More and more Nokia N96 on eBay

I really don’t get it, and it’s not even funny anymore. Few weeks ago, bloggers like Darla Mack, Symbian-Guru, and others reported people selling free email addresses from Nokia N96, and people actually buying them.

These auction “experts” have gone in-depth in their technique, and bought the domain nokian96.info and selling emails from it. Don’t forget the that NokiaN96.NET doesn’t have any connection with the NokiaN96.INFO subjects.

You can check this wacky auction here: Nokia N96 on eBay

Do comment about what you think of these schemes here

Symbian OS9.3 with S60 v3.1 Feature Pack 2 reviewed

Rafe over at All About Symbian has reviewed the Nokia N78. The important relation between the N96 and N78 is definitely the Operating System.

I decided to provide the readers with some extracts of the software bits contained in his review. A lot of this is ungrouped, and everything is really Rafe’s words:

The usual standard suite of software is present, including the PIM trio of Contacts, Calendar and Messaging. Web, Search and various office applications are all present. Feature Pack 2 brings a number of minor updates to these applications, but it is usability changes to the user interface that get most of the immediate attention.

The most obvious user interface change is the addition of a central softkey. This, for the most part, explicitly labels functionality that was already there, but should make things clearer to new users. Multi-tasking is made more obvious thanks to a redesigned task-switcher and the addition of an ‘Open applications’ item to the top of all Options menus.

Other changes that should be popular among N78 users include support for progressive downloads (start playing media during download), faster loading Java applications, full-screen picture caller ID for incoming calls, the inclusion of Flash Lite 3 (watch YouTube and other Flash videos in the browser), and inclusion of the WRT runtime (widgets).

The N73’s Gallery application was notorious for being sluggish, especially when viewing carousels of photos (thumbnail drawing rarely kept up with on screen movements). The good news is that the carousel has been re-designed from the ground up for the new Photos application and it also benefits from the faster processor of the N78. The end result is much better performance, with little or no lag time when moving around the carousel or viewing photos. A nice touch is the inclusion of an on-screen indication of where you are on a carousel, making it easy to navigate around large groupings of photos. When viewing an individual photo, you are able to add album and tag information, as well as the usual send, print, edit, slideshow and use image commands.

Share online, which allows the upload of media to online services such as Flickr, Share on Ovi, and Print online, which allows you order prints directly from your phone which are subsequently delivered by post, are all available out of the box and serve as ways of getting photos off the phone. Share online is particularly important here, as it integrates with both the Camera and Photos application, allowing for one click uploads to the web. Read more

Syntrax – Professional DJ application for Symbian!

Symbian software has no limits, pretty much everything that you do on the computer, is possible to be done on your phone. With the upcoming release of the Nokia N96, users new to Symbian, or even Symbian experts can look forward to these programs. Not everyone has a taste for music, especially for writing and mixing it. Turn tables and DJ components are often too expensive, and even computer software for that purpose is overpriced. Now you can have it all in the phone, and compose music on the move, without disturbing anyone if you use your earphones.

Syntrax has all modern musician wants when away from the studio. A sequencer, sound synthesis and sample editor all wrapped up in a nice little package.

Features:

* Up to 8 stereo audio channels simultaneously (previously only 6)
* Playback of samples with bi-directional looping support
* Realtime sound synthesis with 15 sound generation effects
* Realtime effects like filters, morphs and echoes
* A built in small sample editor
* A full featured sequencer
* Dynamic playback options (songspeed, groove, muting etc..)
* Realtime instrument parameter changing
* Full library of preset songs and sounds for you to start working with
* User adjustable sound quality for slower devices
* MIDI compatibility.

Download it here

Source: The Nokia N82 Blog

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