Nokia Music will soon become Ovi Music. This means all the tracks you download will be DRM-free, MP3 files that you can now play on a PC, Mac or any personal music player! Plus, as part of the change to Ovi, Nokia’s enhanced the search capability to make it easier than ever to find the music you want.
Here’s the email from Nokia:
What you need to do:
Absolutely nothing. We will create a Nokia Account for you and send you an email when we become Ovi music. Until then, try to avoid changing any of your Nokia Music account details such as password, email address and mobile number.
As part of the move to Ovi Music we will be creating a Nokia Account for you. If you do not wish to use Ovi Music and no longer wish to have a Nokia Account you can email us in next 5 days. By using these services, you accept the Ovi Music Terms, Ovi Service Terms and the Privacy Policy. You may not use the services if you don’t accept the terms.
Ewan and Rafe we able to catch up with Lee Williams, the director of the Symbian Foundation at the Mobile World Congress and capture his thoughts on the Symbian v Android debate. He talks about where Symbian is heading in the next few years, on how ‘open’ Android actually is and how Google will probably benefit most from Android.
The N900’s love for other OS’s apart from Maemo keeps on growing. After Windows 95, Android, Mer and even Mac OS, @lifenexus has managed to get LDXE running on top of Mer on the N900. At bootup users are presented with an option to boot into Mer or Maemo. The alternative OS is installed on an external Micro SD card and works pretty well.
I managed to day to get Ubuntu mobile on n900. That would be MER with lxde desktop on top of it. Ill post instructions later. For now, enjoy the screens and Video.
N900 really has a large potential. the Operating system runs as fast as maemo itself and is natively installed on my SD card. It has support for wifi, charging, touch etc but no support for phone. so you cant make calls in mer. Just reboot into maemo when Done.
In great news coming out of Barcelona, we know that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are coming to Nokia’s Symbian devices this year. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon series is known for its high speed processors and the fact that it comes with built in GPS, Bluetooth, WIFI cellular radio chipsets. Snapdragon powers popular devices like the Google Nexus One and the HTC HD2.
With the Symbian UI gettings a overhaul and faster performance on the horizon, things are really looking up for Nokia’s Symbian devices. Have you had a look at the Symbian^3 UI? Does a 1 GHZ Nokia running S^3 sound good to you?
After the E52, its now the turn of its sibling the E55 to get the v31 firmware. The update is available over-the-air (OTA) if you dial *#0000# in the standby menu and go on to check for updates. The 7.54 MB update can be installed without the fear of data loss as the E55 supports user data preservation (UDP), however a backup is always recommended.
The v31 updates brings bug fixes and optimizations to the device along with updates to pre-installed applications such as Web, Email, Music Store and Maps.
Skype is finally available on the Nokia N97 and other S60 5th Edition devices. It also came out of beta and expanded its compatibility to almost all S60 3rd and 5th Edition devices. The list doesn’t mention devices like the N86 and E72, but I can confirm that it is working on both devices.
You can hit skype.com/m from you Nokia device’s browser to download and install Skype. The client offers everything you would expect from a Skype client, free Skype to Skype calls, the ability to call mobile and landline numbers in your phonebook with Skype out credit, chats and so on.
There is still no video calling support, but for that there’s always Fring!
Nokia has rolled out the PR 1.1.1 update for the Nokia N900 via the Nokia Software Updater, over the air and has also made it available as an image from the N900 firmware repository. This is a minor update that fixes a few bugs and improves speed and transitions. The real reason for this update however seems to be to prepare the N900 for the larger PR 1.2 update that we can expect any day now.
The update is a 16.2 MB download over the air, it will be larger if you haven’t already updated to the PR 1.1 firmware. As always, it is highly recommended that you perform these updates. The N900 has user data preservation when you update over the air, however if you are going to use the NSU, make sure you backup the device first as the applications you have installed are sometimes lost during the update. Flashing the N900 manually will result in complete data loss.
Yes, even we are wondering as to why did they decide on ‘MeeGo‘ as the name of the new OS, but apart from the name it seems to have everything going for it. Two giants in the industry collaborating, its open source nature, targetting not just mobile devices but netbooks, in car equipment, media phones and so on.
Global leaders Intel Corporation and Nokia merge Moblin and Maemo to create MeeGo, a Linux-based software platform that will support multiple hardware architectures across the broadest range of device segments, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.
MeeGo offers the Qt application development environment, and builds on the capabilities of the Moblin core operating system and reference user experiences. Using Qt, developers can write once to create applications for a variety of devices and platforms, and market them through Nokia’s Ovi Store and Intel AppUpSM Center.
MeeGo will be hosted by the Linux Foundation and governed using the best practices of the open source development model.
The first release of MeeGo is expected in the second quarter of 2010 with devices launching later in the year.
Nokia and Intel expect MeeGo to be adopted widely by global device manufacturers, network operators, semiconductor companies, software vendors and developers.
Maemo 6 is already a 100% MeeGo compatible, but Nokia isn’t sure if they want to call it MeeGo something or Maemo 6.
The Maemo.org and Moblin community will be migrated to MeeGo.com.
