“Desktop PC” Articles

Nokia Beta Labs has today released an updated Beta of Ovi Suite 3.0. This Beta release 3.0.0.254 has gone through private alpha testing for about a month now, and the stability, syncing and the experience with downloading maps has been much improved. Also introduced in this release is a new Home View and a new Music Player. Hit the jump to find out more.

This demo is of the Ovi Maps Website on a huge touch screen display, recorded at CTIA Wireless 2010. Have you tried Ovi Maps on your computer yet? Well you can by simply visiting maps.ovi.com. Check out the video after the break.

The guys from Nokia’s environmental team have put together a series of videos to show us how using our mobile devices can help us have less impact on the environment. Some interesting stats include how updating your Facebook status once on your PC consumes the same amount of energy as updating it a hundred times on your phone. To put that into perspective, if only ten percent of the one billion plus Nokia users, surfed the web on their mobile instead of their desktop computer for one hour a day, we could avoid over 2.7 million tons on CO2 emissions per year. Check out the video after the jump to see what kind of difference browsing on your mobile makes.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has been connected to a desktop PC via bluetooth using WeeWheel, only to experience the thrill of using a mobile phone as a controller. WeeWheel is the application that utilizes the built in accelerometer to detect movement and converts it into joystick-like signals for your PC. Check out the short video demo after the break.