Message from MUPE team:

MUPE thanks all the Beta Labs testers, but now it is time to move ahead.

Past year we focused on running the service and collected good feedback on both the basic technology and applications. The development efforts were used in porting the key parts of MUPE platform into Nokia Games development platform. This internal technology transfer is now successfully concluded and it is time to archive MUPE from Beta Labs. However, MUPE will not disappear and it will be still available as an open source from http://www.mupe.net/.

During the past 12 months MUPE got over 25000 testers. Thanks for all!

MUPE team

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Paris Hilton was at the Nokia 5800 Tube Launch Party at Punk Soho in London last night. She also met her old school mate Lady GaGa for the first time in London and what a dynamite blonde combo that was!

Wearing a canary yellow dress with black beading, Paris posed for pictures with Britain’s Got Talent winner George Sampson, who tried to teach her how to dance. Paris was joined by the contestants from her show “Paris Hilton’s British Best Friend”.

GaGa was DJing and performing at the Nokia 5800 launch, Paris Hilton joined her behind the DJ Booth. Both spotted chatting and giggling with each other for long and Paris even did a fun interview with Lady Gaga (check the video below).

Other stars at the launch included Celebrity Big Brother quitter Mutya Buena, I’m A Celebrity winner Joe Swash, TV beauty Naomi Millbank Smith, Supermodel David Gandy and Mick Jagger’s daughter Jade.

A photo extravaganza gallery is below along with videos:

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Video: Audio Smileys, introduced by Ilkka Peltola and Janne Teinilä

Here’s something small for you (or for your kids):

Audio Smileys is a cute little application that allows you to play funny sounds to express your feelings. It is mostly targeted for youngsters, but of course, anyone can use it for fooling around with friends, or pulling pranks at co-workers. Once launched, just press keys 1…9 on your keypad to play the sound. In additon, you can create your own audio smileys with the built-in audio smiley editor.

Download Audio Smileys from here.

Now, I know some of you must be wondering: why are we piloting this kind of stuff here at Beta Labs, as we know that most of you don’t belong to the target user group. In fact, we had a lengthy discussion about this here at Nokia. In the end, we concluded, again, that this should be decided by you, our beloved user community:

Should we publish also small and less-serious stuff like Audio Smileys at Beta Labs or not?
( surveys)

The choice is yours.

Original post by Tommi Vilkamo

Okay, just a quick update. We have just integrated an online store for Nokia 5800 Applications, Themes and Games on the site. Since many of you were demanding a section on the site to browse all applications and themes at one place, here it is for you- Nokia 5800 Applications Store.

Premium applications like IM+, Mobiola Video Studio, Screen Capture, PocketCopy, Quickoffice Premier, JoikuSpot, SMS Timer, Cool Light, MyPhone, Reminder Softwares, Anwering Machine Apps and many many more are ready to be grabbed.

A giant collection of Language translation tools, converters, talking dictionaries are also included for almost every major language. Exciting games and appealing themes- all included in the store. Go ahead and pick your premium contents to download. More apps are coming up for the store soon..

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Software Store

The store contains premium applications only, exclusively developed or updated for Nokia 5800 platform (Symbian S60 V5). The applications comes with a very discounted price tag for a limited time only. Free downloads are already available at our Nokia 5800 Games, Nokia 5800 Themes and Nokia 5800 Apps categories.

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Alright, so many of you are facing problems while installing applications on Nokia 5800. We get some queries daily from users that when they try to install the apps, they get “expired certificate” errors. Hopefully this will get fixed in the next firmware update for Nokia 5800, but for now here is the solution to try.

If you have already tried the common solutions like changing the date of your phone to few months back, allow the software installation to ALL in your application manager, turn off the online certificate check, phone resetting or formatting, etc.  and if nothing works for you, try this solution below - IT WORKS!!

How to Fix the Nokia 5800 “Expired Certificate” Installation Error:

1) Backup all your messages, contacts, notes, calendar entries, etc. by using Nokia PC Suite.

2) After you have the backup, you have to remove the MicroSD card. Do not remove the card directly when the phone is on, card and data can get corrupt. Follow these steps to remove MicroSD card-

a) Press the power key, sroll down and select “Remove Memory Card” option.
b) Press ‘YES’ when asked “Removing memory card will close all open applications. Remove anyway?”
c) Shortly after, the “Remove Memory Card and press OK” message appears, the microSD is ready to be unplugged or removed now from the dedicated slot.

3) Enter *#7370# code on your screen to restore the phone to Factory Default Settings. This will delete all your personal data.

4) Next, you will be asked the phone lock code, if you have not changed this earlier, enter the default one which is 12345.

5) The phone will reboot, select your country as “HONG KONG”. Some users reported the phone works fine even while selecting their correct country but for some only HONG KONG works. Its better to chose Hong Kong here for now, we can change it later.

6) Power off the phone again and put back the Micro SD card in its slot.

7) Restart the phone and Voila!! your Nokia 5800 is ready to install any signed application.

Hope the above steps makes you guys happy and finally get rid of this annoying certificate error. Cheers!!

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Over this weekend, Nokia announced that they have just shipped the 1 million Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phones making it one of their most successful phones to date. The milestone coincides with the successful sales start of the device in the UK.

Following its introduction in October 2008, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has seen successful sales starts in a number of markets, including Hong Kong and Moscow where the device sold out within hours of the sales start.

“The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has been received very positively and this milestone is just further proof that people all over the world want a device that is not only a great music experience, but also makes the most of touch screen technology,” said Jo Harlow, Vice President, Nokia in Official Press Release.

Even though it hasn’t been released all over the globe, impressive sales in regions like Hong Kong, Russia, Philippines and India as well has helped the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic attain this feat at such a short amount of time. It is beyond our dream now to imagine the sales figures of this phone when it finally gets launched globally and particularly in major markets like US and parts of Europe.

The Nokia Tube has been warmly welcomed in Great Britain too on its launch this Friday. The rains and bad weather didn’t dampen spirits at 5800 launch on London’s Regent Street. More than 150 lined up to be among the first to own a Nokia 5800. Nokia staff were on hand to ensure the gathering crowds stayed both warm and dry. For those without protection, Nokia umbrellas were handed out.

Nokia 5800 UK Launch Photos (Jan 23):

Best Deals for Nokia 5800 in UK- Check out how you can own a Free Nokia 5800 in UK along with excitng free gifts like Laptops, Xbox, PS3, Cashbacks, etc.

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If you have already downloaded all the amazing Nokia 5800 apps we have, here are 10 more hot applications for your Nokia 5800 device. The applications are free, ready to be grabbed and downloaded on your 5800.

Soon, we are also integrating an application store on the site to bring up all the Nokia 5800 applications, games and themes collection at one place. It’s just the start of a whole new series of applications and downloads we have on cards for Nokia 5800.

10 Hot Nokia 5800 Apps:

1) iSync: Now you can easily synchronize the data of your Nokia 5800 and Mac with the help of iSync application. The plugin is officially released by Nokia and they have a “how to” here for iSync.

Download iSync

2) Mobbler: Mobbler is a Last.fm radio player and scrobbler for S60 smartphones. It allows you to listen to your Last.fm radio stations and to scrobble tracks played using the S60 Music Player. Mobbler now supports Nokia 5800 device as well.

Download Mobbler

3) ScreenSnap S60 V5: ScreenSnap is an application that allows you to take screenshots on your Nokia 5800 phone and save them as an image file and transfer to your PC or send them to your friends via email, bluetooth, multimedia message or infrared. Interesting little application to play with.

Download ScreenSnap

4) Mobile Paint: Turn your Nokia 5800 screen into a canvas and paint it with different colors, pens and templates. So let your inner Picasso come alive and explore this cutie application on your 5800.

Download Mobile Paint

5) Mail for Exchange: This is Nokia’s push email service and a serious BlackBerry beater on E-Series Nokia handsets, and the message maestro is supported now on the 5800 too. Now you’ll know instantly when your boss wants that report done, even when you’re in bed. And maybe some good news on occasion too.

Download Mail for Exchange

6) SymTorrent: This is a powerful BitTorrent client for Symbian phones now updated for S60 5th edition phones like Nokia 5800 and N97. SymTorrent supports downloading/ uploading multiple torrents at a time, pausing/ resuming them and check the status and stats of your torrent files.

Download SymTorrent

7) Accuweather: This is a weather app which provides users with weather information for global locations including current conditions, 4-day forecasts, radar or satellite images, 15-day calendar view for a quick check of upcoming weather, hourly forecasts in graph format for visual display of temperature and conditions, and severe weather alerts (US only).

Download AccuWeather: The widget is free for you to download straight from your Nokia 5800’s download icon, so go ahead and get it for a great weather forecast experience.

8 ) Worldmate: WorldMate is an essential app for anyone who travels frequently. It provides users with such tools as world clock, currency converter, weather forecast, as well as world day and night map. It also provides detailed flight information in the premium feature. The latest version has improved interface and updated for Symbian S60 Version 5 platform.

Download Worldmate

9) Y-Browser File Manager: Even though it’s not an actual release for the Symbian S60 5th Edition, Symbian-freak guys still tried it on Nokia 5800 and found that it works perfectly on it. There is still plenty of room for improvement with the application but it is still an improvement on Nokia’s built in file manager.

Download Y-Browser

10) Fring: Fring is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM friends using your handset’s internet connection. Fring is now updated to support Symbian S60 V5 handsets (Nokia 5800 & N97) and will be released very soon.

Users can download the latest version of fring for Symbian 9 handsets from the usual download link (here), and owners of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic can expect to do some fringing of their own very soon as promised by the fring team.

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Written by Kristian Luoma, Product Manager, Contacts on Ovi team

Hey all,

If you’re a regular Beta Labs blog reader, you’ve probably noticed that our monthly updates of Nokia Chat (see here, here, and here) have stopped for a few months. This has been simply because we’ve had to focus on getting a bit more of your requests made. While weighing your most valuable input to our product team, we’ve run a number of studies with teams of people here and there. This has been a great learning process for us.

Today, it’s time to say goodbye to Nokia Chat. On this same day, we’re asking you to give a warm welcome to Contacts on Ovi mobile client. You’ll find the experience very close to what Nokia Chat offered you - it’s a natural evolution of what Nokia Chat was.

What’s new, apart from the brand? I’ll have to first say that the clients are in a better shape, we’ve resolved lots of bugs that have been bothering you and us too. Secondly, we’re supporting lots of more devices now. The new platform we have a client for is S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2. It’s about time, right? We wanted it to look better, and have more features in it. With the new client available for the latest models you’ll be able to broadcast the music you listen as a part of your personal message (for those of you that are in to XMPP, I’ll just give out that it’s using the PEP extension, which you’ll find supported in some PC clients too).

Oh, and if you have friends who have a Series 40 based phone, there’s a J2ME client available too.

We need still your help to get this right, and we trust you to give us open feedback about what you’d like to see.

With the Contacts on Ovi client you’ll be able to chat with your friends in Google Talk too.

You’ll find the clients from this page. (note: please remove the Nokia Chat and the support package from your device before installing the new client!)

Enjoy, and thanks in advance for your thoughts!

BR, Kristian

Ps. Yes, the Nokia Chat friends are with you when you sign on to Contacts on Ovi mobile client. Yes, it works with your existing Nokia Acocunt. Yes, you can chat with Nokia Chat users still after you’ve installed the Contacts on Ovi client

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Ladies and gents, we are proud to present you the new, community-driven Beta Labs website - take a look around!!

What’s new:

• Community driven site: everything has been designed with the community in mind
• Better and “more alive” user experience: sorting and filtering the application list, screenshot and video galleries, reviews and ratings, new look&feel, etc.
• From private feedback to public conversations. Each app has its own discussion forum, categorized into (1) Reviews, (2) Bug reports, (3) Suggestions, and (4) Discussions.
• Nokia Account sign-in and reputation system for contributors: your contribution history is saved in your user profile
• Very easy to keep improving the site iteratively, thanks to the new technical platform (= Drupal based)

So how did we end up here? Well, we started designing and building the new site early last summer, and after a couple of unexpected sidetracks, detours and cul-de-sacs, the bits and pieces things started to finally fall into place, and we were able to publish the new site as a beta just before Christmas. And today, after one month of piloting the site through itself (creating a strange loop Douglas Hofstadter would have been proud of), we were confident enough to do the full transition.

Of course, there are still a lot of things to be done:

• Ironing out the rough edges (together with you = the user community)
• Redesigning the front page and user profile pages (we haven’t designed these properly yet)
• Mobile browser optimization
• Etc.

For every Beta Labs app that has not been archived / graduated, there is always at least one responsible person from the R&D team committed to follow the respective discussion forum. For the forum dedicated for further improving this Beta Labs website, the responsible person is my mate Ilkka Peltola*. I hired Ilkka as a thesis worker last year, and he proved to be a perfect guy for the job. And now, he has taken the product manager role of Beta Labs website and related systems. Please join me in congratulating Ilkka for his new role!!

* = as with all other Beta Labs projects, Ilkka doesn’t have time to reply to everyone - don’t get mad

Original post by Tommi Vilkamo

Is Buy.com preparing for a new Nokia tablet? They have the Nokia N810 now for only $219. Other store prices range around $300-400. Is there an upcoming announcement we should prepare for or Buy.com is just clearing out leftover N810’s?

I haven’t personally spent some time with the tablets, but you can read more about the Nokia N810 from a some of our contributors here on The Nokia Blog. Here’s Andrew’s Review: Fun with the Nokia N810 and Matthew’s Nokia Internet Tablet Top 8 Applications.

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