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Download Free Nokia 6208c Themes

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If you’re looking for some cool themes for Nokia 6208 Classic to download, you’ve landed in the right place. I found these Nokia 6208 classic themes on OwnSkin for download. Check out the screenshots of these beautiful themes:

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

April 16th, 2009 at 11:54 am

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How To Trace A Mobile Phone Number In India?

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Tracing a mobile phone number to its location in India is difficult. There are quite a number of hurdles and there aren’t really functional services in India that actually let you pin point and trace a mobile phone number in India.

Reverse lookup services weren’t very accurate when I tried to trace the location of a mobile phone number in India, but they could just help you in finding at least the state where these mobile phones are operating from.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

April 15th, 2009 at 10:19 am

Read and extract data from .NBU Nokia Backup Files

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If you have a Nokia mobile phone and have ever tried backing up data from your phone on to your PC, you’d have noticed the Nokia PC Suite creating a file called .NBU that contains a backup of your data. These .NBU files can be restored to your phone later using the PC Suite itself but the bottom-line is that you can’t extract pieces of data from that file.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

December 31st, 2008 at 11:29 am

Google Android: The Next Generation OS for Mobiles

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Guest post by Praval who is a freelance writer/blogger and works for Uswaretech, a Django Consulting shop as Web Evangelist and Online Marketer.

Android, Google’s open source platform for mobile phones is now available for developers to download and to unleash its power to develop wonderful applications. With Android, Google has expanded his market to new horizons. Till now, Microsoft has built a strong up-hold with its Windows Operating System for mobiles and it would be very interesting to watch how Google penetrates the current market for the same.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

September 16th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

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How to Backup and Restore Contacts, Files and Other Settings from your Nokia Mobile Phone?

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It’s always good to have a backup copy of your contacts and other files and settings of your mobile phone so that if something goes wrong, you just need not worry about losing your data. Rather, you can just click and restore the created backup to your mobile phone and work seamlessly again!

Here’s how you can backup contacts, files and other settings from your Nokia mobile phone:

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 11th, 2008 at 7:50 am

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“The Operation Could Not Be Completed” Error Message with Nokia Mobile Phones

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Recently, I encountered an error when trying to transfer some MP3 files to my dad’s Nokia 3110c mobile phone from my computer. Everytime I tried to copy and paste some files into the memory card present in the phone via the Nokia Phone Browser, it showed an error dialog with a message saying “The operation could not be completed”.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 10th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

How to update the firmware of your Nokia mobile phone?

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Got a Nokia mobile phone? It’s important that you update the mobile phone’s firmware once in a while. Firmware is actually the software that keeps things on your Nokia mobile phone running.

There are a lot of benefits of upgrading your phone’s firmware. You may get functional enhancements, bug fixes etc. Some issues that you might be having with your phone can be solved with a firmware upgrade.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

January 5th, 2008 at 7:45 am