Archive for June 17th, 2010

Ovi…….. do you use it ?

Ovi…….. do you use it ?

| June 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

Much has been said about Ovi since its launch in 20007 everything from its unusual name to its poor implementation. Many believe the reason behind Nokia’s poor performance in the high end market comes from the notion that Nokia has put a too effort in getting the internet services right but somewhat failed.The thing is [...]

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Release your inner monk with Zen Bound on Nokia N900

Release your inner monk with Zen Bound on Nokia N900

| June 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

Good games on Maemo 5 is a rare occurrence, sadly. In fact, we started to expect as much, ever since the graphically impressive Bounce Evolution never went past being just a  fancy tech demo. But looking past that, it did manage to show what the N900 hardware is rightly capable of with a drop of commitment [...]

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WOW…..poor Nokia

WOW…..poor Nokia

| June 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

I was reading Rafe’s article from the All about Symbian blog on Nokia’s revised outlook for the year and found this link from one of the comments of that post and lead me to this and thought WOW just WOW. Nokia got slated by boingboing and its readers for releasing the X5, now in my [...]

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Video: Nokia N8 Black Hands on – fast, lag free, transitions (and instant GPS lock!)

| June 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

In this Nokia N8 hands on by technoportalua you’ll see Symbian^3 looking much better than ever: Very fast, lag free. At 0:50 you’ll notice this guy has three hands :p Transitions: between opening applications opening menu within music player (side sliding) within gallery (side sliding) going back/exiting bringing up menu buttons in  gallery (some sort [...]

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Poll Results: Does Nokia need to change their default icons and fonts? #n8 #Symbian

Poll Results: Does Nokia need to change their default icons and fonts? #n8 #Symbian

| June 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

Yesterday, we made a poll asking “Does Nokia need to change their default icons and fonts?” Less than 20 hours later, based on this sample size of 309 (I’m astonished that many voted) 68.6% voted yes to change both icons and fonts 10% voted yes to only changing icons (fine with font) 8.7% voted yes [...]

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Pics: Nokia N8 vs Nokia N900 vs Nokia N97 (Huge Nokia N8 Review/First Impressions from Blog-N8.fr)

Pics: Nokia N8 vs Nokia N900 vs Nokia N97 (Huge Nokia N8 Review/First Impressions from Blog-N8.fr)

| June 17, 2010 | Comments (4)

Blog-N8.fr has put together a huge first impressions with the Nokia N8. As much of it has been documented before I’ll post up just a few main points of interest from their post. Note that it’s in French so apologies for anything lost in translation. Fits comfortably in the hand (not as wide as iPhone, [...]

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Video: Nokia Research Center Presents: Cognitive Radio

Video: Nokia Research Center Presents: Cognitive Radio

| June 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

With the increasing numbers of people using mobile data, the consequences are that networks speeds suffer. Recently this has resulted in many major networks killing off their previous “unlimited” bandwidth plans in an attempt to control the usage of its network, preventing poor, slow services when you’re paying for fast mobile broadband speeds. As an [...]

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