Archive for October, 2010
Video: Nokia Vs Sony Ericsson Transformers Battle
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen any Nokia Vs Sony Ericsson battles. Here’s a transformers themed one that just looks incredible. Especially being fan made (by repey815) My new video experiment, based on Michael Bay’s Transformers, for you and myself)) This short film was shot in 2 hours. Edited in month=) For shooting [...]
Mega Gallery: Happy Halloween with the Nokia N8! Incredible Extreme Low Light performance for Nights Out!
Happy Halloween folks! If you’re out and about tonight, perhaps in costume, you’ll certainly be wanting to save those memories. A phone won’t do right – you’ll have to bring your camera too. Well… One of the reasons the Nokia N82 has triumphed for so long is it’s undisputed performance in EXTREME low light – [...]
Gallery: The Real Symbian^3 Portrait QWERTY keyboard demoed on the Nokia N8
As promised alex68 has updated us on tips@mynokiablog.com about the portrait QWERTY of the Nokia N8. This is the real one (mid development perhaps) and NOT the 3rd party QWERTY keyboard that we saw the other day. Here’s the standard T9. Note how the text field is no longer separate. You can see exactly the [...]
Video: 15 minutes with MeeGo 1.1 on the Nokia N900
amandahoic from amanda_hoic.mysinablog.com/) has recorded a video demo of MeeGo 1.1 on the N900. It’s not in English (but Cantonese) but you can still appreciate what’s going on in MeeGo. Note this is the basic Vanilla colour scheme of Vanilla MeeGo which will look different to Nokia’s MeeGo Handset (Harmattan) 01:43 – Dialler/call page (actions [...]
MyNokiaBlog.com in Technorati's top 100 Gadget Blogs
Here’s something odd and most definitely a short term fluke thing. On technorati – huge search engine for blogs which categorizes and ranks blogs has put mynokiablog.com in the top 100 gadgets. I don’t really understand what these ranking means. But to be in the top 100 of anyone’s gadget blog list, be it technorati [...]
Video: Nokia N8 Camera/Film School – Hollywood Lighting tips
Latest in the series – something often overlooked though being rather crucial – lighting. Really great tip: Set N8 Video to black and white – not for recording but optimising the light source. This is so you won’t get distracted by the colours. 3 point lighting – backlight, keylight and fill light. This is what [...]
Video: Ixonos Smartphone UI Concept – compatible with MeeGo
I don’t know how old this video is. Some aspects of it look similar to the Qt UI layer on Moblin that was shown on the Aava Mobile reference design phone a back in Jan/Feb. The video even says compatibility for Moblin (and MeeGo). There are some interesting and neat UI experiences here (some familiar [...]
Channel 5's The Gadget Show reviews the Nokia N8
The Gadget Show is a very popular tech show in the UK that’s broadcast on Channel 5 (One of the original 5 terrestrial channels) and also on catchup at YouTube. This is reviewed by Jon Bentley of which the transcript is pretty much below and is accompanied by my own rants (agreeing with Jon and [...]
Official Video: Behind the scenes of The Commuter Premiere: What would celebs film if they had the Nokia N8?
Here’s a behind the scenes look of The Commuter Premiere in London filmed by the Nokia Crew. Towards the end the Nokia folk interview some celebs, asking them what they would do if they had the Nokia N8. Pamela Anderson says not to ask her that question as it gets her into loads of trouble. [...]
Official Gallery: The Commuter Premiere in London – Film shot entirely on the Nokia N8
On Monday I had the privilege of going to the Premiere of the Nokia N8 McHenry Brothers Movie, The Commiter. (Thanks for the invite Kwai Chi!) Check out nokia.co.uk/n8 NokiaUK Flickr Here are a selection of official Nokia UK photos from the Premiere of The Commuter London from Flickr. More and larger images are available [...]
Videos: Nokia N8 in the Music Room
Yesterday after a game on Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock (Guitar/Drums/Mic) some of the guys went up to the music room to play music for real :p. The room was extremely dark btw with like two tiny 50 watt bulbs (other two had blown – and really needed something like 60-100w, energy saving for the [...]
Project Release MeeGo 1.1 ready. MeeGo 1.2 coming April 2011
MeeGo blog has announced that MeeGo 1.1 project release is now available. Read more at the MeeGo Blog This release includes: Core OS 1.1 – consolidated common base operating system for all UXs Netbook UX 1.1 – complete set of core applications for netbooks In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) UX 1.1 – includes a sample IVI home [...]
Nokia N8 Portrait QWERTY – no more separate text entry field
Above is a portrait QWERTY for the Nokia N8 which has been much anticipated. This should mean that swype (which I’m not a fan off, mostly because I cannot turn it off – like literally, it keeps turning itself back on and won’t let me use default qwerty) should work in portrait soon too. Notice [...]
Video: Behind the scenes of music video shot on Nokia N8 – The Drums of Death 'Won't Be Long'
Here’s a behind the scenes look at a music video for “The Drums of Death – Won’t Be Long” as shot on the Nokia N8 [YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFTzzcCrOyY] And the actual music video Nokia.co.uk/n8 / nokiauk Some more N8 music related videos to be posted today. (Uploading as we speak)
Video: How to – Installing WebOS Asphalt 5 game on the Nokia N900
Initial Installation 360NextLevel gives us a video tutorial on how to install the WebOS version of Asphalt 5 on the Nokia N900. Yes, WebOS. It’s a little technical and you may need to check out other videos to complete all the instructions. [YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rDCbZ3gyYE]
An Interview with the Nokia C7 Lead Designer
The Nokia C7 is one of the sexiest devices launched this year, actually it might be the best looking device launched this year and It was a hard choice for me between the C7 and the N8, but the N8 won in the end with the you know what mega feature. Anyway the guys over [...]
60 Nokia N8s for Review for South Africa – Top 8 reviews will get to keep the Nokia N8
Yes, you read correctly. But it is just for residents of South Africa aged 16 and over. Other Terms and Conditions available Here at Nokia Ringaz blog. Now onto the good bits. An interesting find by Mark from The Nokia Blog sees 60/sixty Nokia N8′s heading over to South Africa to be reviewed. The top [...]
Niklas Savander Nokia Strategies Interview: Nokia MeeGo products to ship very close soon after announcement
Niklas Savander and crew at Nokia World 2010 This interview of Nokia’s EVP Markets, Niklas Savander with CNET was tipped to us several days ago by Andan and Webby (cheers guys) but I never got around to posting it. It actually had some extremely interesting snippets of info on Nokia Strategy as well as confirming [...]
Video: Nokia N8 Gaming – Guitar Rock Tour 2 HD and GT Racing: Motor Academy HD (Nokia Ad)
Nokia’s been churning out some N8 Gaming videos. Here’s a new one (for me) which is Guitar Rock Tour 2 HD. As you’ll see in the video, it has support for multitouch. This is available to download from the Ovi Store for 3GBP (or similar equivalent where available in other countries) Similarly, there’s Guitar Hero [...]
Video: Nokia N8's new browser and the new lag free, draggable homescreen!
UPDATE: Nokia has filed a copyright complaint on this video and it has been removed. With the channel potentially being deleted too. Nice. This video comes from alex68 who sent it in to tips@mynokiablog.com. What we can see are two cool things 1) Homescreen swiping works with drag kinetics! It appears that the swiping delay [...]
Video: Nokia N8 Camera School – #7 Action Shots in your videos
Part 7 of Nokia Conversations’ Camera School series looks at Action Shots for your videos. “Learn how to make your Nokia N8 action shots more compelling through the use of unusual angles and where editing tricks – like scrubbing – can spice up your footage.” Previous videos #1 Professional Product Photo Shoot on a Budget. [...]
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