Category: "Random"

Unboxing a Giant #NokiaBox; Delhi Edition

Early yesterday morning, we were sent a mysterious little email from Nokia WomWorld, to ‘meet‘ them at a certain Mall nearby, here in New Delhi. So we proceeded to the Select Citywalk – DLF Place Mall, and egads were we in for a certain something. I had a little hint of what to expect, when [...]

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What If Nokia Just Made One Phone a Year?

Yes. What if Nokia just made one phone a year. That’s the question that was bought up while I was talking to a group of friends earlier today. Friends who had all moved onto the *gasp* iPhone. Admittedly the Apple iPhone way is definitely something Nokia does not want to go by. Nokia has phones [...]

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ZOMG We’re Two Years Old; And We’re Giving Away Stuff!

Wow. So here we are, two years later. And what a ride it’s been. Us and our strange name. ZOMGitsCj turns two years old today. While I did a lot of name-dropping last year, I’ll try not to do that again this time. But I honestly have to give a huge amount of Thanks to [...]

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Capacitive vs Resistive; What’s the Difference really?

So we’ve been using the Nokia X6 for a couple days now, and our first impressions mainly consisted of “Egads the Capacitive Touchscreen makes Symbian^1 (aka S60v5) a gazillion times better to use“. And with that, we figured we’d take a deeper look into what the difference between Capacitive and Resistive Touchscreens really are. Atleast, [...]

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My Ovi Maps Story

I was stuck in a bit of a predicament the other day. One that saw me starting up Ovi Maps out of pure instinct. As you might have read before on ZCJ, I’ve been very much dependent on Ovi Maps in Delhi, since I moved here 4 months ago. Honestly, it has made living here [...]

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Europe.Nokia.com gets a Facelift

Just figured this was worth posting about. Europe.Nokia.com got a small facelift today. As you can see in the screenshot above, things are arranged and look quite different from the usual Nokia Site arrangement we’ve been seeing for so long. The site still works in the same way as it always did, so it’s just [...]

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The Minimob Olympics start today; Team India’s gonna Pwn !

WomWorld Nokia‘s hosting the Mini Mobi Olympics this week. What is the MiniMob Olympics ? Well I’m glad you asked ! You’re heard of the Olympics right ? Well this is the Mobile-related version of it ! WomWorld‘s chosen one person from a each country (or most of them atleast), to Captain their team, which [...]

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ZOMG its Christmas ! Holiday Giveaway #3

The Holiday Season might almost be over, but we’re still in the mood here on ZOMGitsCj.com. One last time, at the end of this week we’ll be giving away one code to the Nokia Music Store India, that will allow you to download a 100 Tracks of your choice. That’s a HUNDRED tracks for ya [...]

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ZOMG its Christmas ! Holiday Giveaway #2

It’s the Holiday Season and we’re in the mood here on ZOMGitsCj.com. At the end of this week we’ll be giving away one code to the Nokia Music Store India, that will allow you to download a 100 Tracks of your choice. That’s a HUNDRED tracks for ya ! Unfortunately this means that this particular [...]

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ZOMG its Christmas ! Holiday Giveaway #1

It’s the Holiday Season and we’re in the mood here on ZOMGitsCj.com. At the end of this week we’ll be giving away one code to the Nokia Music Store India, that will allow you to download a 100 Tracks of your choice. That’s a HUNDRED tracks for ya ! Unfortunately this means that this particular [...]

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The Forum Nokia Developer Conference 2009

As we mentioned last week, yesterday we were fortunate enough to attend the Forum Nokia Developer Conference 2009. And Egads, were we impressed. Forum Nokia has big plans for both Symbian and Maemo, and are driving developers to code and innovate on the platforms. They’re also trying to promote QT and WRT (Web RunTime) as [...]

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Nokia releases S40 5th Edition Feature Pack 1 ‘Lite’ SDK to Developers

Yesterday, while we were at the Forum Nokia Developer Conference 2009, Nokia also released the S40 5th Edition Feature Pack 1 ‘Lite’ SDK to Developers. Nokia has released the next software development kit (SDK) for its Series 40 mass market mobile devices – the Series 40 5th Edition, Feature Pack 1 Lite, providing third party [...]

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Forum Nokia announces Code Competition for Qt Mobility APIs

Yesterday, while we were at the Forum Nokia Developer Conference 2009, Nokia announced a code competition for QT Mobility APIs. The competition invites developers across the glove to create code samples for Symbian that utilize Qt and Qt Mobility APIs (Click here to read What is Qt?). The entries will be assessed on their innovativeness [...]

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The Nokia Human Research Department : How the N97 Mini came about

I received a peculiar and hilarious little package from Nokia WomWorld earlier today. “Nokia Human Research Department“. “Whatever could it be ?” I thought, as I plugged the USB stick into my computer. What I found were a couple HILARIOUS videos about the story behind why the N97 Mini was created so soon after the [...]

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Happy Halloween Y’all !

We’d like to take time out to wish our Readers a Spook-tacular Halloween ! Dont forget to dress up your Nokia S60/Symbian Phone with a spooky theme to match your Halloween Costume. You could check out the Ovi Store for a couple pretty sweet themes for this All Hallow’s Eve, like the one I have [...]

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