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MeeGo enables an open ecosystem for rapid development of exciting new user experiences!

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N97 Firmware v21.0.045 is now available over NSU

N97 firmware v21.0.045 has been released and now available over Nokia Software Updater. To update, plug your N97 in to your PC and launch Nokia Software Updater and then start updating. Firmware size is around 138 MB so please make sure that you have good enough internet connection. Unfornately that N97 firmware update is still not available on OTA update.

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How to update your N97 to firmware v20

Look like some people out there can't update their N97 to latest firmware, v20. After finding the clues for a while, at last I found that it's because it still has no update for some Product Code. So the thing you have to do is to change your phone's product code to another one that still support your country. For example, for me in Thailand, I have to change product code from

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Forum Nokia Wiki Review an Article Contest

Do you find Forum Nokia Wiki articles helpful? Are you amongst the people who finally feel relieved after seeing a code snippet in the Forum Nokia Wiki? or a person who keeps wondering about a programming issue, which at last you find filed in the Forum Nokia Wiki Knowledge Base? Certainly, Forum Nokia Wiki has been an invaluable resource and it looks like the information available will grow more and more. Almost all of us, developing on Nokia mobile platforms, use the Wiki consistently. Did you ever think of writing a comment/review of the article, if the solution presented in the article worked for you? Such comments/reviews are really helpful to the developers who might refer to the article at a later stage. Well, for the month of September, you can win an N97 multimedia device by giving your approval (submitting reviews) to one or more Wiki articles. Review an Article Contest The purpose of this competition is to provide additional feedback pointing out high quality articles that are tested by the community. Participate in the Review an Article Contest by submitting your reviews (in the form of comments) to the article/articles (other than yours) that have been helpful to you or that interest you. If the article is of high quality edit it by putting the template ReviewerApproved within double curly braces as the first line in the article. Place the code before anything else on the page like this: {{ReviewerApproved}} Find more details on the Wiki Reviewer details page.   Anyone that creates a review has a chance to win. One device will be awarded randomly to someone that positively rates an article with review comments. Of course those with the most quality reviews will be the winners but everyone has a chance to win. At least five N97's are to be awarded for this contest. The contest start 00:01 September 1st, 2009 until 11:59 September 30th, 2009 . Read the complete rules of participation here. Read wiki reviewer instructions here. All the best

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Mobile Monday Beijing – Mobile Entrepreneurship in China

It was a great turnout. Many friendly faces and everyone avidly interested in the discussion pannel and the panelists themselves: Weihan Liu from Nokia Ventures was in the hot spot and being asked many questions about the type of investments in mobile that Nokia are making. Greg Shea from RIM commeted on the app strategy and what investors are looking for. Roger Peng told great stories about aquisitions and law in China for mergers. Mr Zhang served as an example of a startup in China targeting 3G customers with a video advertising platform. Moderated by Benjamin from Mobile Monday here's some qotes to the best of my abilities: GENERAL VIEW ON MOBILE Weihan Lu [Nokia]: Great to be in the mobile business. Dataplans are coming down. I can only encourage the entire value chain to see good investment opportunities.   Zhang: Great time gone far and beyond communication device. Its a mini computer. How to do and what value you can bring. 600Million people in China-huge hidden market.   Greg Shea [RIM]: Netscape changed computing and connected ready users to internet. That's where we are now [in mobile]. RIM will have a fund next year [to fund applications]. Benjamin [MM]: What's the exit plan? Rodger: Small boom happening now We see more activity. Unicom contracts with Apple. People are looking for companies in the growth stage. That's a lof activity now. Benjamin: What's hot in Mobile today? Weihan Liu: Gprs increase - companies doing games - sns - are shor term. Ecommerce, local content tier 1 China. Tao Bao comes to mobile. Payment will change. Zhang: Take video out - do you need 3G? Its for video. It will take time for video app that users like to use enhanced advertising solutions over video. Lin up content to users plus advertising will really be significant and profitable in few years. Benjamin: Facebook application company plus iphone is the talk and investment in silicon valley. Are people really making money in mobile? Greg Shea: Converged eco system - divice plus content plus application-hats off to iphone with their own app world. quality apps are the best. Enabling major carriers to improve their application worlds. RIM has never seen operators as dumb pipes. How to make ongoing experience is optimized different stores with different business models. Enabling the carrier and application developers to make money. You will see a shake out. You'll see confederations mergers. Gamming, SNS and video rendering. Benjamin: What applications are interesting for you Weihan [to invest in]? Weihan Liu: Have bandwidth environment. 1/4th is games. What is unique about [the Apple] app store? Rodger: Still lot of growth. 10's of million of us see ecommerce is another target on the phone. Benjamin: Mobile ecommerce market is way bigger in Japan than games... Zhang: 3G? Must be compelling apps more powerful cpu's, etc. More bandwidth intensive apps that mimic TV and this will drive demand [for 3G]. Greg Shea: Not like business will be delivered when 3G comes. Focus on your effectiveness on the 2G cuz then you will be greater on 3G. Weihan Liu: 3G wont take off in China until you have flat rate. Benjamin: Where is the best place to be in the value chain? What's the good position with more opportunities? Greg Shea: Apps, games, and ecommerce. mobile funding for ecommerce. People with clean effective efficient experience. If ou're from the west make sure you have a good Chinese partner because there will be areas that are grey. That is where the opportunities are. Rodger: Follow the crowd until something happens. Set up business until someone tells you you cant do it. Greg Shea: Asia listing in Shanghai indicate..;.unless something doesnt go sidways...you'll see listing of western companies in this country. Weihan Liu: Most attractive apps? Application services content space. Entertainment. Gaming. Ecommerce. What is your edge? special secret sauce? What's the difference from the big players? Anina.net to Greg Shea: Why is the lowest priced appliction in the app store of blackberry 2.99, when the iphone and nokia base price is at 99cent? Greg Shea: It's the blackberry brand position: more advanced users on blackberry. Stronger, more loyal connections to developers. We make the developer make money, and the carrier make money, and therefor everyone is financially stronger.

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NeuScreen v3 goes Open Source

You guys may already knew NeuScreen, MultiTouch Screen Engine using Nokia N95, an award winning application in Calling All Innovator. In case you don't know it yet, please see the video below.   Interesting? Good news is it goes Open Source already ! You can download source code at http://www.neuvex.com/research/neuscreen/index.php I'm looking forward to new break-through application built on top NeuScreen. :) Enjoy! Sittiphol Phanvilai

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Video Clip from Nokia USA : ‘What is an "Unlocked" Device’

I just found this fantastic clip from nokiausa.com and from YouTube. The clip's name is What is an "Unlocked" Device . The clip is simple but you know? I love it much!   I don't know the objective of this clip but I guess that it should relates with huge number of USA users that use locked device. :)  - Sittiphol Phanvilai

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Launching Anina Backstage News Application in the Ovi Store

It is a glorious day today, sun is shining and I'm on the front page of the Nokia Ovi store ! Get up and get your phones out and support me with some comments and ranking for my Backstage Fashion Model Application . Download it and follow along with me on my next adventures! I'm off to China for a job on Saturday so stay tuned to your mobiles for some backstage action. No idea what will happen--off the plane and into action! Hopefully there will be wifi along the way in Narita Airport and Detroit (doubtful). Entering an app in the Ovi store is no small feat--I have to say it's not the easiest of the 3 platforms out there. However, considering the amount of Nokia users out there, it is certainly the largest. I am very grateful to my friends Robin and Flash at mippin , without whom I would never have gotten approved (so many settings in that store! To be expected since there are so many devices in so many countries). I'm very excited to see what this will do for me in terms of visibility, I'm not sure how many women there are in Ovi. Lets wait and see! So far it's favorable reviews: Features I really like about the Ovi Store: Website online is excellent, clear and clean. The ability to send sms to your friends to download the application sure beats all the other platforms.  The mobile site is also in classic excellence for mobile devices. Very clear, very good search and very easy to navigate to.

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Nokia 5800 latest firmware v30.0.011

I just finished updating my Nokia 5800 to latest firmware version v30.0.011 . Unfortunate that I still don't have the official change log but after testing it by my own, I didn't see any obviously change but I feel that it's much stable than previous one. However, new version should be better than older one, right? ;) It's still not available from OTA update and also Nokia Software Updater. I flashed it with Nokia Phoenix software. And as I know, it's already available in Nokia Care in Thailand. So, please contact your local Nokia about this. Good luck! - Sittiphol Phanvilai

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