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Nokia Oro and Nokia T7 on the way!

Nokia is launching two new devices, Nokia Oro and Nokia T7 which are both Symbian^3 devices and Flash Lite 4.0 enabled.
Looks like the Nokia T7 is similar to the Nokia N8 with a smaller camera, 8Mpx instead or 12Mpx and it’s for the Chinese market.
Alessandro

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Nokia E6 and X7 announced, Flash Lite 4.0 enabled

Today Nokia announced two new phones, Nokia E6 and Nokia X7.

More about Nokia X7. “Flash Lite 4 will support a majority of Flash Player 10.1 content”.
Looks like many blogs are saying that the Nokia X7 has Flash 10 but from the specs it has Flash Lite 4.0.
Alessandro

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Nokia X7 on th way, video!

Here is a video showcasing the new Nokia X7 and should be announced soon. There are not much details about this new phone beside it’s a Symbian^3 device with a newer firmware, other specs not available yet!

Looks like they made it private!
Alessandro

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QUI app available in OVI Store: Share GPS location via SMS

Here is a cool application available in OVI Store: QUI
“QUI allows you to share via SMS your location to a friend. Use your GPS to get your location and share it by sending an SMS.”

Alessandro

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OVI Store stats: 35,000 apps available

Here some stats from the OVI Store:

Ovi Store attracts more than 4 million downloads a day.
About 80% of Ovi Store traffic converts to downloads.
Of Ovi Store’s signed-in users, 85% are repeat visitors.
Each active user averages 8.5 downloads per month.
Active users represent more than 190 countries.
There are more than 35,000 apps available.
Games are No. 1 among [...]

Nokia Developer Day, Barcelona 2011: videos

Here is a short video with a comment of mine during the Nokia Developer Day, Barcelona 2011:

Alessandro

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Nokia OVI Store update v2.06.00042

There is a new version of the Nokia OVI Store client v2.06.00042, just launch the OVI Store from your phone to get the update.
Alessandro

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Mobile World Congress 2011 pictures

Came back from Barcelona yesterday while I was attending the Mobile World Congress 2011, here some pictures:

It was a great event with more than 60000 attendees. I went to several developers related events from Nokia, RIM, Windows Mobile, Intel and HP. Got couple of gifts, Nokia E7 and an Intel MeeGo tablet ! Will post [...]

Nokia more than phones!

Before heading to Mobile World Congress, I am reading a lot of the blogs and comments after the announcement made by Nokia to shift to WP7 OS.
Yesterday was also a moment in history, Egypt revolution. Can be compared to the Berlin wall coming down. Well here is picture from repubblica.it that puts the two news [...]

AAS Insight #153 podcast available

Via AllAboutSymbian, AAS Insight #153 podcast is available:

Textual information about what was announced is in the main story from 11 Feb 2011 here.
Please note that this podcast is a joint one with All About Meego (Rafe and David normally handle this), since Nokia’s decisions affect both platforms and both sites.
You can be sure that the [...]

AAS Insight #152 podcast available

Via AllAboutSymbian, the AAS Insight #152 podcast is available:

Nokia Bike Charger
Nokia Internet Radio for Symbian^3
MWC look ahead, brief discussion of looking ahead to friday’s Analyst and Financial event.
PR 1.1 for Nokia C7, N8 and C6-01
HDR Camera
Ewan on Nokia C5-03

Alessandro

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Flash Mobile game: Happy Sun

Here is a new Flash Mobile game from OVI Store: Happy Sun from Chompgames.
“Happy Sun is a free vocabulary game for all ages. Jumble letters, get clues and keep progressing. Includes a vast word set to keep you engaged forever.”

It’s really a fun game to spend sometime!
Alessandro

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Nokia OVI Store statistics

Bill published Nokia OVI Store stats from end of January.

Downloads of content 4 million a day
Symbian^3 devices (N8, C7, and C6) now account for around 15% of total store downloads in the past 10 weeks
Touch devices account for 6 of Ovi Store’s top 10 downloading device models

Alessandro

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