NokiaNav – The Final Video

I loved the first teaser video that @Bennycrime made which we watched at the NokiaNav Finale.

Now the time has come to see the finished product of what was an amazing experience for everyone involved.

I don’t really think that I have to comment on the video as my comments and actions within the video speak for themselves. Embarrassing but funny and honest nonetheless. Enjoy and feel free to tease me about that funny little leap of love

N900 – PR1.2 OTA Update Problems

It  seems that a few people have been having problems updating their N900′s to the Firmware version PR1.2.

If when doing the update OTA you end up with a screen saying the following:

Enjoy PR1.2 I know I am

N900 – Firmware update PR1.2 – At Last

N900 PR1.2 firmware is ready for UK users and from tomorrow will be ready for Global users.

This is not a joke, unlike the one made in April which fooled everyone he he he he read here. This might sound funny but one of the best things about this release is that all the millions of threads and online posts of people complaining about the delayed release of this firmware might finally stop.

I had problems trying to find the update using NSU so decide to go OTA.

The download as you can see is 113.6MB so if you don’t have a 3G data bundle I recommend you wait until you can find a wifi access point.

Some of the new functionality that I have looked at and liked so far:

• The main UI menu has changed so there is now no “more” button which is cool because everything is on one screen and you can edit the position of your apps.

• I’ve seen the option to do video calling but have not yet had the chance to try it out so watch this space.

• Portrait mode when web-browsing is now in and is very cool (I love it).
• Many more screens now have the ability to search by typing in letters from the keyboard (e.g App Manager).

• At long last the long press for use of the symbol keys is in place, this is awesome
• Ovi Maps now loads slightly faster and the GPS lock is extremely fast the UI has also changed.

• The UI does seem faster at first glance and apps generally seem to open up much quicker which is also great.
• I also noticed that there is a user guide for the N900 on the device (2nd icon Top right in the image below)

Here are few things that have bugged me so far:

• I still find that I had to delete the birthday smart calendar and then added it again to get it working, this has happened after every firmware update and most people don’t realise.
• I had some big problems trying to get Nokia Messaging working again with the default email client in the end something changed and started working again. Sorry I don’t have a solution here.
• Most people are find things running faster but my App Manager is still a little slow.

I’ll do my best to test and try out more of the changes/fixes over the next few days.

I’ve done some reading over at Nokia Conversations and it turns out that on the 27th May that OVI will finally go live with changes for the N900 and we can expect some new games such as:

• Jurassic 3D Rollercoaster
• Zen-bound
• Angry Birds (level pack)

We can also expect some new apps coming through OVI such as:

• Sygic
• Kroll
• Weatherbug
• GoGadget

Thanks to the Talk.Maemo.org  wiki for all the below information regarding the Changelog:

New Features

• Qt 4.6.2 is now preinstalled on the OS.
• Changes for the video recording in the Camera Application.
• Video calling can be accessed through contacts.
• Can dial USSD Codes.
• No more “More” menu in application launcher, and is rearrangeable.
• Virtual Keyboard has been modified and now looks different.
• File Manager is now able to share any file and/or folder.
• Typing in Application Manager starts a search (like it is in Contacts or Media Player).
• Status area is now reachable in portrait mode
• Portrait mode Virtual Keyboard for browser. *Not yet confirmed* (Source)

Resolved bugs

Please note that this list is not necessarily complete.

See this query for more accurate/up-to-date report.

maemo.org Official Applications:

Browser

• tapping browser rss icon lists two RSS feeds, one from an iframe
• tapping browser rss icon should list ATOM feed, not just RSS
• “”restart”" button after finishing download not localized (in Finnish)
• Type-to-find behaviour is inconsistent and suboptimal in browser
• History images do not match actual URLs under them
• Browser drawing issue in web pages with (multiple?) Flash applets
• Smooth scrolling not active using arrow keys until current page tapped
• “”Select user name”" dialog not finger friendly
• URL proposals in browser disappear after some hours
• Sticky shift & Fn not working for Flash text input fields: Impossible to use special characters palette
• Find on page causes page to reload
• Can’t reuse the name of a bookmark that has been deleted
• Use Volume hardware key for adjust the device volume instead of zooming a website
• Zooming is not working right away when link clicked from desktop
• Browser should display passwords one character at a time like other applications
• Screen sometimes flickers when scrolling through bookmarks triggers rubber banding
• High CPU usage for 15 seconds after page loaded (Deleting History helps)
• specifying “”DejaVu Sans Mono”",”"Courier New”",monospace,Freemono fonts break pre
• g_mozilla_parse_env_proxy limits proxy server names to about 20 characters [http_proxy]
• Browser shows strong font kerning bugs (esp. when zooming)
• mobile4arab.com: After zooming in, sometimes cannot drag to the right side
• Browser toolbar steals text focus in fullscreen mode when “”Auto focus address field”" is enabled
• Browser toolbar steals text focus in fullscreen mode with remapped arrow keys
• Sites in history overview that were loaded in portrait mode appear distorted
• Browser process opens ports on all interfaces.
• Browser crashes while sending a comment to Maemo.org
• Clicking on webcal:// link does nothing (not even an error dialog)
• browser repaints after switching from contacts
• Press and hold in Browser portrait mode does nothing
• Browser portrait mode makes it stop working after a while
• Browser doesn’t show progress indicator when user selects url from urlbar completion list
• Browser addressbar refreshes/blanks shortly after new window opens
• Imported SSL Certificates not recognized after PR1.1
• Some combination of Maemo 5 + Nokia N900 results in improper onChange callbacks in the maemo browser
• New browser windows’ contents are not updated when page loads in background
• Provide UI to enable/disable portrait mode
• Cannot scroll web bookmark folders if more than 5 folders
• Browser crashes when browsing some websites
• Back yields grayed page
• Browser crashes while changing system theme
• MicroB loses first keystroke
• Page view “”unstable”" (due to animated GIFs?)
• Maemo Browser does not honor CSS serif font specifications
• Disable show images leads to failure in opening links in a new window
• Only the address bar is visible on the bottom panel
• Browser doesn’t stop flash or another plugins while device is locked
• No more search results loads new page
• browser: incorrect display then internal error (double access to the same buffer)

Calendar

• Alarm setting for Birthday is removed after adding photo to contact
• Calendar (and Calendar desktop Widget) can take up to 30 seconds to become responsive when a lot of Smart Calendar items are present
• Calendar launches automatically at 4:00 each night
• exported .ics calendars have bad line format (LF for empty lines)
• Exported calendars lack PRODID properties
• Day View doesn’t display synced events with complex uneditable repeats
• tasks also displayed as notes
• libcalendar produces AALARM properties containing unescaped CRLF which prevents OSX synchronisation
• notes imported without DTSTART fields are not displayed
• Overdue tasks should be displayed as today’s
• New event in calendar causes crash when using bg_BG locales
• “”Internal Error: Application ‘Calendar’ closed when importing ics file

Chat & Call & SMS

• Does not accept GSM (USSD) Codes starting with *#
• Can’t see the number an SMS was sent to
• libnice violates Debian packaging policy for description of package “”libnice0″”
• :/ in http:// is converted into an emoticon in some cases
• Sofia-SIP throws 500 Internal Server Error
• Unable to set a Google Talk account to Away
• gmail status set to away when skype status set to invisible
• Can’t answer a phone call with a short caller ID
• USSD codes are not recognized in chat
• Caller voice gets minced after some time when taking call via SIP
• Unable to see the sender’s phone number used for a received sms
• Sent text messages are shown as unsent
• Contact names do not resolve correctly when country code is prefixed.
• Make a phone call to a contact from the sms view
• account-plugin-butterfly – delete contacts doesn’t work
• N900 does not support Skype Voicemail Settings
• Recent Call entries are shown in conversations
• Tapping ‘Task Manager’ shows ‘Clear Conversation’ option while in a conversation
• Conversation IM window is not responding when Select contact dialog is displayed in background
• GTalk contact offline text is shown in conversion even if contact is back online
• Voice can be heard only one way with Saunalahti Nettipuhelin
• Carrier doesn’t stop attempting to send USSD codes that aren’t received (automated balance receipt)
• Messages don’t change to “”read”" status after being read
• Placing a call in portrait mode gets desktop stuck in portrait mode upon exit.
• Conversation doesn’t respect aspect ratio in avatars
• Reduce XMPP data packets to save battery
• Jabber opens unnecessary proxy connections
• SMS Sort/Filter/Search does not allow numbers to be entered (Fn key does not work beyond first digit)
• portrait layout for receiving call shown in landscape mode (-> no Reject button)
• XMPP lacks option to require TLS (vulnerable to MITM attacks)
• Open contact card’ broken for newly sent SMS
• Telephony uses 100% CPU for video call (using Google Talk)
• Phone UI not rotating to portrait mode
• SIP account can not be re-activated

Contacts

• Not able to open Maps application with contacts location as a search string
• Contact merge of number dialed manually via Skype fails due to internal error
• Contacts: Provide “”Fax”" field(s)
• Provides SMS buttons for “”Phone”" entries and not only “”Mobile”" entries
• only 2 Lines of Notes are visible in Contacts
• Skype: merged contact has duplicate phone number
• List of countries not shown on tapping the country picker button
• Making a SIP call crashes osso-addressbook
• Missing direct shortcut to use SIP/Skype again in Recent Calls list
• “”SIP audio”" buttons active with no SIP accounts active
• Merging contacts, unable to select neither as an option in conflict field

Desktop Widgets

• Add AVRCP support to the Media Player widget (and system-wide?)
• Play track button doesn’t work
• Small line visible below media player widget
• Media Player widget suddenly starts music after Phone call ends
• Media player’s desktop widget displays wrong metadata of internet radios
• Being offline, RSS Reader tries to connect for refresh unconditionally

Email

• Option to download messages but not attachments (“”Messages only”")
• Want ability to delete POP mail from server
• Modest doesn’t fetch GMX IMAP mail (issuing LIST “”"” instead of LIST “”*”")
• There should be a desktop widget for mail (like rss)
• Remove deprecated GTK+ symbols
• Remove libgnomeui dependency
• Use accessor functions instead direct access
• Use single GTK+ includes
• Support silent build rules with automake 1.11
• Add option in modest to add/not add new contact when replying to mail
• Select/Copy text within email is nonintuitive/broken
• Fix some compilation warnings in GNOME version
• Remove unneeded modest_osso_load_state () calls
• Remove unused modest-osso-autosave-callbacks.c/h files
• Can’t disable email notification – makes notification unusable if you receive lots of mail
• Delete button greyed out when opening from notification popup
• Failed outgoing mails when using Nokia Messaging and Exchange
• Deleted IMAP messages are not expunged
• POP3 TCP connection is left open leading to locking issues
• Long emails can’t be read – distorted output on screen after scrolling
• Only require libmodest-dbus-client in maemo platform
• Volume hardware key works only once; afterwards “”Unable to zoom”" in list of mail accounts, list of mail folders, New Mail editor
• Modest is very slow at loading images
• Polish Subject line violates RFC (“”Odp.”" prefix)
• Double-tapping “”Inbox”" sometimes opens ‘empty’ Inbox
• Tapping new Email notification does not bring up email message
• Semicolon in To field should be ignored when sending a message
• email application does not see folders on imap4 with namespace
• Replying to an email with non-ascii chars in From cuts name short
• Email message viewer window refreshes a second time when email opened from Notification icon
• Arabic language not shown or encoded in Modest
• Unable to save attachment from e-mail without e-mail body
• cannot move message anywhere
• Subfolders of Zimbra IMAP server not appearing/not available
• Type-to-find behaviour is inconsistent and suboptimal in modest
• hyperlinks in email program terminates on &

Games

• Erroneous “”Game not started yet”" message
• hildon-games-wrapper crashes in hgw_conf_request_string if gconf key has no value
• Games do not respect master volume (“”sound effects”" enabled though)
• Chess game over dialog button is unreadable in some themes
• Mahjong: ?amig?ówka (Confounding cross) does not display high score time in Polish

Images and Camera

• Confusing behaviour when saving to a file that matches an existing directory
• Shutter release button does not always work
• Sometimes photos are not deleted if you delete directly after taking them
• Sometimes photos are very green
• Camera app hardcodes and requires FAT partition
• Some photos are missing EXIF DateTimeOriginal data
• Old image displayed as a new one when swiping
• Daily image counter in photo filenames not incrementing in some cases
• Photo autorotation issue
• Image Viewer shows only black screen
• camera does not have the night mode function
• Volume buttons should work in camera window when lens cover is not opened

Map

• Ovi Maps gives up finding GPS lock too soon
• Virtual keyboard doesn’t appear in Maps
• ovi maps brings up “”Select connection”" dialog relentlessly
• Ovi Maps search history
• Search: can input numbers and other “”blue”" characters only with -holding- “”alt”" key

Media player

• Missing “”Remove from Playlist”" option
• Ugly “”now playing”" animation
• Plays next radio station when current station cuts out / has playback issues
• Album art disappears when next song is played and you unlock the device
• Media player becomes unusable if a dialog is open when opening a stream link from browser
• media player won’t play any video files now (.avi) divx / xvid
• media player loses cover art if song changes while screen is locked
• “”Unable to play media. Media format not supported”" for recently recorded video
• RDS station name should not contain album (esp. when its unknown)
• mediaplayer treats youtube mp4 urls as audio streams
• Can’t search album titles (GtkIconView) by typing on keyboard
• Media player volume bar doesn’t work when a browser with youtube played is opened in background.
• Media Player Streaming: Elapsed time advances by 1sec when playback is paused and reduced by 1sec when the playback is resumed.
• Internet radio (ogg) stream metadata not displayed
• Selecting song in media player doesn’t cause song to play
• AVI Streaming broken. Local playback works fine.
• Media Player displays stop button during the playback of an AAC stream. It should display pause button.
• Strange black box icon in media player’s album list
• Media player playlist icon when not playing is difficult to notice
• Music stops when “”low battery”" hildon banner is displayed
• Media Player is not playing WMV Video streams but KMPlayer can
• Media Player crashed when viewing UPNP contents.
• Media player crashes when trying to search in All songs
• Media Player bridge_work-que battery drain
• No video shown, only audio, when streaming over upnp
• Media Player doesn’t allow to search russian tags
• Scrolling animation on jump-to-song is too CPU heavy

RSS feed reader

• Automatic proxy configuration URL not obeyed by RSS feed reader
• Feed list (Folder tree) uses non-finger friendly classic scrollbars

Settings and Maintenance

• In Certificate manager, “”Authorities”" title is shown two times
• Application manager shows “”ai_ib_unable_edit”" instead of proper, localised string when it has a repository of which it cannot change the details of
• symlink /var/cache/apt/archives to /home/apt-archives
• Unable to filter/search applcations’ name in Application Manager
• Unlocking SIM card from control panel fails
• “”Enter code for unlocking SIM card”" button visible even if phone is not SIM locked
• General locale settings for new users does not set the correct locale for text input
• Search results window is not responding when search dialog is displayed in background
• Upgrade from PR1.1 to PR1.1.1 produces ‘Operation failed’ error
• Cannot perform a new search after an initial search in Uninstall section
• Popup “”Search complete”" blocks view, not useful
• Missing a searchfunction to select Ringtone

Utilities

• Remove Scratchboxism in wpeditor packaging
• Support sending files via Bluetooth in file manager
• automatically update date/time did not update after plane journey
• Maximum number of pseudo terminals too low (4)
• Context menu isn’t thumbable/hildonized – options too small
• Buenos Aires, Argentina time off by 1 hour
• Calculator should remember mode setting
• Deletes file to move if destination filename already exists and choosing to not overwrite
• Having a modal dialog in background, Alarm dialog blocks entire UI => battery removal
• FIle manager should filter view if somethings is written on the keyboard

maemo.org Official Platform:

Connectivity

• Eduroam (EAP-TTLS+PAP) WiFi auth
• ipctest.c input_cb seems to pass a reference to a freed pointer to sscanf
• “”Not enough memory in target location”" when receiving image from Nokia SU-1B using Bluetooth
• Control Panel: Cannot change Network mode when Network selection is “”Automatic”"
• BH-103 – Annoying Beeps when calling or receiving a phone call or SMS
• PR1.1 has introduced a battery drain bug (not wifi related)
• dnsmasq segfaults when connecting to a certain WLAN AP
• Wifi wont connect to Dlink DI-524 using WEP
• Wrong IAP set for SFR (France)
• TDC (Denmark) GPRS settings are “”incorrect”" (or could be better)
• DHCP with redundant Gateway does not configure any routes

Core

• Ad-hoc wifi leaks kernel memory, puts N900 into unusable swap hell
• Not possible to answer incoming call with wired headset buttons.
• Very low touchscreen sensivitivity in the area near the left edge of the screen
• bashism in bash uninstall script causes busybox error
• libglslcompiler crashes when fragment shader contains a for-loop
• Device reboots when trying to connect to WIFI due to Oops in rate_control_get_rate()
• Unable to authenticate on light.webmoney.ru with user’s SSL certificate.
• Reboot caused by bluetooth probe
• GL textures may get corrupted on upload

Desktop platform

• GtkCellRendererText: Can not edit with virtual keyboard
• Changing icon theme requires reboot to be applied correctly
• Missing libhildonmime API documentation
• Allow transparent desktop (wallpaper)
• HildonWindowClipboardOperation is completely undocumented
• HildonBanner does not except NULL value for deprecated icon argument
• Panning and selecting are mutually exclusive
• HildonPannableArea description should mention mov-mode property
• hildon_touch_selector_get_active_iter() needed.
• Documentation: HildonTouchSelectorEntry is unclear about auto-completion/text column
• HildonAnimationActor defines are passively documented in function descriptions
• GtkButton + hildon_gtk_widget_set_theme_size() has wrong style when created via GtkBuilder
• Remove Scratchboxism in libosso packaging
• libosso assumes that all ARM platforms has VFP instructions.
• HildonPickerDialog selects the first item always if appended into shown widget
• HildonPannableArea: size-request-policy property should be deprecated
• Can’t organize applications menu
• Allow keyboard input to jump to an entry in a list (“”type ahead”")
• keys when long pressed should give the blue symbol/number
• Status menu not available in portrait mode
• missing: system-wide “”start typing to eliminate items from list”"
• HildonTouchSelector: No hint that there are more items
• Displays very small fonts (happened once)
• Popup menus with rounded corners missing transparency
• Show ALL installed applications in application menu; get rid of “”More…”"
• Certain directory entries are duplicated (listed twice / doubled)
• Clicking the dashboard icon highlights it but does not open the dashboard
• Application manager finishing an installation in background blocks keyboard input
• Documentation missing on HildonNote vs “”Cancel”" button
• Incremental search function is case sensitive for “”select objects”" dialogue in html form elements like drop-down menus
• Browser: Tap is treated as input even if device was in standby mode (screen off)
• HildonPickerButton opens HildonPickerDialog dialog in landscape mode
• The required #include directives are not documented for Hildon
• base’ and ‘more’ applications are visible sametime (messed)
• Can’t change desktop Background
• HildonAppMenu doesn’t show when another top level widget is around
• After installation of software last icon in “”More…”" view has default icon instead of own one
• Notification messages not displayed when optional “”category”" not set
• VKB has strange behavior when using the browser in portrait mode
• FN/Shift Locks get disabled by inserting a symbol with Sym
• After every boot the phone switches to the default theme
• Unlocking screen using power button/touch slide tops last application when on the desktop
• Cannot see the track time after black fill covers the white time font
• Fast search on the desktop doesn’t work with cyrillic (???????) layout
• Memory leaks in widget HildonAnimationActor
• Status bar icons shown on top of the virtual keyboard.
• hildon_pannable_area_scroll_to example is wrong (pointer instead of struct)
• Polish virtual keyboard: Cannot enter CAPITAL chars with diacritical signs
• Calender and Clock crash in Arabic localizition

Location

• Documentation in header files inaccurate – what unit does altitude have?

Multimedia

• PulseAudio clients are muted and hang on exit when media player is playing music
• Embedded windows media stream (ASF) at omroep.nl doesn’t work
• maemo-xinput-sounds uses all available CPU
• Hardware keys do not change volume when status menu in foreground & browser in background
• FM radio transmitter does not play while USB cord is connected
• Pulseaudio uses cpu constantly after a phone call.
• mafw-dbus-daemon killed by podcast
• Shuffle all songs often plays a non-random sequence after the first song
• After playing video and canceling a couple of applications crashes and N900 slows down
• Can’t change FM TX radio station name
• Xvid encoded videos unwatchable
• fmtx_client should pad station names shorter than 8 chars with spaces
• Playback of MP3 files might be cut-off at the end after seeking in file
• Changing volume without unlocking the phone no longer works
• PR 1.1 Regression: MP4 files with chapters hang playback
• FM Transmitter displays gibberish text in Radio player

Synchronization

• Alarm for a dropped occurrence of a recurring event
• exchange sync cant handle certificate exceptions
• MfE calendar sync causes dummy email sync account to appear
• mail for exchange freezes when trying to sync calendar and tasks
• N900 no longer accepting updates from Outlook 2007
• URLs in emails from Exchange are parsed incorrectly
• Deletion of messages should move first those items to “”Deleted Items”" folder
• Exchange event invitations scheduled without a prompt

System software

• Device autolock switches on the display
• Autobuilder fails to use opt-ified packages
• Phone unlocked when receiving call
• ohmd fails if discover_plugins cannot open plugin directory
• USB mass storage enabled when connected while device is off
• /opt and /home/user not cleared after firmware reflash
• Device unlockable if it get locked when being in portrait mode

Telephony

• Skype: “”Incorrect address”" for phone numbers missing the country code in Contacts
• callerid displays as “”Unknown number”" even though it is received by the N900

Translations

• IP address field in WiFi advanced settings partially hidden (“”Recuperar automáticamente direccíon IP”" string too long)
• Some sentences in the User Guide don’t make sense
• Wrong profile names in the User Guide
• Delete dialog text missing a space
• Email: Awkward text: “”Connecting Nokia servers to check service availability”"
• Wrong Danish translation: “”Programmet 1 er installeret”"
• Polish string too long in UPnP browsing menu bar
• Spanish: “”Tipo de fuente cambiado a %s”" when switching input languages
• Camera: Wrong translation “”Hochformat”" of “”Portrait”" in German UI
• Settings menu: String doesn’t fit the button (“”Inserir código para desbloquear cartão SIM”")
• Context menu in file manager should say “”Sformatuj”" or “”Formatuj”" instead of “”Format”"
• Truncation of Flickr sharing introductory text in Polish
• “”sparowane”", “”paruj”", “”Paruj”", “”Parowanie”" in Bluetooth settings
• Wrong PO Box translation for CZ language
• Clock: Incorrect Danish translation of the phrase ‘Remote time’
• “”Dane sieci komórkowej niedost?pne”" sounds strange
• “”Prze?lij ponownie”" button label truncated (MicroB)
• Dutch translation in “”Settings”" doesnt fit on the screen
• Incorrect Danish translation of ‘Extras’ in Settings
• New E-mail Format translated illogically
• pl-PL: “”Nazwa autora”" in camera general settings should be “”Autor”" or “”Imi? autora”"

UI Specification

• Don’t show hildon banner every tap when browsing UPnP shares
• Image Viewer: Dealing with “”occupied”" images is confusing
• “”Regional settings”" items sorted by languages instead of countries
• Cannot set “”Regional Settings”" to “”English (Australia)”" or “”English (New Zealand)”"
• (metabug) Make more use of the keyboard in the dialogs / lists

Updated packages

• +alarmd 1.1.16+0m5
• +apt 0.7.20.2maemo13.1+0m5
• +base-files 3.1.osso2+3.1.10.osso25+0m5
• +bash 2.05b-2-26osso8+0m5
• +bluez 4.60-0maemo1.4+0m5
• +browser-eal 0.5.5-6.1+0m5
• +cairo 1.8.8-0maemo1+0m5
• +clinkc 2.0-0osso17+0m5
• +clutter 0.8.2-0maemo66+0m5
• +dbus 1.2.14-0maemo4+0m5
• +dbus-glib 0.78-0maemo7+0m5
• +desktop-file-utils 0.12-2osso7+0m5
• +dnsmasq 2.45-1+lenny1+maemo3+0m5
• +dosfstools 3.0.1-1maemo6+0m5
• +dpkg 1.14.25maemo3+0m5
• +dsme 0.60.44+0m5
• +eds-backend-telepathy 0.4.62-1+0m5
• +evolution-data-server 1.4.2.1-20100226+0m5
• +farsight2 0.0.17-0maemo13+0m5
• +gcc-4.2 4.2.1-4maemo12+0m5
• +gconf2 2.16.0-2osso6.2+0m5
• +gdigicam 0.3.5.1+0m5
• +glib2.0 2.20.3-1maemo4+0m5
• +glibc 2.5.1-1eglibc23+0m5
• +gnome-menus 2.23.3-2maemo+0m5
• +gssdp 0.7.1-0maemo2+0m5
• +gst-openmax 0.10.0.6~1-0maemo17+0m5
• +gst-plugins-bad0.10 0.10.14-git265-0maemo10+0m5
• +gst-plugins-base0.10 0.10.25-0maemo14+0m5
• +gst-plugins-good0.10 0.10.16-git276-0maemo14+0m5
• +gstreamer0.10 0.10.25-0maemo4+0m5
• +gstreamer0.10-plugins-camera 0.79-1+0m5
• +gtk+2.0 2:2.14.7-1maemo29+0m5
• +gtkhtml3.14 3.24.4-osso18+0m5
• +gupnp 0.13.2-0maemo2+0m5
• +gupnp-av 0.5.2-0maemo2+0m5
• +gupnp-igd 0.1.4-0maemo3+0m5
• +hal 0.5.12~git20090219-0maemo7+0m5
• +hildon-application-manager 1:2.2.60-1+0m5
• +hildon-application-manager-l10n-public 6.0+r7611+0m5
• +hildon-control-panel 1:2.2.27-2+0m5
• +hildon-control-panel-l10n-public 6.0+r7640+0m5
• +hildon-desktop 1:2.2.135-2+0m5
• +hildon-fm-l10n-public 6.0+r7483+0m5
• +hildon-games-wrapper 1.9.4-5+0m5
• +hildon-home 0.3.66-2+0m5
• +hildon-input-method 1:2.1.46-1+0m5
• +hildon-input-method-framework 1:2.1.56-1+0m5
• +hildon-input-method-l10n-public 6.0+r7520+0m5
• +hildon-libs-l10n-public 6.0+r7510+0m5
• +hildon-status-menu 0.3.34+0m5
• +hildon-theme-layout-5 0.15.0-1+0m5
• +hildon-thumbnail 3.0.44+0m5
• +ke-recv-l10n-public 6.0+r7611+0m5
• +kernel 2.6.28-20100903+0m5
• +libcanberra 0.14-0maemo4+0m5
• +libcomapp 1.8.03-01+0m5
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So have you update your Firmware?

What you have found different?

Do you love and hate about PR1.2?

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Nokia CK-200

Thanks to @WOMWorld/Nokia and to the  #NokiaNav Challenge (read here, here and here) which ended last Friday (14^th May 2010), I’ve had the privilege of testing the yet to be released Nokia CK-200 in car Bluetooth car kit which was announced over at Nokia Conversations on the 4^th May.

The finale of the #NokiaNav challenge was the perfect ending to an amazing week, with lots of great food, way too many beers and loads of funny, interesting and like minded people.

So what is the CK-200 and what makes it great you ask?

(Thanks to Nokia Conversations for the video)
(FULL DATA SHEET from Nokia)

Not only is this a sexy looking device but it is very easy to use.

The big selling point for me on this little car assistant is the ability to connect to 2 bluetooth handsets at once. This is very handy for those with a business or personal device. It’s also practical when you and your other half are in the car at the same time, allowing both devices to be used for calling out and receiving calls. The CK-200 also has the ability of reading out SMSs and sending pre-defined SMSs.

The CK-200 comes with a small yet easy to use remote control:

The remote gives you full access to all the functions of the CK-200 from configuring volume; to deciding which devices are trusted; to downloading of Contacts from your phone. There is also a one touch switch phone button making it easy control the right phone.

I loved the fact that the size and design of the device has been done in such a way that the CK-200 is never a distraction. I only ever needed to look at it when it was safe and easy to do so. When looking at the display screen, it is very clear and uncluttered, making things very easy to read. For any in-car system this is a huge compliment!

After speaking to some of the other lucky #NokiaNav drivers, I was told that the Nokia kit doesn’t really get on well with Apple and as a result had some issues with connecting, remembering that this could just be a firmware issue, considering we had pre-production devices.

Somewhere in the middle of my 3^rd or 4^th beer I was lucky enough to get some Q&A time with the lovely Elina Paavilainen-Heikkinen who is the Product Manager for the CK-200.

When I asked about one of the issues I had which was the downloading of contacts from the N900 to the CK-200, I saw a smile and glint of frustration on Elina’s face. I was told that yes the N900 is not compatible with this feature and because of the contact/Bluetooth setup on the N900 it was probably not likely to happen in the future.

When I ask, “What is your best feature on the CK-200?” I got the reply that, the CK-200 team have many ideas and upgrades that they hope to implement in the future. She loved the fact that owners of the CK-200 could easily disconnect the system and install firmware updates from their home PC.

Now we all know how much Nokia users love their firmware, so this to me is also a really great feature.

The device is expected to launch this summer in the UK and at a price of €140 (price before taxes, subsidies, and installation), I expect this to be an important accessory for all the Nokia drivers, especially those now using the Free OVI Maps Voice navigation.

My biggest worry is about the Installation. The CK-200 needs to be installed directly into the cars radio/speaker system. Elina mentioned that they have designed the kit with minimal external cables to make this process as painless as possible. I’m also told that it is highly recommended that you get this installed by professionals.

So my question is will the need for professional installation going to impact on the sales of this lovely device?

NokiaNav – Picnics with Ovi Maps

The excitement and adventure behind NokiaNav (read my previous post) continues…

Something I haven’t mentioned before, is that along side the black box I found in the boot of the DB9, was a beautiful picnic basket.

AS you can there was a little note attached to the basket (WOMWorld/Nokia love there little notes), which said the following:

(Click to enlarge)

A strange challenge you might think to yourself, but I can see why they thought this might be cool.

Firstly in case you hadn’t noticed I have DB9 which means I’m probably going to do loads of driving to find just the right spot. Secondly I have an n97mini with Ovi Maps free voice navigation on it.

So before I tell you about my crazy and exciting picnic adventures let me tell more about Ovi Maps Free Navigation.

Nokia has recently entered the world of satnav’s and how better to do it than to simple through some free software on the millions of devices that are already out there! I found using the software really great and fairly easy to use.Tthere are a few more shortcuts that I would like to see on the map screen when you are following the map and perhaps a more filtered/organised way of saving/finding addresses. (I must admit I have only used it for a few days so I simply may not have found the easiest way to do things yet.)

The only two major problems I have had was a miss calculation when I took a wrong turn which resulted in my journey being extended for 1 hour (Do I have to repeat that I was sitting in a DB9 so I wasn’t complaining at all), the only other issue I had was my phone battery died, I can’t really blame the software for that he he he

Below are some screen shots of the Ovi Maps Navigation system:

The other cool thing about the navigation is that you can create your own custom voices, instead of having to select the default settings. Let me warn you that the Surfer dude guidance voice can be very annoying.if want to create your own voice head over to Ovi Store and download the app now or if you want to read more about it and listen to what other people have created go here

So now onto the good stuff… and before I start let me just say DON’T JUDGE ME

My first picnic was in the beautiful Wimbledon Common, it started out all pleasant as you can see from the images below.

As you can see the picnic basket was amazing, and so was the location that ovi took us.

If you have a sharp eye you may have noticed some tech sitting on the basket. It wouldn’t have been a real NokiaNav picnic without some Nokia devices.

Let me introduce the AWESOME MD9 mini speakers

These little bad boys took me by surprise. The sound is really good on them and they are very very compact. I am definitely going to get myself some for the future.

The adventures continued when I decided to ask  Ovi Maps to take me to  Windsor for some sight seeing.

I thought that having a picnic in the middle of town outside the castle wasn’t the best idea, mainly because people started pointing (Pointing is rude you know!!)

Luckily for me Windsor Park is a beautiful place to be and was not to far away from these very interesting postboxes.

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Seeing as though I was in Windsor I thought it be wise to let my inner child out and visit LEGOLAND.

Unfortunatly for me it was closed, however this wasn’t going to stop me…

It was very funny when the security guards came out and asked what I was doing, to which I answered, “I came all this way, I might as well still have fun and take pictures”. It did help that I had a Aston Martin DB9 with me he he he.

Let me warn you though if you try to have to many picnics you might go a little crazy as the two images below seem show.

Like any great Sat Nav system, it is very easy to simple click on the map and ask to be taken to a petrol station or a museum or in my case a  food location.

Drive thru style

Now you might think that there isn’t anything more I could possible say about driving or having a picnic. Well I you would be wrong! The best picnic  to me always has to have two things.

1) something nice to eat

2) good sights

So what better picnic to have than to eat strawberries off of a Aston Martin DB9 in the middle of a park

NokiaNav – Challenge 2

Following on from my previous post about the beautiful DB9 in the house. Yesterday I arrived home after work to find @bennycrime and @JoelFDiamond waiting with smiles to do some filming and get the #NokiaNav Challenge two on the go.

To start off with I was instructed to use the N97mini to download a new location via ovi maps. This was a very simple and easy to do synchronization process which took me minutes to complete.

Now that I “knew” where I was going, it was time to fill the car up. When I say fill!!! I mean to the top he he he. Lets just day the DB9 was not made for 4 people, however with me in the drivers seat I was more than comfortable.

After finding the best place to stick the N97mini with Ovi Maps and starting up the CK-200 hands free ki,t it was time to head off. The drive took me up to the beautiful Cannizaro House near Wimbledon Common.

I was then instructed to go inside and see if there was an envelope for me.

Indeed there was package for me, the funny thing was that the guy wanted to see ID which I didn’t have, luckily having the cameras with me made him realise I was the right man for the secret message.

Once again there was only mystery to be found in the envelope.

The first thing that popped into my mind was the big black box in the boot of the DB9 parked outside. So with no further delay I ran outside popped the boot, and started to open the box.

As you can see the good times keep rolling on. The black Box contained a set of BH-905 bluetooth Nokia Headsets with the following note:

Now that challenge two was over, all I need to do was get back into the beautiful car I’ve been given and burn some more rubber. (I thought I’d tease you all with some more images.)

If you have any questions regarding some of the nokia devices I have received please let me know and I will be more than happy to answer any questions.

• Ovi Maps
• N97mini
• BH-905
• BH-214
• CK-200
• MD9 (mini speakers)

NokiaNav – DB9 in the house.

You may have read my previous two posts here and here regarding the very mysterious #NokiaNav challenge and may still be wondering what is happening.

Yesterday afternoon I arrived at Heathrow Airport to this:

So things were starting to kick off but everything was still a mystery. On Saturday 4 other bloggers got some fancy cars from WOMWorld/Nokia which also related to the #NokiaNav Challenge.

@ThrProdigalFool from The Prodigal Guide got this:

@nechbi from NechBi got this:

@itsnoel from Vago got this:

@Macintosh from Mostly got this:

So the big question I had on my mind was “What will I get?” and here she is…

The most beuaitful and powerful car I have ever driven. The Aston Martin DB9 v12

This isn’t the end of the mysterious NokiaNav challenge, as I have since found boxes and baskets in the car. I’ll report on those later.

For now here are some pictures of this amazing machine.

I would love to stay and chat, but I have rubber I need to burn…

NokiaNav Challenge – Another Mysterious message

Following on from my post last week regarding the NokiaGo – Mysterious message, I have received yet another mysterious video from WOMWorld/Nokia.

I will no doubt find out more on sunday when I get back from Ireland what this all means.

In the mean time head over to the featured NokiaNav page at WOMWorld to who else is involved and what they think is going on or follow the chatter on twitter with #NokiaNav

Lastley there is a meet up that ties in with this whole event which you can find out more about at twtvite .

stay tuned…

NokiaGo Challenge – Mysterious message

At 11am this morning I received a very strange and unsuspecting package from the people over at WOMWorld/Nokia.

With in the package was simply a cardboard version of an old school cassette tap with a USB stick in side it with the following hashtag #NokiaGo.

The only file on the USB stick was the below video.

I don’t really know much more about this challenge other than it is possibly going to involve a vehicle of sorts. I know this because earlier this week I was asked to send copies of my drivers licence over to the WOMWorld towers.

Have you received a strange package too?

N8 – Q & A session

If you missed it yesterday (27-04-2010), you must have been asleep or stranded in the Kalahari desert, because it was big news and it was all over the internet. In fact the newly announce Nokia N8 mobile camera phone started trending on twitter in no time at all.

For those of you that don’t know this will be Nokia’s first Symbian ^3 device and will boast the best camera in Nokias arsenal of phones.

Without getting to much into the full tech spec, here are some of the highlights:

• A massive 12mega pixel camera with face detection
• nHD OLED screen at 3.5inch.
• multi-touch capasitive screen

And here is what this babies camera can do, thanks to Nokia conversation for the untouched images.

(Click to Enlarge)

Below is the Promo N8 video sit back and enjoy:

(more videos can be found over at Nokia Events)

Leading on from the announcement I was invited by WOMWorld/Nokia to attend a virtual Q&A session with Maija who is part of the Nokia Communications team for the N8, and Aapo who is the Director of Ecosystem Marketing – Nokia Qt SDK launch and Essa.

Below is a summary of that session:( full transcript on the Nokia Nseries blog)

Q: Mickyfin:is there any more specific release dates that are country specific, and Will all five colours shown be available on release?

A: Nokia Maija:Hey Mickyfin, there will be three colors in the beginning, the silver white, dark grey and green. Info on the release date is third quarter.

Q: mack005: And how about the battery is it built-in?

A: Nokia Maija: About the battery, we wanted to create a robust, one-piece device that feels good in the hand, therefore the integrated battery that can not be replaced by the user.

Q: FoneArena: Did Nokia achieve better battery life due to integrated battery ?

A: Nokia Esa: Integrated battery does not actually affect to battery life.

Q: Stobbsc: My first question if I may is What processor does the N8 have and will it have a GPU core?

A: Nokia Maija: about the processor: we do actually have a graphics accelerator next to a main processor. Its a way to get a great perf

Q: mack005: is it a ARM-11 680MHz processor?

A: Nokia Esa: @mack005 yep, that’s the processor, plus we got the grapchics accelerator next to it. Getting great speeds with that combination. Some screens are running already now at 60fps

Q: Sergejs: Greetings! Does the N8 have a camera cover or not? It’s hard to tell from the official images…

A: Nokia Maija: @sergejs: there is no camera cover. The materials are highly scratch resistant, and also, we wanted to make the use of many social applications as seamless as possible

Q: FoneArena:Can you say how is the N8 Camera better than the N82 ?

A: Nokia Esa: @FoneArena: yep, camera is stunning. It starts from the sensor, bigger the sensor, brighter shots I checked few 300-400€ pocket cameras and they had smaller sensors

A: Nokia Esa: And we piled the cam with 28mm wide optics from zeiss, that’s great combination

Q: FoneArena: Esa , Is Nokia entering Pocket Cam business then

A: Nokia Esa: we’ve been in cam buziness for a while. it’s in Nseries

Q: Mickyfin: Will the N8 FW updates still be tied to product codes leading to great frustration among large groups of users or will S^3 now allow updates to be applied regardless of product code, along the lines of Maemo for the N900 ?

A: Nokia Esa: @Mickyfin I need to check the product code thing. Don’t know at this point

Q: zeem35: What is the actual available user memory in the ROM?

A: Nokia Maija: @zeem35, the device user memory is 145MB and the Nokia N8 has 256MB RAM, improved with dynamic data management, which means great user experience

Q: zeem35: Why is the Homescreen limited to 3?

A: Nokia Aapo:@zeen35 – concious design decision. two reasons – to have the best possible performance for the home screen. second, to keep it simple enough to use.

Q: Mickyfin: Can you expand on the USB To Go; what is it, will an adapter be required to use standard USB memory sticks, do you get read/write compatibility with USB memory sticks, and what formats & filesize are supported (e.g. NTFS, HFS? in addition to FATx). Can a 5Gb HD movie be copied into the phone from a memory stick, for example?

A: Nokia Esa: USB OTG: We’ll have an adapter inbox to connect your USB memory sticks & hard drives. There’s obviously a power limitation that N8 can supply so some of the bigger hard drives need an external power supply

A: Nokia Esa: You can copy big files from hard drives without PC. There is one limitation with the filesizes; max is 4GB, it comes from FAT32 system.

Q: Guest: Hi, i’d like to know where the usb port is

A: Nokia Esa: USB is in the left side

Q: Mickyfin: Will S^3 support virtual RAM, will SIP be enabled, and which qt version does it come with?

A: Nokia Aapo: @Mickyfin Qt 4.6

Q: Rafe: Some Qt SDK questions for Aapo:

How integrated is the SDK going to get. I appreciate it has the ‘new’ Qt simulator and on-device debugging, but what about integration with (Symbian) Signing and upload to Ovi Store?

Any risk of fragmentation between the main Qt SDK and the Nokia Qt SDK (or is it really a question of tighter focus on Nokia specific elements (simulator, mobility APIs etc).

Is Qt going to be upgraded separately to the platform i.e. Qt 4.7 release will be getting near final by the end of the summer. Thinking of potential of Qt Quick etc.

What about support for Qt SDK on other platforms. I see Mac is a possible, any time line on that? What about Linux?

A: Nokia Aapo: when Nokia N8 ships, we will have Ovi Store publishing in place for Nokia Qt SDK apps

A: Nokia Aapo: @Rafe we are very keen not to fragment

A: Nokia Aapo: @Rafe Windows and Linux are out first but we are very hard at work with Mac version as well. So we are actively working to get it out. That means Nokia development on all computer platforms!

Q: irfun4ever: N8 coming with Flash 4. is it mean we can be able to watch facebook videos?

A: Nokia Esa: Flash Lite 4 comes with compatibility to Flash 10 video

Q: SymbianTweet: Dose N8 record sound in 5.1 channel.

A: Nokia Maija: @SymbianTweet, there is stereo sound recording for the video cam, 5.1 Dolby Digital Plus only in playback

Q: Stobbsc: Does the HDMI out just mirror the phone’s screen, at higher resolution, or can applications display content separately to both screens?

With more “connected” tvs and media centres etc, will it support easy wifi media sharing, Upnp, bonjour for service discovery etc?

With the HDMI out, is HDCP supported? I.e. will we be able to play back DRM’d HD Content?

what was the reasoning behind sticking with nHD rather than the higher res of the n900?

A: Nokia Esa: @Stobbsc: HDMI, video player & photos come out with 720p, rest of the UI is upscaled from nHD. E.g. Media wall UI looks cool on TV.

Q: Guest: Does qt quick offer a common way to develop for symbian and meego? Or the toolkit UI widgets will be different?

A: Nokia Aapo: @Guest yes a common way to develop UIs on both platforms. you can do UIs which are also forward compatible with future Symbian and Maemo UIs. Furthermore, there are projects to add mobile specific UI components to the general pool

Q: zeem35: my friend had a bad experience with N97 border peeling off..

A: Nokia Esa: @zeem The covers are made out of aluminium and the colors come with anodization process. It seems to resist the scratches by nature. I bet nothing is 100%

A: Nokia Esa: you’ll gona love the new aluminium when get hold on the device

Q: Ani: @ ESA – whts your favourite thing about N8?

A: Nokia Esa: I love the camera, & HD. it’s wonderful

So what do I think of the device? To be honest I would like to hold my judgement and or praises until I manage to get my hands on public release version. However from looking at the spec and all the online chatter here are a few of my likes and concerns:

What I like so far:

• I like the form factor and colour options.
• I love the camera spec, xenon xenon xenon
• At last a multi-touch capacitive screen
• I think the price range is good at 360euro provided the device is released on time.
• Dolby digital Surround sound

Concerns so far:

• The Battery is a concern,  this device is aimed at taking many pictures especially with a xenon flash
• No camera lens cover (however many other devices have managed without it)
• I’m a fan of OLED’s, but it struggles in sunlight and this phone is made for being outdoors taking images.