Nokia announced the N92 which offers a 2.8 inch, 16 million color, 320 x 240 display. It can twist into an LCD viewfinder like a handheld video camera or sit on a table like a portable DVD player. With Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DBV-H), it will enable the users to watch broadcast TV programs.

It has a 2 megapixel camera for taking great snaps and an additional integrated VGA camera. The internal memory is 90 MB which can be increased to 2 GB easily with a memory card. For connectivity, there is 802.11g Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, infrared and Bluetooth wireless technology. It runs on Symbian OS and Series 60 third edition and will be availaible in mid-2006.

Sony has been installing a hidden software in PCs, when people buy music albums published by Sony BMG Music and play them on their computers. This software is called Extended Copy Protection (XCP) which uses techniques similar to those used by viruses, trojans and spywares to hide itself from the user. All this is done for preventing unauthorized music copying.

WMAPlus is an advanced wma player for phones running on Symbian OS v7.0 and above like Nokia 6600, 7610, 6630, 6680, etc. It is the first music player for Symbian phones that supports the WMA (Windows Media Audio) format. Other supported formats are mp3, aac, amr, mid, ogg, mp4 and mp4a. Another interesting feature is that it lets you set wma files as ringtones.

Gizmondo finally launched in US on 22nd October and is priced at $229.

Mobile review has given a nice detailed review of Sony Ericsson P990 hardware, with pictures.

The Music Player which is used in Nokia's N91 and other new phones is availaible for download at Nokia 6630 Support page.

I just came across this cool trick. Now you can use your Gmail account as a virtual drive for storing data.

To remove the virus named Commwarrior manually, do the following -

Install FExplorer from http://www.gosymbian.com .

Press and hold the Menu button. Select the Commwarrior application and press the 'C' button to close it.

Open FExplorer and go to C:

Go to System/Apps. Delete the folder named 'Commwarrior'.
Go to System/Recogs. Delete the file named 'commrec.mdl'.
Go to System/Updates. Delete the files named 'comwarrior.exe', 'commrec.mdl', 'commw.sis'.

Do the same in E:

Now go to the Application Manager and remove Commwarrior.

Done !

Users having Nokia phone models running on Symbian OS v8.0 and above like Nokia 6630, 6680 face a security error while installing files. This error says, "Installation security error. Unable to install."

To remove this, do the following -

Go to Application Manager.
Press Options > Settings.
Select Software installation and set it to On.

A new technology can prevent digital cameras and video cameras from capturing anything. It can detect the presence of a digital camera upto 33 feet away and can shoot a beam of light at the lens. This will result in a blurry image or a video. Nowadays, camera phones are invading people's privacy very easily. This technology can really help and protect from any hidden camera.

Read more about it here.