Archive for February, 2011
Video: Mega Blast from the bast – Huge N-Gage Games Collection
Nokia’s N-Gage was a prophecy to the mobile world that gaming was turning mobile. Years from now, we’ll be all playing console level gaming on our phones, and mobile phone games will be so popular we’ll see it on mainstream media and TV and it will be a multi-billion dollar industry. Unfortunately, like many of [...]
Visualising a quarter of a billion Symbian users – more than Android and iOS smartphones combined.
Horace Dediu has just written an article titled: Platform sunk (cost): What is the value of a quarter billion Symbian users? at asymco.com Symbian has taken a lot of flack since the coming of iPhone and the rampant growth of Android. Often touted as dead, dying, in trouble, you’d think no one bought Symbian phones [...]
Video: Nokia Stats – the Facts and Figures
Remember that visualisation the other day of “the world as seen by Nokia” depicting all the Nokia users by map? Here’s another in video form. It’s kinda like a video infographic, helping visualise numbers by comparing them with other “better” known quantities. I don’t know how old the video is – it seems some facts [...]
Video: Vlingo Plus voice to text control demoed on Nokia N8 – Free at Ovi Store
Duncan tipped us the other day that Vlingo is available at the Ovi Store. Is this the full version? It’s called Vlingo “Plus”? Anyway, I’ve missed this app ever since moving from the N97. It looks a little different to the Vlingo we saw demoed on the E7, receiving some nice UI tweaks http://store.ovi.com/content/101269 All [...]
Videos: Nokia N8 Stress/Abuse tests. Again.
What a frightening sight for Nokia N8 users. It’s uploaded from December by gadgetstress.com though newly published at GSM Arena. Cheers for the heads up Alexander) I’m not really sure about stress tests. Some show that a phone screen resists scratching when it gets scratched in my pocket. Conversely, some tests show a phone is [...]
Video: WeTab Rev. 2.0 running WeOS 2.1.1 based on MeeGo
Here’s a long 24 minute review of the WeTab Rev 2.0 – pretty much one of the only MeeGo devices out on sale. Specs (very netbook like): Atom N450 1GB RAM 16/32GB SSD 11.6″ 1366X768 resolution HDMI out 2 USB3.5MMjack 4 in 1 card reader SIM Card 1.3MP camera on front 980g Unless you’ve been [...]
Swype updated for Symbian^3. Get it from Nokia Beta Labs
Not sure how recent this is but fahoum and Nils has notified us of a SWYPE update for Symbian^3. I think Swype is awesome but NOT for two handed landscape, and is even worse one handed-landscape. I can type much faster with the standard landscape keyboard (turn prediction/autocorrect on, it’s actually quite good). Swype – [...]
Rumours: Firmware PR2.0 expected late March/Early April – some changelog
It’s been a long time since we talked PR2.0. As you may have seen, NO it wasn’t announced at MWC at probably won’t in February. Rumours from NokiaLatino suggest a possible late March/Early April. (Cheers to Arts btw for the heads up). They’ve even posted up a changelog. Some points we’re familiar with having known [...]
Video: Awesome Qt HTML5 demo on Nokia N8
Jim sent this video in a couple of days ago (going through backlog of missed tips) and it shows Qt HTML5 interface. Note the side scrolling menu with different layers for each object. i.e. you don’t just scroll like as if they’re a panoramic image. When the front bubbles move, the back bubbles move a [...]
Video: BackBreaker Football available touches down on Ovi Store, demoed on Nokia N8
Camb078 has a great game demoed for us on his Nokia N8 called “Backbreaker Football” that you can get on the Ovi Store. http://store.ovi.com/content/81320 Considering it’s only 10MB, the game looks pretty good. What do you have to do? Backbreaker is an intense, arcade football experience. Score touchdowns by sprinting, juking and spinning past waves [...]
Free Nokia Windows Phone 7 device and Nokia E7 for Nokia’s developers
If you were a developer writing apps for Nokia’s Qt program over the last couple of days, you’d be remiss if you didn’t actually take a gander at the opportunity Nokia is providing to their obviously jilted devs. Nokia sent to following letter out to members of their Forum Nokia launchpad program with a message [...]
Nokia N8 gets Asphalt 5 for Free through Ovi Suite update
Asphalt 5 £3.00 at Ovi Store right now. But Marcel has emailed us that if you check out Ovi Suite and check the updates, you’ll see Asphalt 5 as an update and it’s free! A nice free (touch driven) 3D racing addition to NFS underground (accelerometer). Nokia did this also with Real Golf 2011. Do [...]
Nokia Bubbles gets updated – download from Nokia Beta Labs
The super popular Nokia Bubbles App has received an Update! If you noticed it had disappeared from Beta Labs, this is why and it’s back! http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-bubbles Cheers to bujar for notifying us. This is apparently version 0.11.4. I’m not sure what’s new. I had an installation issue with Ovi Suite and “device busy” error. I [...]
Video: Foursquare for Series 40 from Nokia Beta Labs
It’s not just Nokia’s smartphone platforms (well, S^1/S^3) that get the foursquare app. Series 40 mobile phones will get it too. Matti Versterinen checks it out in the video below demoed on the Nokia C3-01 (and 5310?). s60 version coming soon maybe. https://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/foursquare-for-series40 Before unleashing it on Ovi Store, Nokia are letting folks try it [...]
Video: Nokia N8 – A closer look at the 12MP camera
I got an email from one of the Social Media Groups for Nokia with the video below. It’s a rendered Nokia N8 and along the video, you get some close ups of the device. Literally, a closer look at the 12 MP camera. The xenon flash looks a little odd though. From the Nokia UK [...]
Nokia to use ST-Ericsson U8500 chipset in their Windows Phone handsets
The ST Ericsson U8500 was first announced with support for the Symbian platform and then subsequently presented with support for both the MeeGo and Android platforms in various events since it’s announcement a year ago. Reuters are now reporting that they Nokia has plans to use the U8500 chipset in their upcoming Windows Phone devices. [...]
Nokia N8 – The Best Smartphone Camera. FACT
I was rushing to get back home and noticed this in the Arndale in Manchester. You might have seen it before. I think it’s really cool – really blunt, boastful, to the point. This is what I want to see from Nokia. Straight, to the point, being clear about your strengths. No quibble about it. [...]
Ovi Store higher revenues than Android Market
Some interesting numbers comparing the App Stores from Apple, BlackBerry, Nokia and Google. Interestingly, despite having 150,000 less apps than Android Market, Ovi Store is raking it in with 105 Million Dollars in revenue. That’s a 719.4% growth over the previous year Apple grew 131.9% in the same time frame (though with understandably huge revenues). [...]
66% increase in Windows Phone 7 project starts since Nokia-Microsoft marriage.
According to Flurry who measures the support that developers dedicate to various platforms by tracking new application starts, Windows Phone projects received a 66% increase after the Nokia-Microsoft WP partnership. Note similar relative growth between Windows Phone and Android projects. Flurry notes that in Android’s nascent nasence there were doubts as to whether it could [...]
Nokia waiting for Mango, WP7.5, due October at earliest.
According to the Guardian, Nokia are waiting for Windows Phone Update called “Mango” aka Windows 7.5 which is due October at the earliest. Amongst the updates, this would notably contain IE9, Multitasking, copy and paste (though Engadget says March -_-) Another “NoDo” update is said to be due March, perhaps there was some confusion as [...]
The world as seen by Nokia…and 10 years from now.
Here’s an interesting image making the rounds. Tweeted by @_Ant1_ it shows the Nokia Customers around the world. Every day 1 million series 30 and series 40 phones are bought. And these phones fuel the low end for Nokia,” said the company’s CEO Stephen Elop Quite a high number in the US. Check out how [...]
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