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66 Nokia X6 at RM66 Only at Launch Party! Featuring Boys Like Girls

Nicholas Chan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:36:39 +0000

Oh my god! You hear me right! The latest Nokia X6, first Nokia media phone with capacitive touchscreen will be selling at only RM66 (19.30USD!) at the launch party which happening on the 29th January 2010 at Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club Indoor Arena!

It’s not all yet! Boys Like Girls will be there, Khalil Fong will be there! And other artist too! I like Khalil Fong a lot. =)

Unfortunately, I am so far away from the location, I stay in Penang, somewhere 400km away from the venue and unless there’s sponsor want to cover my transportation and accommodation, only then I can go cover the event for you. I so wish that I could be in the line and buy a phone for such a low price and meet up with Boys Like Girls and Khalil Fong. OMG!

[via Nokia Malaysia]

Nokia N900 Dual Boot and Runs Android

Nicholas Chan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:22:43 +0000

Now many people keep on talking about the Google Nexus One and the iPhone 3GS is still always a hit. Nokia N900 was once very anticipated and now getting quiet already, seldom hear people talk about it or read about it.

Though, it’s not out yet, only that it keeps quiet and turned on silent mode, it still vibrates. Some hacker installed Android OS on the Nokia N900 and it dual boot Maemo and Android too! A little bit cool, but I prefer running just one OS. The most important of all still is SPEED!

What this tell us is not running Android on N900, it is telling us that Maemo on N900 is open source, and it is possible to run other OS.

[via jkOnTheRun]

Facebook App on Nokia E71 and E72

Nicholas Chan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:34:55 +0000

Facebook just released its app for two of the Nokia E series phone, the E71 and E72. This is a good move because E72 just released lately and it’s quite a powerful device.

The app allows you to do some simple Facebook stuff like updating your status, adding friends, sending messages, browsing and uploading photos and more. Unfortunately there’s no Chat feature like on the iPhone.

Feeling a little bit disappointed because they online release app for the E71 and E72 but not the others Nokia S60 v3 phone like N95 (I use a N95 8GB). Some people tried to install it on a E75 and it works, so you might wanna give it a try too.

Download it now at Ovi store.

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Customize Your S60 Standby/Home Screen with Voyager Home Screen

Nicholas Chan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:14:59 +0000

Feeling bored about your standby screen on your S60 phone? Yeah, it’s very bored and not customizable. Last time I tried Handy Shell, which is a home screen replacement for the S60 phone, the application and how it works looks very cool but one problem for me using N95 is that the Handy Shell seriously lagged my phone and another down side of it is that it’s not a free application.

My previous original home screen.

Recently I found a new application that will replace your standby screen with various customization. Actually it’s out quite some times in Chinese version. It’s actually created by the Chinese and have been ported to English recently.

It added weather, Google search, a big digital clock, and a rotating news feed. The to do notes and memos are still there and it shows the number of to dos you have in your calendar instead of one in the original standby screen. Another thing I didn’t set is that it allows two rows of shortcut instead of one. I don’t really have that many shortcuts, so a row is fine for me. One row that is missing is the Share Online thing that was on the original standby screen, this is a good thing because I don’t use it and I believe many of you don’t too, another is the WLAN scanning, but you can add the WLAN wizard shortcut into the shortcut line. =)

On the original setting, the right key is actually MyFav which shows a list of your frequent used contact. I prefer having Calendar as my right shoutcut key. Pressing the red End Call keys will switch between opened background application. So let’s say you have Gravity on, you hide it, you need not to go can choose from your shortcut but instead, pressing the End Call button brings you straight into unclose app.

For the left shortcut key, it actually opens up a menu which brings to a list of shortcut again. So you actually can get a lot of shortcut with this Voyager Homescreen. One thing that bothers me is that I don’t know why my Start menu is in Chinese, maybe is the install and uninstall of different version causes this. I can read Chinese so it does fine to me. A little big translation on my Start menu, the first *key is Lock Keypad, 1. is News Feeds, 3. is Setting, 3. is More Setting and 4. is Camera.

Clicking on the weather bar brings up this 4 day weather forecast. You need to have a Internet connection for this and the rotating news feed. Setting up the weather was a little bit troublesome at first, I recommend you to use a Wifi or 3G, it just can’t detect the city when I got an EDGE connection.

Another feature that comes with it is vApp which is like a App Store built in with the vHome app. Showing some of the useful free app. This is faster than Ovi, but I didn’t really use it because I have what I want already.

Besides that, you can do smart dialing which is like on the E71. Straight dial a name and the names on the phonebook or app will show on screen. I like this feature a lot.

I also found out that the app has changed my web browser’s home screen, showing a list of shortcuts. That’s pretty good, but if I am allow to change the links of the shortcut will be nice.

One feature that is missing from the Chinese version is the social networking bar, which you can update Facebook and Twitter right from the standby screen, hopefully next update will include this.

Available for Symbian S60 v3 and it’s unsigned. So look way around to install unsigned app in your phone and have fun!

Download here.