Last week a new version of firmware for Nokia N900 was  released with many new features and improvements. One feature is the option to enable portrait mode in your browser. Be default this option is disabled.

If you don’t know how to enable the portrait mode, follow the simple steps for this purpose.

Read More: Nokia N900 Maemo with Browser tips and tricks

Open your browser and visit any page like www.shoutpedia.com

While the page is loading, click on the top bar of the page where the page title is displayed.

Click on the “Options” and then click on “Settings”.

Under the settings, check the “Enable Portrait” option and you can browse in your preferred mode.

Last week SPB Mobile Shell was update to version 3.5.4 for windows mobiles. SPB Mobile Shell gives a new look (UI) to the mobile. In the latest version of Shell the default search engine has been changed to Bing from Google.

If you want to use the Google engine instead of Bing, here is a simple way to change it by tweaking the registry.

First of all open your favorite registry editor. You may use one of these popular free registry editors for windows mobile.

a) PHM Registery Editor: It is the most popular registry editor.

b) Dotfred’s TaskManager: A task manager that contains a register editor too

c) Total Commander: A popular file explorer with registry editor inside.

Now navigate to the path “HKLM\\SOFTWARE\Spb Software House 2\Spb Mobile Shell\BingInternetSearch\DefaultURL” and change the address to “http://google.com/search?q=%s”

Give a soft reset to your mobile.

Note: This trick will not change the word Bing in the search bar. It is highly recommended that you backup the registry so that you can revert in case something goes wrong.

This time we are going to share some common tips and tricks for the newly launched iPad. Though most of these tips are already mentioned in the manual but even then some people can’t find them or they feel easy to surf the net rather than reading the manuals.

How to Reset your iPad:

If you want to reset your iPad, here is simple solution. Press and hold the Wake/Sleep button and home button at the same time for at least ten seconds until the Apple logo appears.

How to Zoom In and Out the webpages on iPad:

To zoom in or expand the webpage, just double tap the specific part of the page. Similarly to zoom out and return back to normal, double tap again on the zoomed part. You can also pinch to perform this function.

How to Scroll Webpages on iPad:

You can scroll any webpage by dragging up, down or sideways. If you want to scroll within the frame of any page, use double fingers and use single finger to scroll the entire page.

How to Go to Top of the Page with one Click:

If you want to go to the top of the page with one click, simple tap the status bar at the top of iPad screen.

How to Enable Caps Lock Quickly:

First you will have to enable Caps Lock in the keyboard settings. Now if you want to write a sentence in Caps, double tap the shift key quickly to enable the Caps Lock.

How to Take Screenshots in iPad without any app:

To take the screenshot of your iPad screen, press the home and power button at once. It works in the same way as it works in iPhone.

How to Send a Picture via Email:

After taking the screenshots, some people don’t know how to send these shots via email. Click the doohickey and many options will appear. One option is to send the image via email as shown in the picture.

How to Insert the Symbols:

There is a problem in iPhone and it is also present in Ipad (I don’t find any fix in iPad) that there is no proper method to insert symbols. But a quick and simple solution to this problem is to send all the symbols to your iPad in an email and then copy/paste the required symbol for your usernames or password or for other purposes. You can also use some third party apps for this purpose.

More tips are on the way. If you want to share a tip/trick/experience, leave a comment.

As you know that Samsung i8910 Omnia HD is also a symbian mobile having Symbian OS v9.4 Series 60 rel. 5 operating system. I have already posted a trick to change the volume of Samsung i8910 Omnia HD, but here are more tips and codes to play with your this mobile phone.

List of known codes for the Samsung i8910 HD. Key this into the keypad.

*#7380# – Soft reset the phone and restores default phone settings.

*#7370# – Hard reset the phone. Formats phone memory and restores default phone settings

*#62209526# – View MAC address with out removing your battery

*#0000# - View Phone version information

*#0228# – Phone test mode

*#1546792*# – Phone admin mode

*#1234# – Gives firmware info

*2767*3855# – Factory reset

*#1111# - Test mode screen. FTA SW Version. Don’t know what that is. I assume software version of some sort.

*#2222# – Test Mode Screen. FTA HW Version. REV0.3 – I assume hardware version.

*#3333# - Camera settings.

*#06# – The config and advance options menu. Be careful touching anything here!

Many people think that Nokia N97 has got 32GB memory as phone memory, but it is not correct. Here the phone memory means where actually contacts, bookmarks, emails, messages, notes etc are stored.

If you keep installing some softwares and receiving emails in your phone memory, you will soon get low memory warnings on your Nokia N97, in fact on all mobiles.

Actually the phone memory is limited to a grand 74 MB, out of which only about 45 MB is available because the rest is taken up by the pre-installed application and so on.

Here are some tips to recover and increase the phone memory so that you get rid of low memory warnings and get more memory to install the other softwares.

1. Install all the softwares on E: drives of your nokia N97. If you have installed some softwares on your phone memory, uninstall and reinstall on E: drive.
2. Install a third part file browser like Y-Browser or X-plore and delete the ‘Cache’ folder in C:/System. This will really help and you will see that your mobile is faster now.
3. Using same file browser (manager), delete the ‘dmgr’ folder in C:/System. In this folder all files which are downloaded are stored. When you restart the web browser, these files are cleared up but sometimes they are stuck and in that case deleting the “dmgr” folder will increase the phone memory. Don’t worry about “dmgr” and “Cache” folders, they are automatically made when you start the web browser of your phone.
4. You may also change your default ‘Messaging’ memory to either the 32GB inbuilt storage or a Memory Card. To do this, enter ‘Messaging’, hit Options>Settings>Other>’Memory In Use’.
5. Now lets move on to the pre-installed applications and widgets, uninstall as many as you do not need. On most occasions you will be able to find the ones you really need again, then simply install them to the 32GB drive on the N97. For example, I wanted the ‘Psiloc Traveller’ application, so I simply downloaded it from the Ovi Store, same with widgets.
6. Open the Ovi Store application settings and make sure it is set to install applications on your E: drive. To do this navigate to Options>Account>Settings>Installation Preferences.
7. If you use Nokia Messaging and MFE on your handset, or even have a normal mailbox configured you will be loosing phone memory pretty fast. The solution is to uninstall/reinstall or delete and reconfigure your mailboxes. This will usually get you at least 10MB back, possibly more depending on your usage.
8. If you use POP email, which you shouldn’t since there is IMAP, then go into your mailbox settings and set it to enable POP for email that arrives from ‘Now’ on, this will reduce the number of old emails it downloads. I know this seems petty.
9. If you install any application/theme, make sure you install it onto the E: drive. However, if you are going to be using a particular theme install it onto the phone memory. This is so that your phone doesn’t switch to the default theme everytime you connect it in the ‘Mass Storage’ mode. Same for ringtones. Make sure you keep it down to one theme only.

All these tips are equally applicable to other mobiles.

How much does e-mail cost on the 5800?

E-mail on the 5800 is free, but if you send or receive e-mail through a phone network internet connection, you may have to pay data transfer charges. Contact your phone network operator for more details of how much you have to pay for data, and ask them about flat rate plans which could make data use (such as e-mail, web browsing etc) a lot cheaper.

E-mail on the 5800 through Messaging

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic’s Messaging application handles text messages, but it can also be used to handle e-mail accounts too. It’s very VERY easy to set up an e-mail account in Messaging, all you need to know is your mailbox’s address and password.

Here’s a guide to the main elements of Messaging’s mailbox interface:

• How to set up your first e-mail account

1. From the main standby screen, press the white menu button.

2. Select “Messaging”.

3. Select “Mailbox – Create New”.

4. It asks if you want to define a mailbox, select “Yes”.

5. Select “Start”.

6. Enter your e-mail address, then select “OK”.

7. Enter your password, then select “OK”.

8. A message will tell you the setup is complete, select “OK”.

The phone will ask if you want to connect to the mailbox, do this to test that the mailbox works.

If you want to check your e-mail manually, just go to Messaging and select your mailbox, the phone will automatically ask if you want to check for new mail. If you want the phone to check your e-mail automatically, see the instructions below.

• Very important note for Gmail users

If you use Gmail as your e-mail account and you want to use the same account on your 5800′s Messaging application, you will have to activate the “POP3″ or “IMAP4″ option from Gmail’s settings page. This also applies to anyone who uses webmail services where POP3 or IMAP4 are switched off by default.

You can get to Gmail’s settings page by clicking on the “Settings” link in the top right corner of the screen. Select the POP or IMAP option you prefer, then select the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the screen.

• How to make the phone check your e-mail automatically

You can set the phone to regularly check your mailbox and let you know when there’s new mail, just like a text message.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Go to the Messaging application.

2. Select “Options”.

3. Select “Settings”.

4. Select “E-mail”.

5. Select “Mailboxes”.

6. Select the mailbox you want the phone to check automatically (if necessary allow the phone to close the e-mail connection).

7. Select “Automatic Retrieval”.

8. Select “E-Mail Retrieval”.

9. Select “Enabled” if you want it to check through all internet connections including the phone network and Wi-Fi/WLAN. Choose “Only In Home Netw.” if you want it to only check e-mail while connected through Wi-Fi/WLAN.

10. Select “Yes”.

11. Set how often you want your e-mail to be checked (the maximum is every day, all day, every five minutes).

12. When you’re happy with the settings, press the red button to leave Messaging.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Do NOT enable the “E-Mail Notifications” section. Make sure it is disabled. You will not receive e-mail automatically if you enable it.

• How to add another e-mail account

Messaging can handle multiple e-mail accounts simultaneously. If you already have one mailbox, you can add more using the following method:

1. Go to the Messaging application.

2. Select “Options”.

3. Select “Settings”.

4. Select “E-Mail”.

5. Select “Mailboxes”.

6. Select “Options”.

7. Select “New Mailbox”.

You can then set up the new mailbox using exactly the same procedure as the first mailbox.

• How to remove an e-mail account

If you want to remove a mailbox from your 5800, here’s how to do it:

1. Go to the Messaging application.

2. Select “Options”.

3. Select “Settings”.

4. Select “E-Mail”.

5. Select “Mailboxes”.

6. Select the mailbox you want to delete.

7. Select “Options”.

8. Select “Delete”, then “Yes”.

9. When the mailbox has been deleted, press the red button to leave Messaging.

• How to choose your phone’s main e-mail account

Lots of applications on the phone have options to send e-mail. By default they will use the phone’s main e-mail account, so if you have several mailboxes you may want to choose which is the main one. Here’s how to do it:

1. Go to the Messaging application.

2. Select “Options”.

3. Select “Settings”.

4. Select “E-Mail”.

5. Select “Mailbox In Use”.

6. Select which e-mail account you want as the main phone mailbox.

7. When you’ve finished, press the red button to leave Messaging

E-mail on the 5800 through webmail

It’s very easy to use webmail, just go to the website of your webmail provider using the phone’s web browser. Enter your username and password as usual, and your e-mail account will be accessible through the browser. It may look a bit different to how it looks on your computer, as many webmail providers automatically show a special mobile version of their website when accessed through phones.

You do not need to activate POP or IMAP to use webmail through the browser, because the browser is accessing exactly the same e-mail website that you would access on a computer.

Important note for Gmail users: The first time you visit Gmail.com on the 5800′s browser, it will offer to install a special Gmail java application. Do not install this because it isn’t properly optimised for the 5800 yet. We would recommend that you just use the Gmail.com website instead.

SOURCE: allaboutsymbian.com

Update: Nokia 5800 gets a new firmware 50.0.005 with lots of new features esp menu scrolling.

Update 2: Here is new nokia messaging to easily setup hotmail, gmail, ovi mail and other mail services on symbian phones like 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 Mini, X6, C5 etc