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Symbian-Guru discovered Nokia E65 in two new colors - the Pink and Plum. With these color shades the E65 has feminine looks. The girls/women would be more interested in getting the E65 in pink and plum colors. As per Symbian-Guru “these are official for the European market, but they’re still judging reactions to decide whether to bring them Stateside.”

source: Symbian-Guru

Nokia announced the launch of its second annual competition for developers and entrepreneurs working in the mobile space.

The ‘Mobile Rules!’ competition aims to promote excellence in both applications developed for mobile and for businesses launching or promoting services in the mobile arena.  The initiative is in its second year.  In 2006, it was launched as the ‘Web2Mobile’ competition; the change of name reflects the increased scope, prizes and reach of this year’s contest.

To find more about competition rules, prizes visit: www.mobilerules.org

Google has created a search page just for iPhone users. The above image shows the search results of keyword “harry poter”. It looks to be all Javascript.

Currently, it looks like a sample demo page, but not sure why this specific search page for iPhone. If you click on the link “more results” at bottom of search results page. It will give you the normal web search results by Google. The Safari browser on the iPhone also works fine for Google search page .

The Google, which is already offering its search engine service to cellphones, that helps users to search the web. At the moment Google is trying to develop a new search service for cellphones, that will help users to find and buy ringtones, games and other mobile contents.

In this way cellphone user would be able to search the piece of content - for examle a specific ringtone - and he will be able to get a list of providers and links to purchase the searched items. For high placement in the search results - Google will also offer the companies “Sponsored Links” similar to the web search.

Well - I think there are still lots of things need to be resolved, before we will see this service ready to use on our cellphones - The operators, cell phone manufacturers and content providers - their interaction and role. On the other hand Google’s mobile search isn’t promoted by some operators.

source: The Wall Street Journal

We previously showed you NOKLA N95 - A Nokia N95 clone and Nokia N73 clone . This time we are discussing about NOKLA N76 - a clone of Nokia N76. I believe it’s very difficult to differentiate the original and this fake chinese version of N76. The only prominent difference “I” in NOKIA is replaced with “L”.

This clone is also made by CECT. The key specifications of the phone are:

The 2 megapixel camera, 2.6″ touch screen, Micro SD expansion slot, Media Player, and  just 95 grams.

* Be careful while purchasing a phone and make sure you are getting the right one - not a fake phone in the price of original.

Was just looking for some iPhone hacks on the net to put custom ringtones on your iPhone. I Find these two links useful. See if they work.

iphonealley.com

hacktheiphone.com

May be you will also find this free, open source software to create ring tones – useful

Audacity

* Try the above links on your own risk. I just shared these links for information purpose and would not be responsible for any problem/issue.

Sign up for the Forum Nokia Open C Challenge - sponsored by Orange Partner and Symbian Developer Network, with over $20,000 in prizes and an opportunity to showcase your winning application at the Symbian Smartshow in London.

Registration for the Open C Challenge begins on Monday, July 16, 2007 at 9:00 am EST. Contestants must submit their final mobile applications by Friday, August 31, 2007 no later than 11:59 p.m. EST.

find more details at Forum Nokia

I believe - a great effort to produce more S60 developers.

The Mobile Gateway 3.0 by Synchronica - now supports over-the-air synchronization between Microsoft Exchange and the newly launched Apple iPhone. This will allow mobile operators and service providers to offer mobile synchronization to business users, enabling them to receive corporate email on their iPhones without having to ask their IT manager to open the firewall or install additional software.

Mobile Gateway seamlessly integrates with the corporate IT infrastructure and does not require the enterprise to expose IMAP and SMTP in their Exchange servers or install additional connectors - issues that often raise security concerns with IT administrators.

source: synchronica

Someone in China tried to make a Mock-up of iPhone with Chinese input - nice effort…..

source:  pconline

Well - few people are trying their best to help in improving the overall performance of the iPhone by putting their efforts on rigorous testing. The guys at AppleHound.com put more than 40 hours in finding issues in iPhone applications.

The bugs range from minor display issues to application crashes. All 68 bugs/issues should be reproducible by every iPhone owner.

for more details visit AppleHound