Vertu Signature 3G

Vertu goes 3G... another one that can never be mine...

Vertu Signature is the Chairman’s phone – peerless, distinctive, with an effortless presence. The design and craftsmanship will position Vertu Signature alongside other iconic products in the luxury market. The innovative SIM drawer allows for easy interchange of a SIM card without the need to remove the battery. Vertu Signature is a WCDMA Dual mode dual band (2100/850 MHz) & GSM Quad band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) phone. The phone has a high resolution QVGA OLED portrait display 320 x 240 pixels with 16 million colour display, WAP 2.0 XHTML browser support, E-mail support via SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 email client, Bluetooth and WLAN to support high speed browsing and VoIP.

The 01 Phone

This is very interesting phone and can be seen here. According to T3 it will have 5MP camera, built-in 32GB, a huge screen, and laser projection keyboard.

It is slated to be another iPhone killer, and I do hope so! :D

How to Change Your S60 Phones Software or Unbrand it Legitimately

Most of you know that if you get an S60 Nokia phone from a service provider or operator like AT&T, T-mobile, and hundreds of others out there, the phone that you get is "SIM-locked" (meaning it can only use a SIM card from the operator whom you got the phone) and chances are some of these S60 Nokia phones also have an Operator Branded Software in it, wherein sometimes or most of the time the operator will limit some functions of these phones or basically it is the provider that dictates what will be in the software. The software is NOT the same from what you normally find on standard generic unlocked sim-free S60 Nokia phone.

Most of you know that that there is way to be able to remove the operator branded software and get the generic S60 software. However, by doing this, your phone's warranty get invalidated and you are still SIM-locked, and basically this is not legal and there is also a chance that you brick your phone!

Now, I don't know how many of you knows this? But, to those who do not know, and would want to know the legitimate way to unbrand their S60 phones here are the simple, but somewhat not that easy steps:

1. Get a written consent from the operator who supplied you the phone that you can change the software.
2. Get the phone unlocked by the operator.
3. Together with this written consent, bring your now unlocked S60 phone to the nearest Official Nokia Care Point. NCP will change your phone's code and subsequently change your software to the standard generic Nokia S60 software. Also a new product ID label will be produced reflecting this change.

Of course, any legal or financial matters that you need to settle with your operator before they give you the unlock code and this consent paper is between you and your operator.

Sometimes doing the right thing is not easy, working honestly is also sometimes not easy, but we do it anyway, because we know it is the right way....
Anyway, I just want to share this and I hope this helps you unbranding your phone legitimately...

Why Can't We Have This On The E90?

What is it?

It is a dedicated Bluetooth Key! A long press on the [*] star key will turn-on the Bluetooth in your device.

This is available with E51. So why can't E90 have this as well? I know there is one in the inside, but then there is nothing wrong having this on the outside.

C'mon E90 Team, put this on the next firmare update!

Noki - Extract Data from Nokia PC Suite and Convert it to text, xls, cvs or html

Noki is a utility to explore and extract Phone book, SMS, Calendar, Memo, Bookmark
and other user files from the backup file of Nokia phone (using Nokia PC Suite).

The Noki-extracted info can be saved in text, Excel .xls, .csv or Html
file which is much accessible than the original binary format (.nfc, .nfb or
.nbu). Other files extracted (3gp, image, photo, mp3, mp4 etc) will remain their
original format.

The above phrase is taken from the site, and I have tested Noki with the latest Nokia PC Suite 7 and a backup from N82 and it is working quite well...

Who needs this? Well, let us say you are a businessman and you have about 1,000+ contacts and hundreds of notes tuck away on your E90 and naturally you make a backup. Now Nokia PC Suite V. 7.07.0 just came out and you naturally upgraded to it, and then you decided to update your E90's software. Now, everything work, but when you try to restore your data, Nokia PC Suite now does not recognize your E90, or worse, you cant make Nokia PC Suite to work! This is the time you will need this app...

I will do more testing though, but so far it is fast and works well... this is certainly for those having problems with their Nokia PC Suite installations and with those precious business data that you do not want to loose...

NOTE: the download on the Noki site does not work, click on the Softpedia link on the site to be able to get to the correct download site...

TAT Kastor UI for S60

Today TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) annouced that S60 will use their highly fancied Kastor UI, confirming rumors that has been circulating for almost the past 2 months... I am quoting directly from the news report form TAT.

July 7, 2008

S60 has chosen TAT

TAT’s technology enables S60 developers to push UI boundaries to even greater heights. Developers can now easily add advanced graphics such as 3D, change effects and also add skins without having to change existing software or add expensive hardware.

TAT Kastor, the next generation UI rendering platform, is now available on the S60 mobile platform. The benefits from TAT Kastor address the need to render advanced graphics on any type of color screens. This allows handset vendors to offer devices with sophisticated and graphically animated user interfaces, without major changes to the software or need for advanced hardware. By pushing graphics to advanced screens more efficiently than traditional software, TAT Kastor on the S60 mobile platform makes the user interface look more advanced than the hardware normally would allow. And importantly, it does so without extensive changes to existing software.

News Source-> TAT News

The only question now, is when, where and how are we going to have this in our existing S60 devices?

Nokia PC Suite V. 7.0.6.3

Nokia PC Suite V. 7.0.6.3 and this is NOT a Beta

Enjoy it!


Got it installed, 1st thoughts...

- It seems faster even in the backup department.

- Its nice that now you can select to display the calendar in month view on the lower left side or the recent txt messages.

- I didn't even have to do remove the old one, just updated it.

- There is an added phone memory icon and usage bar showing on the left side.

Black E90 Unboxing

Its here!

The Black E90 is finally in my hands, I got a couple of unboxing pix for ya all...

I am going to be busy for a while playing with this thing and hopefully I can also get the E71, so I can accomplish my comparative review of the 2 awesome E-series devices...

Going Nokialgia!

Yup, i don't know what came over me, but I saw this Old Nokia 6100, and I remember that I have always wanted to own one, so I just bought an a brand new, old Nokia 6100

Its still is one of the smallest nokia phone available and since i still need a camera-less phone once in a while, and i need to carry a 2nd phone, this simply fits the tag and it is still a wonderful device, worth every cents!

The guys that i bough it with still have about 3 boxes and they say, the 6100, 6310i and 3310 are the old Nokia handsets that some people will still buy or are looking for after all these years!

Even the 2nd hand are still going fast!

Nostalgia is good, but Nokialgia is better...

E71 and E66 Live Photos

These photos are form Nokia Press Release and it shows Production Unit E71 and E66 with those in-the-box accessories- lanyard and pouch, enjoy!

Symbian Celebrates 10 Years!

Symbian OS is now 10 years old. They put up a site to commemorate it and if you want to have history class of Symbian

For those still scratching their heads, S60 is the UI, Symbian is the OS! Naft said!

Now that we got that clear... you can check the site-> Symbian @ 10

New Nokia Secret Code: *#9990#

This new code works only with Nokia handsets with Bluetooth (BT) because it is related to Bluetooth.

If you press *#9990# on the standby screen you will get "Bluetooth test mode" and then basically what you can do is press "Ok" on the left selection key.

I am not so sure what exactly it does, aside perhaps silently checking your phone's BT module.

I just wonder, what happens if you have a defective BT???