ViewRanger GPS, Augmentra’s award-winning ‘off-road sat nav’, is now available in App stores on the Symbian platform. The global launch comes as ViewRanger adds OpenCycleMap and OpenStreetMap to its ever-growing range of mapping data. The ViewRanger GPS application has immediately raced into the best sellers list on Nokia’s OVI store.

ViewRanger GPS offers far more than a map on a phone. It is a complete outdoor navigator with simple to use GPS interface, trail navigation, a sports computer to log pro… .. .

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Hola people! Are you perhaps amongst those who followed us on twitter with the hashtag #nokiashoot and wondered what was it all about?

If so, I’m happy to announce that I’ve set up a flickr album with a whole bunch of photos from the 3 day event that took place from the 19th -21th of March in Barcelona, Spain.

But, in case you didn’t know, this was basically a trip to get a ‘behind the scenes’ look at the creation of a Nokia advert. I will go into more detail about this in my later posts, but for now I’ll just say that the main premise of the video goes hand to ha… .. .

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System and device testing company, Fanfare, has announced the results of a survey into end-user perspectives on smartphone performance.

The research shows that smartphone owners are regularly experiencing problems such as application glitches, compatibility issues, crashing and freezing, yet are unclear as to whether these can be attributed to the handset, network, or individual applications.

More than half the respondents (53%) are likely to blame individual handset manufacturers for problems and 58% would not hesitate to publicise their dissatisfaction first via so… .. .

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Shazam, the world’s leading mobile discovery provider, today announced its application has been downloaded by over 1 million Nokia users since its launch on the Ovi Store by Nokia.

Shazam was the number one downloaded app on the day of launch and continues to be one of the most popular apps in Ovi Store. The app has been downloaded in over 200 markets onto over 40 different Nokia handsets.

Marco Argenti, VP of Media & Games, Nokia said: “Shazam keeps being one of the top apps Ovi Store users love because of its ingredients of success: simplicity, usefulness, fun. This recipe has resonated with music lovers around the world who no… .. .

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Although all Nokia’s proto testers have been asked to sign NDAs, it seems that that they have managed to once again leak a highly anticipated Nokia N8-00, the flagship Finns’ Symbian^3 handset, on to the internet before its official release that is rumoured to be as early as tomorrow.

Ever-intrepid folks from Chinese tech site IT168 posted exclusive images of what is supposed to be next Nokia’s full touchscreen device with minimal set of hardware controls.

The handset itself looks like an improved and keyboard-less variant of the Nokia N97 with intended to offer larger screen (3.5-inch WVGA screen with resolution of 480*800 just like on the Nokia N900), significantly better camera and Symb… .. .

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Ushering in a new era of high-performance image sensors, InVisage Technologies, Inc. – a venture-backed start-up that is revolutionizing the way light is captured – today announced QuantumFilm.

Harnessing the power of custom-designed semiconductor materials, QuantumFilm image sensors are the world’s first commercial quantum dot-based image sensors, replacing silicon.

InVisage delivers 4x higher performance, 2x higher dynamic range and professional camera features not yet found in mobile image sensors. The first QuantumFilm-enabled product, due out lat… .. .

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