Archive for June, 2010
Video: Nokia N8 Part 2 of 3 Walkthrough!
Chris Bennets is back again with part 2 of 3 in the Nokia N8 Walkthrough! Presentation skills aside we can see: Smooth pinch and zooming of 12 megapixel images. Photo Editor demo (ooh prepare for cheese) Video Editor demo – it looks pretty capable, especially considering we’re editing 720p videos. It looks quite versatile too, [...]
What Nokia needs to learn from Apple Keynotes. Pointers from Steve Job's iPhone 4 announcement.
This is mainly a tongue in cheek rant, written very late so it probably may not make sense. Note – if you are reading this, you are not the “public” which is described in this article. Again, press X now or prepare for walls of text. Perception, perception perception. What Nokia needs to learn from [...]
Nokia 6680: I am from the future.
This is just a very light hearted post in response to the newly announced iPhone 4. There is of course more than just great hardware choice and an up to date/boundary pushing spec sheet. Software and complete simple user experience is the main focus. By limiting the hardware of the original and later revisions, it’s [...]
Nokia N8 vs. the smartphone elite: iPhone 4, HTC EVO 4G, Palm Pre Plus, and HTC HD2
Engadget has made a comparison of the iPhone 4 against what they call the smartphone elite – representatives of respective Mobile OS – HTC Evo 4G for Android, Nokia N8 for Symbian, Palm Pre Plus for WebOS and HTC HD2 for Windows Mobile. Based on the hardware categories chosen, the N8 stacks up surprisingly well [...]
Apple announces New iPhone 4 – Not much for Nokia to worry about?
Nokia’s strongest competitor has officially announced a new iteration of their handset, the iPhone4. What does Nokia have to compete with on the hardware front? Safe to say, if you like mobile photography, iPhone is still no match for Nokia. There are some nice things like the improved screen resolution with iPhone. Same design as [...]
Video: Own Voice Competition: How good is your accent? (Your own or impersonation!)
Nokia conversations are running an Accent Competition to celebrate their new “Own Voice” App to record your own voice packs for Ovi Maps Voice/Turn by Turn Navigation. Check out this cool video above. At first, the lady (Amy Walker) came across as pretty crazy (wasn’t expecting such contrast of accent, thought she was going loopy!), [...]
Nokia N900 Portrait T9 keyboard in the works for Maemo 5
On Talk.maemo.org, Frals, creator of fMMS (bringing MMS to Maemo 5/N900 users) is working with wOOt to create a portrait keyboard for the N900. I’m glad they chose to do the traditional T9 input as that’s much easier to use with one hand (for me anyways -I know there are also many who would prefer [...]
Pic: Nokia MeeGo Phone – Ultimate Convergence Device?
jedibeeftrix shares an interesting post, asking whether Nokia and MeeGo tablet phone could be the ultimate convergence device. In the post is an interesting render of what MeeGo phone could look like (updated with better render) A wonderful wish list of core specifications include: At least 4″, WVGA (the standard of Nokia’s first 3 Maemo [...]
New Gallery: Sexy Nokia N8 Black
Mr X from finestfones has received some nice photos from “a friend”, some N8 Black photos (I don’t care if Nokia calls it Dark Gray, it looks black dammit! ) It’s looking pretty slick, no? It best matches the glossy black bezel anyway. Thanks for the heads up Jim! Mmmmm….. I want one now! -_^ [...]
Video: Closer look at MeeGo App Store – Intel's AppUp on MeeGo Tablet.
To collate all the MeeGo apps, there’s gonna be of course an App Store. This seems to be coming in the flavour of Intel’s AppUp store. MeeGo manufacturers like Asus are said to be putting their own app store but this will be compatible with Intel’s AppUp. I’m not sure how Nokia will go, given [...]
Why the Nokia N8 WON'T be like the Nokia N97. Nokia N8 vs Nokia N97.
Click X now or prepare for a mighty wall of text. This time last year, we were all in anticipation of Nokia’s hottest flagship – the Nokia N97. A year later, N97 is a dirty word, encapsulating Nokia’s failure to understand the high end. Unfortunately, many N97 users got burned. Myself included. Although there was [...]
Video: Nokia N8 7 minute hands on – Chinese handwriting recognition, multitouch web browser
Camb078 has found and reuploaded another Nokia N8 video demo from Vgooo.com This one show’s some specific Chinese customizations such as the handwriting recognition for chinese character input. You’ll also see the browser demoed with multitouch, which looks a little smoother than previous video demoes. The camera UI looks annoying as hell. Improved over S60 [...]
Video: Asphalt 5 on the Nokia N8
Last week we saw EA “unveil” some stunning 3D games for the Nokia N8 with Sims 3, NFS Shift and Monopoly. Today, Gameloft is showing off Asphalt 5 on the Nokia N8. Unlike EA’s NFS, this seems to be controlled by touch and not accelerometer. What I really like is the prospect of many high [...]
We won the #NokiaSweded competition – Now it's your turn to join in and Win a Nokia BH-905!
[YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8doozHcRkEU] A couple of weeks ago, we posted our entry to WOMWorldNokia’s video challenge: #NokiaSweded. It was such a fun video to make! The aim, to swede (spoof?) the Nokia Simple Human Solutions video. Competition was tough, rivalling the creative works of @suju_k and @calasite. The winner has just been announced. No way! Apparently it’s [...]
We won the #NokiaSweded competition – Now it's your turn to join in and Win a Nokia BH-905!
[YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8doozHcRkEU] A couple of weeks ago, we posted our entry to WOMWorldNokia’s video challenge: #NokiaSweded. It was such a fun video to make! The aim, to swede (spoof?) the Nokia Simple Human Solutions video. Competition was tough, rivalling the creative works of @suju_k and @calasite. The winner has just been announced. No way! Apparently it’s [...]
Somewhat of a Nokia N8 review and yet another Silver Nokia N8 Gallery
Just in case you weren’t already having convulsions from the excess of Silver Nokia N8 pics from the last gallery, here’s another bunch to push you over the edge, courtesy of mobile.163.com. Don’t worry, there’s no saucy fur this time. We’ve culled a third of repeats, though really they’re pretty much the same images just [...]
Benefits of the 28mm wide angle of the Nokia N8 (Pic: Nokia N8 black – taken by iPhone)
Contents: (this somehow became a larger post that intended) Group Photos Landscape/Architecture Wide Angle Compmarison Wide Angle and Video (Whatley and Smith) Ssensor Size and Other Nokia N8 Camera Benefits To upcoming Nokia N8 users, one of the subtle benefits you’ll be enoying from the camera is the 28mm wide angle lens. Wide angle basically [...]
Video: Nokia N8 Multitouch pinch to zoom photo browser
I’ve posted a couple of videos before with N95 multitouch, via bluetooth keyboard and N900 multitouch via green screen. No need for this with the Nokia N8 as it’s the first Nokia to have real multitouch. This can be observed both at web browser and photo browser. The video in the previous photo browser post [...]
Pics: Sneaky Peek at MeeGo handheld UX
MeeGo phone screenshots are rare. Work is apprently going on with the MeeGo handseld UX. As such there are no video demos. (Although MeeGo netbook and MeeGo Tablet have already been unveiled, the latter looking spectacular). The first two has just appeared on twitter via @brainimpact. They’ve been uploaded to the MeeGo bugs page and [...]
Pics: New Gallery of Silver Nokia N8 (on furrrrr!)
A huge gallery showing off a silver Nokia N8 resting on a furry shiny carpet. I can’t for the life of me find the original source link (although I did stumble across Camb078′s future video uploads, e.g. browser, which is looking – er um, slow) but the source is supposedly http://www.pconline.com.cn/. Maybe it’s the lighting, [...]
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