Archive for January, 2011
Guessing the Nokia E6-00 design
So, quite a lot of you are really excited about the Nokia E6-00.In the comments many have mentioned you want a QWERTY keyboard and perhaps a touch screen but don’t want to have something quite as big as the E7, or something with moving parts like the E7/want an always ready QWERTY. We are all [...]
Video: Nokia N9 hands on (clone)
Remember the Nokia N9 clones from Friday? Well here’s a video demo of both the silver and black models. Just to re-iterate, apparently this macbook like design has already been scrapped. Remember some of DSmobile’s comments about the N9? “I can say this is sexiest mobile ever done. It’s bye bye for HW qwerty and [...]
Socially App new beta improves performance and refreshes UI
DOWNLOAD IT (3.0 beta) Socially, a free social networking app for symbian devices, one of the firsts to bring contacts integration, has now released a beta version (3.0) with a refreshed UI,speed improvements and few functionality tweaks. Changelog and features : What’s new in this version? (a) a completely new and rewritten engine to deliver [...]
Waaaaa!: Nokia E6-00 Touch and Type, first leaked device photo?!
UPDATE: Quick excitement over, quite a few comments saying it’s fake. Arun8gb reminds us that from the leaked specs there are supposed to be TWO softkeys. Others say the screen is too close to the keyboard. Could it still be real? Update 2 from Alex68 – “Ok, it is time for me to show up. [...]
My Dream Nokia #18: Dual QWERTY Slider MeeGo 2.0 Phone Concept, Nokia AMeego
My Dream Nokia #18 is a design by Abhay Vir called the Nokia AMeeGo. It is a MeeGo concept phone with a very interesting form factor. It has a dual slider, inspired by the legendary Nokia N95 of which one slide to the left (or top) reveals the music buttons for anywhere anytime control; on [...]
My Dream Nokia #17: Nokia MeeGo Phone concept, Nokia N13
My Dream Nokia #17 is Shihuzaan’s second instalment today, called the Nokia N13. This is also a MeeGo phone, monoblock in design featuring an interesting mix of curves and straight edges. features:- MeeGo 1.2 CBD 4″ Super AMOLED display (800×480 pixels) 8mp carl zens camera (Auto focus) Face Cam 2MP Dual Core 1GHz 512 RAM [...]
My Dream Nokia #16: Nokia Meego Lite Phone Concept Nokia N17
We start of your weekend with not one, not two but THREE installments to our “My Dream Nokia” Section. The first two today comes from resident Shihuzaan who brings us two MeeGo concept designs. This first one is the Nokia N17 MeeGo Concept with an unusual bubbled back. CBD 4″ AMOLED display (800×480 pixels) Meego [...]
Video: Nokia N8 New Firmware unofficial PR1.1 demo, Changelogs, possibly by next Friday?
So, some of you guys have taken the plunge with the unofficial PR1.1 from Navifirm. The official release for consumers is due either for Ovi Suite and/or O.T.A. There’s a video below by jumojn who lists changes such as Visual: -New Wlan Icon -New clock animation if you select for the screensaver to have music [...]
Video: Cool as fek: Nokia N900 + MeeGo 1.1.8 + Xbox Media Centre (XMBC!)
I love XBMC – Xbox Media Centre. It’s such a great interface I think for movie watching, especially with plugins from IMDB and whatnot bringing details about your films. Now think about hooking this up to your TV, connecting it via BT remote, perhaps even an IR remote since it does have an IR app [...]
Nokia X7 official photos – coming to AT&T as soon as the end of January?
The folks at PocketNow say that the Leaked Nokia X7 rumoured to be coming to AT&T may come the the network as soon as the end of this month. That’s before another rumoured announcement at MWC in February. The post comes with some official looking photos of the device in all around view that I [...]
Nokia Big Screen Media Centre App update from Nokia Beta Labs
The Nokia Big Screen Media Centre App was a Big hit when it got released on the 5th of January. With Nokia Big Screen, you can: Show your photos and videos in high definition on your TV screen Listen to music from your phone on your home audio system View song lyrics in karaoke style and watch videos [...]
Video: Demo of Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X HD on the Nokia N8
This week we saw a new 3D game, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X appear on gameloft’s site and soon after on Ovi Store. Despite the N900 and Android demo, we didn’t have visuals yet on an actual Symbian^3 device so see what it would look like. Camb078 from blog-n8 has got a video below showing the game [...]
Nokia’s N9 China Cloned – No MeeGo; puts fake Symbian inside.
First things first – this macbook pro design according to Alex68 and some others in the know has already been canned. There’s something much more sleeker. But that doesn’t stop the China Clone department from mustering up a whole fake device ready to be illegally sold with Nokia branding, no? They can really clone anything. [...]
Night Light Pro: Turn on Nokia N8 light with a clap! Coming soon to Ovi Store
One of the most subtle but awesome new features in the Nokia N8 (S^3 phones in general) is the always on clock when the screen is locked. I love it because all I need to do to check the time is just glance at the screen (no unlocking). Even better – at night, or early [...]
Video: The Moron Test game Available at Ovi Store demoed on the Nokia N8
I love this game! A port from iPhone, it’s available to buy for £1 at the Ovi Store. I think there’s a similar Flash Game online that asks you puzzle questions of this nature, though the name escapes me what with the million new things I’m trying to remember for exams. Anyway, it’s called “The [...]
T-Mobile Retracts new 500mb Data Cap for Existing customers! Wooohoo!
On Monday, I got a text from T-Mobile saying that my data allowances next month would be capped to 500mb! WTF!?! I didn’t post about it here but I did rant a little on twitter. To be fair to T-Mob, they were just towing the line with the “fair usage” limit of other networks, but [...]
Video: Beautiful MeeGo Tablet UI from Evolve III Maestro Slate
If you check out this link you’ll see a flash presentation of a MeeGo tablet UI from Evolve III Maestro’s Slate, you” see something quite beautiful. The MeeGo Maestro Slate from Evolve III has an interactive panoramic homescreens full of non-restricted widgets, Swipe up for apps, Swipe down for multitasking/notifications. There’s also album art cover [...]
New Nokia N8 PR1.1 Firmware v13.15 now available on Navifirm
This morning you might have seen that there were tweets of a screenshot of the upcoming Nokia N8/S^3 firmware, PR1.1. I didn’t think too much about it since there are folks out there on PR1.1 testing the thing. Now it seems the PR1.1 firmware that we’ve been waiting for (not the minor Apps Update yesterday) [...]
Video: Promo – Ovi Chat, Now Powered by Yahoo!
In May last year, Nokia announced they were teaming up with Yahoo to enhance their online experience: As part of the alliance Nokia will be the exclusive provider of Yahoo!’s maps and navigation services, branded as “powered by Ovi.” Nokia brings its ample experience in top-drawer, location-based products and maps to Yahoo!’s users. In turn, [...]
MeeGo Software and SDK Updates for MeeGo Netbook UX
The MeeGo Blog has posted that updates are available for the Netbook MeeGo UX is receiving it’s second update, plus a 6th update for the Core Software Platform & Netbook Project release. Cheers Jim. Today we are releasing 2 MeeGo Software updates, including our 2nd update for MeeGo v1.1 Core and Netbook, and our 6th [...]
My Dream Nokia #15: Nokia Leafpad, 10″ CBD AMOLED MeeGo Tablet Concept
My Dream Nokia #15 is our first tablet design (well, not including My Dream Nokia #5 that was a fold up phone/tablet transformer). This is the Nokia Leafpad (yeah like the text editor for the geekier amongst you), another sent in to Shihuzaan’s growing portfolio here. As you can see, it has leaf-inspired look that [...]
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