N96 live pictures and hands-on notes

May 11, 2008 by Meraj Chhaya  
Filed under Hands-on, NSeries, Nokia, Review, S60, Symbian

At the right N96 N81 8GB, and at the left the N81 8GB N96. It’s not just the display that’s bigger, but there are few minor changes in cosmetics on the front. The keys are slightly separated, and the multimedia key is smaller. The navi-wheel is made thinner and higher so that it feels good to the finger.

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N96 will ship with Transformers

May 7, 2008 by Meraj Chhaya  
Filed under Blog News, Hands-on, NSeries, Nokia, Review

Both Nokias standing, the N96 with its kickstand, while the N95 8GB is supported by the N96

Today at the launch in South Africa, Nokia stated in a press release that the Nokia N96 will ship to South Africa with the latest Transformers movie embedded in the devices’ memory.

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How to be like Stavros!

March 23, 2008 by Meraj Chhaya  
Filed under Applications, GPS, Hands-on, NSeries, Nokia, S60, Symbian

Mark Guim posted an in-depth guide on how to play around with your Nokia Sports Tracker and Google Maps in order to achieve what Stavros does: Position Art.

Of course most of us aren’t as talented as Stavros, but now we can atleast give it a try.

Instructions

Step 1. Use Sports Tracker on your phone to record your location data. You can choose to run, walk, or whatever and it will record your path.

Step 2. When You are done, select ‘Upload to Service’ on the workout summary screen on your phone. The data will be uploaded to Sports Tracker online.

Step 3. On the Sports Tracker website, the route will be displayed on a map. To get this map on our blogs, we need to download the data as KML file by pressing the KML button above the map.

Nokia Sports Tracker

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