Nokia News Roundup
By Mike Browne on January 27,
 2009 at 00:00,

Every day we take a look around your Nokia community, sifting out the hot topics and the things that concern all NokHeads the world over. The last 24 hours have been a busy time in Nokia-land, so we’ve extra stories today, including an exclusive interview with Nokia's Juha Kokkonen, Director, Discover Product Group about the Nokai N79 Active, the evolution of Geo-Tagging, and even an insight into the new Nokia BlogBIte service.

These are the best stories from the last 24 hours in one handy breakfast-bar sized piece we like to call Back From The Blog….

Nokia N79 Active gets discussed

When Nokia announced the arrival of the Nokia N79 Active the other week this was seen as something of a great step forward, moving handsets into niche areas with stunning results. TechCraver has taken the time to sit down with Juha Kokkonen, Director, Discover Product Group, for a quick interview about the reasoning behind this device. Strap your heart rate monitor on here.

Changing fonts on the 5800

This is a quick and simple tutorial to get you thinking of using your Nok in different ways. The Symbian Blog has a neat little guide to changing the fonts on your Nokai 5800. If you don’t like the built-in fonts you’ll need to download a few new ones, but the guys over here have even linked to a few, making this a good all-round piece.

Geo-tagging on you Nok

Over on The Nokia Blog, they’re getting excited about the evolution of Geo-Tagging on Nokia devices. As they put it ‘Geotagging has really evolved in Nokia’s latest phones, more specifically with the FP2 devices like the Nokia N85, N96, and N79.’ This is a great overview of how Nokia is really getting to grips with tagging, adding essential data that doesn’t add bloat. Get the skinny over here.

E63 perfect mid-tier tool

Do you ever look at your Nok and wonder where in the hierarchy of devices it sits? Well Symbian World has been looking at the Nokia E63 and found it to be the perfect mid-tier device. As they say of it, ‘Nokia launched the E63 and after 2 weeks of use I think the E63 is a good mid tier device.’ You can’t say fairer than that. You can find the full review over here.

Nokia Conversations Podcast

Fancy a few oral stories from around your Nokia neighbourhood? Well, now you can with the launch of Blogbite, which is a new weekly update on all things Nokia from the guys over at Nokia Conversations. They’ll be taking the best stories of the week and injecting a little Web 2.0 into their deliver. You can get a taster of what’s to come over here.

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