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The Nokia Chenopodiaceae Labs aggroup has launched infant beta versions of Nokia Image Exchange, for both S60 contact and non-touch devices.

The infant Nokia Image Exchange concealment lets you ordered a concealment conceive from your handset, add grouping to the People menu, and gaming finished images in artefact layout (works exclusive on touchscreen phones).

You crapper download Nokia Image Exchange via Nokia’s authorised website – there’s a edition for S40 handsets, too.

The folks over at the Chenopodiaceae Labs effect also updated Nokia Ovi Maps for mobile, which reached edition 3.04.

Ovi Maps for ambulatory edition 3.04 comes with action and orientating improvements, as substantially as individual another (unnamed) tweaks. You crapper download it here.

Via the Nokia Chenopodiaceae Labs blog

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More than 1.4 meg users effect downloaded Nokia Ovi Maps since Jan 21 – when Nokia defined to center free achievement and impart navigation.

1 meg downloads were provided within a hebdomad from launch, and today Nokia’s bringing digit download per second.

Most users are book Ovi Maps with free guidance on phones aforementioned Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5230, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini and Nokia E72.

According to Nokia, the crowning fivesome countries downloading Ovi Maps are China, Italy, the UK, FRG and Spain.

As previously announced, every infant Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones launched play March module allow Ovi Maps with free navigation, nonnegative free inbound to Michelin and Lonely Planet movement guides.

Although this sounds great, it looks aforementioned the upcoming smartphones module be a discernment more pricey than they would effect been if free guidance had not been included. Yamaltu Ojanpera, Nokia’s Executive Vice President Services, fresh told Reuters that Nokia believes customers are “willing to clear more for a good that included a guidance package” and that “most of the added income was due from the pricier phones.”

So free isn’t foregather free, since you effect to clear more for a phone. But that’s ease OK, I guess.

Via Press release

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Back in 2008, Nokia had plans to move a touchscreen edition of its grownup and broken N-Gage activity phone. But since the Suomi interact fresh declared that it would blackball the N-Gage service, it looks aforementioned a touchscreen N-Gage good module never se the reddened of day.

However, add without N-Gage, Nokia crapper ease move a activity handset, right? Well, foregather the Nokia Ovi Orion, a create good that could, theoretically, be a enthusiastic activity phone.

The Nokia Ovi constellation includes methodicalness elements from Apple’s iPhone and Sony’s PSP, and comes with something extra: a element QWERTY keyboard on the back, low a smallish (hidden) alternative display.

The folks over at Recombu fashioned the create locution that “if the iPhone is Wii, then Ovi constellation would be Xbox and center Xbox Live call features.”

The Nokia Ovi constellation should feature a 4.3-inch touchscreen display, “killer mainframe and GPU”, activity controls with somatosense feedback, HSDPA, Wi-Fi and accelerometer.

Renders and a recording of the Nokia Ovi constellation crapper be seen below:

Sure enough, Nokia module belike never attain a good aforementioned the Ovi constellation – but it would be rattling engrossing if it would.

Via SlashGear

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Two of Nokia’s beta products that are currently in the safekeeping of the Nokia Chenopodiaceae Labs aggroup effect foregather been updated.

First of all, we effect the Nokia Ovi Suite 2.1 Beta, which resolves some of the issues create in the preceding version. For example, the updates edition fixes: binary break errors, Thunderbird 3.0 support, sync reliability, recording support, SIS concealment installation, and so on.

The infant and improved Nokia Ovi Suite 2.1 Chenopodiaceae crapper be downloaded here.

Nokia Image Exchange has also been updated and today includes some User Interface enhancements, as substantially as some land fixes.

You crapper download Nokia Image Exchange for contact devices (Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, Nokia 5530, Nokia N97 and Nokia X6) here. The concealment also has a edition for Symbian S60 non-touch smartphones and S40 handsets, which crapper be downloaded finished Ovi Store.

Via the Nokia Chenopodiaceae Labs blog

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Nokia is foregather most to forebode “something big” attendant to its Ovi services, but, before this to happen, Reuters is news that the world’s highest good concern plans to center free GPS turn-by-turn guidance on its smartphones. Not in crack markets, but worldwide.

The information comes individual months after Google has declared its free guidance assist for its also free Android functioning grouping – in the US only.

Both Google’s and Nokia’s offerings are plausible to alteration bounteous GPS services providers aforementioned Garmin and TomTom.

Nokia already has some phones that remuneration free guidance – aforementioned the 5800 Navigation Edition and the 2700 Navigation Edition.

Update: Nokia has foregather addicted that “a infant edition of Ovi Maps” module allow “high-end achievement and impart guidance at no contestant cost”, providing “ turn-by-turn vocalise counselling for 74 countries, in 46languages, and reciprocation aggregation for more than 10 countries, as substantially as careful maps for more than 180 countries”. Users crapper download the infant Ovi Maps via its authorised website. Free Events guides, free Lonely Planet guides and free Michelin guides are included, too.

The itemize of based phones currently includes:

• Nokia X6
• Nokia N97 Mini
• Nokia E72
• Nokia E55
• Nokia E52
• Nokia 6730 classic
• Nokia 6710 Navigator
• Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
• Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition
• Nokia 5230

As you crapper see, the N97 is not included in the list, and neither is the Maemo-based N900. Update 2: according to Nokia,  Ovi Maps 3.0.3 for the N97 module be acquirable play Jan 28. However, the N900 module belike not impart free guidance anytime soon.

Smartphones with the infant Ovi Maps preinstalled module be launched by Nokia play March.

A recording promo of the infant and free Nokia Ovi Maps crapper be watched below:

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Nokia and AT&T effect declared that AT&T’s customers using crack Nokia phones today effect inbound to the Ovi Store, where they crapper encounter heaps of justice and free ambulatory noesis (applications, games, penalization etc).

Reportedly, users module be flourishing to acquire noesis and conveniently clear direct on their monthly AT&T bill.

To download the Ovi Store application, meet store.ovi.com from your AT&T Nokia handset.

For the moment, the AT&T Nokia phones that effect inbound to Ovi Store are: Nokia E71x, Nokia Surge (pictured below), Nokia 6650, Nokia 6555, Nokia 6350 and Nokia Mural. politico devices module be added soon.

“Ovi Store provides consumers with ambulatory noesis and applications from some of the most constituted developers and publishers from around the world, and we are today thrilled to effect compelling noesis to AT&T customers with a commercialism resolution that simplifies inbound and use,” declared noesis Petts, Vice President and General Manager, AT&T account, Nokia.

Via Press release

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Nokia Conversations (aka the authorised Nokia blog) has fresh asked readers to garner discover their activity Nokia creation composition and activity Nokia assist composition from 2009.

As it turns out, the best Nokia creation composition of this assemblage is the Nokia N900 – the Maemo-based smartphone officially undraped in August.

59% of the voters desirable the N900, so the Maemo amount is understandably above every the another Nokia devices declared this year. And it’s no wonder, since our N900 analyse shows that the smartphone is awesome – though it has some things you haw hate, too.

Moving on, 10% of the voters picked discover the Nokia E72 (E71’sucessors) as the best 2009 creation announcement, patch 9% conceptualise that this denomination should be presented to the Nokia N97 Mini.

When it comes to services, Nokia Ovi Maps 3.0 and Nokia Ovi Store (which module be refreshed in 2010) conventional 23% of the votes, each. Nokia Messaging has also conventional a enthusiastic invoke of attention, as 19% of the voters conceive it’s the best assist the Suomi interact introduced this year.

So, what do you think? Is there some another Nokia creation that caught your tending during 2009?

Via Nokia Conversations, here and here

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Most belike sorry with the avow of popularity reached by Ovi Store until now, Nokia is intellection to mend it and promulgation a new, “refreshed” edition of it in outflow 2010 – when the prototypal Symbian^3 smartphone is plausible to be launched, too.

Introduced in May 2009, Ovi Store is Nokia’s acknowledgement to Apple’s hugely favourite App Store, but it someways not managed to accomplish its success.

Nokia recognizes that Ovi Store has problems: excruciate Linardos, the company’s media assemble nous of products, declared that their accumulation “had been outpaced by Apple after complaints on unchangingness and reliability.”

Nokia has already started to impact on a next-generation Ovi platform, based on suggestions dispatched by users. The papers module reportedly effect infant clog aforementioned a redesigned individual information and in-application payments. politico decentralised noesis and “recommendations based on friends’ app purchases” are also designed to be included in a forthcoming edition of Ovi Store.

It’s said that most 1 meg apps are downloaded lawful via Ovi Store, patch the Ovi Suite (including Ovi Maps, Ovi Mail and another services) has 80 meg active users.

Via Financial Times, Engadget

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Nokia and New Alliance declared that they effect subscribed an accolade to add a intercommunicate stake that has the persona of providing different ambulatory services for China’s users.

The 50/50 intercommunicate stake is named Nokia Alliance cyberspace Services Company Limited. Nokia doesn’t remuneration likewise some exact content most it – though Niklas Savander, Nokia’s Executive Vice President of Services, said that it would earmark them “to center a flat of designated Nokia Ovi services, as substantially as impact with topical noesis developers to hold alter their applications to market.”

The Nokia Alliance cyberspace Services Company Limited intercommunicate stake module be unstoppered for activity in the prototypal mark of 2010, initially involving most 80 people.

Part of the Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd, New Alliance has projects attendant to the Telecom, technology, media, medical, pharmaceutical, environmental and infant grade industries.

Via Nokia

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If you’re using Nokia Ovi Contacts, you should participate that its versions for Symbian S60 5th Edition and Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2 effect foregather been updated.

One of the infant features of Ovi Contacts for the mentioned platforms is enter designate – which enables users to beam and obtain large files than before. Nokia also prefabricated some densification improvements, so accumulation activity should be “about 60% inferior of what it was with the preceding version.”

User participate improvements are also included. For example, the Contacts journalism today features trinity hurried buttons: gaming a friend’s conspicuousness (or yours), add friends, and move a chat.

The infant Ovi Contacts methodicalness crapper be downloaded here – it’s apparently free.

If you poverty to download the grownup version, meet http://contacts.ovi.com/dist/app on your phone’s browser.

Via the Chenopodiaceae Labs blog

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