Posts Tagged ‘s60’
| Nokia Phone News | March 5, 2013 |
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How-To: Play DOS Games On Your Nokia N97 [DOSBox]Before there was Windows, there was DOS. A command-line interface with nothing but text, text, and more text. During the ’80s and ’90s, DOS was the OS of choice for gaming. And there were lots of great games. Flash-forward to today. Thanks to an open-source emulator called DOSBox, you can now run those oldies-but-goodies on [...] |
How-To: Change Your S60 Phone Key Mappings With VirtualKeyI recently discovered the S60 gem VirtualKey after going on the hunt for a good key remapping application. It’s easy to use, sufficiently powerful, and best of all, it actually runs on S60 Fifth Edition. There’s a caveat, however: VirtualKey is an unsigned application, which means you might be in for a world of hurt. [...] |
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Quick Tutorial: Hide Your Sound Files From the S60 Music PlayerThe situation: I have a lot of instrumental music that make great ringtones, but lousy listening music. I don’t want those songs showing up in my “All songs” playlist in the S60 Music Player, because that means I have to create separate playlists that exclude those songs – which take time to create and continually [...] |
Not Fail: Multi-touch Hits Nokia 5800 XpressMusicYou can always find a reason to smile in the face of epic failure. Only a few days after Nokia stopped selling the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic at its Flagship stores in the USA, a YouTube video by user 30dirtybirds surfaced, showcasing the first instance of multi-touch on an S60 device. And with a Guitar Hero-ish [...] |
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New S60 Text-to-Speech Language Packs AvailableHead on over to the Nokia S60 text-to-speech page to pick up some new language and speech packs for your S60 phone. Most Eseries and Nseries devices support the language packs, not to mention some other random S60 phones (5320, 6121/6124 classic, 6210, 6220, 6290, etc). |
Bug: “Curse of Silence” Hits Nokia S60 PhonesA new vulnerability is hitting certain Nokia phones: the “Curse of Silence” affects Nokia S60 devices running 2.6, 2.8, 3.0, or 3.1, and blocks your phone from receiving SMS and MMS messages. Unfortunately, you can’t solve the problem with a simple power cycle – according to the advisory, you need to perform a factory reset [...] |
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The Handy S60 Phone Shortcut ListThis month’s official S60 newsletter included a nice little “tip of the month” column that highlighted the quickest way to add a carriage return (enter key basically) to your text messages/notes: just hit the 0 (zero) button three times. So simple, yet so effective. |
Reminder: S60 Meetup in NYC Today (9/17)If you’re in the NYC area, hit up the Nokia Flagship Store at 7:30 pm today for “An Evening With S60″. There’ll be food, drinks, fun, tons of Nokia devices, and me. Also attending the event is Dean Kamen, “legendary” inventor of the Segway. Yep, the Segway. Should be an interesting night. Read: An Evening [...] |
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