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Archive for February 28th, 2011

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Video: Teaser Vids – Nokia N8 Producers Zero Gravity Flight!

Video: Teaser Vids – Nokia N8 Producers Zero Gravity Flight!

| February 28, 2011 | 3 Replies

Advertisements 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 […]

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Mary McDowell on the next billion

Mary McDowell on the next billion

| February 28, 2011 | 24 Replies

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 […]

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Video: Worms HD demoed on the Nokia N8

Video: Worms HD demoed on the Nokia N8

| February 28, 2011 | 7 Replies

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 […]

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Video: Qt for Android comes to Alpha Stage – Qt QML apps on Android

Video: Qt for Android comes to Alpha Stage – Qt QML apps on Android

| February 28, 2011 | 21 Replies

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 […]

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Mysterious Feature for TrueCaller announced: Picture Caller ID

Mysterious Feature for TrueCaller announced: Picture Caller ID

| February 28, 2011 | 9 Replies

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 […]

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What’s the oldest Nokia phone that you own?

What’s the oldest Nokia phone that you own?

| February 28, 2011 | 72 Replies

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 […]

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Symbian^3 new firmware PR2.0 Sneak Peek demoed on Nokia N8 – Tabbed Browsing, Accessible Timed Profiles and minor Email facelift.

Symbian^3 new firmware PR2.0 Sneak Peek demoed on Nokia N8 – Tabbed Browsing, Accessible Timed Profiles and minor Email facelift.

| February 28, 2011 | 101 Replies

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 […]

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Windows Phone 7: Impressions and opinions

Windows Phone 7: Impressions and opinions

| February 28, 2011 | 41 Replies

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 […]

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Windows Phone 7 annoyances and bugs list

Windows Phone 7 annoyances and bugs list

| February 28, 2011 | 32 Replies

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 […]

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