“Beta Labs” Articles

Nokia Situations Beta has just been updated for Symbian^3 devices to v2.51. Nokia Situations basically allows you to manually define situations, like “In a meeting” or “Sleeping”, and set how you want your device to act. With the application running in the background, your device automatically senses the situation you are in and adapts to it according to your preferences. Check out the full changelog, along with a video demo and download links, after the break.

Nokia Research Center in Beijing has just released a great new application for the Chinese speaking community - Nokia Diexie (诺基亚叠写). The official name 诺基亚叠写 actually means “overlapping handwriting”, which is what this application provides in order to allow users to input sentences in Chinese on their touchscreen phones without having to pause between characters. Hit the jump to find out more.

Nokia Shoot & Tag Beta is a video recording application for S60 5th Edition and Symbian^3 devices that incorporates automatic scene-tagging technology. When filming videos with Shoot & Tag, the video tagging technology automatically recognizes shifts or changes in the background images being recorded and will tag the change as a new scene or chapter in your video. Hit the jump to find out more.

The folks at Soundtrckr have released a new version of the Geosocial Internet Radio application that lets you listen to over 8 million tracks, and share your music with people within your locality. Soundtrckr v1.2 brings Facebook integration as well as performance improvements to this Symbian^3 and S60 5th Edition app. Hit the jump to find out more.

During Nokia Developer day at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 2011, Nokia Beta Labs announced a major release of Mobile Documents by Visiarc (v0.9.20) since the beta launch. It includes some of the most requested features including Symbian^1 and S60 support, Hotmail support and a homescreen widget to make it complete. Hit the jump to find out more.