Sometimes when you want to loose weight, you forget to keep count on the calories lost. The Sports tracker and step counter can work with almost any Nokia with access to internet.

Here are the two applications that will help you keep track of the number of calories you burnt today, or the number of steps you walked.

The Nokia Step Counter not only counts your steps, it also estimates the distance you have covered and your energy loss. You can even compare your activity levels on different days by looking up the summaries stored in a handy diary, really

Nokia Sports Tracker is a GPS-based activity tracker that runs on Nokia smartphones. Whenever you train, information such as your speed, distance, and time are automatically stored to your training diary. In addition, you are now able to store, share, and compare your workouts with friends at the new Sports Tracker Beta web service at sportstracker.nokia.com.

The Nokia Sports tracker and Step Counter was announced officially closed on the 30th June, 2010 but theirs good news to, it was later announced this year that 3 people from the team behind Nokia Sports Tracker have agreed to establish the development, now to be called Sports Tracker. The new company, Sports Tracking Technologies Ltd have announced plans to develop the software to be used on non Nokia mobiles.

From August 2010 the mobile software has been developed to record your workouts and the website is open to register, upload and share your workouts.

Visit the Nokia N96 Forum.

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I noticed that the N96 has a twin but apparently only the face is similar. It seems that the similarity hasn’t been noticed by a numerous amount of people. The twin is called Nokia N85!

Lets welcome the N85.

Both of the twins have the same feel and look of the Navi-wheel. The home screen, answering and the rejecting call key are the same but on the N96, the rejecting key goes inside while the N85 rejecting key is only pressed.

Another thing worth mentioning is that the Nokia N96 top keypad is more spacious which of course means that it has more keys, and speaking about keys. it has dedicated music buttons around the Navi-wheel. In the East of the music keys, a silver button is present, it directs you to another type of menu but not the music player.

The menu key, the “c”and both side keys are lighted up during the use of the phone and not always visible. This status applies for both, the Nokia N96 and N85.

The N96 and the N85 have music keys if the user slides it down, the N85 also has zoom keys in the place of the fast forward and back wards.

The N96 is bulkier but worth it to have. I also say that statement for the N85 as they both have similarities but regarding the technical info then my money is on the N96.

Greetings!!! for the Holidays season. Feel the spirit of Christmas on your Nokia N96 with this in season theme that can be downloaded for free!

Nokia offers a Christmas theme to download from their OVI store (store.ovi.com) or you can also download it directly to your mobile phone thru their OVI mobile client.

This one I feature here is my personal favorite Christmas Theme that is available to download on the OVI store, This theme is uploaded by Gary Cham: A Hong Kong Designer/Illustrator, though this theme is so cute the character Ziing the santa star has a wonderful story behind this cute theme for your device. This star has a Dream to Shine like the moon, because of that dream he manage to give presents on a holiday’s season.

So Go and download now this Seasonal theme for your phone and start giving your phone a christmas experience.

You can also Check for More Free in Season Theme, Games, Applications and other Stuff on OVI, Register and start downloading from OVI to Experience these privileges.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! ENJOY THIS GREAT THEME!

By going to the OVI site: www.ovi.com and go to store.ovi.com and start downloading.

Christmas Ziing: DOWNLOAD HERE.

Finally back again to provide you all with latest news and software for the nokia n96. As you all probable know the nokia N96 is a quite attractive phone and now nokia have released a all black version obviously for the people who don’t think the n96 is black enough. When I heard of this phone I thought that nokia mite have tried to improve the phone but at least on the inside but I guess its not to be. Apart from the obvious black sides the only other visual difference is the pattern on the back which I think looks worse that the original (or now know as the nokia n96 grey). I think this new colour makes the phone look a lot more badass but I personally prefer the cleaner, shinier look of the grey n96 but I can understand why people would buy the black one but its such a minimal difference that it will make too many people jealous.

Name: Best Profiles

Description: Profile Manager

Summary: I haven’t been impressed with too many applications these days normally because they only have one use. Its going to be a mouth full to tell you what Best Profiles can do for your Nokia N96 but ill give it a go. To start with lets go through the basics, Best Profiles will let you chose to change your profile everyday or just the selected days, you can also set up key words and whenever an event happens in your calender that uses that key word it will change to a selected profile. Best Profiles will also use your GSM location to chose a profile (which so far I have only been able to define a country but you mite be able to work or home locations) and of course it can change your profile when you charge your phone. With all this going on it could well happen that your profiles overlap so Best Profiles has a priority setting for each profile change it does. Now lets get onto the good stuff, first for every different profile you can have different wallpapers, Themes and sound notifications. Also upon activation of a profile you can set it to run multiple applications, different backlight settings and even bluetooth activity. All this needs a bit of planning what if you just want a quick change well Best Profiles has the ability to let you activate any profile at a certain time, after a certain time, for a certain time and even lock for a certain time if your not sure what other profile mite activate.

Overview: On its own Best Profiles doesn’t seem that much but if you think of the possibilities for example my previous post was power mp3 that could start playing music as soon as it opened so if you set that as the application your profile runs it could be an alarm clock that doesn’t stop. Just think what it could do I’m 100% sure that someone will think of an even better use of this application and I would love to hear about it when you do. Unfortunately I have some bad news Best Profiles isn’t free its only £6/$10 but I know that it will put most people off which is a shame because it is a good application and one day there will be a time this application will help you.

To Download the trial of Best Profiles go here

For more info go here

If you have come up with anyway this will help you please tell us at the forum

Name: Spore

Genre: Strategy/Adventure

Summary: Spore has been out for the PC for about a year and it has been doing well mainly because of massive amount of game-play and innovative story. Spore has now been released for the Nokia N96 but with the lack of graphics and processing power, is it able to be a good game? The game itself is quite addictive and with ability to change every part of your creature. The point of the game is to eat little creatures so that yours can develop and the more you develop the more you can eat and defend yourself. The graphics works nicely and the game in whole runs smoothly the only thing that needs fixing is the navigation because it only uses up, down, left and right and a lot of the time you want to go in a diagonal direction.

Overview: I was a bit surprised with this game because I played the version for the Iphone which was about 20 bigger in size and that got very boring. However Spore for n-gage is better because its more fast paced and seems harder but I’m sure there’s more levels in the Iphone version. The other thing this game has is a multi-player so you can show off your creature to other n-gage players. In the end of the day I don’t think ill be buying this game just because I’ve played Iphone version.

For more information about Spore go here,

If you want to download a free Trial of Spore go here,

If you have any questions please go to the forum.

Name: Adaptxt

Description: predictive text/general word tool

Summary: I’m going to start by advising you to get this application because it is brilliant. Last month I posted a application called “Quickwrite” which did what you wanted but only in its own sms application. Adaptxt predicts you text everywhere and of course the more you use certain words the higher up the list they become. That’s not all Adaptxt has up its sleeve it can also predict the next few words in the sentence and if that’s not enough it also enables little key shortcuts to smileys and to copy the last word. Another tool this has is that it can translate your written text into different languages but most of them cost a few quid.

Overall: Adaptxt appears to be beta version so its free, however you do have to register to download and I know myself that some people aren’t going to be bothered with that so ill post another link to download. If anything is wrong with this application it’s that it has too many uses that sometimes seem to get in the way when your trying to do certain things.

To download Adaptxt go here

For more information go here

if you what express your opinion of this application please go to the forum

Name: Pandemonium

Genre: Action/Adventure

Summary: Pandemonium has been around for a good few years originally coming out for the PlayStation, back then it was know for having good graphics but not great game play. Now It has been revived for the nokia n96 and with a new developer, will it surpass other games or will it fail? What the game does have is nice colourful environments, two playable characters each with different abilities and lots of levels. The multiplayer isn’t bad but you could get bored of racing each level again and again. The game feels like an old run and shoot arcade game with the only difference being that this uses a new style of graphics which make it look 3D. The detail should also be noted because someone spent a lot of time and it shows.

Overall: To answer the my earlier question, this game fails because its almost unplayable because it cant keep up with the frame rate so it stutters all the time. Also one of the characters use the normal n-gage controls which is fine but the other character needs both the normal N-gage controls and also the keypad so with that character you need to constantly open and close the slider. I tried this game on the n95 which it was much better but still slowed every now and again making it impossible to play the game fast which was meant to be the action in Action/Adventure. In the end of the day its a good game but you need a fast phone to play it.

For more information about Pandemonium go here

To download Pandemonium go here

If you want to express your opinion please go to the forum

Name: Age of Empires III (AoE)

Genre:  Strategy

Summary: The AoE series has been going on for ages and it has finally been released for the Nokia N96 and is a welcome addition to the N-gage platform. Many of the other AoE games where notorious for being the greatest strategy games on low powered computers so if any game was to make a good  strategy game for the N96 and N-gage its AoE. First thing you notice about the game is the graphics which look exactly like AoE II, second you’ll notice how smoothly it runs which didn’t dip even with a lot going on. The Demo is quite limited so I’m not sure how many buildings there are but I’m sure there is more than the 4 you get to play with. The button controls are well placed but the directional pad takes a bit of getting used to.

Overview: In fairness I think this is the best they are going to be able to do as far as a strategy game for N-gage, even thought there are a few little things that a just taken away that makes the game too easy I found. I think that its an interesting game and will be quite popular all over the market. One thing that works nicely for this game is that it has a high tempo so your never waiting. I don’t know how good the really game is but the demo just isn’t convincing enough which is really annoying because this game has potential.

To download Age of Empires go here

If you have any questions about AoE please go to the forum

Yahoo,as predicted Nokia finally releases a new fimware not the predicted 20.045 but firmware version 20.050 which is avaible OTA, I only have checked a few product codes but it seem that as long as you have one of the “” products codes you can download it from NSU. With that in mind lests find out what new in this firmware and will it improve your phone or have we been waiting for nothing, we’ll lets see whats been updated.

Email:

• Nokia Email client and Mail for Exchange (MfE) preloaded (User will install and configure email clients with the help of Settings Wizard)
• Settings Wizard 5.0: offers improvements for Nokia Email and MfE setup
• Active Standby Email Plug-in: showing new email messages on Active Standby screen

Look & Feel:

• Support for Audio Themes: configurable sounds for various events e.g. opening/closing slide, battery low etc
• Setting to allow a slideshow to be used as wallpaper
• Slide handling: Setting to allow user to configure effect opening/closing the slide has on a call and keylock

Photos/Camera/Imaging:

• A number of improvements made to the Camera image quality
• The device SW version information is now stored in the image MetaData
• Default recording quality for video is changed from ‘TV normal’ to TV high’
• Noise reduction of recorded videos

Media/DRM:

• New version of Music player: Performance and “Comes With Music”-related improvements
• FlashLite update for improved YouTube compatibility – improvements in rendering of Flash Video
• General Media player & streaming related usability & performance improvements
• OMA DRM v2 content can use device clock if no secure clock (i.e. NITZ) is available

Others:

• WiFi Protected Setup is now supported, allowing simplified setup of WLAN security with a supported WLAN access point
• Support of IAD (Independent Application Delivery): Allows certain applications to be updated independently over the air.
• Vibra enabled when charging
• When gaming in landscape mode, stereo audio will be played through correct speakers
• Updated Themes
• Slide triggered keyguard activation: When closing the slide, pressing any key within 2 seconds will result in keylock not being activated
• Several error corrections based on Care and operator feedback
• Several application baseline updates

IMPROVEMENTS

• Correction for occasional CMLA (Content Management License Administrator) certificate corruption. (These certificates are needed for e.g. Mobile TV and N-Gage license purchases)
• Energy management
• Shorter lights/screen timeout when lockswitch activated. Backlight dims as soon as keylock is enabled.
• Media Keys surrounding the rocker key lit only if a media application is open
• Right Softkey changed from “Hide” to “Exit” for Music Player for EM savings

Browser:

• Empty bookmark folders removed from Browser bookmarks (i.e. the “Download…” folders)
• Link to Ovi.mobi is included in Browser bookmarks

All of these add up to quite alot but theres a few things left untouched but they will probably come around with the next firmware. I was also sad to see that they didnt try to improve the sound quality but maybe the mucic play will do that.

Let us know what you think of Firmware 20.050 at the forum