Tecfre.com has undergone numerous redesigns, the latest being an year back. However, no matter how well I conceptualize the design in my mind, I was never able to give it a reality. So this time I decided to let the experts do the design while I sit back and completely energize myself to take tecfre.com to new heights. Arpit has really gone a great job with the design.

With so many upcoming events this month, there couldn’t been a better time to be back. The biggest of them are the new iPhone launch on Oct 4th and  Nokia World by the end of the month.

So lets get going ..

Please do leave a feedback below,  if you would like to say a “Hi” , or any feedback related to the blog , or any suggestion as such.

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The N life magazine

AIKON stores ( Nokia spelled backwards) are the official Nokia stores in UAE. N Life is a magazine that focuses on your needs and requests with information regarding new products,promotions, exclusive offers, features, training tips and much more. This 24 paged magazine is designed magnificently and the it contains great amount of details regarding the latest smartphone offering by Nokia.

They even featured a tweet of yours truly

You can grab a copy of N life magazine in one of the following way

• Visit a Nokia UAE’s official store and pick one up for yourself.
• Visit Nokia UAE’s facebook page and download it.
• Click the scribd link and get it yourself in a pdf format.

Nokia N8 vs Nokia C7

As you can notice the price difference is not that much between N8 and C7. Nokia N8 sports 12 mp autofocus camera whereas Nokia C7 sports a 8mp fixed focus camera. For me camera is very important, so I have decided on Nokia N8. If you still want to a side by comparison( courtesy GSMarena ), here is what they have to offer : (click image to expand)

Decided ? Then let me know your choice in comments

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Now worry not. SPB TV has gone FREE for all Windows , Symbian , iPhone and WebOS devices. SPB TV is a revolutionary app which provide nearly 100 channels , subscription free. Major features include

• A wide selection of public TV channels
• Quick channel preview
• Integrated TV guide
• Quick channel selection
• Channels from more than 17 countries

WEB TV was one of buzz word attached to Nokia N8 and best of all, it was absolutely FREE. SPB TV,now free, used to sell for around USD 9.95 before. I tried it on Nokia N97 but surprisingly the overall experience was not that much pleasant. I have a 8mbps internet connection from Etisalat and still the broadcast playback was not at all smooth. Some channels wont play at all, and some will stop in between. Check out the video below.

SPB TV Official Video

SPB TV is available in OVI store and Apple store for Free. You can also download it from SPB website. Leave your feedback in the comment section below.

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Combining stainless steel and glass in a sleek, full touch design, the Nokia C7 features a 3.5 inch AMOLD display and looks absolutely stunning! The estimated retail price of the Nokia C7 is EUR 335 before applicable taxes or subsidies, with pricing and availability varying from region to region, operator to operator.

Nokia C7 has industry class design and comes loaded with 8 MP camera with HD video recording. Nokia mentioned that the devices announced in Nokia world 2010 will be available by end of the year. With the numerous delay in launch of Nokia N8 and as per Nokia’s philosophy, everyone expected that these devices will start shipping in last week of December 2010 and available in retail outlets by 31st December 2010 ( hence letting Nokia keep the promise of making devices available before end of 2010).

With such an early release of Nokia C7, it makes us believe that Nokia was simultaneously working on C7 along with N8. Also, it has given consumers a power of choice between Nokia N8 and Nokia C7. With Symbian^3 fully complete we will surely see that Nokia is now going to flood the market with Symbian^3 devices. The decreasing delta between announcing the device and making it available to consumer is 100% in favor of Nokia. If Nokia is able to sustain this, then time is not far when we will see Nokia again at the top of the smartphone market.

Nokia C7 Video

I am still waiting for Nokia N8, and will always prefer it over C7. What about you ?

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Earlier this August, whole UAE business user circle went under a shock when TRA announced that Blackberry services will be suspended from 11th October 2010, even for the people who are travelling via UAE. Blackberry encrypts the data which is only decrypted at Blackberry’s Canada data server hence making it impossible for UAE authorities to monitor the content. After this announcement local mobile service providers announced lucrative alternate plans, but still blackberry users prayed for some solution to the existing Blackberry services.

So all the blackberry services which include

• BlackBerry Email
• BlackBerry web browsing
• Social networking
• Instant messaging services

will continue to function as normal.

As blackberry services survive, all the alternate plans offered by the mobile operators stand cancelled.

As mentioned before, this announcement has brought a lot of smiles and a sigh of relief to many. Are you among those happy people ?

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Moving back in time, once there was a post on tecfre.com, “Get over it Google Android, You will never beat iPhone” . Fast Forward 2.5 years and here we have  statistics by Nielsen, and guess what does it reveal ? Android has finally taken over iPhone OS in US. We are so used to seeing iPhone effects , but this was certainly unexpected from Android. However Android lead is only based on past six months data and overall it is still behind iPhone OS.

Have a look at the above statistics based on recent smart phone acquirers its just so much visible that Android has banked much on Blackberry’s share.

But considering the all time OS share, Blackberry still in in lead, but the downward momentum can be clearly seen.

iPhone vs so so so many Androids

We all know there is just one iPhone but market is flooded with Android devices. But apple is also increasing the number of devices using iOS with its new iPod touch range. I dont think android will be able to keep up its pace, just for one reason that there are just too many of them and sooner or later people will start looking for alternatives. Once Nokia Meego OS option is available to public and if its as promising as it sounds right now, I am sure its going to be even tougher for android.

via: Unwired view

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Its new, its fresh and its GREEN. I have been really busy working with the new design as I had set the launch date deadline by Oct 1st 2010. Till couple of days back, I was sure that I am  going to miss it as making it Internet Explorer 6 compatible was a hefty task. But somehow things worked on and here is Tecfre.com with a brand new design. I recently started blogging again and a design change was much required due to various shortcomings in previous theme. Tecfre.com has undergone design changes in history many times. Below pic could give you more insight on the design change this blog has gone through from the time it was started in May,2007

This design change took nearly half a month and going Green was a pretty easy to decide.

New Features with New Tecfre.com

New design bring some very important features for me which lacked in previous design :

• Featured Posts Slider on home page
• Widgetized Sidebar ( So no more need of editing the template file)
• Better comment Management with Disqus comment plugin
• Front page posts with thumbnails
• Faster loading time compared to previous theme due optimized placement of java scripts

I was just going through the revisions this design has gone through and its amazing the way this theme came up in the end. If possible, I will share it next week. Below is the screen shot of previous design of Tecfre.com.

Request Feedback

This theme is not bug free, so if you find out any bugs of so, just let me know in the comment section below. Also don’t forget to leave your feedback on the new design in the comment section below and upcoming days will see a lots of interesting stuffs. 

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Do you still have a question which is not yet answered in numerous hands-on videos on Youtube? Do you still need more reasons to decide buying a Nokia N8 ? If the answer to any of these question is ‘YES’ then fire up a comment below and let me know. I will try my best to get the question address in my upcoming Nokia N8 Launch event in Dubai.

Coverage Details

I will cover the event live on Twitter, so do follow me on Twitter. Nokia n8 official twitter hashtag is #n8dubai , and you can follow the same.

Price/Availability

During my visit to a Nokia Store at UAE couple of days back, I was told that Nokia N8 will be available at retail stores anytime between last week of September( i.e after the official middle east launch). The expected price will be around 1999AED to 2199AED ( i.e 420 EUROs ~ 460 EUROs). However, you can also pre-order your Nokia N8 at any Nokia Middle east store.

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Nokia world live streaming for Desktop

You can get live streaming on your desktop direct on Nokia events developer page. The streaming will be available once the keynote starts.

Nokia World live streaming for Mobile

Nokia World Mobile site is also launched. You can visit it via your mobile at http://events.nokia.com/nokiaworld/mobi/home.htm and bookmark the same. Also live streaming for mobile is available at this link.

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Coming to the news, there seems to be 4 mystery devices under cover. Check out the pic below directly from NokiaWorld courtesy Nokiamobileblog.

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