Archive for February, 2011
Video: Teaser Vids – Nokia N8 Producers Zero Gravity Flight!
We watched the great work from #N8Producers during December and January and over the weekend, the winners took off for their ZERO GRAVITY flight prize! Two videos are below are a couple of the new ones we showcased (I had no idea they won, though they are very deserving of it). One is Andrew Kessler [...]
Mary McDowell on the next billion
Nokia’s Executive Vice President, Mobile phones talks “The Next Billion”. This is about bringing the modern mobile experience to ever more affordable prices. 50 euros, 75 euros, perhaps even lower. Nokia sees that people are aspiration – they want high end smartphone features but are constrained by ability to pay for it. Note that for [...]
Video: Worms HD demoed on the Nokia N8
Last week, Worms HD appeared on Ovi Store for Symbian^3 devices. http://store.ovi.com/content/101424 There was no demo on the N8 (or a Nokia) so we had to go with the iPhone version to give an idea of what you had to do. I was really surprised by the general comments around the web that folks don’t [...]
Video: Qt for Android comes to Alpha Stage – Qt QML apps on Android
We’ve seen the power of Qt on a range of devices, from MeeGo and Symbian to Windows computers, Macs, iPhones, webOS handsets and Androids. One of the aims of cross platform apps is to become a leveller. If everyone has access to the same apps on any platform, that’s a good thing for Nokia’s devices [...]
Mysterious Feature for TrueCaller announced: Picture Caller ID
In December we wrote about TrueCaller – a very advanced caller ID app for Symbian. We also heard that there would be a mysterious feature to be launched in the new year. The makers have contacted us with a press release that explains the new mysterious feature. There was suspicion that it would be related [...]
What’s the oldest Nokia phone that you own?
When my mates wanted to see my new phone they thought it was the N8. A Nokia? With that Camera? And a touch screen?? They just did bricks no? Noooo. We got onto the discussion of their first phones….and the oldest phones that they still have. All turned out to be Nokias. What’s the oldest [...]
Symbian^3 new firmware PR2.0 Sneak Peek demoed on Nokia N8 – Tabbed Browsing, Accessible Timed Profiles and minor Email facelift.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77NcgLQLxw8 Good morning. We have another sneak peek of some features in upcoming PR2.0 for you. It’s not finalised but it’s just to give you an idea of what to expect. Major thanks to Alex68 for sending this in: 1) Timed profiles more accessible As begged by us Symbian users at the WishList panel (yet [...]
Windows Phone 7: Impressions and opinions
In recent weeks we’ve been through a ton of ups and downs regarding Nokia’s decision to adopt another software platform in their smartphone strategy. In my post on Nokia’s options in the near future I outlined what I believed to have been problems and associated solutions within Nokia and their current smartphone strategy. I outlined [...]
Windows Phone 7 annoyances and bugs list
As mentioned at the end of my Windows Phone 7 impressions post I felt it important to give a list of all the issues, bugs, annoyances inherent to the OS that I was using. Hopefully this post will, with the right publicity get to all the right people at Nokia. So here I present Andre’s [...]
Mobile High-definition Link – HDMI and USB rolled into one
One of the hidden and possibly well-ignored stories of MWC was the announcement of the Mobile High-definition Link (MHL) specification. This specification is the result of a consortium of mobile device and component manufacturers who decided that current implementations of video output on mobile devices were simply not enough. The end result is the creation of [...]
Symbian not dead – amazing stuff coming from Nokia says Product Manager, Three
Arts has tipped us of a very intriguing find by Dan Carter from WorldOfNokia. @wildlime aka Brendan Arndt is a Product Manager of Three, a network in the UK who looks after LG, Apple and Nokia stuff. He tweeted on Wednesday, ‘Today I got to see some amazing stuff from #Nokia #Symbian is not dead. [...]
Video: Windows Phone Advertising Campaigns and stats
Zane sent this video in (below) showing us the Windows Phone Advertising campaign and stats. The very first thing you see is an advert about how Windows Phone is different. It gets things done so that you get back to real life. How many times have you walked across the street glazed onto your phone [...]
Collection of 7 Unboxings of Nokia E7 (including ‘special edition’ Search for E7)
Below are some of the recent video unboxings of the Nokia E7. Above however, is one of the 7 ‘special edition’ Nokia E7s that were given away as part of the Search or E7 competition, won by jjklee of NokiaInnovation. 1) Unboxing and Review from Negrielectronics 2) Unboxing (silent) from howtecscom 3) Unboxing (silent) from [...]
Video: Intel Medfield, MeeGo and LTE at MWC
Here’s a video of an Intel Presentation about the new Medfield platform, the MeeGo OS/Ecosystem and LTE that was recorded at MWC. Some number crunching. 15 Million developers for Intel. 38,000 AppUp developers today. “We feel very confident where we are at at Ecosystem Building. We have third largest developer programme in the world”. All [...]
Globe Philippines’ Codespark and Nokia to award $1000 for every Qt/Java app to Ovi Store
Nokia are running another programme to court developers to their platform. In the Philippines, Nokia are working with Globe (one of the major networks) to encourage developers to build innovative applications for Ovi Store. “This is an opportunity for the Filipino developer community to harness and improve their craft while showing to the rest of [...]
Worms HD available at Ovi Store for Symbian^3
Worms: This was an utmost favourite game of mine as a kid. It’s appeared on the Nokia platform in one form or another and now it’s available for Symbian^3 at Ovi Store. http://store.ovi.com/content/101424 The original, award-winning, turn-based strategy game.Head into battle with classic weapons like the Banana Bomb. Fight on multiple skill levels, from Easy [...]
Video: Mobbler 2.1, last.fm radio for Symbian demoed on Nokia N8 free at Ovi Store
Mark Guim from TheNokiaBlog has demoed a last.fm radio app on his Nokia N8 called Mobbler. http://store.ovi.com/content/75692 Mobbler is a Last.fm radio player and scrobbler. It allows you to listen to your Last.fm radio stations and to scrobble tracks played using the standard music player. To use Mobbler, you will need to register for a [...]
What features from Symbian would you like to see in Windows Phone?
It is an inevitability that Nokia will be releasing Windows Phone powered devices. They have publicly stated that their primary smartphone focus is the Windows Phone platform. While the dust has settled slightly since the initial uproar, I wanted to take a look of things with as much of an open mind as I [...]
Videos: 16 minutes of Nokia X3-02 touch and type unboxing and hands on with tnkgrl
The Awesome mobile blogger and Nokia fan (well mobile in general, but very open minded about Nokia – not dismissive, but calls a spade, a spade) tnkgrl has recently uploaded an unboxing of the Nokia X3-02 touch and type as well as a first switch hands on with the handset. Tnkgrl as you may know [...]
Video: Windows Phone Advert: “Shouldn’t you have one? Yes, you should!”
T SHO sent this tip to us of a Windows Phone advert making the rounds on the internet. It’s an excellent advert that boldly shows off it’s selling points. Asking, “What if”, you’re asked “what if the best looking phone in the room also had brains, and lets you watch your favourite movies, find the [...]
MyNokiaBlog unboxes a Samsung Omnia 7 WP7 phone. Hell not frozen yet.
So, this morning I went to the T-Mobile store in Manchester and got myself a Samsung Omnia 7 which runs Windows Phone 7. I got it because Nokia are of course, have shifted focus to Windows Phone so, like Andre, have picked one of these up so we can learn about the subject we’ll be [...]
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