Nokia re-branding continues: Ovi Suite to Nokia Suite, revamped UI
It’s been quite a few months now that Nokia re-branding has been started. Ovi Maps turned Nokia Maps and then Ovi Store changed to Nokia Store with other changes. Now it’s the turn of Ovi Suite to be lost and Nokia Suite to take its place.
Nokia Beta Labs recently released a new version 3.2 of the suite with the name Nokia Suite this time. Please note that previously Ovi Suite had been moved to the Nokia Store after getting out of the beta releases.
P@SHA ICT Awards were recently held in Karachi in collaboration with Nokia where the participants of MakeMyApp competition awarded the prizes. Winners in each of the categories (Entertainment/ Fun & Games, Business Productivity, Easier Living and Think Gree) received the prize money of PKR 400,000/- in cash. In addition a special winner was awarded a Nokia E7 along with PKR 100,000/- for a truly innovative app – as said.
We have published about Nokia X7 with its unboxing and design review. Later the camera review. You should also check them as well if you haven’t already. Apart from the design, the hardware and software are the major key elements today in a smartphone that a consumer looks for, before going to buy it. Today there is all about X7’s ins and outs. Hardware, Software and the Applications support is covered.
Apple is just making the consumers ready to get iOS 5 along with an iPhone 4S. Long running beta of iTunes 10.5 now has been released to publicly just before the day the iOS 5 is going to be released publicly as well.
After long time rumours spreading once, then second and third, finally the official Facebook app for iPad has now been shipped and is available to download from App Store. “With hi-res photos, games, chat and more, it’s the best of Facebook-on your iPad”
Nokia Conversations has just announced the winner of Nokia Tune Remake contest. An Italian DJ is about to become a global hit after winning the Nokia Tune competition. ”Nokia Tune Dubstep Edition”, Valerio Alessandro Sizzi’s 24-second version of the iconic Nokia ringtone, will be preloaded on more than 100 million handsets to be shipped all over the world.
A big day as usual for Android users, specially CyanogenMod users! a new version of CyanogenMod has been released that is 7.1. You’ll find many new features and support for building on 68 devices! Upgrading from any previous CM-7 release or nightly build should be smooth and no wipe should be required.
The camera in X7 is just similar to the ones in Nokia C7 and E7 but a bit different in Nokia E6 as per the specifications. Before using the camera in X7 I suggested the one in E6 must be better amongst the Symbian^3 range (not including N8) as the specification wise the E6 was having a bit larger aperture and in fact did produce some better results when shot indoor than C7 and E7. But results from X7 aren’t that bad, in fact they are pretty much better than the ones from C7 or E7 and even E6.
Just like the companies all around the world shared their sadness about the Steve Jobs passing, Zong also condoles the incident in Pakistan with publishing a picture of Steve Jobs with colouring black.
Nokia Store QML client was released a few days ago by Nokia Beta Labs and then recently updated with several bug fixes. Beta Labs has released yet another bug fixes release with the version 3.16.036 and is now available to download.