Our Mobile Fun and The Nokia Guide contest has come to a close and as a result it’s time to announce our two winners! It sure wasn’t easy, but after careful consideration we’ve chosen our winners.

The Winners are:

1.JMC

2.Andraeseus

Congratulants to our 2 winners on winning the Nokia CP-408! We would also like to thank all of you who have entered the contest. Keep reading The Nokia Guide, as we’ll have some great contests planned ahead.

Also, a special thanks to our friends at Mobile Fun, who are providing the cases. They are also the one-stop place for mobile accessories and Nokia cases.

The emails of our 2 winners have been send to our contacts at Mobile Fun, who will get in touch to send your Nokia CP-408 case!

Remember the N900’s built-in Sketch app? This powerful  little app has turned the N900 into a popular art making machine with countless examples to back-it-up. Sure, the app has its limitations, but the results speak  for themselves. Just take a look at the Sketches from the N900 Flickr group, Jay’s Avatar sketch, Ms Jen’s sketches and our very own N900 Sketch Gallery.

Now there’s an even more powerful tool called MyPaint, available from the Maemo.org Catalog in the N900”s App manager. The app’s larger than normal download size at 9.4MB is expected considering its various brushes and advanced functionality.

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Bad news for some, but perhaps a necessary step in Nokia plans to step up to the competition: The Nokia N8 will  be the last Symbian-power Nseries device. Future devices, starting from the N9 will be powered by MeeGo. This in theory should leave Symbian for mid- to low-end devices, most likely in the X, C and Eseries.

This move couldn’t have come at a better time, as Nseries devices were starting to feel outdated, despite some very solid hardware. The N8 itself is a good example of great hardware and outdated feeling software, despite running the latest version  Symbian^3. Even Symbian^4 which has been drastically improved under the hood, doesn’t look all that different and certainly isn’t capable of supporting a Nokia flagship with competition from Apple and various Android devices.

What do you think, is this a good or a bad move?

Via: CNET

Yes, you read that correctly. The N900 is bow being offered at just $369 dollars! Considering that the N900 is Nokia’s current flagship device, this is an extremely good deal. With the N9 expected at the end of the year, we can expect more of these hours. But if you’ve been eyeing the N900, this would probably THE time to quickly pick one up.

The deal can be found here, please use coupon code LL17PBSTFKZ440.

Via:Engadget

If you’ve followed our guide on How to properly setup and configure Nokia Messaging on the N900, you might have come across this problem. If try to add a Yahoo email to your Nokia Messaging account at http://email.nokia.com it will tell you: “This email address must be added on the phone.”

You can easily add Google Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Ovi Mail, and POP/IMAP email accounts at http://email.nokia.com, but not a Yahoo account. The reason is simple, as a Nokia rep explains: “Yahoo is somewhat special for Nokia Messaging in that you aren’t allowed to add Yahoo email addresses on the email.nokia.com website.  That’s basically due to legal reasons–per our Yahoo contract we need to disable Yahoo support in a few countries (the list is small and includes US embargoed countries like Cuba) and we can’t really tell what country you are in unless you do it from the phone.”

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We’ve teamed up with our friends at MobileFun, to bring you another great contest, with the chance to win a brand new Nokia Carrying Case CP-408! After reading our review of the CP-408, you know you want one. Up for grabs are 2 Nokia CP-408s.

How to enter? Simply leave a comment telling us what would be ultimate case for you mobile device. What features should it have, what materials would you use? Simply tell us what would be the ultimate case for the ultimate device. The 2 best and most original ideas win the Nokia CP-408. Be sure to leave your email so we can contact you.

The contest starts today and ends on the 29th of June.

Good luck!

In the mean time, be sure to check out other great N900 cases at MobileFun.

When we took a look at Nokia’s first and official case for the N900, the CP-321, we liked the stylish and simple design, but it was several steps back in convenience: It lacked any access to the lock switch, microUSB port, 3.5mm headphone jack, camera button and both the camera lens and speakers were blocked. It was pretty and helped to to protect the N900, but it sure wasn’t useful. Nokia went back to the drawing board and came up with what we have here: the Nokia CP-408. Would we choose it over the CP-321? Is it the ultimate N900 case?

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