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Nokia Nseries maphotonline !!!

nobody@vox.com(Stephen) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:48:47 -0700

Well this is Nokia Nseries's new slogan that is "maphotonline" meaning maps + photos + sharing online has become an interactive service now thanks to the "nokia sportstracker" application !

Yes, with the GPS on your Nseries Device you can now record your journey's with the media associtaed (i.e. taken nearby) with the Nokia Sportstracker application which you can Download from here

Also the main highlight of this is the 'Nseries Widget' its a widget that you can embed on your blog, facebook etc.

It shows your recent journey's on a map with the media (if any) on the map !

Well in the rightmost pic you can see My nseries widget on my new blog i.e. www.nokianseriesn.blogspot.com

also you can get your very own widget from here

P.S. : kindly visit my new blog :) www.nokianseriesn.blogspot.com

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Why Im so Interested in Cloned Nokia N95 handsets?

nobody@vox.com(GSi-R) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:28:25 -0700

V888 - Cloned N95-2

Following recently being contacted by a BBC spokesperson, asking me the very same question, I thought I would post up publicly, why I am so interested in Nokia N95 clones specifically.

Being a forum member of www.N95Users.com for such a little time, and gaining a great deal of information on the N95 from the N95 team, and many of the very friendly members there, a Nokia handset, which is much more than just a mobile phone. Being an award winning, Multimedia handheld computer, is one of the reasons I purchased my first N95-1, then went on and also invested in the N95-2 also, and still own both today.

During my time being active on the N95users forums, almost every other day, we would have new members registering, and posting about their recent purchase, following some things not quite right with their newly prized possession. Following the exchange of several questions, and photos, we find out that these newly joined members have indeed been sold a Cloned N95 as a Genuine. I have now joined the Moderating team of N95Users, which is an honour.

This leads me to answer the title of this post Question. "Why I have an Interest in them?"

I want to help other people from falling into the trap of purchasing a clone, thinking they are buying a genuine Nokia handset. After all, these handsets are not cheap.! Some members who joined our N95users community had saved up their hard earned to purchase their N95, and when it turns out to be a clone, you can only imagine how they feel.

Being scammed myself many moons ago by an eBay seller, although in my instance, not related to buying a cloned handset, it was related to a mobile phone, where I, at the time, not knowing what I know now I may add, got stung by a seller using an hacked eBay account. Anyway, learning from this, from what I had to do to make a claim to get my money back, through eBay's poor, and not very user friendly claim procedure, and Paypal's Safety Trust scheme, I now wish to help others should they also get stung. In almost all cases, you will not get all your money back, but you will receive a percentage of it, based on initial outlay, and type of purchase. Again, very poor setup from eBay.

Back to the N95 Clones.

My VOX Blog

http://gsi-r.vox.com/library/post/n95-clones-a-global-problem-i-think-so.html

Asking the question, Are these Cloned devices a Global problem.? I think so.

There are now eight different N95 clones to date, all varying in difference levels of quality, from the poor end of the scale being the NOKLA N95, to the almost identical N95-2 clone, made in Korea, with WIFI, and GPS. This latter clone, fools many as their is an N95-4, which is genuinely made in Korea.

Most of the latter clones now also show a result, when you key in *#0000#, which with the genuine Nokia device will show you the handsets current firmware version. With the latter clones, this will also show you the clones firmware version, which at the moment, is quite easy to tell apart from the genuine firmware versions, however, some clones, now even show up a genuine Nokia firmware result from entering *#0000#. See my VOX blog for details, and a photo of an N95-2, showing an old N95-1 firmware version. Quite shocking. These obviously are to fool the buyer, AND seller to believe they have a genuine handset.

Talking of sellers of these clones, as mentioned in my VOX blog, many Do know what they are selling, but many DO NOT, and this is because, clones are getting mixed in with genuine handsets, how? Well, there could be a can of worms to be opened, who knows.!

With many sellers, not being able to tell the difference from just looking at the sealed packaging of these clones, which again, are almost identical to the genuine boxes, and packaging, its easy to see why some sellers also fall prey to the counterfeiters. The only sure way for them to find out what they actually have is to open up the sealed box, and do some simple checks, including putting the battery in the handset, and keying *#0000# to check its firmware, and cross referencing it to a genuine devices firmware, but as mentioned above, even this can fool the not so experienced eye, not to mention, many sellers either dont have the time to do this, or do not wish to open a brand new sealed box, as they then cannot advertise the handsets as "New, Sealed in the box".

You can start to see now how this is fast becoming a global problem, as in this case, we are only talking about the N95 clones, there are clones, of almost every other Nokia handset too, all varying from level of detail. I have contacted Nokia several times regarding these clones, and to date, have showed little interest. I, personally would like to assist Nokia, and any investigation they may already have into tracking down the sources of these clones, which again, could open a can of worms. With rumours online about stolen Nokia parts being used in Fakes, and cloned Nokia's, the plot thickens, and i really want to get my teeth into a piece of the action, and take down these counterfeiters. I know that just one man against such a global problem could never work, which is why im posting this post here. How can Nokia not do anything?

Whats your thoughts on these Nokia clones?

Have you purchased a Cloned Nokia, under the impression you were buying a genuine Nokia?

Which model did you fall prey to?

Where did you buy your clone?

Im aware of several outlets other than eBay, all of which are either in China, or Asia. I have been researching these for quite sometime now, and will be working together with the BBC, and Nokia, should they contact me regarding this issue.

Thanks for reading my post here, I have also posted this up on my Wordpress blog in the hope to get more global coverage.

Look forward to any comments.

Micky

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Overturned

nobody@vox.com(Al Pavangkanan) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:06:47 -0700

Overturned
Originally uploaded by Dr Tran!

Overturned big rig. South bound traffic was all the way to Nevada.

What I love about geotagging is that I know exactly where this happened.

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Nokia Nseries Maps + Navigation

nobody@vox.com(Stephen) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:26:58 -0700

Today I also wanted to test the Navigation application on my Nokia N95 8GB, after trying out the Nokia Sportstracker applicaton

I started off 13 kms away from my destination. The GPS didn't trouble me much while connecting. The GPS gave me information of my speed both maximum and avergae, the distance covered, time taken, current position (in co-ordinates) altitude and other stuff.

I got a clear view of all roads and route throught the maps application which is complimentary to navigation.

I reallly enjoyed the experience and had a lot of fun with this awesome application!

here are some screenshots taken from Nokia N95 8GB.

Well you can download the Maps 2.0 application from here

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Nokia Sports tracker

nobody@vox.com(Stephen) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:30:11 -0700

Well many people today use this Amzing application of Nokia, i.e. The Nokia Sports Tracker.

Its really nice for people who work out, and want to have all technical info of what they are actually doing...

So today I decided to give it a try....

I started off and used the GPS on My Nokia N95 8GB to connect the application and it was done in bout 15 seconds !

I wanted to go slow so I was walking and I got the speed at which I was walking, the steps taken per min. also the distance travelled and the map. The figures (numbers) were nice and clear and the font was big so it made it very conveinient to use.

There were graphs that showed speed vs time and speed vs distance.

It was real fun to use it !

well you can download the application from here , The above screenshots are taken from my Nokia N95 8GB.

you can also get more information about this application from here

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Nokia 5800 ExpressMedia = Nokia Touchscreen device

nobody@vox.com(snoyt) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:06:47 -0700

Hi Folks,

The internet has a few more rumors going more and more solid:

Nokia 5800 Tube
- Quad-Band GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz), EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA connectivity
- 3.2″ 640×360 px (16:9 ratio) 16M color touchscreen display
- 3.2 Megapixel camera with autofocus
- Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth 2.0
- 140 MB of internal memory
- 3.5 mm headphone jack
- TV-Out
- Dimensions: 111×52x14.5mm
- Weight: 104g

The specs look great. The tv-out is a great addition. Particular with the lovely new screen resolution ;-) With the 3.2 Mpixel camera I doubt if there will be video recording too. It looks like the upper segment of midranged phones. Now where is that 5 MegaPixel version with a mini-qwerty keyboard?

Let's keep our eyes open for a real review of the device. And there seem to be some pictures in this post.

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Sportstracker at 35000 feet

nobody@vox.com(Al Pavangkanan) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:44:33 -0700

I recently flew home from Houston to Los Angeles. I got myself a window seat. I was pleased to find my seat had two windows. Inspired by a post by Monadi at phone-rush, I wanted to try GPS in mid-flight for myself.

Before takeoff, I set the N82 to offline mode and then turned it off. When the pilot started talking, I first turned on my N95. It took a few minutes to get a GPS lock. I couldn't move it around without losing the signal.

I turned the N82 on and it didn't take long for it to get a signal. I was able to keep the N82 in my shirt pocket and maintain a signal lock. I turned on the GPS data application and got this screenshot:

Taking a que from the great position artist Stavros, I turned on the Sportstracker application to make some of my own position art.

I first changed a few settings. I set the units to imperial and the GPS filtering to low. I then activated the Sportstracker. Here is a map of my position art:

View Larger Map

As you can see, Sportstracker logged my journey from mid-Texas to Southern California.

There is a log of the journey with a few images at the sportstracker website:
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=236804

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Automatically connect your wireless device to Wi-Fi hotspots

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:12:01 -0700

Devicescape is a web service that automatically connects your wireless devices to Wi-Fi hotspots wherever you go — cafés, airports, hotels, your home, and even your friends' homes! With Devicescape, you can forget about complicated wireless settings, usernames, passwords, and long security codes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmrLrCpmRvw

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Dutch NOS starts streaming news and 6 channels of live Olympics channels video for mobile phones

nobody@vox.com(snoyt) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:19:50 -0700

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The dutch NOS (national broadcast service) has now started streaming their news videos as well as live streams of the olympics for the mobile phone platform. At the same time they upgraded their mobile site and added a dedicated new application as a download option. It features an enhanced news experience including live video media streaming of the Olympics.

website

Their all new refurbished mobile website now presents the topics news, sports, weather and traffic information. In addition the latest newsvideo broadcast can be streamed from the site directly onto your mobile device. On the Nokia N95 it is done using realplayer. The mobile site also features a download section offering a dedicated news application to be downloaded. For my N95 this was a properly signed *.sisx application.

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news application

The dedicated news application the information of their mobile website and extra articles and videos. The interface is a bit more slick that their mobile website and features a 'news ticker' with the latest info. Additonally they are offering several video streams: the news in the last 24 hours, the latest news, separate news items (about China, Birma etc..) as were already possible to view with the flash-enhanced webbrowser of the N95, live political streaming of discussions from the Hague (yuck) and upto 6 live streams from the Olympics and Roland Garros. The Olympic channel selection for the mobile consumer is now wider than that of the tv-consumer. The application installation went flawless though it did gave a message that it was, at the least, free until end of 2008. Let's hope it stays like that.

Upto now I was annoyed that the Brittish and the Germans could watch their national news broadcasts on the Nokia n-series but we as the dutch could not. In one step we are on par or perhaps even slightly better off ;-)

In the last few months I have seen an increase of dedicated mobile websites delivering to the point efficient information with only minor ads. Anything from cinema guides, TV-guides, weather, news to traffic information. Many of them I prefer over using RSS and the larger PC oriented sites. RSS often has randomly abbreviated information) bits luring you into going to PC-oriented sites with obnoxious popups, flashmovies or mindless jabber to get to the real bits. Mobile sites lets people reinvent the art of using limited screenspace useful.

I will regret the day my phone gains 1024x758 pixels of resolution.

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WLM for f/r/ee - wtf?!

nobody@vox.com(Breathless) — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:13:42 -0700

See the thing here.

Now, to start with, I've never understood even why the usage is so limited to certain countries. Honestly. Can someone answer that? Well, maybe this is an explanation: cuz it ain't free. What the...?! Yeah, right. I get all excited, the damn thing is finally already available at this country of nowhere I live in ... go install ... then comes the warning that there'll be fee to pay later on. ~Dear~ Micro$oft, with all due respect (...my butt!), why the fuck do you have to make a service, that's been forever free, all of a sudden not-free?! For me it'd seem they seriously want to drive ppl away from using their stuff, cuz with this, they surely aim at it. Or they just don't get enough money (...my butt again!) from all their other products. Or fuck knows, but please if anyone figures it out, inform me.

Til then, I'm gonna wait for the pay-by-login feature to get implemented into Windows Se7en. <_<

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