Archive for October, 2009
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween All! Just finished up with the face paint – it’s a cat of some sort. Not really “scary”. The only scary thing is that is actually my real hair. Also, we’ll have to see the adverse effects of using oil paints instead of just face paints (I left the red face paint at [...]
Video: Droid Advert – or Nokia N900 advert?
As well as a Nokia N900 advert, this could also be a Nokia N97/N97 mini advert based on how the Motorola Droid is supposed to be “better” than the iPhone. Real Keyboard Running Simultaneous apps (N900 multitasks like no other) Customizable 5MP camera Flash for night photos Removable battery Runs widgets on homescreen Allows open [...]
Hurry! eBay bargains: N900/N97 mini and round the world trip for 1$ buy it now in next 24 hours – official Nokia promo.
As a follow up to this post: Nokia Wedding: Stay online as this wedding happens! We have these two videos: As well as being a promo video for the #onlineasithappens campaign for the N97 mini and N900, there’s a little bit more with the whole wedding theme. Check out youtube.com/nokia – the whole theme has changed [...]
Video How to: Redownload Applications from the Ovi Store (and other content!) version 1.05 (387)
Redownloading lost content from the Ovi Store was once a major hurdle. From not being able to at all to having to contact support to email you back with a 2-hour window in which you can download your app. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogexvJI6EY8 Via NokiaConversations Now (as it should have been all along) you can redownload your paid [...]
Event: Nokia Signpost London – Good Things attendees
Here are a selection of photos of the attendees on last week’s Good Things event in London, courtesy of WOMWorld. There’s a gallery at the bottom as wordpress might break if I try to insert all the photos individually. The gallery consists mostly of four destinations: first the boat that was privately hired to cruise [...]
Nokia Wedding: Stay online as this wedding happens!
After an exceedingly busy day yesterday, an evening nap before a blogpost turned into an 9 hour snooze. What happened 9 hours ago that needed a blogpost? Well, something about a Nokia Wedding: So – the details: Mr and Mrs Nokia Marriage of their daughter Sally Powell to Mr A.T. Noon [an anagram?] at North [...]
Nokia N97 Firmware V20.0.019 Finally available!
Firmware update V20 available! (meh I am at mac store and don’t know how to use the magic mouse so this will have to be the content of this post) http://twitpic.com/n4vik http://twitter.com/JayMontano/status/5199483662 Update your N97 via Nokia Software Updater
Video: Nokia Signposts – Behind the scenes of the arrow and crane (Part 2) The Control Centre
Following yesterday’s post on the behind the scenes of the site of the Good Things Arrow and Crane, this second video now takes a look at the heart – or be it – the brain that’s sorting out all those messages that appear on the arrow itself.
Video: Nokia Signposts – Behind the scenes of the arrow and crane (Part 1)
Thanks to WOMWorld, the attendees of the #OviGoodThings event had the chance toe meet with the product manager for the site of the Nokia Signposts for a tour behind the scenes of the Crane and Arrow. This first video is of the site itself (I cut out the safety instructions as it went over youtube’s [...]
Video: Ovi Maps Q&A with Nokia's Arshia Varlet, Pino and Danesh.
Thanks to WOMWorld and Nokia, as part of the “Good Things” event, we got the chance to quiz Nokia’s senior global marketing manager, Arshia Varlet and colleagues Guiseppe (Pino) and Danesh on Ovi Maps. Here’s the 20 minute video of that session, underneath the transcript – questions in bold and additional thoughts/clarifications I meant in [...]
Pics: So Many Nokia N97s!
Just a quicky-post as we’re going down for breakfast in a mo. After dinner yesterday, I thought I’d borrow everyone’s Nokia N97s and snap a photo of them together. (I like seeing masses of phones ) Yesterday, if you’ve been following #ovigoodthings on twitter you may have seen these pics already. (Thanks everyone for lending [...]
Video: Good Things – Team 1 Challenge
Yesterday, 5 groups in 2 man-teams navigated their way across London’s sights of attraction. But it wasn’t simply using Ovi Maps and locating point X. We were only ever given coordinates, which meant one wrong digit placement could lead us anywhere but where we had to go to. Once getting to the correct destination there [...]
Nokia Event: Good Things starting today!
If you’ve been following a few posts [here, here and here] about the upcoming event in London, you’ll know that some Good Things are starting today! I’ll be tweeting away so check out @jaymontano for coverage on what’s happening – they do get pretty odd/random if I’m not actually in the middle of anything Nokia [...]
Nokia donates 10million PHP worth of relief goods to the Philippines
You’re probably aware of the devastation the Philippines has faced with the recent typhoons. – over 800 deaths, destruction of homes leaving over 6 million homeless – and there’s still another typhoon (Lupit) coming. I heard from family in the Philippines how the local areas in Pasig/Quezon City were just flooded to chest level. Fortunately [...]
Videos: Nokia N900 Camera, media app; contacts, calendar tasks; web browser; phone functionality and general walkthrough by Matthew Miller
Mattew Miller from Nokia Experts has unleashed a tsunami of N900 videos going through each topic in much detail. You may have seen similar videos before, but the N900 with Maemo 5 is such a new platform for Nokia as a phone; there’s much for everyone to learn – good/bad/improvements necessary – from avid bloggers [...]
Video Unboxing: Nokia Good Things delivered in Little Packages
This morning, the DHL man and Postman delivered several Good Things…some books, cheques from the lettings agency…and: train tickets to London and back WOMWorld Package with Good Things box (actually a pretty big box), containing: a euro-uk converter; Nokia N97 box; and a green Good Things arrow. Here’s an itinerary of what we’re gonna be [...]
Nokia Event: The Good Things! Itinerary.
Nearly a fortnight ago, I wrote about a secret Nokia event happening in London, this Friday 23rd October 2009. It ‘s been all really hush, hush. Apart from my speculations, nothing is known for certain as to what exactly is gonna be happening [I say, "Nothing", there's still a chance my speculations are wrong :p]. [...]
Video: Collection of Nokia N900 Unboxings
Here’s a bunch of Nokia N900 unboxing videos to whet your appetite a bit more: 1. Tnkgrl and N900 [YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZRp9KqHNW0] 2. Slashgear and N900 [YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kijb52uIZs] 3. Steve Chippy and N900 [YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nzkccfl4Y0] 4. MickyFin and N900 [YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o380x-wTjv4] The box is similar to the N97, Matte black with embossed image of the phone: Inside, box contents include: [...]
Nokia N920 4.13" capacitive, super slim keyboardless mobile computer?
We know that the successor of the Nokia N900 will have both capacitive screen and multitouch; finally getting somewhat closer to the iPhone in terms of slick screen interaction. Well the N900′s successor maybe more iPhone-like that we would have guessed. Well if we believe rumours that is… Check out below of what looks like [...]
Video: Nokia Ovi Store Add claims thousands of apps for Nokia N97 when there are less than 1000. False advertising much?
Nokia uploaded an advert on YouTube about the Ovi Store: In the video, Nokia claim that you can “GET THOUSANDS OF APPS FOR YOUR N97 AT THE OVI STORE” Now, “THOUSANDS” implies at multiple thousands, at least 2000, right? Are there at least 2000 applications for the N97 at the Ovi Store? NO! Are there [...]
How to: Escaping the Nokia N97 hard-reset (tips and tricks)
UPDATE: Since installing V21.0.045 I have no more hard reset problems! I thought V21 didn’t fix it, but that was because I was just getting impatient and staring at that damn “Nokia” Screen too long. It does take about 50 seconds, where before it would only take around 28 – anything past 40s meant you [...]
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