Archive for November, 2010
Video: Nokia N8 and TRON:Legacy Trivia Game Preview (available at Ovi Store!)
Very new and hot off the Ovi Store shelves is the TRON: Legacy Trivia Game. Get it now as it’s FREE, FREE, FREE! It’s a really well made game – slick interface that includes a host of media including a TRON trailer, videos, ringtones and really neat screensavers. The game is a trivia puzzle based [...]
Video: Nokia E7 and HDMI-out to 110 inch screen
Like the Nokia N8, the Nokia E7 has a HDMI out. Connect up your E7 and you can show whatever is on the E7′s screen on the bigger TV or projector screen. Oddly not all phones can do this. Some can just show media if any. Nokia’s TV out gives you a portable PC like [...]
GSM Arena's Screen Showndown: Nokia's CBD AMOLED – best contrast, best colours, better sunlight readability than Super AMOLED!
The meticulous folks at GSM Arena (Thanks Aymen Kanzali for the heads up to tips@mynokiablog.com) have compared the display technologies used in HTC Desire HD, LG Optimus E900, Sony Ericsson X10, Nokia N8, iPhone 4, Nokia C6-01, Samsung Wave and Galaxy S. Basically, LCD vs AMOLED vs IPS LCD vs Super Clear LCD, vs CBD [...]
Leaked: Nokia Nseries N00 Prototype C: 12MP, xenon and N95 form factor.
Thanks Adnan who found this on eBay (via Symbian Tweet and Smartphone Arena)- here we can see what is supposedly a Nokia Prototype found on eBay. It sports a slide out keypad like the N95 family (N85, N86, N96) and bears a Carl Zeiss 12MP camera with Xenon Flash. There’s also a kickstand like the [...]
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Video: Nokia N8 – My Superfun house party. Weirdest Nokia video EVER! [update FX Studio app leak?]
I saw this on NokiaFrance‘s channel. I don’t really know what it’s about. Some guy/girl capturing memories from a house party? You should watch it, it’s so weird. There’s aliens, robots doing the robot, girls pouting with duck lips, paintings blowing party horns, spaceships, fire-breathing inflatable dragon, electrified inflatable balls, guy with see through torso, [...]
Gallery: Own Voice Available for Nokia N8's Ovi Maps voice nagivation on Ovi Store (and neat web version for own voice)
@OviByNokia tweeted that Own Voice service is available for the Nokia N8. (Is it available for other S^3 handsets too?) This allows you to record your own or friends/loved one’s voices for use in Sat Nav Ovi Maps navigation. There’s an app version that you can download from Ovi Store or you can try the [...]
Video: Nokia E7 Multitasking and F-Secure (with remote wipe for stolen/lost devices)
uptodateksa2 gives us another E7 hands on showing multitasking and F-Secure from Ovi Store. As well as being an antivirus for your phone, it will also allow you to remotely wipe content from your phone if it’s lost or stolen. Probably for some, the data is as precious as the phone itself (as if you [...]
Video: Nokia Ovi Suite 3.0 beta from Beta Labs
You may have seen this but if you haven’t here’s a video of Nokia Ovi Suite 3.0 Beta. It comes with two major improvements including new home view and new music player. You can try it out over at Nokia Beta Labs (though all I’m getting is a URL error after clicking download). You’ll need [...]
Nokia C7-00 camera… not quite what you'd expect!
Due to popular (kind of) demand, I’ve conducted a short yet conclusive test on the 8 Mpix camera capabilities of the Nokia C7-00. Similar fixed-focus or EDoF (Extended Depth of Field ) camera modules are also used in a pair of other Symbian^3 based Nokia smartphones like the C6-01 and the upcoming E7, so I [...]
Video: Digiscoping. Capturing the moon with Nokia N8 and 20×25 Binoculars
Remember when Shayne Ward (X factor UK winner Season 2) took a picture of the moon in his newest music video with the Nokia N8? They must have quickly edited out this contraption above by Topolino70 :p Now topolino70 has showed us close up with magnifying glasses and macro lenses. What about binoculars? As with [...]
DEAL OF THE DAY: New Nokia N8 Unlocked for $429 (USD) at Amazon! (275GBP!)
So, following on from the Nokia N8 deals seen in Andre’s post, we have here an unlocked Nokia N8 for $429 (USD). YES, $429. Undercutting the previous awesome Dell offer (449.00) for the green N8. This comes with free shipping. I’m not sure about taxes but I’m told there isn’t any. But if there was, [...]
Video: Nokia N8 cameo in TRON: Legacy – Win exclusive tickets to Première in London and Hollywood!
As you know, Nokia have been promoting the heck out of TRON since the days of preproduction Nokia N8′s and video playback/HDMI demoes. What trailers did we see? Well the big, much anticipated, Hollywood Holiday blockbuster – TRON: Legacy - the SEQUEL by Disney of the original TRON in 1982. Release date: 17th December [...]
Connectivity Analyzer from Nokia Beta Labs!
Hey all, it’s been a while since i’v properly blogged on “My Nokia Blog” but as I no longer have time to post as much as i’d like to on my own TheTekBlogger.com, I thought Jay wouldn’t mind me posting here! One of the recent creations from the people over at Nokia Beta Labs yet [...]
Black Friday deal for the Nokia N8
This Friday marks, for many people living in the US, the beginning of the holiday shopping season. As is customary, the Friday after the Thanksgiving holiday known as Black Friday is a day when stores around the US offer huge deals on most of the products in their stores and Nokia USA is no exception. [...]
1000Heads wins prestigious WOMMY award for #NokiaNav – Congrats @WOMWorldNokia
1000heads – the guys and gals behind WOMWorld/Nokia have won a prestigious WOMMY award for their #NokiaNav Campaign. Since 2006, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) has recognized the people, agencies, and brands behind the most remarkable word of mouth marketing campaigns. “The WOMMYs are the most prestigious and rigorous awards in the word [...]
Symbian Foundation Websites shutting down on 17th December as Symbian Becomes Closed Source
With Symbian coming back under the full control of Nokia, the following Symbian websites are expected to shut down from 17th December 2010. www.symbian.org, www.symbian.org/cn, www.symbian.org/jp developer.symbian.org, developer.symbian.org/cn, developer.symbian.org/jp horizon.symbian.org ideas.symbian.org blog.symbian.org, blogcn.symbian.org, blogjp.symbian.org Everything is still available (see symbian.org) so if you have to download platform source codes they are available now. Afterwards, Symbian [...]
Video: Nokia Situations from BetaLabs – intuitive time, location and network based profile/theme (and more) changer (Demoed on Nokia N8)
Nokia Situations is a new applications from betalabs that allows your device to act in different situations (based on time, location and connectivity) I have wanted this application since I tried something similar on my 7610 where based on locations, it could per say change profile. The 7610 for those who remember did NOT have [...]
Rogers Canada Nokia N8 HD Campaign – What's the point of watching if it's not in HD?
Canadian mobile carrier, Rogers has a new campaign to push their HD smartphone line up. “This Holiday, it’s gotta be HD or NOTHING!” and that “everything looks better on HD devices”. Hmm…what is their criteria for HD? Check out the Nokia N8 that a while ago now was leaked to be coming to Rogers. Later [...]
Leak: Nokia X7 Leak – The Nokia Orion concept come true?
Back in February, Nokia Conversations covered a post about a concept phone that folks wished Nokia Made. It was called the Nokia Orion and resembled a gameboy advance esque (now N8 esque) tapered edges. It’s a little more streamlined than the orion with totally flat seamless front unlike the N8 and E7 with bezels and [...]
Video: The very light (93g) Nokia C5-03 touch hands on review
Here’s a hands on video review of the New Symbian^1 (YEAH that’s right. S60 5th) touch phone, the Nokia C5-03. This is the newer touch version (3.2″), NOT the candy bar keypad version. It’s very, very light at 93g. Check out full specs here. The review is in Romanian, but even if you don’t speak [...]
Videos: MeeGo Adverts at Aviva Stadium Ireland vs Norway match
This year’s first ever MeeGo Conference was held at Aviva Stadium. At the end of the conference, everyone was invited to watch the Ireland Vs Norway football match. During the game, MeeGo adverts was shown – possibly the first time ever to be seen by such a great number of the public. Adverts were seen [...]
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