Giving Up the Internet for Lent

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and so starts the 40 days and nights of Lent in the Catholic calendar. As part of Lent you are supposed to give up something, a fast of such, and in past years I have give up Alcohol, sweets and the hardest yet Coffee.

What I have planned to give up this year is the Internet, yes you heard right, I’m planning to unplug from all Social Networks, not look at my Google Reader, turn off Google Buzz and not blog on any of my websites. Can I survive 6 weeks?

I made the decision over the weekend as I realised I spend most of my time checking what’s online rather than looking at what’s offline and right in front of me. I think this will be hard, but hopefully rewarding.

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gerrymoth

Note: Kip Hakes will still be on hand at nokiAAddict.com for comments moderation and news updates.

Interview with gerrymoth

My online friend Micky from Nokiausers.net interviewed me the other day and has just posted my answers to his Nokia related questions.

Check it out and see what I think about things 🙂

http://www.nokiausers.net/General/Nokiausers-An-Interview-with-Nokia-Enthusiast-NokiAAddict.html

FREE OVI Maps Navigation

First with the news was Symbian-Guru that the announcement today by Nokia will bring FREE OVI Maps Navigation for selected Nokia devices only? Available for 10 of Nokia’s GPS-equipped devices: the Nokia N97 Mini, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia E52, Nokia E55, Nokia E72, Nokia 5230, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 6730 classic and Nokia X6.

Noticed no normal Nokia N97, this wont go down well with the already very unhappy N97 users, but I’ve been informed by Nokia Conversations that the N97 is coming soon along with other handsets. Speculation on twitter is its also coming to the N900 (whoop whoop!).

The Nokia Event kicked off at 09:45hrs GMT http://events.nokia.com/ovimaps/index.html

Download: FREE OVI Maps Navigation is here http://maps.nokia.com/explore-services/ovi-maps/ovi-maps-main

FREE with New OVI Maps:
– Worldwide Maps
– Drive & Walk Navigation
– Traffic Info Updates
– Weather (GPS Enabled)
– Events: Cinema Listings (GPS Enabled)
– Michelin Guides (GPS Enabled)
– Share Location with Facebook
– Favourites Online Syncing
– Speed and Safety Spot Warner

GPS Enabled means it takes your position from GPS and gives local information automatically.

Nokia Event 21st January 2010

http://events.nokia.com/countdown

I have my seat reserved ONLINE 😀

The OVI Daily App – Must Have App of the Year Awards 2009

Think I missed this during the Christmas break, so Nokia and OVI put together their must have apps of 2009.

http://blogs.nokia.com/dailyapp/appawards/

Have to say I agree with some of them like Vlingo, Gravity and Nimbuzz (3 featured apps on nokiAAddict.com), but Shazam? (Mobbler for me), WorldMate? (OVI Maps for me), Nokia Photo Browser? (ImageExchange for me on the E71 at least), SPB TV? (Not a great selection of TV Channels for me, much prefer BBC iPlayer in that category) and WTF is MicroPool? (Need to download now and try) 😀

Do you agree with Nokia and OVI on the must have apps for 2009?

nokiAAddict Application of 2009 – GRAVITY

I’ve been thinking back over the year and I have to say Mobileways.de Gravity wins my award for “Symbian Application of 2009”.

I was very luck enough to be in at the very start of the development of this application as a beta tester and I have seen it develop over the year from a simple twitter client to the power app it is now.

Just in case you don’t know Gravity is a native Twitter client for the S60v3 and S60v5 platform. It supports multiple accounts, Twitter Search, Laconica, Ping.fm, posting of pictures via MobyPicture and TwitPic, preview pictures from Mobypicture, Twitpic, TwitGoo, Flic.kr, YFrog and img.ly, forward tweets via sms and email, post URLs to delicious and Instapaper and audio and visual notifications.

Gravity also has Facebook, which is not as feature rich as twitter, but still allows you to view and post messages and view photos inline from Facebook.

Gravity also recently added Google Reader feature which just put the icing on the cake for me. Everything I need and use to keep up to date with the mobile and web news all in one single application.

Only very recently a new Gravity-Preview version of the application was released with a new improved Dashboard, better Twitter Lists and Search and a few hidden gems like “Important” thrown in by @Janole (Gravity Developer on twitter) to keep this application improving every month, week, day…

@janole is planning to make the Gravity-Preview version 1.30 Build 6232 a release candidate very soon for everyone to enjoy and he’s already looking ahead to improve and bring new features to this already superb application. Planned for next feature updates are a completely new message editor (multiple accounts, adding hashtags, selecting users, adding geolocation, adding pictures/videos/audio from the gallery and geolocation search) and also polishing up the existing Facebook and Google Reader.

What makes Gravity also stand out above all other symbian applications is the overall user interface, @janole has manage to make Gravity work smooth and very very fast and uses every bit of space on the screen to allow you to select all the functions you require fast and efficiently, maybe its just how the Germans work and develop? 😀

Do you use Gravity? What do you think of it? Post a comment and let me know?

Download Gravity (Stable release)
Download Gravity-Alpha (Alpha release and use at owners risk)
Download Gravity-Preview (Preview release and use at owners risk)

What’s in the Box? – Its a E72

WOMWorld/Nokia ask me to take part in a Challenge a few weeks ago and I agreed, last week I got an email saying they would be sending me a box and I had one part of a clue that I needed to work with my team mates to crack the code from the clues supplied in the posters which came with the boxes.

The team members:
Gerrymoth http://twitter.com/gerrymoth
Clue: I was given street cred by a world leader.
Tam Hanna http://twitter.com/tamhanna
Clue: I am an urban dwelling professional.
Stefanos Kofopoulos http://twitter.com/titanas
Clue: I came with a price tag of the equivalent of over 4,000EUR
Ibrahim Jogee http://twitter.com/TheNokiaReview
Clue: I’ll fit in perfectly on Wall Street.

Once the code was cracked it would open the box. Unfortunately DHL had other ideas and cracked three of the boxes literately, they arrived with the glass box smashed, so no need for the code breaking 😀

One box remained and I thought I had cracked the cryptic code of 1987 http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/company/story-of-nokia/the-move-to-mobile/mobira-cityman but the last remaining team mate @titanas said the code was wrong. I quickly checked with WOMWorld/Nokia and the code was correct, so @titanas has a hammer in his hand ready to unbox http://tiny12.tv/DNPCE

It is amazing that 4 unknown people from around the world can quickly email and twitter each other to communicate and solve a puzzle 😀

So I have a Nokia E72 at home to play with. How will it shape up to its older brother the E71, only one thing for it!

FIGHT! E71 v E72

Buy One Nokia Phone and get One Nokia Phone FREE

Nokia has gone BOGOF this Christmas.

Checkout what phones you can get here http://www.nokia.co.uk/mobile-phone-deals/christmas/buy-one-get-one-free

Ho ho ho!

Posted by Wordmobi

What’s in the BOX?

To open the box you must enter a code. Four individuals have been given a clue to one part of the code.

Code: X X X X

04/12/09 16:00hrs: Received notification the box has been dispatched.

30 Reasons I Still Love Symbian

For weeks/months Symbian and Nokia have been taking a bashing for their so called outdated S60 platform, well the gerrymoth and nokiAAddict still Love Symbian and here are 30 reasons why in no particular order:

1. BBC iPlayer
2. Spotify
3. Coreplayer
4. Mobbler
5. MeCanto
6. ImageExchange
7. Nokia Maps
8. Google Maps
9. Nimbuzz
10. Nokia Sportstracker
11. SymTorrent
12. X-plore
13. Mail For Exchange
14. Wordmobi
15. Kinoma Play
16. Profimail
17. Vlingo
18. Gravity
19. Kylom Projekt
20. QIK
21. KillerMobile TotalRecall
22. Opera Mobile/Mini
23. Skyfire
24. Sky Mobile
25. ShazamID
26. Free-iSMS
27. cCalPro
28. Handy Taskman
29. Handy Weather
30. Calendar

Posted by Wordmobi