Archive for December, 2010

Site maintenance going on

Site maintenance going on

| December 31, 2010 | 7 Replies

Hello! if you’ve stumbled here it’s because I am still trying to migrate from wp.com to self hosted. Apologies for any inconvenience. I’ll list the problems later when the site is back up. Fingers crossed. btw emails to @mynokiablog.com are also unavailable so unfortunately we can’t receive or reply to any of our mails. UPDATE: [...]

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Site maintenance going on soon. Email subscribers may have to resubscribe

Site maintenance going on soon. Email subscribers may have to resubscribe

| December 30, 2010 | 14 Replies

Hello all! I am currently undertaking the task of installing wordpress, installing a theme and importing posts from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. Nothing YET is going on since I haven’t got a clue what the hell I’m doing. I think I’ve performed a one click installation yet I’m just being redirected to a www.mynokiablog.com/admin panel to [...]

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Nokia unlikely to ship Windows Phone 7 powered device… because they are too controlling ???

Nokia unlikely to ship Windows Phone 7 powered device… because they are too controlling ???

| December 30, 2010 | 8 Replies

An ex Nokia employee has given his voice to Eldar’s and BGR’s ridiculous comments regarding Nokia using Windows Phone 7 in future Nokia phone’s. According to him its not possible and he has written a blog post about it and makes claims that are usually not associated with Nokia, he also says that Windows Phone [...]

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Video: Nokia N8 One Man Acapella Group for N8Producers Competition

Video: Nokia N8 One Man Acapella Group for N8Producers Competition

| December 30, 2010 | 3 Replies

One man Barbershop vocal group daniscool99 has entered the N8Producers competition (To win a zero gravity flight experience!) with his own arrangement of “I’ll be seeing you”. Filmed four separate times with four separate singing parts, it all combines into a quartet Acapella. The video certainly looks great, one of the clearest Dan has uploaded. [...]

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Samsung plans to oust Nokia from number 1 spot in 3 years time

Samsung plans to oust Nokia from number 1 spot in 3 years time

| December 30, 2010 | 20 Replies

According to Korea Times via Unwiredview – Samsung is planning to oust Nokia from their 13 year reign as number one mobile/smartphone manufacturer in just three years time. The parent company is a behemoth, allowing Samsung to produce their own displays, processors and memory at their own pace. Apparently, the next 12 months is crucial. [...]

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Patiently Waiting to be Excited

Patiently Waiting to be Excited

| December 30, 2010 | 13 Replies

After a few months off the grid, I thought it best to offer a short post to show Jay, Andre and the rest of the MNB gang that I’m still around… With my next upgrade coming up in the first few months of 2011, I’ve been pondering my options for my next handset. I’m keen to stick [...]

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Video: Mobile Documents beta for Symbian^3 – Cloud boosted push email at Nokia Beta Labs!

Video: Mobile Documents beta for Symbian^3 – Cloud boosted push email at Nokia Beta Labs!

| December 30, 2010 | 3 Replies

Mobile documents is a great app that lets you see heavy email attachments with ease; large emails and large documents are no longer a mobile-web waiting issue. Mobile picture viewer handling 71MP images on the fly PDF viewer that supports pinch and zoom, FULL SCREEN view (why the one installed on N8 can’t go full [...]

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Videos: Assassins Creed HD demoed on Nokia N8 (available at Ovi Store – 168MB!)

Videos: Assassins Creed HD demoed on Nokia N8 (available at Ovi Store – 168MB!)

| December 30, 2010 | 7 Replies

Here are some blurry video demoes of assassins creed demoed on the Nokia N8 by chavero115, cyberdri and Camb078. The first two are very, very blurry but the third by Camb078 from  blog-n8.fr is a little clearer. You can get this from gameloft OR the easier route from Ovi Store. My bills have increased as [...]

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4 Million Nokia N8′s sold says Bloomberg: Symbian^3 on track for 50 million?

4 Million Nokia N8′s sold says Bloomberg: Symbian^3 on track for 50 million?

| December 29, 2010 | 28 Replies

The 12MP Symbian Flagship, has apparently reached 4 million sales. I don’t know how accurate these figures are. The last time Nokia numbers were publicised, they were wrong (N900 selling only 100,000 when that was the figure in a few weeks – a geek “niche” device for tinkering, not for the masses which Nokia claims [...]

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Update released for Skype: Still no video calling

Update released for Skype: Still no video calling

| December 29, 2010 | 8 Replies

A new 1.5 version of Skype for Symbian has been released. There are no massive changes to be seen, including the continued omission of video calling which to me is indicative of the fact that the 2.0 version is likely to be the announcement Skype is supposedly holding off until CES. Hopefully newer versions of [...]

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Nokia N97 and N97 mini not forgotten. New Firmware PR3.0 and 2.0 in the works!

Nokia N97 and N97 mini not forgotten. New Firmware PR3.0 and 2.0 in the works!

| December 29, 2010 | 16 Replies

NokiaSaga reports that some major firmware updates are coming for both N97 and N97 mini. Remember them? Well relatively major. N97 and N97 mini maybe receiving integrated Yahoo! powered Ovi Chat as part of the PR3 and PR2 update. Hurray, they have not been totally forgotten! Though with the big brother, some (like the team [...]

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Nokia's Ovi servers down?

Nokia's Ovi servers down?

| December 29, 2010 | 18 Replies

I’m hoping that this is an isolated incident based on my current location, but I’ve been experiencing a bit of difficulty accessing the applications available at the Beta Labs website due to issues with my Ovi Login. I’ve also attempted to download a number of apps in the Ovi Store and have been met with [...]

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Site changes in the new year.

Site changes in the new year.

| December 28, 2010 | 20 Replies

  The new year is fast approaching and with the monumental growth this website has seen in the past 12 months, in no small part due to Jay’s very hard work , plans have been made to overhaul and improve the site so as to better the experience for our readers. Just to give an [...]

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160 Million unit selling Nokia 3210 back on sale!

160 Million unit selling Nokia 3210 back on sale!

| December 28, 2010 | 11 Replies

The super popular Nokia 3210 from 1999 has been reissued by lekki and it is now on sale again for 85 Euros+9 P+P (source says 75eur, maybe there’s an offer?). For your texting, and basic gaming it’s a really wonderful phone and totally ahead of its time in features and design back in pre 2k [...]

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My Dream Nokia #9: Nokia N7 WP7 Concept Nokia-Windows phone

My Dream Nokia #9: Nokia N7 WP7 Concept Nokia-Windows phone

| December 28, 2010 | 23 Replies

My Dream Nokia on cloud #9 is a Microsoft Windows Phone 7 powered Nokia smartphone. It’s a very Nokia design at the back is quite 6300 like no? It features a flush screen (no obstruting bezel) with capactive buttons. I don’t know if the image has been warped, but the display appears 16:9, though a [...]

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Video: Qt QML Based QuickFlickr on Nokia N8

Video: Qt QML Based QuickFlickr on Nokia N8

| December 27, 2010 | 4 Replies

Neat little video found by Jim of a very cool Flickr Viewer for the Nokia N8 and other Symbian^3 devices. This video demonstrates QML based QuickFlickr i.e. Flickr client running on Symbian device (N8). What you see on the video is not the final product and it lacks many features, graphics and it still has [...]

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Video: Android 2.3 Gingerbread demo on the Nokia N900

Video: Android 2.3 Gingerbread demo on the Nokia N900

| December 27, 2010 | 11 Replies

On Christmas eve-eve we saw that Android 2.3 had been successfully ported to the N900 via the NITDroid project. Below we can see N900 with Smooth Gingerbread action. Cheers Keith for the heads up! Demoed features include: Homescreen Web Browser Akwardly small portrait keyboard (is that the landscape keyboard just in wrong orientation?) Dialler

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Video: Android 2.3 Gingerbread demo on the Nokia N900

Video: Android 2.3 Gingerbread demo on the Nokia N900

| December 27, 2010 | 3 Replies

On Christmas eve-eve we saw that Android 2.3 had been successfully ported to the N900 via the NITDroid project. Below we can see N900 with Smooth Gingerbread action. Cheers Keith for the heads up! Demoed features include: Homescreen Web Browser Akwardly small portrait keyboard (is that the landscape keyboard just in wrong orientation?) Dialler

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Nokia N8 Multimedia Computer – Designed by Microsoft in 2005? (N8 found in old manual :p)

Nokia N8 Multimedia Computer – Designed by Microsoft in 2005? (N8 found in old manual :p)

| December 26, 2010 | 10 Replies

So my new laptop arrived and I’m reinstalling XP on my old XPS to give to my parents. What with the mass of manuals for the Christmas gadgets, I thought I somehow came across something for the Nokia N8 as it had a picture on the N8 on it. But it’s not from Nokia. It’s [...]

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Nokia N8 Multimedia Computer – Designed by Microsoft in 2005? (N8 found in old manual :p)

Nokia N8 Multimedia Computer – Designed by Microsoft in 2005? (N8 found in old manual :p)

| December 26, 2010 | 4 Replies

So my new laptop arrived and I’m reinstalling XP on my old XPS to give to my parents. What with the mass of manuals for the Christmas gadgets, I thought I somehow came across something for the Nokia N8 as it had a picture on the N8 on it. But it’s not from Nokia. It’s [...]

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Video: Spider-Man: Total Mayhem on Nokia N8

Video: Spider-Man: Total Mayhem on Nokia N8

| December 26, 2010 | 2 Replies

A few days ago we saw that Spider-Man: Total Mayhem was available for Symbian^3 devices like the Nokia N8. However, with no video demo, I wasn’t sure what it actually looked like given the small download size stated from Gameloft’s site. However those sizes were similar with other hugely entertaining and visually blessed games, like [...]

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