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Nokia issues warning on BL-5C battery

Chandra — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:32:06 +0000

Nokia today issued a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006.

According to Nokia’s website:

Nokia has identified that in very rare cases the affected batteries could potentially experience over heating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Nokia is working closely with relevant local authorities to investigate this situation.

I seriously suggest you to visit the page on their website where you can see the steps to find out whether a battery is affected or not.

Advisory page on Nokia Website: Product Advisory: Nokia BL-5C battery

I wonder how this is going to affect the sales of Nokia mobiles in India. Nokia is the leader in India and the term Nokia is almost synonymous to a mobile phone in Indian mobile industry.

Use your Nokia camera phone as wireless webcam

Chandra — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:45:41 +0000

Motvik , a Bangalore based startup company in mobile desktop & media convergence space has released Beta version of their flagship product “wwigo“. Using this software you can use Nokia Series 60 v2.0 and Series 60 v3.0 phones (phones like 6600, N series phones, 6680 and a whole lot of other Nokia phones) as a wireless web camera over a bluetooth enabled PC/Laptop. Its free to download and use now.

You can see the latest list of supported phones from their website’s download page.

You can get more details about the product and the system requirements from Motvik website.

Is your site mobile ready? Check it now!

Chandra — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:35:32 +0000

Gone are the days where your websites are only viewed by desktop users. Now mobile web is rapidly growing. People are using Internet on their Mobile Phones, PDAs and other devices. There are few primary limitations when you use Internet on a mobile device compared to a normal desktop or laptop computer. Primarily you have a small display to view the pages and the navigation controls you have are limited. You are limited to a standard mobile keypad unless you are using a high end BlackBerry phone or any other smart phone.

Have you ever wanted to see how your website looks for a mobile phone user? You might actually wanted to see it but could not get a right mobile phone with internet access. No problems!! You don’t need a phone to see your website’s look and feel for mobile users!!There are online emulators to do this task for you. Just enter the url of your website or any other website and you are done, you can see a complete mobile version of your site and you can navigate through your pages as if you are using an actual mobile phone. You should use a java enabled browser to get this functionality working!

There are two emulators Nokia n70 and Sony Ericsson K750i available at .mobi website.

Link: Mobile Emulator at .mobi website

OperaMini is the web browser for small screen devices. You can download it and install on your Java enabled phone. You can visit OperaMini website for more details and mobile phone support. If you don’t have a mobile which can work with OperaMini, you can simulate it online using their simulator.

Link: OperaMini Simulator

The image shows WebGeekBlog in OperaMini Simulator. WebGeekBlog mobile is Beta right now. I am planning to develop a complete mobile version using XHTML mobile profile.

There are few other emulators which you can download and install on your computer to test your site.

Personally I feel mobile web is going to rock in the near future. So be prepared to take your sites mobile!