Archive for February, 2011
Video: Nokia C7 and NFC demo from Qt Studios
In October it was discovered that the C7 had a secret NFC chip inside. Secret as either Nokia purposely chose not to acknowledge it as a feature or just part of their abysmal marketing of the things they’re good at. The video below from Qt studios (check out the slick QtQuick UI) shows Near Field [...]
Nokia Alphabet of Back-up Plans
I’m sure you’re aware of something called Nokia Plan B. It’s already cancelled now. What I find amusing is the alphabet of plans that have also appeared along side it. Nokia Plan A Nokia Plan B Nokia Plan C Nokia Plan D Nokia Plan E Nokia Plan ET Nokia Plan F Nokia Plan G Nokia [...]
Nokia CTO Rich Green Talks MeeGo, Symbian, Qt, Windows Phone and a new “disruptive platform”.
Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer, Rich Green talks about MeeGo, Symbian and Qt in the videos below: We do plan to ship a device from our MeeGo Programme some time this year. I’ve seen the device running and it is beautiful, elegant and the hardware is “interesting” and the software is powerful Third part of our [...]
Video: Ovi Store to live on Windows Phone Marketplace
The video below talks about some of the mobile services with Microsoft. On Sunday, Elop talked a little bit about the future of Ovi Store during the Q&A and Tero Ojanperä and Marko Argenti explain that a little bit more. Ovi Store will run across all our devices, Windows and non windows. Ovi Store is [...]
Video: Elop to know about WP launch dates in next couple of months. Ackowledges burning platform memo, and talks Plan B.
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has a chat with Engadget editor, Chriz Ziegler. A very interesting watch, and some new info appearing. Elop confirms the burning platform memo and noting that the choice of Windows Phone changed over time (they had another solution, it wasn’t always windows phone! It could have been just Symbian and MeeGo, [...]
Nokia’s Windows Phone – Coming Which half of 2011? What Specifications do you want in your Nokia Windows Phone?
This post became longer than expected: During the “evening with Nokia” Stephen Elop and Jo Harlow were very coy with the topic of release dates for Nokia’s first Windows Phone handset. They did try to make clear that MS and Nokia folk are working together to solidify the timing of the first Nokia WP device [...]
Video: Indoor Positioning with Nokia N8, NAVTEQ indoor Navigation
Whilst we’re on the subject of NAVTEQ, let’s take a look at indoor positioning. Remember, we saw something like this at Nokia World from Nokia Research Centre whereby you can find out exactly where you are and what booth to go to all with precision indoor positioning. That’s useful for Being at a new mall. [...]
Video: NAVTEQ and Microsoft processing of highest quality 3D model of the world.
Microsoft to help NAVTEQ (Nokia’s wholly owned subsidiary which they bought for 8 Billion dollars) collect data and integrate it in products. Revolution – next generation of collecting data. 4 sensor types to be deployed. 360 panoramic video, high resolution high res videos (6 different cameras for horizontal) LiDAR technology capturing 1.3million points every second [...]
Tomi Ahonen’s 11,000 word assessment on the Nokia-MS partnership: When Things Get Even Worse Than You Thought
Tomi Ahonen is known for his detailed and lengthy reports, and this is yet another one of those pieces of epic proportions. I have not read it yet as I have a meeting to go to, but have bookmarked it for a later read. N http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2011/02/when-things-get-even-worse-than-you-thought-1st-preview-of-potential-for-nokia-microsoft-partnership.html When Things Get Even Worse Than You Thought – [...]
Nokia C5-04, Nokia Nuron 2?
Two weeks ago we saw C5-04 appear on Ovi Store (with X7). We weren’t sure what it was. Some hoped it would have S^3. I do remember somebody commenting that it was the Nuron 2 which T-Mobile had supposedly shelved like AT&T with the X7. Perhaps it was true in that C5-03 Nuron 2 was [...]
Videos: Windows Phone Symbian^3/WebOS like multitasking and Xbox Kinect Integration (and Browser)
If you’re a fan of the Symbian^3 style of multitasking, you’ll be pleased to know that’s what is coming to Windows Phone. You could say WebOS style but since we’re Nokia folk mostly used to Symbian, that’s our point of reference. It is activated by long press, or alternatively pressing back would bring you back [...]
MyNokiaBlog.com App Free on Ovi Store (made by Alan with Ovi App Wizard)
MNB crew Alan (who’s also looking after our facebook page: facebook.com/MyNokiaBlog) has created an App using Ovi App Wizard for mynokiablog.com. It’s a very basic and simple app for keeping up to date with Nokia related news from MyNokiaBlog.com. Kinda like a stand-alone-RSS reader. Alan says this was done very quickly (and thus shows the [...]
Multitasking, Copy and Paste, IE9 coming to Windows Phone in March 2011
If someone told you to think of a mobile operating system that at launch did not have multitasking, did not have copy and paste and did not have flash support, you’d think of Apple right? Now it was odd for Symbian users that in 2007 it could not do those basic smartphone features. The last [...]
Video: MeeGo Tablet Experience
The last time we saw the MeeGo tablet UI, it was the pre-alpha version. Here, from MeeGoZone seems to be the most recent iteration. This is alpha stage apparently. Panels looking good. Long press for contextual menu is a little boring. Calendar autosyncs with google/yahoo Animation when it reaches the end of side scrolling is [...]
Video: Nokia N8 TV Grammy Spot – has unannounced, leaked Nokia X7?
I was checking out Mark’s blog and looking at the new Nokia N8 tv spot shown at the Grammy’s but I couldn’t get my head around one particular second where we supposedly see the back of the Nokia N8. Oddly, it doesn’t look like there’s the iconic raised camera bump there. It could be a [...]
Videos: Nokia Press Briefing at Mobile World Congress
Just in case you missed it, here is a two part video showing Nokia’s Press Briefing at Mobile Word Congress. You might have caught up on live feeds, like engadget’s, but it’s a little nicer to see Elop and crew than reading text, no? No? ;p I won’t reiterate the points. You can head over [...]
Wishful Thinking in a Time of Uncertainty
I must admit, I’ve been finding myself at a bit of a loss in light of recent announcements. I’ve had a strong interest in mobile devices for well over half of my life now, it occurred to me. It all started with my Psion Series 5, and progressed through to my Nokia N900 where I [...]
Evening with Nokia at MWC 2011 – Number One Priority to beat Android. Symbian New UI? Elop says he’s not a Trojan Horse.
If you’ve become indifferent to Nokia after Friday’s news, you might not care what’s going on at MWC with Nokia. If you do, there are several locations providing great live blog feeds. Engadget has been one of them (they’ve been doing a stellar job recently of reporting Nokia related news). It’s over now but in [...]
Nokia Ceo Elop to buy Nokia shares ASAP, to divest Microsoft shares soon
Quite a few of you have tipped us the link (directly or indirectly through post comments) about Stephen Elop being the 7th biggest share holder at Microsoft, whilst holding NO/ZERO/0 stocks at Nokia.This fired up a lot of suspicions that Elop had masterminded some kind of take-over of Nokia by MS, with Nokia effectively being [...]
MeeGo Ready: Intel teases MeeGo Smartphone and Tablet for MWC
Just collecting a couple of the tips. Joshua has found a blog by a Nokia employee that says MeeGo is ready and that MeeGo Phone WILL come out. http://blog.mardy.it/2011/02/committed-to-linux.html Later this afternoon, ryzvonusef noticed that engadget has posted Intel’s little teaser on the MeeGo tablet and smartphone. http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/13/intel-promises-teases-meego-smartphone-and-tablet-for-mwc/ This tablet uses the MeeGo Tablet UI [...]
Do you see anything positive about #NokMsft in 2011?
Hi there, folks. Its me again. Have been very silent due to various things, one of them being all these rumors surrounding the Capital markets day, and we all know how that went for us, Nokia fans. Shocking is an understatement. Yes, the above image is the echoing sentiment across many Nokia/Symbian/Meego fans.Honestly,I had been [...]
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