It’s strange how sometimes people are very aware of the battery consumption of some applications but put all concerns aside when it comes to applications that use the internal accelerometer. Is it because they are all nice or because the application does not really give the impression of running in the background all the time? [...]

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It’s been a long long time since I posted but was really busy with work. Anyway, I had some spare time yesterday and decided to play again with Python for S60… The good about Python is that you can really really make a small application in few minutes (or hours if you are not very [...]

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Reading this reminder on S60 Web Browser Shortcut Keys from the thenokiablog.com I recalled that my N95 browser actually supports tabbed browsing but I never used it because of the difficulty in opening a new tab and the out of memory problem which makes the browser unusable even when using just 1 window . Anyway, [...]

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Actually, the original title was “Usability not counteless features is good for Nokia phones” but then my train of thoughts focused on the N-Series (as well as S60 usability) in the end… Reading this great summary from Russel and the following comments in this link, I recalled a previous post regarding the complex structure of [...]

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Since I started working in Sweden I installed WorldMate to use its currency converter. The basic features are free and I used mainly the weather forecasts and currency converter. However I noticed that after installing WorldMate, one application was using my internet connection without asking me first or showing any pop-up when connecting…. So, I [...]

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Thanks God there is Google News…. Finished working and started going through my feeds to see the initial comments about the new Nokia Music store (UK)… I have to say, it must be some sort of peer pressure between bloggers but most of the sites I regularly check were full of the same info, same [...]

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Been waiting for this functionality since the iPhone was presented…nice Update 16/12/2007: RotateMe v2.0 Beta 5 goes public. Read the instruction at the end of the RotateMe’s webpage and make a donation if you find it useful Video here… [Source: n95blog.com]

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Apparently future Nokia mobile phones are going to be blessed with a “new feature” and I read a lot of comments/interest about this. The new feature is Demand Paging! It was presented at recent Smartphone Show and you can read more about DP from here and here and recently commented here (I actually read about [...]

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