Two attractive apps are already available for the Nokia Lumia 900 but in their beta form. The apps are designed to make AT&T’s first LTE device aware of the surroundings.

The first app is called Nokia City Lens. It gives a chance to learn more about your surrounding objects. Nokia City Lens uses the device’s 8 megapixel camera and gets expanded info about any object or point of interest. The app is presented by Augmented reality.

Nokia Transports is the second not less appealing application. It provides transportation database for a large list of cities. This app is useful for those who are looking for the most optimal means of getting from a specific location to another. It might not be useful for taxi directions, still it will be useful for people using public transportation. The app shows not only the best means of transportation, including buses, trams and metro, but also their schedules and estimated arrival times. It even includes a walking option, which is a big plus for those who are not willing to spend too much time in transportation.

At the moment Nokia Transports displays 400+ cities and comes in 50 different languages. But this is still the beta version, so we should expect to see more with the release of the final version.

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Finally Nokia Pulse is available for the Nokia N9 due to the efforts of the Nokia Lab guys. The application is designed to promote the life event social sharing with the help of photos and locations. This is the second most popular feature, after Angry Birds, which was made available for the device only a few weeks ago.

It allows an automatic tagging of photos and has possibilities of sharing photos in a private mode. The application allows creating a group and share pics, notes and locations.

The application is fully integrated with Nokia Maps. This means you will always have a chance of getting checked in for a specific location (similar to foursquare) and also finding you friends nearby. Other than that, it allows finding a concrete direction (for example, a cafeteria nearby) and how to get there.

Group Conversations: Keep it Private. Keep it Personal. Keep it Real.

• Private check in – All your conversations stay private and safe.
• Photo check in – Automatically tag your location to all your photo updates.
• Private by Default – No complicated privacy settings needed.

Live Places: One tap and they know where you are. Two taps to get you there.

• Bring your favorite places to life – Post a favorite place to a conversation.
• Discover what’s nearby – Make and view recommendations of nearby places of interest.
• Getting there is a snap – Get directions directly from the recommended place.

Your People: Your Family. Your People. You Decide.

• Instant: Receive instant on-device notifications of all new updates.
• Open: Everyone with an email address can participate.
• Easy: Sending and receiving messages with Nokia Pulse is as easy as SMS.
• Powered by the cloud: Your conversations are saved in the cloud for as long as you need them.
• Accessible from anywhere: Nokia Pulse is available on multiple touch-points – desktop web, mobile web, Windows Phone and Symbian devices.

If you want to learn more about the application, have a look at the video below, where Hans-Peter Brondmo, Nokia Product Social Services Director explains how to use Nokia Pulse.

The Nokia N9 can now be viewed in landscape mode. This will allow to have a Nokia N900-similar experience and use the three appealing screens in that mode.

It takes only a few minutes to make the landscape mode available on this MeeGo device. To use it, you should use N9 Tweak. So your first step should be to get the Nokia N9 Tweak. Afterwards, you need to activate the Landscape mode (type “L”). Then it asks for a password. Make sure to get a no-capital letter password to avoid possible further problems.

Landscape view looks awesome on the Nokia N9. Unlike several old Symbian models, like the Nokia 5230, the device uses the entire screen capacity. All the features, including the horizontal Swype technology are usable while in landscape mode.

After you enable the landscape mode, flip the smartphone to switch from landscape to portrait mode simultaneously. Landscape mode is especially useful while reading news-feed, as the news articles appear in bigger fonts, so you won’t need to go through long lines to read a single info.

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As expected all news firstly go to the most popular high-end smartphones, like the Nokia E7 and the N8. While we are all waiting for the 2012 to get Symbian Belle update, some enthusiasts have already ported it to the Nokia E7.

The Nokia E7 was included in the list of smartphones to get Bell update early next year. While many other-platform-devoted users might not be aware of what this upgrade will change in the E7 and other Symbian^3 smartphones, Symbian users already know what improvements will come with it and which the main differences between Anna and Belle are.

The Nokia E7 is a business style smartphone with many corresponding apps. It is in a rough competition with other similar handsets. So Symbian Belle update can give it an additional force to rank higher than the main competitors. Those who know the Symbian Belle-powered handsets, the Nokia 603, 700 and 701, must know this version of Symbian OS comes with many enhancements and is a real competitor to other popular platforms.

Watch the videos below showing how the Nokia E7 runs Symbian Belle with firmware 111.030.0607.48.01.

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We have already mentioned about the Nokia 800 Dark Knight Rises (and not Returns as it was assumed earlier) Limited Edition device. The novelty will be available most likely together with the launch of the movie itself. The device is produced by Nokia in conjunction with Warner Bros.

The number of units will be limited to 40, which brings forth the question, “who the devices will be targeted at.”

The Batman logo, which comes lasered on the back panel of the device, will also be visible on the package box coming with the same black color. The devices are expected to be be sold via eBay.

The unboxing video shows the device is packed in a package similar to that of the Nokia Lumia 800. The handset uses a special version of Live Tiles. The tiles are of the same blue color, while on the background we see white bats, which look pretty cool.

The video is too short to learn what else we have in the box, nevertheless it’s too big to include only the handset, most likely it will contain connectivity accessories as well.

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In addition to the introduction of the Nokia Lumia 800 in various markets, including Singapore, Nokia also had a chance to release the updated version of the Nokia Maps 3D. This is one of the most beloved apps from Nokia coming free.

Now the list of the cities available to be viewed in 3D is more enhanced. The list includes 25 cities. You can navigate through them using a rather accurate zoom. Another improvement deals with the planning of the route: the options include trips on foot, by car or public transportation. This makes the application similar to Google Maps, which comes pre-installed with most Android handsets.

And the final and most amazing improvement is the possibility of sharing the route with your friends via social networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter. This is the best option, if you are inviting your friend to a meeting and he/she doesn’t know how to get there.

If you got interested in the application you should head to the official website of the manufacturer and download this awesome app. As for now let’s have a look at the demo video of the improved Nokia Maps 3D.

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Nokia started offering dual SIM card handsets only this year, while for most manufacturers this has been a trend for a few years now. The main reason for this was the tight cooperation with a large number of specific carriers and mobile operators. The manufacturer assumed the companies would not favor the idea of offering a device also using a SIM card of another carrier.

So far there are three mid-range devices coming with Dual-SIM cards — the Nokia X2-02 (not available yet), the Nokia C2-03 and the Nokia Asha 200. Among the low-end handsets we have the Nokia 101.

The Nokia Asha 200 comes with a QWERTY keyboard, great internet integration and social networking capabilities. The Nokia C2-03 is a slider coming with a 2 megapixel camera and an easy Swipe SIM technology.

The advertisement campaign designed for dual SIM card handsets is something new. They are targeting mainly at the non-European segment of the customers and will be shown in Philippines, India, Nigeria and Brazil.  This time the ads are more colorful, they fully support the idea of a complete plot and after all, they are really hilarious.

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The most affordable of the  Nokia WP Mango series is the Nokia Lumia 710. The handset is pretty cheap in contrast to the Nokia Lumia 800, which means the customers will get a chance to save money while losing the high-end camera and a large amount of storage. Otherwise the smartphone is great. It gives a chance to get a Windows Phone experience coming with a list of pre-installed apps.

To make the device more popular the manufacturer decided to post a promo video on its official YouTube channel. The video demonstrates the handset in all its affordable colors.

The device sports the same 3.7 inch display as the Nokia Lumia 800 (only the second generation of WP devices equipped with WP Tango will be able to support high resolution displays, including the Nokia Lumia 900) and a 1.4 GHz processor  with the same GPU.

The Nokia Lumia 710 will first get launched in Europe and Asia. The US launch of the device is expected only in 2012 at a price of $360 (270 Euro in Europe). The price of the Lumia 710 is around 150 Euros less than the price of the Lumia 800. The main carrier in the U.S. will be T-Mobile, while in all probability other carriers will also start offering this smartphone in 2012.

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The  release of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich caused lots of rush among the manufacturers. Each of them separately announced about its plans of updating the handset to this newest version of the Android OS. In parallel we have enthusiasts porting this version of the Google OS to handsets originally coming with another operating system.

At the moment we have the Nokia N900 running ICS. Drunkdebugger ported the OS to the handset. Though the process is still in its early stage, he called it “pre-pre-alpha.” This means porting the OS to the handset is not recommended. The enthusiast used NITdroid project steps. This is a well-known project, which brings Android to a Nokia handset.

Too bad we are not able to get much info about the experience results, as the video only allows to have an overall idea. The lockscreen of the handset seems to be OK, while the software works with various bugs.

Most likely in upcoming few months enthusiasts will work on the improvement of the project.

Earlier  rumors stated the Nokia N900 will get MeeGo OS, but it never turned into reality.

If you got interested in the project, watch the video below.

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The firstling of Nokia and Microsoft already saw the light and rather unexpectedly for many people, it received record numbers. There is no other smartphone that can pretend to this title, but the Nokia Lumia 800. Well, the phone was launched and many users are already enjoying the joy coming with the phone. To those skeptical about Microsoft’s power, I recommend watching the video below.

In this regard, it’ll be better to compare two quite different devices. I mean if we compare a Nokia handset, let’s say, with a Samsung smartphone, we’ll have a clearer idea of which one is better. Moreover, we can also add more charm to our task by throwing into comparison the old version of Windows Phone and the newest one. For this purpose I can’t find another corresponding device but the Samsung Omnia 7 — one of the first devices running Microsoft’s mobile operating system.

Before you push the play button and watch the Speed Comparison video with the the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Samsung Omnia 7, I want to say WP’s evolution is obvious. The NoDo itself brings too many improvements. As for the Mango it is really something. Well we had enough of words, go ahead and watch the video.

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