Yesterday Nokia blessed the Nokia 5800 has been blessed with the v30.0.011 firmware. The update makes the 5800 much more responsive which results in a snappy UI, another point of note is that the free RAM on the device has shot up and this means that you can multitask better and have more applications open at the same time.

Another thing that the new firmware brings in a shortcut for email on the homescreen, needless to say this is an extremely handy and much awaited addition. The firmware is slowly being pushed out over the air and is available via Nokia’s Software Updater. If you don’t see the update then it means that its not available for your product code for now and you will have to wait for some firmware love.

Although the 5800 features user data preservation, I suggest you backup before you update.

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Just like we talked about Messaging on the E75 earlier, although Nokia might have positioned the E75 as a total ‘Internet’ device, there are a few things it cant really do out of the box. Luckily, thanks to the fact that the E75 runs Symbian S60 v3, there are quite a few applications to help you make more use of your E75.

Nokia Messaging – E75 IM Beta
Nokia Messaging now offers a desktop-like IM experience on your Nokia device. You can stay in contact with your friends across multiple communities, easily switch between and save conversations and login invisibly. This release is available today for the E75 – the first device bundled with a lifetime subscription to the Nokia Messaging service.
Key features

* Chat with your friends on the Yahoo!® Messenger and Ovi communities
* Quickly navigate through multiple conversations across different communities
* Background notifications of new IMs for true multitasking on your phone
* Familiar and integrated community experience -Yahoo-specific emoticons, graphics, and sounds
* Rapidly set status and availability, and login invisibly – choose who you want to talk to
* See your Ovi friends’ avatars and set your own
* Save conversations to remember your chat sessions

YouTube
The Mobile Client for Youtube on the E75 can be downloaded from m.Google.com and allows you to have a better UI experience to access your favourite Youtube videos on your device.

Fring

fring™ is a mobile internet community and communication service that allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their online communities together.

Using your handset′s internet connection, you can interact with friends on all your favourite social networks including Skype®, MSN Messenger®, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®. You can listen to music with your Last.fm friends, check out what each other are up to on Facebook, receive alerts of new Google Mail™ and tailor make your very own fring by adding more cool experiences from fringAdd-ons™.

Nokia has positioned the E75 as an ultimate email/messaging device, but there are a few things it can’t do out of the box. However, that does not mean that you cannot take the ‘messaging’ tag a step further and utilize the potential of the E75 completely. Here are applications that will help you turn the E75 into a Instant Messaging and scan, copy & fax device.

• PALRINGO – This free applications allows you to IM with 10 different IM services including Facebook, Gtalk, Yahoo, Live Messenger and AOL. You can even send voice messages with a single click, join chatrooms and so on. Download here.

• SCANR – This is one of my favourite applications, it has the ability to turn your camera phone into a scanner, copier, and fax. I’ve not used the fax service but the rest work great! The website claims it can clean photos of documents, whiteboards and business cards; extract any text and contact information, and they deliver. The phone application is  basically a upload tool and the processing is done online. Unfortunately, the service is not free but is relatively cheap, try here.

• HERE & NOW - Here and Now offers easy-to-use web services related to your current location. Check the local weather at a glance and get other topical information while on the move. Get it here.

Here’s a short video letting you know about how software updates will be periodically released for your N97, and how your device checks for them automatically.

Following on from our series showcasing the N97 widgets, this time we have a look at some of the widgets from the ‘News and Information’ section of the Ovi Store. All of these widgets are completely free and a useful addition to your N97.

• Bloomberg – Information about the world’s financial market delivered right on your homescreen.

• You can enter your stock number etc in the ‘My Stocks’ tab and it will display the current price, change and market value of your holding.

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One of the coolest features about the Nokia N97, is its FM Transmitter. Here’s how to use it with your Car Stereo, or any Radio.

The Nokia E75 is being mainly called a “Business” device and thats it. What many people dont realize though, is how awesome of an all rounder this phone is. One of its best features, is using the E75 as a music device.

The E75 is also the first Eseries-branded handset to utilize the AIC33 dedicated audio chip. So as you can expect, Audio Quality is great, and definitely on par with Nseries devices.

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The day before we talked about a few random lesser known widgets for the N97 and today we are going to have a look at some of the options we have in the ‘entertainment’ genre. I was surprised to find quite a few widgets in this category alone at the Ovi Store. Moreover the fact that the Ovi Store application is already installed on the N97, makes it a breeze to discover new widgets.

Simply open the application, goto the ‘Applications’ tab, hit options and select ‘Entertainment’ from the categories. You can then sort the entried from newest to older or direct the application to show you only the free ones or both paid and free or paid only.

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