Archive for June 21st, 2010

What will a Nokia Tablet bring to the plate?

What will a Nokia Tablet bring to the plate?

| June 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

Since the iPad graced planet earth not so long ago, the Tech media have been nothing but annoying about the possibilities of an “iPad killer” from various Hardware vendors, the latest of course being Nokia. Of course there is still a debate wether tablets are a viable platform and not just a novelty item like [...]

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Hello New Ovi Store: Version 1.07 update.

Hello New Ovi Store: Version 1.07 update.

| June 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

My twitter stream (@jaymontano) mentioned the Ovi Store being down for a bit today. All About Symbian points out that there’s a new update for the Ovi Store. Lo and behold, N97 agrees and asks me to also update to the newer 1.07 version. This is NOT the big update, but a welcome incremental improvement [...]

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Video: Mind Blowing Nokia N900 Painter! (with MyPaint) Speed Painting the most realistic strawberries.

| June 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

Last time we posted about painting on the N900 was with the basic N900 sketch app, subject: Avatar – my attempt: – meh (thanks nonetheless for the kind comments ) There’s an app for the N900 called MyPaint which gives those with the skill tools to create their masterpiece. Boy, did Luovatone do just that. [...]

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Nokia Tablet Rumours

Nokia Tablet Rumours

| June 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

Rumours of Nokia’s tablet are rife with Digitimes reporting a tablet form Nokia imminent in the fourth quarter of this year. Eldar the famous Nokia leakemeister revealed earlier today that such rumours are sort of true and Jay posted blog post earlier which you can read here. As I was going through the my timeline [...]

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HD Video: Pre-Alpha MeeGo for tablets demo – it looks frikkin AMAZING!

| June 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

Check out this Pre-Alpha MeeGo for Tablets demonstration, uploaded by meegodemo It looks so promising! Choose 720p version to see that extra bit of MeeGo Goodness. We’ve seen similar demoes but this is a specific demo for internet (as opposed to demo for people in noisy conventions). TheĀ  homescreen is so beautiful “truly fitting “Rich [...]

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Pics: Nokia N8 Black vs Sony Ericsson Vivaz and Nokia N97 Mini

Pics: Nokia N8 Black vs Sony Ericsson Vivaz and Nokia N97 Mini

| June 21, 2010 | Comments (2)

Gagadget has posted a couple of pics of the N8 with the Sony Ericsson Vivaz and N97 mini as well as a bunch of other drool-worthy N8 black shots. Gagadget.com

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Videos: Half hour worth of Nokia N8 HDMI demoes

| June 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

Nokia’s been doing TV out since the days of the Nokia N93. Nokia has FAILED to promote this fantastic feature that turns your mobile phone into a media centre. Music, video, gaming, web browser – hook it up to the TV and you’ve got entertainment on the go. Now with the Nokia N8 they’ve upped [...]

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Video: Nokia N900 Theme – Blue Sky (New icons and transition effects)

Video: Nokia N900 Theme – Blue Sky (New icons and transition effects)

| June 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

Following yesterday’s Android theme for the N900 is Blue Sky (a comment recommended “Sky” but we couldn’t find it, unless this is the same thing). Anyways, this is a great theme for the N900 because: New icons for default N900 apps (First time I’ve used a Maemo 5 theme that changed the icons) New backgrounds [...]

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ARM Based MeeGo Nokia Tablet, Z500 is out to the world?

ARM Based MeeGo Nokia Tablet, Z500 is out to the world?

| June 21, 2010 | Comments (23)

Reports are now spreading that Nokia are “following” Apple and making a tablet. These trace back to a Digitimes research analyst who says “Talking with upstream component makers, the analyst pointed out that Nokia has already completed about 100 engineering samples ready for testing. The tablet PC’s panel size will be either 7- or 9-inch [...]

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Video: Nokia N8 Green hands on – WiFi positioning and ‘new’ calendar

Video: Nokia N8 Green hands on – WiFi positioning and ‘new’ calendar

| June 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

A couple of videos by tinhtevideo, the latest in Vietnamese and the second in English. An interesting comment in the description box (google translated): Users normally do not feel the change because of what they see N8 and manipulation is almost similar to the other induction machine Symbian. The changes that users will find here [...]

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Video: Ultimate Multitasking with Nokia N900 and ShortCutD (Add Multitask/Menu/Phone buttons to your N900) #mustdownloadnow!

| June 21, 2010 | Comments (5)

The Nokia N900 is arguably the best multitasking phone out there by the sheer number of apps it can juggle simultaneously (for real and not some fake multitasking) and also by that beautiful interface Live grid of applications (not static images or worse, icons – how 2002) that is contextual (windows/grid changes in size depending [...]

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