Nokia release new iSync plugins

Nokia have announced the release of Nokia iSync Plugins 1.1. Phones supported include E50, E60, E61i, E62, E63, E65, E70, N76, N93i, N95.

Good to see Nokia, stop being so PC centric.

Download here

3G iPhone SIM Free

Saw this SIM free 3G iPhone at Barcelona Airport..a cool €799..

Nokia World – Barcelona Day Two

Well good morning from Barcelona. It’s the second and final day of Nokia World and very much the day after. Yesterday was a good day for Nokia. I will cover the news in more detail after I had time to digest it all. There are plenty of sites out there with all the latest news so I’m sure you most of you will have already have read about Nokia’s other 2 major announcements yesterday.

Nokia N97 Sketches

Nokia N97 Sketch

Sketches of the Nokia N97

Nokia World – Barcelona 2008 – The N97

Well here we are in Barcelona at Nokia World and already we have seen 3 major announcements. Probably the most exciting announcements was that of the Nokia N97, a tactile device with a qwerty keyboard. Think a 5800 on steroids. We saw prototypes last night and its a very cool device with a sliding keyboard. Nokia’s feeling is that the N97 is not a handset but a truly mobile computer. Just like Nokia are not a handset company any more but an Internet Services company that also makes handsets, their handsets enable internet services, they enable YOUR Internet. Yhe N97 will ship the first half of next year and costs 550 euros as an open device.

Good times, Good Times…….

To quote Justin Lee Collins….”Good times..Good times”.

Creativegeek’s is about to enter a new phase. For a long time it has been a part time hobby while I have written for other industry blogs. After feeling that my actual honesty and integrity was being put at question and after being encouraged by movers and shakers in the world of Mobile I felt it was time to write a rare thing in today’s blogospere – an honest blog.

Yes, companies such as Nokia send me handsets and invite me to events but here at Creativegeek’s I will never compromise my opinion based on who sponsors me or the site, who sends me handsets or invites me to cover their events – as the people who know me well will testify too, my biggest failure is to be brutally honest, it’s this I will bring to Creativegeek’s along with a huge slice of cynicism but also hopefully an interesting and sometime humorous take on the world of Mobile Technology.

I hope I write something of interest, but there are plenty of other great mobile blogs out there as well, so read us all and come to an informed opinion.

RK.

BT Home Hub 2.0 + Wi-Fi on mac OSX

Ok, this is the Holy Grail for some. This took me ages to work out what the problem was but finally i have got my iBook, OSX and the BT Home Hub 2.0 (the new black shiny one) working.

Now I had tried everything and I cant be assed to go back and try everything again..so here are a couple of things you might need to do..BUT first

go into the adbanced settings on the Home Hub and make sure that in the wireless settings the network is only running 802.11 b/g NOT b/g/n. Changing this let me connect.

I also had been trying the std fix for wirless, putting the $ sign in front of the password..I cant remeber if I had to so this or not in the final solution.

I also put mine on Channel 12 but I dont think that made the differance.

I can literraly switch the network to 802.11 b/g/n and my iBook won’t connect..swtich to b/g and its off!!!!.

Nokia launches Nokia Connectors – new marketing campaign.

Nokia have launched a new digital and guerilla marketing campaign entitled Nokia Connectors in an attempt to re-engage with the youth market.

Reported:

NMA explains. The first stage of the campaign focuses on the idea of magic and aims to educate young people about the services available on Nokia handsets.

Electric Pocket releases LBS for Nokia S60 & Facebook

Cellular-News have an article on Electric Pocket’s release of FindMe, a location based service for Nokia S60 handsets which passes on your location to your Facebook profile.

Reported:

Electric Pocket has developed a location based service for Nokia S60 based phones which tags locations based on their base station identifier and then passes that information to Facebook automatically.

Apple has remote access to your iPhone

Reported:

Steve Jobs has confirmed that Apple have the ability to remotely terminate applications in your iPhone. CNET et all have reported Jobs words which originally appeared in an interview he gave with The Wall Street Journal.

“Mr. Jobs confirmed such a capability exists, but argued that Apple needs it in case it inadvertently allows a malicious program — one that stole users’ personal data, for example — to be distributed to
iPhones through the App Store. “Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull.”

Our View:

There seems to be so many Apple apologists in the blogosphere. I wonder if their reaction would be the same if Nokia announced that it’s phones all dialled back into Nokia to tell them what applications you were running. I expect their would be outcry and rightly so and dont let us fool ourselves that this is an attempt to make your iPhone safe from Trojans/viruses. Any half decent code would be so buried in the OS that this wouldn’t see it. I wonder if this is a way of tracking jailbroken phones and then could Apple stop them from connecting to any mobile network, probably not, but it’s a thought!

Sources: CNET / Wall Street Journal