What is stephen elop doing?

Stephen Elop, Nokia's new CEO, is struggling with competition from Apple Inc, maker of the iPhone, and Google Inc, whose Android software is used in smartphones made by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc and Samsung Electronics Co. Elop, the first non-Finn to run the company, has yet to present his long-term plans for Nokia after almost four months on the job.


What is he waiting for? Is nokia going to end it's production lines and move on to telephony service solutions. Or will it just take another turn and move onto a new industry like it did a few times before it beame a communications company.. they used to make rubber boots at very cheap rates you know.

BPM Couter for symbian s60

The BPM Counter by Pico brothers for Symbian S60v5 and Symbian^3 phones is a simple and stylish Beats Per Minute counter. 

A must have app for any musician and DJ. Just tap the button with the base of the the music and it will immediately show you the BPM of the beat. Can also be used to calculate your heartbeat (internet connection needed).

Courtesy DM.

Nokia X7 - is symbian the problem

Nokia X7

Nokia has cancelled it's planned release of the Nokia X7 multimedia phone along with AT&T. 

Nokia had planned to offer the touch phone this year exclusively on AT&T's US network.

Last year, Nokia delayed its N8 smartphone by at least three months due to production delays. It remains to be seen whether this is the reason for this years delays as well. Laurie Armstrong, a spokeswoman for Nokia, said the company doesn't comment on plans with wireless carriers.

The Nokia X7 also runs the symbian 3rd iteration operating system which is a very unappealing operating software. The delay could also be due to the OS having problem which is a very probable cause. The symbian website was taken down last year. It's last theme was a cartoony design which was a last ditch effort by thr Symbian foundation to revamp their pblic face.

Courtesy TOI.

Smart Diagram Lite - office apps

I'll cut right to the point without any intros and wows.Here's all the features and plus points of this application that could help you in making your ppt look great:

* Create shape with gestures
* Drag and drop delete items
* Manually shape movement
* Multi touch zooming
* Easy diagram sharing via email
* Export to jpg, png, xml file formats
* Multi language support

The free version will be limited to five diagrams - just enough for you to understand the concept of this application. Paid version removes the ads as well. There are certain pro features as well.

The latest version 1.02 has just been released with the following changes :

* Fixed force close bugs in Samsung galaxy S
* Welcome text has better clarity
* Recycle bin has been enlarged
* Pro version has been enabled.

I hope that with this application you will be able to add more variety to your presentations that you create on your android phone. This application will take the capabilities of your android phone to next level in corporate terms.

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Another blow for landphones

When cell phone sales soared everyone knew landphones were about to become history. But still it held on with all it's strength from becoming another item in history books and museums.

Now, headsets could make many office landline phones unnecessary, as businesses decide to route calls through their office computers. Companies can save money by simply buying employees headsets instead of desktop phones, said Tavis McCourt, a managing director and analyst at Morgan Keegan, who follows the internet telephony market. Software like Lync from Microsoft makes it possible to use the internet and your computer to make calls.

s40 Theme: Simply Elegante

One of those beautiful and elegant themes that is on the verge of being sexy with a girls phone.

Nokia C7-00 vs Nokia C6-01

Nokia C6-01 Specs: The Nokia C6-01 is a compact smartphone with a 3.2 inch glass touchscreen display, that has pinch to zoom and flick to scroll on web pages. There are three customisable home screens, as well as the option to add widgets and icons. It has integrated GPS, A-GPS and Ovi Maps with free car and pedestrian navigation. There is an 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and face recognition. There is a Nokia music player and mono IHF speaker as well as Stereo FM radio. This Quad band phone has a battery life of up to 12 hours of talktime or 420 hours on standby.

Nokia C7 Specs: The Nokia C7 is a sleek Symbian^3 phone with a 3.5 inch AMOLED display made of toughened glass and a full QWERTY keyboard which supports pinch to zoom and social networking. There is an 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, auto-exposure, red-eye reduction and auto-timer. It also has an HD video recorder, On Demand Web TV and A-GPS. There is a music player and a stereo FM RDS radio. This phone has a battery which allows up to 9.6 hours of talktime, 2 days of music playback or 23 days on standby.

Nokia (no longer) comes with music

The world's top cellphone maker, Nokia, is ending its bundling of free music downloads with cellphones in 27 countries.

Nokia will continue to sell phones with 12-month subscription to free music downloads in China, India and Indonesia and with 6-month subscriptions in Brazil, Turkey and South Africa.

Nokia unveiled the service in late 2008 in Britain -- seen as a test market for new mobile services in Europe -- but has lacked operator support and failed to attract many customers.

Reasons behind the lacklustre performance include use of older supporting handsets for the product at its launch, digital rights management (DRM) software that tied downloaded music to the device and a difficult to understand product offering.

Besides, no one wants to buy music these since it's available for free online although it's illegal.

DRM software limits sharing of songs between different devices. Consumers with the free music bundle in the 27 countries where the sale of the service have stopped will continue to have access until their subscriptions run out.