Nokia revolutions... Cityman to Nokia N97

Recently, Nokia sent me what they call the Nokia N97 anti-theft device. In fact its just a replica of the Nokia Cityman, which was the first hand-held mobile phone that Nokia came out with in 1987. This giant Cityman replica came with a housing to put the Nokia N97, to show the size comparison with a phone 12 years older.

Thanks to Nokia for the laughs but I think I will stick with the E series :)

(photos coming soon)

Best Profiles giveaway @ MyE63

Just to let you all know that we are giving away Best Profiles, a program that also works on the Nokia E65. Go to the Nokia E63 blog to enter by promoting or contributing to the blog.

Nokia PC Suite Calendar - the hidden gem for GTD

Are you an organising freak? Love getting things done efficiently? Nokia Calendar is your friend. Much of the action has recently been on MyE63 but today, we'd like to look at the Calendar for Nokia PC Suite. In one word, it's awesome! The recent update to Nokia PC suite was already mentioned here but we didn't do justice to the features of the in built Calendar.

The Calendar now looks like Microsoft Outlook's calendar which is a big step for Nokia. You can right click any day and add a new meeting, call or memo.

• Views - You can view the calendar in a monthly screen, weekly screen or a day overview screen. Just like Google Calendar, they also have an Agenda view (called List view in Nokia Calendar) which allows you to see all your appointments line by line. This is especially useful to
• Duration Selection - If the appointment that you are adding runs for for a certain length, you can select the timeslots that the appointment will take up and press enter to add details of the meeting. eg In the 7 day view, select 4 timeslots in a row to create a meeting 2 hours long.
• Double-click to edit - To add or edit any entries, just double click the date or timeslot and the details screen will pop up for a new appointment.
• Immediate update to phone - As soon as you are finished with your update and you save the entry, it is now in your phone. Saves a lot of thumb work entering new meetings etc via PC suite.
• Sort calendar entries - In the list view you can also even sort calendar entries by appointment type, subject, location, description, start date, end date, alarm state, alarm time or even whether the entry recurs.

So what are we missing? One problem with the Nokia Calendar which stops it from replacing Outlook is that you cannot print the screen that you see. For example, you can't just print out the agenda for the next 10 days because there is no print option. You need to screen capture it and print it out that way... not sure why this was not built in but maybe in the next PC Suite build.

Google Maps on Nokia E65 now with layers

Have you ever tried to do four things at the same time on your mobile google maps and failed miserably as a result of its "one-tracked mind"? You may search for a restaurant but when you work out the directions, you think about searching for a close petrol station along the way, suddenly your customised directions are gone! You pull over to the side of the road and start again...

You may have gotten used to using customised maps on Google Maps and creating your own "world" which shows favourite restaurants, friends' houses, places you want to go etc. Well now with the latest Google Maps for mobile you can see these customised maps when you are using your mobile phone!

Read more here.