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It’s time to say Goodbye

All good things come to an end or move on to something better for more than a year I had been running this blog covering the best of Symbian has to offer , now the time has come to move on .

Two months ago I started an experimental site at

www.senseapplied.com

The site became a good success and within two months had one article as Pick of the Week of Nokia Conversations , another article was picked by teabreak.com.pk as a featured article . 

I also stumbled upon new avenues from the site and got in touch for Nokia Pakistan to review their products such as 5800 Xpress Music . 

I’m also working on new experiments and have ran Win 98 on Nokia E71 .

So I request you to visit the site and add it to your RSS feeds

I had a great time running this blog and thank you all for the support and comments over the years

Take Care

Farhan

Watch out Nokia , Samsung is coming

Nokia is now facing some tough competition from Samsung , another manufacturer of Series 60 phones and now with Mobile World Congress coming next week in Barcelona , Samsung is going to push Nokia to the second place atleast  in specs .

What Samsung is bringing and what Nokia could be bringing to counter it read more at

Permanent Link to Watch out Nokia , Samsung is coming

looking forward to the latest phones to droll over

 

Farhan

Installing PC Suite on Win 7

Many of you must have noticed I was not updating my blog for a while , actually last week I was travelling for business purposes so was not able to write much , and since Wednesday all my computers and Server was dead due to virus attack . anyhow now all is working fine , I’ve got XP back and running on my Office Laptop ( Dell Vostro 1310) and for Win 7 on my kid’s machine ( Compaq A940NR)

As a backup measure I’ve keeping both machines identical on software so if one again breaks , I can immediately shift to the next and that includes installation of Pc Suite .

How I did it read at

Permanent Link to Installing PC Suite on Win 7

A simple procedure , harder to find out very easy to use , brought to you by Farhan  ;)

Nokia Apps Store in the Horizon

Finally it’s in the rumor mill that Nokia is soon coming up with their Apps Store to be announced in Mobile World Congress on 16th Feb at Barcelona Spain .

read more at Permanent Link to Nokia Apps Store in the Horizon

Farhan 

Mid Range Classics

And when we thought now Nokia is all about 5800 Express Music and N97 , their latest touch screen phones , Nokia surprised us with not one but three S40 based mid range phones featuring from a simple ‘smart phone’ phone with 2gb of storage to a 5MP , AGPS touting beauty ,all featuring Nokia Ovi services. and here are Nokia 2700 , Nokia 6303 and Nokia 6700 Classic each a leader in it’s class. With these phones Nokia is targeting the next billion mobile users who will have their first online and email experience via a mobile phone , supporting “ this is what the future of computers have become.”

 

What they are and what they mean to Nokia read more at

Permanent Link to Mid Range Classics

Wishing the best to Nokia

Farhan

Train’em Young

Finally a perfect gift for a geek’s kid ,  I’m sick and tired of those plastic Razr’s my kid has playing ghastly music and also with the Tiny Tot animal phone none of them are Smartphone lookalikes . so what I got my kids

http://senseapplied.com/index.php/trainem-young/

Training them Young

Farhan

Is Nokia in Financial Crunch

Nokia is in process to sell 1.75 billion Euro worth of bonds , 1.25 billion Euros having 5 year maturity spread on 250 ( 2.5 % ) basis points  and rest 500 million Euro having 10 year maturity spread on 315 ( 3.15 % )  basis points ( a basis point is one hundredth of a percentage ) Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. organized the issue

Read more at Permanent Link to Is Nokia in Financial Crunch

So are you planning to buy a part of Nokia or selling your share ;) . I for one had never been in the market .

Farhan

Audio Smilies

Nokia Beta Labs has come up with a less ‘serious application’ cute little application Audio Smilyes .

To read further click on Permanent Link to Audio Smilies

Tryingly

Farhan

Nokia Acquires Bit-Side GMBH

Nokia has just announced their acquisition of 39 employee – Berlin based firm Bit-Side GMBH well known for their photo stitch application Pano Man .

What this acquisition means for Nokia and what it could bring in future read further at

http://senseapplied.com/index.php/nokia-acquires-bit-side-gmbh/

According to Nokia this Let’s see what this partnership brings

Farhan

8800 Carbon Arte – Beauty in Black

What does an exquisite Black Diamond and Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte have in common , they both are black , have carbon and only a few have it not to mention they have limited utility.

Recently , courtesy Nokia Pakistan , I got a 8800 Carbon Arte for review and I found it to be a sleek , durable , amazing piece of craftsmanship but with questionable performance , here’s how I rate the phone and it’s features

 http://senseapplied.com/index.php/8800-carbon-arte-beauty-in-black/

Running Palm Apps On Nokia

So Pre had been all the rage , it’s backward compatibility is still in the shadows and here comes

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Running Palm on Nokia

Farhan

Bypassing Unhackable Firmware

Those who have ungraded your Nokia E71 /  E66  to firmware 110 or 200.21.118 or N95-8GB to Firmware 30. with more new firmware coming up making hacking them impossible here’s a simple method to install unsigned applications on your ‘unhackable’ Nokia .

Read further at Permanent Link to Bypassing Unhackable Firmware

With this post I’m only promoting ethical use and trial of software , if you like any , do purchase it

Farhan  

Coffee With Nokia

Yesterday was one of the best days of my life , I get to meet the Nokia Pakistan Marketing folks for coffee ( their treat and it was wonderful ,  if you are reading it buddy next time It will be my turn ;)

We get to discuss a lot of issues pertaining to legal and cultural environment and usage of cell phones in Pakistan  , the hurdles the industry is facing and what other mobile manufacturers are doing .

What we discussed and what’s in this box :) click on

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Thank you Nokia

 

Farhan

Nokoscope by nokia

 

I First heard of Nokoscope while reading an article on Nokia Conversations and it was to be detailed further , inquisitive me , I probed later on the net and found that the service is alive and in private beta stage ( I’ve applied for an invitation ).

So what is Nokoscope ?

To find out click on

http://senseapplied.com/index.php/nokoscope-by-nokia/

 

Awaiting to add my self to Nokia’s scope

Farhan

Feeling Secure With Nokia

Nokia and Securitas has joined hands to bring a suite of security applications foe everyday consumers’ personal security and safety using GPS and Data technology

How they have joined hands read at

http://senseapplied.com/index.php/feeling-secure-with-nokia/

Feeling Secure in Future

Farhan

Nokia Morph A Step Closer To Reality

Korean Scientists at Sungkyunkwan University in collaboration with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) team   Professor Hong Byung-hee, of the univeristy have taken the reality of Nokia Morph one step closer and could lead to development of flexible displays.

 

Read More at

http://senseapplied.com/index.php/nokia-morph-a-step-closer-to-reality/

guess who will have the first device ;)

Farhan

A Sectera EDGE for Obama

I love President Obama , don’t care about his policies or politics but do know he’s one tech savy guy , fighitng for his right to keep a Black Berry among presidents like Bill Clinton who only sent two emails during his tenure and Mr Bush still beating aorund the bush saying he’ll get bck to email after getting off office and hadn’t sent one during his 8 years and Mr Obama said “ "I'm still clinging to my BlackBerry," and “ They're going to pry it out of my hands” ( source CNET )

I even wrote a poem for him “ An Ode to Obama”

So what he uses now Click on

http://senseapplied.com/index.php/a-sectera-edge-for-obama/

May I have one for review please ??

Farhan

O-Phone

What does US President Obama , Kenya , Chinese Handset Manufacturer and Nokia the Finnish Handset Leader have in common .

They all are ingredients to make a Chinese phone Rip off of Nokia 5610 Express Music launched in  Kenya named after President Obama with his famous “ Yes  We Can “ Quote

For further details click

Permanent Link to O-Phone

Farhan

Hooking up E71 with Car Stereo

I love my music especially of 80’s and 90’s , at home I can listen to it via Nokia Internet Radio but on the move I had to rely on bluetooth headset which causes distraction to I’ve come up with a new setup to hook up my E71 with the Car Sound system with six speakers and one ‘forcefully’ added 1000 Watt Pioneer Sub Woofer , listening to Roxette and ABBA in all their  glory .

How I did that click on

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Doing the Music

Farhan