Archive for January, 2011
Intel Medfield Prototype shown off by Intel: More signs of things to come?
So, this news comes as both a surprise and an expectation. Intel demonstrated a fully built device, supposedly running Medfield at Intel’s sales conferece last week and it is a looker . Everyone put on your foil hats and start speculating. Nokia shutting up shop on Qt Quick elements to be used in their UI’s, [...]
MyNokiaBlog.com reaches >900,000 views for January 2011
This morning, Andre tweeted that we had reached the 900,000 mark in terms of page views for January 2011. My reaction? No frikkin way! Especially seeing as I did not think we could even repeat the 500k mark of the last jump. That’s relatively pretty good for a Niche of Nokia related things I’m convinced [...]
Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, LG, Acer and several others barely sell more Androids than Nokia alone with Symbian in Q4.
OK, With every story there’s various perspectives. Here’s the “Android takes over Symbian” story. The last time such a story ran where “Android took over Symbian” in Asia, China and India were taken out of the equation. Not just Nokia’s biggest markets but the two countries combined has 60% of Asia’s frikkin population! Now we’re [...]
Event: Nokia MWC 2011 Itinerary
On Saturday, Andre posted about an event happening in Barcelona on February 13th. Just before MWC 2011. Confirmation of a Press Briefing can be found at: http://www.nokia.com/press/mwc2011 Press Briefing, Sunday Feb 13th 18:30 CEO, Stephen Elop, Wednesday 16th Feb 11:00 CET More details… Press Briefing For members of the media, Nokia will host a press [...]
Video: State of MeeGo Community & New Businesses with Jim Zemlin (50 min) – MeeGo – the future of Mobile
Jim Zemlin (Top Dog – Executive Director – of the Linux Foundation), gave a presentation on the State of the MeeGo community in Japan in December 2010. It’s quite long (48 minutes) but if you have an hour to spare, it’s a great insightful video to watch on the Future of mobile, Linux and MeeGo. [...]
Nokia E6-00 Wi-fi certification leaked
Well this is a surprise, remember that E6 we were speculating about a little over 2 weeks ago? Well it turns out that the E6 went through Wi-fi certification all the way back in the beginning of December. Seems like Nokia has gotten a LOT better at keeping things under wraps until close to, or [...]
Nokia has something to hide and it looks like a new UI
Oh boy, hot off the heels of my last post on Nokia NOT ditching MeeGo, Jim sent us a lovely little link to a note posted by Henrik Hartz over at Qt Labs. In essence, the Qt Quick UI components that Nokia has been developing and is apparently going to be using in its MeeGo [...]
Thinking that Nokia is planning to ditch MeeGo?
Credit for a lot of the information posted here goes out to talk.maemo.org’s maluka whose forum post triggered a bit of extra reading on my part if only to verify the points he raised. Here goes. 1. Stephen Elop’s recent comments on Nokia’s Q4 earnings call opened a proverbial pandora’s box of speculation, where pretty [...]
Twitter App TwimGo 2.0 review for Ovi Daily App
After my exams, first thing on order was to get to my to-do list of App reviews. This is our second review published on Ovi Daily App (the first being PixelPipe) and it is for the Twitter App, “TwimGo”, which N900/Maemo 5 users know was born on their platform and is now trying out the [...]
Why We Blame Nokia
Hello folks! How are you all doing? I’ve just gotten back to Manchester after a long weekend in the Netherlands :p. I’ll leave it at – “it was awesome!” Kudos to Andre and llaadd for keeping things ticking Thurs-Sat. Apologies for the lack of posting yesterday (30th Jan). My Bad – I did not manage [...]
Sparkle for Symbian^3
Odd title for a blog post but having watched a few videos of the game, i gotta say, name or not it’s worth a buy. Sparkle is a game much like Zuma where the objective is to fire coloured beads at a moving line of other beads in order to destroy it before it gets [...]
Nokia holding event on February 13th in Barcelona
Adnan just tipped us that Nokia is holding an invitation-only event at Mobile World Congress on the 13th of February, which happens to be the Sunday before MWC officially kicks off. This in addition to the event scheduled for the 11th that Stephen Elop mentioned in his comments on Nokia’s Q4 earnings call indicate that [...]
Accessories: Nokia N8 Camera Tripod Stand
Here’s a must have accessory for any camera phone owner, and especially for Nokia N8 owners. It’s a phone holder that attaches to a tripod (any tripod with 1/4″ screw). You can pick something up like this for about £15. I got these cheap again on eBay for £2.50. I doubt they’d be the same [...]
Accessories: Nokia N8 Bright Yellow Silicone Case.
How are you protecting your phone? N8 is known for being pretty tough. But it’s always worth adding a bit of protection with a pouch/case. A case sometimes, might even change the look a little. I picked up a 3rd party silicone case on eBay. Very, very cheap (£2.49). I just wanted to try one [...]
Soundtrckr 1.1 now available
The folks over at Nokia beta labs have brought to us an update to Soundtrckr for Symbian ^3 and S60 5th Edition. If you don’t know what Soundtrckr is, you can find out more on Jay’s earlier post, but the official blurb from Ovi is: Soundtrckr makes it easy to discover and play the music [...]
N8: Our unboxing and first impressions
Here I am sleeping late like the bum of a student that I am, when I hear a loud, unexpected knock on my door. Lo and behold it’s the courier from DHL bringing with him my first trial device for review ! Upon tearing the package upon, all I’m left with is a tiny, blue [...]
Nokia will “build, catalyse or join a competitive ecosystem…reopen markets such as the US…” – to be outlined on Feb 11.
In the wake of Q4 2010 earnings, Reuters reports hints on Nokia picking up a competitors operating system aka “ecosystem”. Nokia has been adamant on not joining the Android gang and pretty much any other outside OS. Though when Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia VP Design, was asked about WP7 he said it was different to Android [...]
Nokia Q4 2010 Earnings: 28.3M smartphones sold, +36% YoY, +7% QoQ
Today Nokia released their report for Q4 2010 earnings. Nokia Q4 Report: http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/financials/quarterly-and-annual-information 43 page PDF Report Available Here: http://www.nokia.com/results/Nokia_results2010Q4e.pdf STEPHEN ELOP, NOKIA CEO: “In Q4 we delivered solid performance across all three of our businesses, and generated outstanding cash flow. Additionally, growth trends in the mobile devices market continue to be encouraging. Yet, Nokia [...]
My Dream Nokia #20: Nokia X9 Symbian^3 phone concept with 12MP True Zoom and Dragontail glass
We’ve reached 20 posts now for My Dream Nokia. #20 is brought to us by Andre Nuansa who presents us the Nokia X9 MeeGo concept phone. The design looks good, simple classic rectangular design. What will set it apart is Nokia’s still unseen MeeGo UI Wait, wait, it’s actually Symbian. My BAD. Well, a surprising [...]
Video: Nokia E7 Hands on with CNET Germany
JFH found this Nokia E7 hands on video from CNET Germany (and so video is in German). Seems the video may have been recorded 6 days ago, but it doesn’t look to have the expected 50+ new features firmware (the browser is still the same, homescreen drag still the same) I don’t speak German but [...]
NewsFlow, Qt Quick QML Google Reader client, on Nokia N8 (For S^3, Maemo and MeeGo)
Creator of TwimGo, Tommi Laukkanen, has been really impressed with the latest Qt SDK 1.1 Technical Preview. With Qt SDK 1.1 he’s been working on a pretty slick looking version of TwimGo (I can’t wait for it!). Now with the recent release of the push enabled Nokia Reader, Tommi’s been inspired to make his own [...]
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