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Nokia Drop pushes images and websites to your Symbian phone from your desktop browser

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Nokia Beta Labs just introduced the Nokia Drop, which despite its name is all about pushing – pushing a photo or a web site from your desktop browser to your Symbian phone.

It’s nothing novel – Firefox users are thinking “Sync!” while Chrome/Android users are mumbling something about Chrome to Phone. But Symbian didn’t get to play the over-the-air push game, until now that is…

Here’s how Nokia Drop works – you install the app on your Symbian S60 5th edition or Symbian^3 phone, install a plug-in in your desktop browser (plug-ins are available for Firefox and Chrome).

After that an option in the right click menu will let you push a web site or picture to your phone (you can set a picture as wallpaper too). You don’t need a connection to the phone (be it Bluetooth or cable), it all happens over the phone’s internet connection – so yes, you need one to begin with.

Here’s how it works on video:

You can grab the app for the phone and the browser extension from here (you need an account with Beta Labs though). The Nokia Drop app is still a work in progress so there might be some issues – don’t forget to report them so that they can be fixed.

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