Okay, so there is a big craze going on at the moment with smartphone applications… Especially since the release of Apple’s App Store. It has even prompted Nokia to release the Ovi Store to make it easier for it’s users to download and install applications on their phone.

So, I hear you ask… “What good apps are there for the N97?”  Well, I’m here to tell you about a few that I find are a must for your Nokia.

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Good things are a happening… Yes, music downloads that are free of DRM. The Nokia Music Store is becoming Ovi Music and along with this change they are completely removing DRM from their songs. Woo Woo!

If you don’t know what DRM is then I’ll fill you in Digital Rights Management basically stops people from sharing music illegally between friends and over the internet, Great I hear you say? No, It also means that we cannot even play the tracks that we own with some other software/devices. How bad is that?

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A very commonly occuring crash before update.

According to an excerpt given to Anssi Vanjoki (who happens to be a top honcho at Nokia) the N97 seems to be nothing short of a disaster. Read the excerpt given by him to AllAboutSymbian:
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A new beta version of the Ovi Maps applications has been released over at Nokia beta labs. Recently, Nokia’s Ovi Maps was released with free voice navigation – something that was previously a premium service. This was prompted by Google announcing that their GPS software was going to be free. Ovi Maps is also available over the internet in a web browser like Google Maps. If you use the Ovi Maps app on your phone and Google Maps on your PC then it may be a good idea to try out the in-browser version of Ovi Maps as it can actually sync with the app so all your planned routes and favourites are quickly and easily saved on your mobile device. (Link later on)

Any way, We now have a new version that comes with a few improvements over previous versions. Before I explain the new features let me remind you that this is indeed a Beta version and therefore it is prone to have some problems along the way.

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A while back when I tried to add RSS feeds to my homescreen on my N97 I found that the inbuilt Nokia RSS reader decides to put all the topics the wrong way around so that you get the oldest post first, this is obviously exactly what we don’t want when using RSS feeds for things such as news updates. You can use this method by me to fix this.

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