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It’s finally here! Not only is it live but it actually let’s you download and install stuff as well. A couple of screenshots below.

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I just heard that the store.ovi.mobi address is working for the N900 and of course had to try it out right away. It seems that there might be some free games coming though at the moment the downloads keep failing as it is apparently still in internal testing at Nokia. The process is simple – just click ‘Download’ and the phone’s application manager is fired up. Ovi catalogue is automatically added and you are on your merry way to Maemo application heaven. Right?

Oh, and this post was created on the N900 using a nice little blogging application called MaStory.

I’ve just updated the iSearch Widget to version 1.2. The new version brings along new services – IMDb, eBay, Amazon, LyricWiki, Bing Images. If you know a service that you think should be added then let me know. And remember – a nice cup of coffee makes my day…

You can download the new version from the iSearch page.

See the device in action:

Hardware:

• ARM Cortex-A8 600 Mhz processor with upto 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM and 768 MB of virtual memory).
• 3.5 inch widescreen, 800 x 480 pixels resolution, resistive touch.
• Dimensions of 110.9 x 59.8 x 18 mm (19.5 mm at camera), weight of 181g. This is shorter, but wider, thicker and heavier than the N97 (117 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm at 150g). It significantly smaller than the N810 (72 x 128 x 14 mm at 226g), the previous Maemo device.
• Horziontal slider form factor with 3 line QWERTY keyboard on the lower slide and integrated (around the camera) device ‘kick’ stand.
• WiFi (b/g) and HSDPA connectivity (triband WCDMA 9000/17000/2100 and quadband GSM). Includes UPnP support.
• 5 megapixel main camera (2.8 aperture, 5.2 focal length, dual LED flash and video light), with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens / optics, video capture at WVGA (800 x 480) at upto 25 frames per second. Camera supports geotagging, tagging with keyword and ability to share to Share Online and Flickr.
• Integrated GPS with A-GPS.
• Integrated FM trasnmitter.
• Bluetooth 2.1, including full support for stereo headsets (A2DP and AVRCP).
• Nokia 3.5 mm AV connector for audio input/output and TV-Out.
• microUSB for connectivity and charging.
• 32 GB of internal flash storage, microSD card slot.
• Nokia BL-5J battery with 1320 mAH capacity.

Software:

• Runs Maemo 5; Nokia say, ‘Maemo brings the power of computer to mobile devices. Designed with the Internet at its core. Linux-based Maemo software takes us into a new era of mobile computing’.
• Browser (Fennec) powered by Mozilla technology, spports full Flash 9.4 and AJAX.
• Customisable ‘panorama’ desktop and multi-window task switcher.
• Unified communications and addres book: voice calls, internet calls, instant messages and SMS. Includes the ability to merge phonebook, Skype contacts and other contacts into a single address book.
• Ability to share status, location with friends, keep multiple IM and SMS converstions going and move between them.
• Nokia Messaging pre-installed, mobilise up to 10 personal email accounts. Includes quasi-push email and rich HTML support.
• Video playback H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid: upto WVGA (800 x 480) at 25 frames per second; WMV: VGA resolution at 30 frames persecond; Flash.
• Video streaming in the browser.
• Music playback formats include MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, M4A, WAV, WMA.

Source: Allaboutsymbian

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I was pretty impressed when I first saw the nUnLock homescreen for Nokia 5800 / N97. I’m happy to tell you that now you can get 30% off the already affordable price when buying it via Moubail.com. For those of you who don’t know what nUnLock is about – see the video below.

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Agree / disagree?

1. – give it kinetic scrolling, hide the scroll bar and use only as an indicator when needed (like the browser)
2. – contextual menus for the main actions in every screen
3. – loose the double clicking – replace with long press and context menu
4. – when opening the Options menu you shouldn’t need to scroll for anything – solve this by raising the max height of the menu as well as limiting the number of first level options to maybe 8 or the number that fits the menu without scrolling. The submenus are easier to access than options that need to be scrolled for.
5. – sort out the top area of the screen – reduce the height of the status bar by changing the status icons horizontal – this would allow the tab row to be rendered more nicely by giving it the full width of the screen. And if the app doesn’t have tab row use the extra space for apps.
6. – on horizontal mode use simplified notification area (like the browser does when vertical) – horizontal battery and signal meters etc. –> more screen space for apps. Add a setting for auto-hiding the software buttons and notification area.
7. – add an option to automatically change to full screen qwerty when turning the phone horizontal. add predictive text to use with qwerty.

All very basic things but would improve the S60 5th Edition experience remarkably. Opinions anyone?