Setting up your Nokia E71 Instant Messenger to work with Yahoo! Messenger

July 5th, 2009 21 Comments   Posted in Mobile Phone, Tricks

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One of the features of the Nokia E71 is it’s built-in Instant Messaging application. Little that everyone know, Nokia’s IM application can be used with Yahoo! Messenger. Most of the time, we are notfied with a “Notify your service provider” -like messages when we’re not sure with the settings to be entered.

To configure your E71’s Nokia Instant Messenger to work with Yahoo! Messenger, just follow these simple instructions:

1. Open the IM application. (Home Key > Communication > IM)

2. For fresh installations, you will be asked for a Server Name, Access Point in use, Web Address and your own username and password.

The Server Name is used as a quick reference to what the server settings is all about. Since we’re setting up YIM, you may place “Yahoo! Messenger” as Server Name.

The access point in use will determine which internt data connection to use when connecting to a server.

The web address will contain the url/ip of the server which will host the IM service. In our case, it’s Yahoo!

The username/password are the same with your preferred login for desktop Yahoo! Messenger.

3. Enter the follwing information from the fields in #2.

Server Name  : Yahoo! Messenger
Web Address : imps.msg.yahoo.com
Username: <your username>
Password: <your password>

Mobile IM is sometimes annoying since it introduces a great amount of lag. It usually take a minute before the expected message arrives.

** Note: This set-up may also work with N82, N95 and other similar phone models (S60 v3 FP1).

Manila Maps now available on Google Maps!

February 24th, 2009 13 Comments   Posted in Software

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Philippine Street Map on the Nokia N82 Symbian S60 Platform

After the long wait, Google finally released the updated Manila Map for Google Maps.  The recent Google Maps update include detailed street maps of major Philippine cities like Metro Manila, Cebu City, Davao City, and Cagayan de Oro City among others.

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Nokia 6208c, the new pen-input phone

January 2nd, 2009 1 Comment   Posted in Nokia

nokia_6208c_classicChina — Nokia launched yesterday in Nanjing, China its new Nokia 6208c, a pen-input device. According to Nokia, the Nokia 6208c is a mobile phone specifically designed to cater customers from Asian countries who uses Chinese characters for writing. The Nokia 6209c was ergonomically designed to simulate writing of Chinese characters and messages in the most natural way.

The phone uses a 2.4 inch touch screen as its display. It also has a 3.2 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and 4x digital zoom which makes it a good camera phone.

The Nokia 6208c is expected to available in select markets in early 2009. More »

N82 Photography

October 18th, 2008 3 Comments   Posted in Nokia

The N82 is Nokia’s ultimate gadget for photography. It’s Carl Zeiss 5MP Tesar lens captures every detail in a click. No other phone that I have tried can compare to the N82’s brilliance in capturing your subject’s details, whether it’s for macro, portrait and other types of shooting modes.

Another notable feature of N82 is it’s geo-tagging capability.  It can utilize your phone’s built-in GPS to embed in the photo the exact location where the photo was taken. I have tried using it with Google Earth and Picasa and it’s perfect. Picasa loads the photo’s geotags into Google Earth and lets Google Earth show where on the

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Choosing N82 over N95 8GB (N82 vs N95 8GB)

October 12th, 2008 4 Comments   Posted in Nokia

Like I mentioned on my earlier post about the N82, the actual phone I received from Nokia Philippines was the Nokia N95 8GB. But later, I found that N82’s features suits well for me as compared to the N95 (8GB).

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