August Updates

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Splitting the updates I was adding in the ActiveFile post to a new one, just to be tidy.

“Oh, by the way, my 5800′s earpiece finally gave up, am taking it to be replaced tomorrow. So back to the N95 for a while. Dunno if that’ll affect the frequency (LOL) of posts here, but just giving a heads up. Hey that was easy, replaced on the spot. And maybe it’s just my impressions, but I swear the new 5800 is a little more… solid, or something.”

Hacking most certainly got easy lately, getting a certificate is totally automated, and with it, installing HelloOX2 is a doddle.

Searching the installers to get my phone set up again, here are the things I noticed:

• There’s no easy way to get the freeware epocware Zip Manager that was available in the Download! app, leaving you with no easily available Zip app. Wtf? I found a repack of it with updated Ovi style icons on Opda though, so it’s all good.
• Getting mobbler I noticed that on the 20th, Nokia released a couple more APIs for S60v5, so scrobbling might be possible on the next version.
• Got a new (at least for me lol) Putty version, with touch support too, which is nice.

And the big news for today is, of course, the official announcement of the N900. I’ve been a loyal Symbian/S60 user for… 4 years already? But… wow.

I can’t understate it, this is huge. The new UI (Panorama desktops, task switcher with live previews), the default applications (Mozilla browser, Conversations), the hardware specs (Cortex A8 + max 1gb of ram), I could go on… Seriously, take a look at that site, watch the videos. So awesome.