Nokia Beta Labs brings a new messaging app with a lot of cool and interesting features. OVI Contacts looks like a new and innovative version of the Yahoo Messenger for mobile devices.
The OVI Contacts app allows users to keep in touch with friends and family across the web. With a very easy to use interface, you can share your status, location or chat with your friends across the world. Also, you can share your location or favourite places using OVI Maps and your internal GPS.
Features:
Presence: Let your friends know if you are available, busy or on the phone. Check your friends’ availability.
Enhanced presence: You can share – or hide – your favorite places with your friends. You can also let your friends know what you are listening.
Chat: Get in touch with your friends with chat. Convey your messages with emotions and share your location on the map via chat.
ESET the company that makes NOD32 Antivirus has launched its first mobile antivirus for S60. As we all know the smartphone market has been growing in the past few years and so did the threats to our devices.
ESET has come to mmet our demands with this new app that ensures our data and protects our phones. The antivirus is very easy to use and uses little memory while scanning. However you should keep in mind that this is only in the beta stages. You can register for a free trial at http:// www.eset.com.
Here is a small list of features:
Proactive Protection — Fast signature scanner finds and cleans known threats before they can cause damage. Heuristics engine protects against unknown threats between signature updates.
On-Demand Scanning — Scan memory and running processes, onboard files and removable media for malware. Search deeply into nested folders to uncover malicious software.
Advanced On-Access Scanning — Scans all accessed files for viruses, including email attachments and files accessed via wireless means such as Bluetooth, WiFi, infrared, GPRS and EDGE.
Quarantine — Safely insolates infected files and gives the experienced user the option to review, restore or delete them as appropriate.
SMS Antispam — Block text messages from unknown senders or use black and whitelists to filter your SMS messages.
Statistics — Provides an at-a-glance summary of On-Access scanning, SMS filtering and quarantine activities.
Activity Log — Scan statistics are stored in a user-friendly format. Up to 50 logs can be stored onboard.
Variable In-Depth Scanning of CAB Files — Control the scan depth of compressed cabinet files that can contain other nested folders or other compressed files.
Automatic/On-Demand Updates — Download signature updates on-demand or automatically at pre-set intervals: daily, weekly, or monthly.
Intuitive User Interface — Simple and elegant user experience.
OVI has released an app that enables users to set up an OVI Mail account via their own Nokia Device. This app has the sole purpose to create an email account and will only guide you through the setup. After the steps are completed a small icon will appear with a link to your OVI Mailaccount.
Here is a video of out favourite brand of mobile phones test center. If you were wondering how the Nokia phones are tested here is a small montage of a testing facility. I wonder if the E75 went through such tests?
MAEMO OS has taken Nokia fans by storm and has been the best thing that Nokia World 09 had to show. How would you like it if the next E-series device will run this brand new software?
Just think how easy it would be to multitask on a MAEMO phone and how much more useful a touch-screen on business phone would be rather than a multimedia one. I would definitely be excited to toy with such a device, I mean we have all seen what the N900 can do.
The Nokia E75 is foremost a business phone and I will not review its picture making capabilities or gaming capabilities. Two of the most important things about a business phon are bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
However, the E75 lacks a great deal in this department, as we all know its already famous bluetooth problems. Bluetooth works fine for a short period of time until it starts running out your battery. Which goes out at an alarming pace if you have a bluetooth headset. I have had no problems with bluetooth with this test device or I guess it depends on the compatibility. It takes a lot of time to establish a good connection but after that is done everything goes well.
The Wi-Fi connection works like a charm and I found hotspots that my E51 and my 5800 didn’ t even detect. Browsing on Wi-Fi and chatting is made a whole lot easier by the full QWERTY keyboard. The connection is somewhat stable and the speed is very good indeed. Much like its predecessor, the E71 , it has no problem in this department and the speed is quite good.
To conclude, the E75 may not be the best out there but it is still a great device to toy with. I have had it for two weeks now and it is just amazing. More on my personal experiences with this device you can read later this week when I will be making a detailed review of the device.
The Nokia Twist just got its first promo video. And because it is made for the NAM(North American) consumer market, this device has a pretty funny and clever commercial. This is one the funniest commercials by Nokia ever. Of course I think that Verizon, the company who will bring the device to the NAM soil, had a hand in it.
The Nokia E75 battery life has been of the most important issue with this phone. I have been testing the phone for over a week now and I have to say, so far the battery life of this phone is very good.
With or without dual mode this phone has yet to let me down. The battery lasts for around five days, give or take, which is an average battery life for any phone.
However if you keep your bluetooth on all day long the battery life will lose at least one day, but it is normal for any phone with bluetooth. We all know that this is a battery drainer.
To increase the battery life you need to shut down the bluetooth after you are done using it. The battery is relatively good although it may need some improvements.
The first twist Nokia Phone, the Nokia 7705 Twist, comes with a very unique full QWERTY keyboard. Equiped with a 3 Megapixel camera and auto-focus, this device will hit Verizon stores on September 21 at a price of 99.99$. Also this phone with a special post-to-blog feature. Which can make make bloging on your phone a lot easier and not to mention handy.
