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Connect Nokia Contacts with Pixelpipe & post to your micro-blog & update your status as an instant message!

August 27, 2009 · 2 Comments

Have you ever wanted to update your status on Facebook or post to Twitter directly from your phone’s Instant message client? Now you can with the built in Contacts application on many Nokia Phones. In just a few easy steps you can add Pixelpipe as an IM contact and start posting to your favorite service(s) from the built-in Contacts application.

These are the steps we utilized to configure an N97, depending on the phone model your menus may look different however the basic steps should be very similar. Let’s get started!

1. If your phone doesn’t already have Ovi Contacts with Instant Message capability installed you can download the latest beta from http://tr.im/xdEG

2. Open Contacts and choose the Ovi menu (top middle) and then select “Invite Friends”

3. Change “Select service” to Other

4. Now enter pixelpipe@im.pixelpipe.com in the address field

5. Now you need to send Pixelpipe your application key so we can bind your IM account to your Pixelpipe account. You can your App key and instructions at http://pixelpipe.com/tools under the Nokia Contacts heading. You’ll need to sign-up for a free Pixelpipe account now if you haven’t done so yet.

6. You can now add your favorite mic0-blogs and status services from http://pixelpipe.com from the desktop or http://m.pixelpipe.com from your handset and start posting from Nokia Contacts.

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