass unveiled the Gorilla Glass 2 in CES. Now Corning has unveiled their vision for future in the "A Day Made of Glass" video in 2011 followed by "A Day Made of Glass 2".

Image Courtesy : Corning

This video shows how the future will be and how glass changes everything around us and the use of touchscreen interactive boards, evolution of smartphones, Tablets and interactive displays. I am sure that you will sure be awestruck after seeing this video and will be waiting for it.

Here is the video posted on YouTube by Corning,

The tablet in the video looked like iPad. It will probably be iPad 20 or something. :D

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T-Mobile Austria Lumia 710 runs iOS

T-Mobile Austria makes the same hilarious mistake twice in their Lumia 710 and Galaxy Ace commercials. The commercial featured a Nokia Lumia 710 running Facebook version of iOS rather than the Facebook for Windows Phone and the same in case of Android powered Ace.

This Lumia 710 runs Facebook for iOS in Windows Phone? Meanwhile the Facebook for Windows Phone is a panorama Application and  looks like

This really shows an epic Photoshop fail. Here is the Commercials of T-Mobiles featuring the Windows Phone Lumia 710 running Facebook for iOS.



And the Android powered Galaxy Ace too runs Facebook for iOS.

But they it right in the end showing the Windows Phone Live Tiles.

via Hypertechtronium

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Play AngryBirds on any Webpage brought by Nokia

With Everyone started playing the Angry Birds on their Smartphones, there is no unaware of Angrybirds. This is not only available on Smartphones but also Nokia's Asha 300 and Asha 303,featured mobiles of the Asha Series. Nokia has let out the Angry Birds game confined within mobile phones and allows us to play it in any web page. All you have to do is visit Nokia's Europe page here and bookmark the Angrybirds by dragging it to your navigation bar.

And that's all. Its simple as this. You can now start playing the Angrybirds game on any webpage. They had also given instructions on installing and also the scores.

Start playing Angry Birds on any webpage now and start destroying the pigs and share them. Here is my screenshot. I got 11000 points ;)

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White HTC Sensation with Android 4.0

HTC Netherland has tweeted that the company will be releasing Android 4.0 powered White colored HTC Sensation. It was also mentioned that Android 4.0 update will be available for other existing units of HTC Sensation. The other features of this White version are same as that of the original Sensation with 1.2GHz processor and has 4.3" qHD display  with 8MP camera and also features a rear camera. The exact date for the Android 4.0 roll outs has not yet been announced.

Here is the tweet from HTC Netherland,

"De nieuwe HTC Sensation Ice White draait op Android 4.0. Andere toestellen uit de Sensation-serie ontvangen binnenkort de update.Stay tuned!"

 Translated into English,

"The new HTC Sensation White Ice runs on Android 4.0. Other units from the Sensationseries will shortly receive the update.Stay tuned!"

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Docomo to launch Disney branded Android phones

Docomo has announced that they will be launching two new Disney branded Android Smartphones towards the end of this month. The two Android Smartphones are named the Panasonic P-05D and the Fujitsu F-08D.
The P-05D is a high end smartphone with a 4.3" OLED screen and is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual processor with a 13.1MP camera. This P-05D will be available for Japanese markets towards the end of this month.

Meanwhile, the F-08D comes with a 4.3" qHD screen being powered by 1GHz processor and a 8MP camera. Both of them will be running Android 2.3 and free Disney contents will be available with these Disney branded phones. The F-08D will hit the Japanese markets towards March.

via The Verge

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The Big Debate- Nokia Connects

This Sunday's Big Debate on Nokia Connects is "Home button or swipe gesture?" This is really a nice title for a fierce debate and my arguments on this debate will be this post. 

Beginning with Home button, We have been using Smartphones with a home button no matter what the OS is and we use it for minimizing our tasks. This home button has now become very unpopular and there must be something else for its purpose. There comes the Swipe gesture and everyone is aware its N9 to feature this cool swipe gesture. 

The two popular smartphone in the N series are the Symbian powered N8 and the one of its kind Meego powered N9.  I have been using Symbian smartphone with the Home button for a long time and it has not inspired me much when compared to N9 which I had been using N9 since a week. Everyone needs something unique and new feature for faster and seamless multi-tasking and in the case of Home button, it is not much as expected as you need to use the Home button for minimizing or for switching between open Apps.

Meanwhile in case of Swipe gesture features N9, its rather different. The swipe gesture takes you to the next level of multi-tasking. You swipe down to close the app or swipe from the sides to minimize. Simple, isn't it?

Its much better to use the swipe gesture instead of using the native Home button. The presence of home button in the device makes it look outdated when compared with one that has a swipe gesture. You can have faster, smoother and better multi-tasking and thats why I've mentioned above that N9 is one of its kind.

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Nokia Lumia 910 with 12MP camera?

With Lumia 900 unveiled a month ago at CES, Lumia 910 has showed up on a Dutch retail site Typhone.nl. The Nokia Lumia 910 is found to have 4.3" screen with a front facing camera alike Lumia 900. It also has a 12MP Carl-Zeiss optics camera with 1.4GHz processor and runs on Windows 7.5 Mango and also has a storage of 16GB.

via WMPoweruser

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Epic Adventure with N9: Day #6

This is Day #6 with Nokia N9 and as I said in my last post under Epic Adventure that it would be more Epic today as I'm going to Zoological Park in my city with the N9 to bring some of Epic Wildlife pictures. I gotta get ready earlier than usual to go there. Had my breakfast and laces are tied up. I chased the bus and they threw me out at the Zoological Park stop. Just Kidding ;)

I turbocharged my N9 and also X6 in case if N9 battery had fed up. The officials had posted some general instructions. But I skipped them though. Then checked in from the Zoo through Foursquare. Hey..Look at this. I'm the first today at the Zoo. Its so peaceful and radiant.

Power packed with N9 and X6, I started taking pictures starting from Nilgiri Langur using N9. They were cool and were playing. This one in the second picture was staring at me since beginning.





Next was the Lion-tailed Macaque which was on the brink of extinction as of given in the information board. They got the name because of their tail which resembled really like that of a Lion. I noticed this on the Information Board that the call of male Macaque will be often mistaken as Human Voice
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Then comes this one in the below picture which was kind of strange. He didn't play, just ran here and there and at last went to sleep. I didn't see his details in the notice board.





Here comes the National Bird of India, Peacock. They were truly beautiful and radiant.







Alright. I will skip some birds as there a dozen more. Then I found the real wildlife- Deers. There were spotted deers, Hug deers and much more. Two of them looked at me in very pathetic way.



I think these ones are too getting reading to protest against SOPA



Here is our National Animal of India, the Bengal Tiger and also White tigers. The Bengal tiger was deep inside the woods and I was unable to take clear picture of it.





Then there was the Reptiles where Crocodiles and snakes had their habitation.



The Aviary was really awesome and all the birds were enjoying themselves.This below picture is my favorite.



There are still many pictures in my Flickr set. I wanted to keep this post short but it took long. Anyway You can judge yourselves how this day would have been EPIC. Visit tomorrow again for Day #7.

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Metrogram- Instagram client for WP?

You might have known the popular photo client on iPhone called the Instagram which allows us to apply filters to pictures and also share them in social networks like Facebook, Twitter and also within the Instagram network. If you are a Windows phone user and likes to do such stuff, a developer Bill Simser has developed this unofficial Instagram client for Windows Phone and it is now available in Windows Marketplace.

In one of his tweets, Bill proved how quickly an app can be coded for Windows Phone.

"58 minutes later an a new wp7 Instagram client is born. I think that's a record for me" "Writing the Instagram client for #wp7 has been so freaking easy. 2 hours and I have a fully functional client"

Although this is just a Instagram's viewer for now, as Instagram's API requirements, Metrogram offers other functions like searching and browsing the pictures and also liking and commenting. This app was released on January 21 and has got 4 star ratings on Windows Marketplace.

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