Nokia news, reviews

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WalkingHotSpot is a software Wi-Fi enabled smartphone into a hotspot providing access to 3G data networks. The WalkingHotSpot solution provides a platform to deliver new solutions to wireless subscribers around Wi-Fi. The scalable solution allows users to securely retrieve e-mails and browse the internet with no additional software or configuration required on the Wi-Fi client devices (laptops, MP3 players, gaming devices, etc). (more…)

BeatEd is a simple drum machine software for Symbian S60 3rd mobile phones. It was originally developed in couple of nights to get a drum machine and metronome application for personal guitar playing purposes. (more…)

Tyler, writing at Tyler’s Toolbox has leaped on the ‘intersection of positivity, creativity and technology’ that is international video-fest Pangea Day and is celebrating with a contest!

Open to all filmmakers, all of the details you need to get involved are handily provided by Tyler in his post, as are detail of the prize on offer: an N82, headphones, tripod, speakers and more… not bad at all I’m sure you’ll agree.

Jump over now for the full details of the prize package and how you can be in the running to win it.

bery95 from Symbian Web Blog bring news of the Python based Accelerometer remote control app.

Currently only for use with mPlayer under Linux, this app allows an accelerometer enabled device to be turned into a remote, letting the user control movies simply by twisting the device! You hook up your device via a simple programme to the computer, and away you go, with a surprising level of control. A nice idea of course, but bery95 can??™t see PyAcceleREMOTER working with the average user, as the app won??™t communicate with the Windows computers we all use.

What do you think? Are you a Linux user glad of the exclusivity, or are you simply intrigued by the thought of such an app? Jump over and let bery95 know what you think.

LG recently announced their ‘Rally For Music’ contest. This contest aims to bring together young people to inspire music talent.

“LG Mobile Phones is a leading maker of music handsets and we appreciate the importance of music to our customers’ everyday lives,” said Ehtisham Rabbani, vice president of product strategy and marketing for LG Mobile Phones. “The Rally for Music program is one of the many ways we are
getting involved in music and music education. We look forward to crowning a winner and giving talented musicians an avenue to showcase their work.”

Participants in the contest will be able to create personal profiles and share music with others. Prizes for this contest include LG televisions, MP3 players and mobile phones. The grand prize winner will be chosen in a live competition held in New York City in August 2008. The prize for the winner is $15,000.00.

To find out more or to participate in LG’s Rally For Music contest, please visit their website.

In the hot seat for this week??™s Driving With the Guru ??“ sitting in for the otherwise engaged Ricky ??“ Dotsisx brings us her take on the new N-gage platform.

She??™s loving the community aspect of N-Gage, adding that it adds a ???new dimension??™ to the gaming experience. There are a few gripes with the downloading process of getting your hands on a game, but she promises some posts on the various aspects of N-Gage later this week. She actually wonders whether everyday consumers would put up with the process of downloading zip files just to get a game in their device.

This episode of ???Driving??¦??™ is filmed on both the N93i and the N95, and whilst Dotsisx talks of liking the way the N93i is held while it records video - reminding her of a camcorder ??“ the difference in quality is noticeable.

Do you share Dotsisx??™s points of view? Jump over and let her know.

Steve Litchfield from All About Symbian and Teo over at Symbian Freak both bring news of similar hot new apps for S60 devices.

Harnessing the power of drum machines on a mobile device seems a big ask, but both BeatEd and Niime Drums seem to manage quite nicely, thank you very much. Steve has included a video demo of BeatEd, which originally started out as a metronome app for guitar players, but blossomed after some positive feedback.

Niime Drums, an accelerometer-based app, is a different set up and proposition entirely, but nevertheless scratches the same itch. Allowing a user to compose drum sequences by shaking the phone ??“ thus releasing the ???inner artist??™ ??“ Niime Drums is still in development and is due for public release soon.

So which looks best to you? Jump through any of the links above to have your say.

Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog has come up with an ingenious use for the GPS capacity of his N95 8GB.

We??™ve all done it, gone to the big game, the concert, the mall, and come out with absolutely no idea of where we parked. By saving the location of the parking spot of your vehicle right after you find a place, when you need your transport again, just select ???Walk to??™, and hey presto, no more frantic searching. Imagine the other uses though??¦mark the location of your car keys in your house, the TV remote, the possibilities are endless.

So what have you used your GPS to mark? Jump over and let Mark know.

Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog brings us news of a discovery when idly thumbing through the multimedia menu on his N95 8GB

By arranging the tiles on your multimedia window so that the Internet option shows first after you press your shortcut key (#5 in Mark??™s case), just pressing the multimedia key will open a fresh tab. Browse through open tabs by scrolling left and right and the top of the page lists how many tabs are open. Great discovery from some idle browsing.

Have you already discovered this? Any other remarkable menu tips? Jump over and let Mark know.