Name: Satkunanathan, aka "S.Manimaraa"
Web Site: http://www.symbiandreams.com
Bio: Marketing Professional ,Soft Skills Trainer ,Mobile and Gadget Freak. Founder and Chief Editor of Symbiandreams.com .
Posts by S.Manimaraa:
- 4 inch OLED screen (resolution of 800 x 480 pixels)
- 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor
- 512 MB of RAM
- 1 GB of system storage
- 64 GB internal memory
- 720p HD video recording
- 802.11 b/g/n, HSPA+
- A-GPS
- Bluetooth 2.1
- Symbian OS 9 S60 3rd Edition
- Symbian OS 9 S60 5th Edition
- Fast page load times
- Over the air data usage reduced up to 90%
- Three view modes – Full Page View, Zoomed-in View, Column View
- Integrated search on start page with selectable list of search engines
- Favourites
- Browsing and Search history
- URL and Form auto completion
- Snap to text during scrolling
- Speed scrolling using numeric keypad
- Automatically jumps to the main content on a page to reduce scrolling
- One click jump to login and search in Column View
- Page segmentation in Column View to simplify navigation
- More reliable rating and commenting feature : Since OVI Store has thousands of applications ,you may be confused ,which one to choose ,the ratings make you to choose the better application faster.
- More Product Info : Yes ,this was a set back to OVI Store for long time , most of the applications did not have enough information about . The New OVI 1.6 offers sufficient information about every application ,read it carefully before you download it .
- Shows the user experiences from the N97 community
- Gives tips and tricks of N97
- Suggests good applications for N97 from OVI Store
- News from N97 community
- Option to share the article you like via the N97 Widgets.
- All N97 support and stuff available under one roof..
- Dimensions
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- Size: 113.5 x 59 x 12.9 mm
- Weight (with battery): 135 g
- Volume: 86 cc
- Keys and input methods
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- Physical keys (Menu key, Power key, Lock key, volume keys, Camera key)
- Finger touch support for text input and UI control
- On-screen alphanumeric keypad and full keyboard
- Dedicated camera and volume keys
- Possibility to use capacitive stylus
- Handwriting recognition for Chinese
- Colours
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- Anodized aluminium casing, available in:
- Silver white
- Dark grey
- Orange
- Blue
- Green
- Colour availability varies by country
- Anodized aluminium casing, available in:
- Personalisation
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- Up to three customisable home screens:
- Widgets
- Themes
- Shortcuts
- Icons
- Menu
- Customisable profiles
- Ring tones: mp3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB
- Video ring tones
- Themes
- wallpapers
- screensavers
- audio themes
- pre-installed themes
- changeable colour themes
- Up to three customisable home screens:
- Display and user interface
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- Screen size: 3.5″
- Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) OLED
- 16.7 million colours
- Capacitive touch screen
- Orientation sensor (Accelerometer)
- Compass (Magnetometer)
- Proximity sensor
- Ambient light detector
- Data Network
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- GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 33
- HSDPA Cat9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbps
- WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n
- TCP/IP support
- Capability to serve as data modem
- Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes
- Memory
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- Internal memory: 16 GB
- MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32 GB
- Operating Frequency
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- GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100
- Automatic switching between WCDMA & GSM bands
- Flight mode
- Connectivity
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- Bluetooth 3.0
- HDMI
- 2mm Charging connector
- Micro USB connector and charging
- High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)
- USB On-the-Go
- 3.5 mm AV connector
- FM Radio
- FM Transmitter
- Software platform & user interface
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- Symbian ^3 for Nokia
- Java MIDP 2.1
- Qt 4.6.2, Web Runtime 7.2
- HTML 4.1
- Software updates Over the Air (FOTA) & Over the internet (FOTI)
- Flash Lite 4.0
- OMA DM 1.2, OMA Client provisioning 1.1
- Applications
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- Key applications: Calendar, Contacts, music player, internet, messaging, photos, Ovi Store, Maps, Videos, WebTV, Office document editors, Video & photo editor, Mail, Chat, Radio
- PC Applications: Nokia Ovi Suite, Nokia Ovi Player
- Personal Information Management (PIM)
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- Detailed contact information
- Calendar
- To-do list
- Notes
- Recorder
- Calculator
- Clock
- Email and messaging
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- Easy-to-use email client with attachment support for images, videos, music and documents .doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf, .zip
- HTML support for email
- Unified email client for multiple protocols: Yahoo!® Mail, Gmail™, Windows Live™, Hotmail and other popular POP/IMAP services, Mail for Exchange, IBM Lotus traveler
- Editing of key office documents
- Email web widget for home screen
- Chat instant messaging support: OVI Chat, Yahoo, AIM, Windows Live, Gtalk, MySpace*
- Unified MMS/SMS editor
- Conversational view for SMS
- Push email and expanded portal support available through Nokia Messaging for Email and Instant Messaging
- Call management
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- Contacts: advanced contacts database with support for multiple phone and e-mail details per entry with personal thumbnail pictures and video clips
- Smart dialling to find phone numbers quickly
- Speed dialling, voice dialling (speaker independent) and voice commands
- Logs of dialled, received and missed calls
- Conference calling
- Integrated hands-free speaker
- Video calling
- Browsing and internet
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- Full web browsing of real web pages
- Web browsing with touch control
- Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS
- Supported protocols: HTTP v1.1, WAP
- TCP/IP support
- Visual history, HTML and JavaScript support
- Flash Lite 4 will support a majority of Flash Player 10.1 content
- Nokia Mobile Search
- RSS reader
- Support for streaming video
- Unified home screen access to Facebook and Twitter through Ovi by Nokia Social client
- Social networking profiles visible in phone contacts
- Upload and view photos and video and see locations via Ovi by Nokia Social client
- Social networking events visible in phone calendar
- GPS and navigation
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- Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers
- Ovi Maps with free car & pedestrian navigation
- Wi-Fi Positioning
- Compass and accelerometer for correct orientation of display
- Nokia Map Loader application via PC to upload maps to the device memory
- Camera
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- 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics
- Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy-to-use touchscreen parameters
- Xenon flash
- Face recognition software
- Autofocus
- Focal length: 5.4 mm
- F number/Aperture: F2.8
- Still images file format: JPEG/EXIF
- Zoom up to 2x (digital) for still images
- Zoom up to 3x (digital) for video
- Secondary camera for video calls (VGA, 640 x 480 pixels)
- Image capture
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- Automatic location tagging (Geotagging) of images and videos
- Images automatically taken in the correct orientation
- Pinch zoom in Photos image viewer
- View photos by tag cloud, month, album, slide show
- Photo editor
- Online Share with connectivity to popular sharing services
Nokia N9 Leaked Specs and Photos
August 24th, 2010
This news item is published in lot of other blogs and gonna be serious !!! .GSM arena also confirming ,that Nokia N9 will be the next device from Nokia. But The built quality of the handset does not seem to be a Nokia device . What do you think ?
The release date is expected(rumored )to be in December 2010. But I am sure,Nokia will not release another hi end device this soon,before reaching the goals of marketing N8 satisfactory.
Free Divx Player -Download for S60-V3s and V5s
August 19th, 2010
Divx player is now available for your Symbian based mobiles . If you like to play the Divx videos ,now you dont need to convert them, just transfer to your mobile and play. I have tested the S60 5th edition player on my Nokia N97. The video quality is mmm…ok ,but not that good. Still it is worth for play informative videos. Hope to get better version soon.
Download the free Divx multimedia player for you mobile here
Thanks for the download links and news : The Handheld Blog.
Nokia X3 in design – a beautiful official video
August 19th, 2010
Nokia events released this official demo of Nokia X3-02 ,wow the video is worth to see ,let us hope the real product will be good as video.
Improved Email Client on Nokia N8-Video
August 19th, 2010
Nokia N8 got a new look and feel on it’s email client . N8′s email client has some additional features as well. This going to be a real hit ,I think.
Watchout this video
Frequently Asked Questions by Nokia and Symbian Users
August 18th, 2010
What is Widgets ?
Widget is a small piece of software ,that calls a particular web site in your phone ,or run web application in your phone without using the mobile web browser. If you have a web site and you want to promote it ,you can create a widget ,that is an application a user can install in his/her phone. once the user opened your widget directly the web site you like to show ,will open. this is one of the feature of the widget( a web short cut).
What is Flash Lite ?
Flash lite is the light version of the Adobe Flash Player ,designed to run on mobile phones. If your phone has this flash lite ad on only you can run flash based applications ,games on your mobile.(if the application developed using flash technology ,you cannot run it in your phone without this)
What is OVI Store
OVI store is the online store where you can download free and paid application for your mobile phone. The OVI Store is owned and maintained by Nokia. web address of ovi store : https://store.ovi.com/If you have a latest Nokia phone ,there you may have OVI application pre installed. If your mobile supports the feature you can download and install the ovi application that will help you to see and download applications from your mobile phone.
Relevant Articles :
What is “share online”
Your Nokia hi-end device may have this feature (most of the N series and touch devices) after you take the picture immediately you can upload it to a free picture hosting service like Flickr. You can see this options under your camera menu and gallery menu(send>>upload) .OVI Web site offers you to create your own online album and later send to it via your mobile phone (Send>>Share on OVI) visit ovi share web site to create your own album now http://share.ovi.com/
And so on …I will update this post…..write us your doubts..
Nokia X3-02 -Touch and Type -Now Official
August 18th, 2010Nokia put a stop to the controversy about the Nokia X3-02 by officially announcing the release of the device.
Nokia X3-02 is the first S40 touch-driven device released from Nokia. This is the first device to have touch screen and the regular numeric key pad together . A new mixture of features from Nokia.
The Nokia X3-02 touchscreen measures 2.4″ in diagonal and sports QVGA resolution. This is one of the smallest touchscreens on the market . Lets wait and see that how the small screen is optimized to support our big fingers .
Nokia X3-02 has a fixed focus 5 Mega Pixel camera ,and packed with all other latest features like W-Lan(Got some New Standard )Bluetooth ,microUSB,3.5 mm audio jack.
Here are some more specs of Nokia X3-02 (Thanks to GSMArena.com )
| Size | Dimensions | 106.2 x 48.4 x 9.6 mm, 45.2 cc |
| Weight | 78 g |
| Memory | Phonebook | Yes, Photocall |
| Call records | Yes | |
| Card slot | microSD, up to 16GB |
| Data | GPRS | Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps |
| EDGE | Class 10, 236.8 kbps | |
| 3G | HSDPA, HSUPA | |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n | |
| Bluetooth | Yes, v2.1 with A2DP | |
| Infrared port | No | |
| USB | Yes, v2.0 microUSB | |
| Camera | Primary | 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels |
| Video | Yes | |
| Secondary | No | |
| Features | Messaging | SMS, MMS, Email, IM |
| Browser | WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML | |
| Radio | Stereo FM radio with RDS | |
| Games | Yes + downloadable | |
| Colors | White Silver, Dark Metal, Petrol Blue, Pink, Lilac | |
| GPS | No | |
| Java | Yes, MIDP 2.1 | |
| - Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk - Facebook, Twitter - MP4/H.263 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player - Organizer - Voice memo - T9 |
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| Battery | Standard battery, Li-Ion (BL-4S) | |
| Stand-by | Up to 408 h (2G) / Up to 408 h (3G) | |
| Talk time | Up to 5 h 20 min (2G) / Up to 3 h 30 min (3G |
OVI web browser for Symbian Series 40 from Nokia
August 5th, 2010
Beta Labs from Nokia has released a new mobile web browser called OVI Web Browser .This OVI Web Browser is designed for Series 40 devices like Nokia Xpress Music 5310 etc.
The main intention of this release is offering web experience to the users with less data charges-it is said that ovi browser reduces the data charges by 90%. OVI Web browser is fast and offering some new views( Full Page View, Zoomed-in View, Column View) .
Key Features :
Supported phones :
The Ovi Browser is only supported on select Series 40 devices. Supported S40 devices include: Nokia 2700 Classic, Nokia 2730 Classic, Nokia 3120 Classic, Nokia 3600 Slide, Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, Nokia 5220 Xpressmusic, Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition, Nokia 5330 Xpressmusic, Nokia 5610, Nokia 6300i, Nokia 6303, Nokia 6500 Slide, Nokia 6500 Classic, Nokia 6600 Slide, Nokia 6700 Classic, Nokia 7210 Supernova, Nokia 7900 Prism, Nokia X3
OVI Web Browser download link : Visit here to download the ovi web browser for your Nokia S40 device.
Shoot and Translate ,Grab the Abby Foto Translate for Free here
May 27th, 2010Dear SD fans,
Another great give away of another great application from SD is ready now. Abby Foto Translate is a nice innovative application from Abby Systems.
If you are a frequent traveller ,or if you encounter different languages frequently in your environment ,you may need a person to translate those to your known language.
When you see a foreign language announcement next time ,just take your mobile phone and take a snap ,done ! Abby Foto Translate software tells you the meaning within seconds.
Snap and translate or shoot and translate .
Abby Foto Translate has the following versions for the Symbian Powered Devices :
- German version (translation from English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian to German)
- Russian version (translation from English, French, Spanish, Italian, German to Russian)
- English version (translations from German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian to English)
I have tested the Abby Foto Translate on my Nokia N97 ,it done a great JOB. If you have used the bar code reader on your Nokia Phones ,then you will the similar type of operation here.
1)Start Abby Foto Translate on your phone
2)Point your Phone cam on the object (Notice ,banner,announcement )
3)Tab or Click camera Icon on the Foto Translate App Screen. Done. It takes only few seconds ,you will get the meaning in detail .
So ,you need a free Abby Foto Translate License ! ,here is the deal.
We will have three winners.
1st Winner shall get three licenses(German,Russian and English Versions)
2nd Winner Shall get two licenses (His choice of two languages )
3rd Winner will get one license
What you have to do for a free license of Abby Foto Translate ?
1) If you have twitter account ,just follow Symbiandreams at http://www.twiter.com/symbiandreamspeople started to follow us from 27/05/2010 will be eligible to this offer.
2)Alternatively you can write your opinion about the foto translate ,or you can tell us how Abby foto translate can help you ,by leaving a comment here.(you can try Abby Foto Translate by downloading a trial from here http://buy.abbyy.com/content/fototranslate/Symbian/default.aspx )
We plan to have this contest until mid of the next month ,the cosing date will be announced here shortly.hurry up and start to act now !.Congrats.
OVI Store is Improved ! Get the goodness of Version 1.6
May 21st, 2010
Nokia updated the look and feel of OVI Store one more time. The latest version OVI Store Client is 1.6. The key differences that you can see in the new OVI Store are :
Just start the OVI Store App in your symbian powered phone ,if you don’t have the latest version on it ,it will automatically check for update and prompt for update. Good luck and have a nice time with OVI 1.6.
N97 Owners Widget- A Sneak Peek
May 6th, 2010Friends from Womworld/Nokia sent me a mail about the upcoming N97 Widget ,that offers Tips and Tricks,User Experiences,N97 update news,N97 Software Downloads etc. Basically it is a N97 Club Widget.
This N97 Owners Widget is under testing now ,the contents are being added from various web sites ,that talk about N97. I am happy to see SD’s author Jade Bryan Jardinico’s article in the N97 Club Widget. This widget will be available by the last week of this month hopefully.
Features of the Nokia N97 Owners Widget :
Check out OVI Store frequently for the availability of N97 Club Widget and keep one widget space available at your home screen(yes ,indeed ,one home screen is not enough !!!)
Full Specifications of Nokia N8
May 2nd, 2010
