Archive for July, 2010
Using the Ovi App Wizard
Nokia released a while back a cool online application called Ovi App wizard which lets you use the RSS feeds of your website to create tiny little apps and publish them to the Ovi store, obviously the idea was poo pooed by the media a while back and no one talked about it since, well [...]
Nokia supposedly looking for new CEO
You might have noticed that the Wall street Journal is reporting that Nokia are actively searching for a new CEO to rejuvenate their past successes. A lot has been made after the reporting and apparently Nokia already have interviewed two candidates nothing has been confirmed yet but looking at the blogs and new sites today [...]
Nokia N8's 'official' Facebook page
The Nokia N8 has a facebook page! Well it’s not the first one, there are others there already. This one with almost 16k likes Another with 8K This one with 2K But I think this one is the official one (well via NokNok which is Nokia sponsored). It’s got ‘proper’ tabs anyway for a professional [...]
Video: Nokia N8 Speaker Test
Around a month to go for the rumoured Nokia N8 August 25th release. You’ve waited ever so patiently (since end of Not June, Not May, but APRIL!) Here’s yet another Nokia N8 video, but this time “testing” out the N8′s loudspeaker – which is possibly louder even than the very loud 5800. (Would be nice [...]
Creating Qt Apps using the Nokia Qt SDK for Symbian (demoed on a Nokia N8) and Maemo from desktop app to mobile app.
Symbian has been tarred in the past for the complexity of app development. The issue in the past was the difficulty in making Symbian apps in comparison to iPhone OS. Although native Symbian is powerful and allows you to create deeply integrated apps, it’s difficult to use at the beginning. Solution? Nokia Qt SDK, which [...]
For 1.2 Billion USD Cash – Nokia Siemens Networks to acquire Motorola wireless network infrastructure assets.
The Telecom equipment vendor, Nokia Siemens is a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens AG. Today NSN announced that they will be acquiring certain wireless network infrastructure assets from Motorola for a sum of 1.2 BILLION US Dollars. CASH. Last year, Nokia tried to build a position in North America with the acquisition of Nortel, [...]
Competition: 20 Nokia N8s to be won with Snickers Austria
I think this may be for Austrian residents only but there’s a competition with Snickers where you could apparently win one of 20 Nokia N8. I think if you register, you’re entered into the draw to win a Nokia N8. click here With the Snickers No Limit sport Competition there’s also 17,000 EURO up for [...]
Concept Nokias: The Nokia Kinetic
Now before you say anything about the uneven base, you’ve got to know there’s some function behind it. (Thanks for the heads up Keith!) As described in the blurb, “The Nokia Kinetic is a magical mobile phone that makes receiving a call, text, or email more playful by converting digital information into kinetic movement” Basically, [...]
Concept Nokias: The Nokia Kinetic
Now before you say anything about the uneven base, you’ve got to know there’s some function behind it. (Thanks for the heads up Keith!) As described in the blurb, “The Nokia Kinetic is a magical mobile phone that makes receiving a call, text, or email more playful by converting digital information into kinetic movement” Basically, [...]
Photos: New 12MP samples from the Nokia N8 (4000×3000)
Looks like ricardore uploaded some new pictures. Here’s some samples below. Some are out of focus unfortunately. The rest of the pictures are on his Nokia N8 set. Remember this is taken with a Nokia N8 prototype. via: Taken and uploaded on flickr by ricardore
Gallery & Video: Portait Music Player "Instinctiv" free on the Ovi Store – What Nokia Music player should be
Here’s a little GEM of an application that’s free on Ovi Store for your Nokia N900. This is by far the most promising user interface for a music player I’ve ever come across on a Nokia handset. It’s called “instinctiv”, download it from the Ovi Store on your N900. The player supports wma, flac, ogg, [...]
Video: Nokia N8 USB On The Go tests – E72, N900, portable hard drive, powered external hard drive and DivX AVI playback
In the video below, you’ll see the Nokia N8 connecting to a load of different devices, acting as a USB host and accessing the files on the respective devices. From E72, N900 to powered external hard drives and portable (non powered) external hard drives. It’s awesome to see it connecting with the portable hard drives [...]
How To: Hold your Nokia N900 and make it drop calls
Hold your N900 in your N900 in portrait mode, right hand with the thumb on the side. Then push the OFF button. Here was Nokia’s statement in response to yesterday’s deflection, distortion and illusion show by our favourite magician. Smoke and mirrors at its finest. Antenna design is a complex subject and has been a [...]
Rumoured C7 spotted in Video
Nokia showed off in a video of an proposed app called the Nokia diary which you can see here but during the video one of our readers noted something very curious and saw this unreleased Nokia phone being part of the video Thanks for skills for the heads up
Pics: New Symbian^4 screenshots
[I keep getting distracted from blog posting today.] A while ago in February, we saw some screenshots of Symbian^4, and today they’ve been updated somewhat. Ignore the Windows XP border (they’re from the ‘emulator’). They can be found at Symbian.org Wiki page (I think someone tweeted it this morning but I forgot whom) Here we [...]
Video: Nokia Messaging Diary
You can see the video below: This is a cool App where users can download the ‘diary’ from the ovi store and share Messages and IM with friends via a proposed diary which I think is a cool way of doing it. This is just proposed concept and I don’t know if this will be [...]
Video showing off Social Networking on Nokia N8
Nokia has released a new Video showing off the Nokia N8′s Social networks integration which is starting to look nice You can see the video below [Vimeo=http://vimeo.com/12615949] The UI for the contacts app is looking really nice as well, it seems to me there are some UI improvements that Nokia haven’t showed off yet and [...]
New Nokia C6-01, C6 with 8MP camera and Dual LED flash
I read about this last night but was much too sleepy to blogpost. This apparently below is the 8MP, dual LED flash version of the Nokia C6 – THE C6-01. Why has it been made? I don’t know. Screenshot from the Nokia shop below, click here to check it out yourself The difference is that [...]
Video: Motorola XT720 vs Nokia N8 Video Editors – ooh the similarities.
I was just about to have an early night when I saw @Camb078 tweet about a moto video. Does the above video look familiar? Well if you’ve been following the N8 you’ll notice they have very similar video editors. Now, they aren’t exactly the same but the resemblance is striking to the point that I’m [...]
Videos: Nokia E5 Tutorials
Here’s 11 video tutorials to get Nokia E5 users up and running. There are usual basic tips from battery/sim inserting to setting up email and making the best use of the QWERTY keyboard with some useful tips. Unlike tutorial videos from the networks, this one direct from Nokia does not use a real handset, and [...]
Videos: Nokia E5 Tutorials
Here’s 11 video tutorials to get Nokia E5 users up and running. There are usual basic tips from battery/sim inserting to setting up email and making the best use of the QWERTY keyboard with some useful tips. Unlike tutorial videos from the networks, this one direct from Nokia does not use a real handset, and [...]
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