Technology Revolution

Nokia Image Space provides you a new view to your own photos, as well as to those from your friends and other people. If you have Flickr account and a supported Nokia phone, you can get your content contextualized easily. Apart from geotagging from GPS, the photos will have full orientation information in the metadata. This allows spatial browsing of photos. Photos from different Image Space users are contextually linked between each other. This creates a better understanding of the place you are browsing.

The Spotify application for Symbian has been update and fixed with a number of issues with the initial release and added support for some new models. This release includes: A fix for disappearing offline tracks. A fix for the problem when adding tracks to existing playlists on touch screens. Text input of special characters now added, e.g. Norwegian and French. Text input on special types of keyboards now added, e.g. non-touch phones with dual keyboards. New devices supported include the Nokia E72, Nokia N82, Nokia 6110 Navigator, Nokia 6210, Navigator,Nokia 6290, Nokia N79. Version 0.3.22 (61361) can be downloaded from m.spotify.com .

The TrueCaller for Symbian phones (S60v3 and S60v5) just got updated and the new version give you a few new features (check the changelog at the end of this post). TrueCaller shows you who is calling before answering if the number is not saved in contacts! With TrueCaller you can also make manual reverse number lookups in more than 25 countries by entering the phone number. You can also save the contact to your phonebook and see the location on a map. New features: Increased stability Update phonebook feature (Automatically fill in missing data in all your contacts) ! Tweet your phone calls/status to twitter automatically! Language support for: Deutsch, English, French and Swedish More setting options Better support for Symbian S60 v5 Possibility to search for names (Not available in all countries) Posibility to get more information about the caller

Shazam, the world’s leading mobile music discovery provider, today announced announced the launch of its new application onto the Ovi Store by Nokia. The enhanced application includes extra features and functionality to help Nokia users go on a greater music journey than ever before: from the point of inspiration to learning more about the track and artist and purchasing the track straight to their mobile. Shazam is available for download from the Ovi Store by Nokia at store.ovi.com for all Symbian S60 v3.2 and v5 models including Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 and Nokia E72. Nokia will also be preloading Shazam onto many mobile handsets including the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic and Nokia X6. “With the huge popularity of Shazam on the Ovi Store by Nokia following our summer promotion, we’re delighted to be able to offer an enhanced music journey that will let music lovers experience more about the music they hear around them,” said Andrew Fisher, CEO of Sh...

Symabook is Facebook Platform application for S60 5th Edition and later for S60 3rd Edition mobile phones. Symabook features user interface that is not seen before in S60 devices.

Opera today launched the second beta versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, available as free downloads. In this second beta release, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile users can now enjoy popular desktop features, such as Opera Link and the Download Manager, from their mobile phones. With Opera Link, users can synchronize personal browser settings with their Opera desktop browser, as well as all their connected devices, ensuring that their bookmarks, Speed Dial and search engines are always accessible. The Download Manager gives users a better way to control and speed up downloads to mobile phones. Opera continues its mission to unify its browser products, and today’s beta release is no exception. Features further polished in the second beta release are the unified look and feel across Opera’s browser products, the visual bookmarks known as Speed Dial, and tabbed browsing, one of the most popular innovations in browsing history. “For Opera, ...

The Facebook official application for Nokia E71 and Nokia E72 brings Facebook directly to your phone. Facebook for Nokia E71 and Nokia E72 lets you keep up with your friends right at your fingertips, update your status, see what your friends are up to, upload photos, check messages and lookup phone numbers when you need them anytime and anywhere. Facebook allows you to comment on your friend’s statuses, RSVP to event invites and confirm or deny friend requests.

The folks at Fring demoes video calls over IP on Fring. You can now make Skype/Fring video calls using Fring on your Symbian device. Supported devices: Nokia 5800, N97, N95 and N82 (more devices vill be added soon) Now for the first time ever fringsters can make and receive internet video calls from mobile devices (for free!), picking up your fring and Skype video calls from the road, and seeing the person you’re talking to from your mobile phone.

The Nokia Point & Find application just got updated and the new version is now available globally on most of the Symbian S60 devices (the older clients were limited to the UK and the US). The Nokia Point & Find is the first mobile augmented reality browser on S60 devices. The service lets you discover useful and contextually relevant information and services by simply pointing your camera phone at objects. Changelog: Let’s start with improvements to the user experience. We’ve fixed short of 100 bugs in network connectivity and overall stability of the client on some of our best-selling devices: N82, N95 8GB, N95, E71, E66, N81, N81 8GB, E51, 6220, 6210 Navigator, N97. Our hope is that the client will look more snappy and mature to you than its previous release, although some fixes had to be postponed. In particular: 1D barcode recognition in the shopping experience isn’t as reliable as we’d like it to be, especially on 3.1 devices; and start-up ...

The music streaming service, Spotify have finally been released for Symbian phones (Such as the Nokia 5800, N97,5530,71, E72, N95 and Sony Ericsson Satio). Today’s release means that Spotify Mobile is now available on millions more phones, such as the Nokia 6220 Classic, E71 and 5800 XpressMusic models. The application will also run on some of the more popular Sony Ericsson and Samsung smartphones, such as the Samsung GT-I8910 Omnia HD and Sony Ericsson Satio. Symbian is our third launch for Spotify Mobile, along with previously released iPhone and Android versions. To download the application, Visit m.spotify.com from your mobile browser and find out if your phone is supported.

JoikuBoost demo on Nokia N97 and N95 JoikuBoost builds on JoikuSpot innovation, now allowing Nokia phone users to share more 3G with one another, and enjoy surfing the web at vastly higher speeds. Joikusoft software complements the powerful capabilities Nokia designs into its mobile devices. [Via]

The Nokia Messaging IM beta application for the Nokia E75, E71 and E63 got updated a few hours ago and it now supports Google Talk. Download the new version Chat with your friends on the Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi communities Quickly navigate through multiple conversations across different communities Background notifications of new IMs for true multitasking on your phone Familiar and integrated community experience: Yahoo and Google specific emoticons, graphics, and sounds Rapidly set status and availability, and login invisibly -- choose who you want to talk to See your Ovi friends’ avatars and set your own Save conversations to remember your chat sessions

New in Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia smartphones: Intuitive interface Opera Mobile 10 beta boasts a powerful new user interface. Merging the best from our desktop browser with new innovations for mobile phones, Opera Mobile is advanced and highly intuitive to use. Faster browsing Opera Mobile 10 beta is faster at rendering pages, zooming, panning and almost everything else you do with a browser. Page downloading is now 50% faster than the previous version of Opera for Symbian/S60 phones. Speed Dial Get to your favorite Web page with just one click, with a set of visual bookmarks that appear when you open a new tab. To add a new page, simply click on an empty Speed Dial slot. Tabs With tabbed browsing, you no longer need to interrupt one session to start another. Check your Web mail in one window, Facebook in another, Twitter in a third and all that while checking the latest sports results. Opera Turbo Opera’s servers compress Web pages up to 70%, greatly reducing the cost of browsing. Oper...