Archive for January, 2011
Videos: 18 Qt Training videos free from Nokia
If you’ve got some good ideas, can put it to code and make it mobile app friendly, your creation can get really popular. Like that 14 year old’s angry birds toppling game and his version of a simple ball to target Physics Game (Like Numpty Physics on N900). You can check them out at http://www.callingallinnovators.com/10M/events_and_training.aspx [...]
Nokia N8 New Firmware PR1.1 due 24th January 2011? PR2.0 February 15th and PR3.0 in summer?
Some more rumours/speculations on the Nokia N8 firmware. This coming from GSM Arena (cheers to @UGN999 for the tip) comment section so just take note of that. They’ve provided a changelog, though nothing new that we haven’t seen before, more a collection of what folks have said about the PR1.1 released on navifirm or what [...]
What Qt Quick has to offer
Ryan Paul of Arstechnica fame is a big fan of open source and just so happens to be an avid developer. In recent months he’s taken a tour of Nokia Qt Quick and associated SDK’s and has even managed to create a few applications as demonstrations of the capabilities of the Qt platform. Admittedly none [...]
Qt SDK technology preview 1.1 goes live
Gotta love twitter! This recent news was broken a few hours back but has completely taken over the twitter-verse in the past hour or two. According to the people at Qt- labs this new release is the marriage of the Nokia Qt SDK and the previous Qt SDK based on Qt 4.7. Barely a day [...]
Video: Vlingo Voice Search/Speech to Text app demoed on the Nokia E7
Have you guys heard of Vlingo? I first used it with the Nokia N97 and thought it was pretty cool. What is it? Well it’s a pretty cool voice control app that with just your voice lets you: Search the web – a bit like google voice search set a facebook status – you’ll want [...]
Clash of the Rumours: Nokia N9 to have ARM or Intel Hardware?
Two new rumours about the Nokia N9, both in slight contrast with each other. First comes from a tweet this morning from @Addiermedina (in conversation of course with none other than camb078) who says New info Confirmed. #Nokia #N9 Comes with this baby – #Broadcom BCM2763 1080i Multimedia Processor – #MeeGo #Carl Zeiss with BCM2763 [...]
Video: Nokia C7 traffic attendant prank with remote controlled BMW and a bunch of other cool stuff.
We’ve seen some awfully cool things done with the Nokia N8 but the C7 is capable of those things too since they share the same Symbian^3 platform. Some examples (video embed maybe disabled due to code break) N8 remake Pearl Harbour N8 motor lifts 60kg fridge N8 Wireless HDMI and quadrocopter (HDMI not in C7 [...]
Video: Amino Freedom MeeGo TV – Work 3 times faster with MeeGo than any other platform.
As you know, MeeGo isn’t just for phones and tablets, it’s pretty much for everything that has a screen or can be viewed on a screen. Here’s the first generation of Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo for the TV on the Amino Freedom OTT Hybrid Media Centre box, brought to you by the MeeGo Experts folks [...]
Conspiracies: Stumbling Nokia – tripped by Apple saboteur?
We received a link from reader Enyi to an interesting article which kinda made me write this odd, overly long post at 3am. I fell asleep before publishing and probably shouldn’t publish this long winded rant but ah well: As a reader of a Nokia blog, it may be safe to presume that you have [...]
Software Update for Nokia 5800, N97, N97 mini, X6 and C6: Faster Photo Browsing
Fahkre from Symbian Tweet reports that there’s a small software update available for Symbian^1 devices including: 5800, N97, N97 Mini 5230, X6 C6 There appears to be a new “Photos 1.0″ update which Fahkre says now works fast, but the other updates are old. Symbian Tweet
Nokia first customer of LG-Displays small AMOLED panel production
As you might be aware, Nokia’s current AMOLED line ups have been produced by Samsung, with the special polarising/CBD filter in some produced by Nokia. This combination awarded Nokia’s CBD AMOLED as having best contrast, best colours and better sunlight readability than Super AMOLED, according to the meticulous folks at GSM Arena. Though Samsung are [...]
NOKIA C5-03 On Sale In The UK
Press Release from Nokia (cheers Jack!). I didn’t realise the C5-03 wasn’t already on sale in the UK. The C5-03 is the sleek Symbian^1 cousin of the Nokia 5800. Why Not S^3? I would have said price. I think in the long run, the C6-01 is a better investment. You get HD video recording with [...]
Nokia E7 on Pre-order, Due February 2011…maybe
Apologies for the lateness, exams beckoned my attention. Anyway, thanks to Carlitos and Jukka Kovanen for the tip above. As you may have already heard the E7 is now on preorder in Finland for 599 Euros (about 505 GBP) Date? February 2011. If we remember, the E7 was announced in December and was due quite [...]
Another Possible E6-00 design?
On Sunday we tried to guess the possible appearance of the E6-00 based on some info gained from Alex68 of a landscape screen which we did think was more E61 than E72 but now it seems it’s more E72 in size. Prior to that post however, this video below uploaded (13th Jan), perhaps possibly a [...]
HD Video: topolino70′s Finnish Nature and Winter filmed on a Nokia N8
If you’ve been following this blog, you might have seen us show some outstanding Finnish sights from topolino70 AKA Tommi Vainionpää and his Nokia N8. His videos are so mesmerising and picturesque that pausing at any moment in his videos, it appears as if they were individual photographs. Tommi’s latest piece is Finnish Nature and [...]
Video: Beautiful Time Lapse with Upcoming Lapse App for #N8productions
It takes some effort when entering a video competition not just to compose/shoot the video, but also to create an app that will make your desired effect. As you know, I’m a fan of the old time lapse; this being somewhat a secret/untapped feature in the old S60 3rd edition phones (e.g. N95). Iain Wallace [...]
Nokia N8 Software update available: Nokia DAB Radio (UK) update: subtitle support for videos!
There’s another little software update for the Nokia N8 this time for an optional “Nokia DAB radio”. Cheers Sam for the heads up. What is DAB radio? From sdsdigital: Digital Audio Broadcast will eventually replace the existing analogue radio service. Digital Radio brings more choice, improved sound quality, no re-tuning and extra information on broadcasts [...]
Video: A Food Story. Filmed on a Nokia N8 by @natesword
Here’s another really cool video, all shot on the Nokia N8 for the N8 Productions called Food Story. I didn’t realise until the end that it was created by Nate Maydole; the same creative mind behind www.natesword.com/, wher in his first video, he told us his life story, ONE WORD PER DAY! So on the [...]
Video: Duck Crossing at Free Ovi Store (Limited regional availability)
Here’s a neat little avian inspired game game called “Duck Crossing” based on your popular traffic crossing games. It’s free right now at the Ovi Store though there are some regional limitations and I’m not sure exactly what areas are allowed to download it (I certainly can’t). theblogjack takes another look at a game on [...]
Video: TwimGo Twitter Client rewritten in Qt Quick/QML. Coming to Maemo/Symbian/MeeGo. First real challenger to Gravity?
New Twitter Client “TwimGo” had its roots in Maemo. We saw it recently make an appearance over to Symbian through Ovi Store. Now it’s been rewritten completely in Qt Quick QML and will soon be available to Maemo, Symbian and MeeGo in the near future. It’s got some pretty slick transitions, supporting multiple twitter feed [...]
Nokia X7 no longer coming to AT&T? Was named “Nokia Journey”
The folks at PocketNow are saying that the X7 they mentioned coming to AT&T has now been cancelled. Apparently it was due a day before MWC (i.e. 13th February) and not by January as they mentioned but now their source claims it is cancelled. Well, that doesn’t mean it’s not coming to the rest of [...]
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