Archive for February, 2011
The Future of Qt, MeeGo for Future disruption
With Nokia announcing Windows Phone was Nokia’s new Primary focus, it seemed to have signed the death certificate of Symbian, MeeGo and of course their shared development platform Qt (which has shown so much potential for Nokia and the MeeGo ecosystem). What is really happening to Qt? This it outlined in the official Qt blog. [...]
Videos: Stephen Elop and Steve Ballmer answers questions (+ Boys II Men on Symbian/MeeGo/Qt/Nokia)
How are you feeling? Are you rested a little after the furore of possibly the biggest change in Nokia’s history where all control of the company’s direction is NOT in their hands. Here’s a video below when both Steves, Stephen Elop and Steve Ballmer answers questions asked today by the readers of Nokia Conversations (Nokia’s [...]
Wow! First glimpse of Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 Concept.
This just appeared on Engadget (cheers Keith!). Despite being WP7, it’s still very Nokia. How soon until/if we see this announced? What’s it even called? Will it be given an ACTUAL name or usual post code affair? Anything could happen after what we’ve seen today.
MWC is just 2 days away, are you excited?
In the excitement leading up to, and the utter malaise following Stephen Elop’s announcements at Nokia’s Capital Markets Day, I’m sure quite a few of us may have forgotten about that little event known as Mobile World Congress which begins on Sunday with a number of pre-events by key manufacturers including Nokia. Are you excited [...]
Status of MyNokiaBlog.com
While I’m sure a significant number of you are wondering and fearing that like a number of Nokia sites and blogs around the internet, that we will be closing up shop and giving up on Nokia and Symbian. I can say that personally I have no intention of abandoning my current post. I will continue [...]
Video: Two Steves are better than one – iPhone 4 parody.
In desperate attempt to recover any hope for this current situation, here’s a parody video of the iPhone 4 advert “Two is better than one” AT&T/verizon commercial. Can Two Steves be better than the one (albeit, the mightiest of Steves)? Or is the real competition a little green robot. Vid is a silly mashup from [...]
Another Ex-Microsoft appointed as Nokia’s North American President.
Kicking a man when he’s down. But perhaps the perfect guy given the situation. Chris Weber (NOT Chris WeBBer), a Microsoft Veteran of 16 years holding several executive positions including “Corporate Vice President leading Microsoft’s US Enterprise and Partner Group as well as heading the US EPG National Sales Excellence and Industry Organization.” – webpronews [...]
Winners and Losers of the Nokia-Microsoft “alliance”
So a lot has been made about this ‘alliance” (I hate that word) a lot of negative comments mainly from the Nokia enthusiasts side and also employees and developers that work on Symbian. Nokia and Microsoft make this sound like the best thing since sliced bread but the markets don’t seem to agree, because of [...]
Poll: On a scale of 1 to 10, how p*ssed off are you with today’s Nokia News?
So, we’re several hours into the news of Nokia and Microsoft partnership. Have you taken it all in yet? On a scale of 1 to 10, how p*ssed off are you with today’s Nokia News? 1 -not at all, quite positive, 5 indifferent, 10 = fuming. I’m on the ANGRY stage. I hope that I’ll [...]
Forum Nokia letter to developers
Sooooooooooo in the midst of all this calamity surrounding Elop’s lovely announcement of a “strategic partnership” with Microsoft, Forum Nokia, the go-to place for developers wishing to target Nokia’s devices made the following press release in the hopes of appeasing/taming rabid Nokia-interested developers Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that [...]
WTF Nokia? (Update)
I usually don’t consider myself to be reactionary, that is respond adversely and quickly when logic would dictate otherwise. Equally I’d consider myself a decently pragmatic, reserved and generally rational individual, often overly so. In spite of this I think many of you will understand if on the back of Nokia’s recent announcement of a [...]
Nokia Adopts Windows Phone Software as Primary Smartphone Strategy, VP MeeGo Computers, Alberto Torres steps down!
I have received this email from the press release folks. Though press release can be seen here too or, well pasted below. I’m still in shock about the Windows Phone on Nokia stuff. Sky is falling. I hope this is a case of TWO STEVES ARE BETTER THAN ONE. I received this email containing press [...]
Capital Markets Day: As it unfolds.
Barely able to get this post out…. Nokia is adopting Windows Phone 7. Goodbye Qt, Goodbye Ovi, It’s all Windows and Windows Phone from here it seems. More news as it unfolds… stay tuned! The following press release was just made available Nokia and Microsoft Announce Plans for a Broad Strategic Partnership to Build a [...]
February 11th 2011 is here. Nokia Strategy and Financial Briefing at Capital Markets Day.
Today is a very big day for Nokia. So much speculation has circulated not only through the blogosphere or even outer interwebs, but reaching terestrial TV. It’s a shame that when friends are talking to me about Nokia being on TV it’s because they’re being reporte as “going down the pan” or “in deep trouble”. [...]
Fun and interesting Qt demo applications
Jim always seems to be running across Qt-based applications and videos, this time he’s tipped us 3 videos of some convenient applications written by the cute hacks team using Qt that I’m sure many of us here could find useful. The first is a weather application which is significantly better looking and responsive from what I [...]
What are Nokia’s options?
So we’ve seen the so-called memo, corroborated by a number of e-mails written to Engadget editors claiming its authenticity, we’ve had to live through the hundreds of rumours claiming that Nokia is edging towards the adoption of Windows Phone 7 and the associated ecosystem. Having little to no information from Nokia themselves and having not [...]
Advantages to Nokia adopting Windows Phone 7
There have been a ton of negative comments from Nokia fanatics, me, enthusiasts or some general tech writers on the news and rumours that Nokia might announce a WIndows Phone 7 powered device to conquer the decreasing market share that Nokia is experiencing right now. So thought I might post up some advantages to Nokia [...]
More screenshots of new browser and portrait QWERTY coming to PR2.0
If you’ve been following the blogs, you’ll know we’ve been keeping an eye on that elusive PR2.0 of which is coming a new Portrait QWERTY and New browser (amongst many other things). Mark Guim at TheNokiaBlog has received some new screenshots. The Browser seems to have a new list menu style on top of the [...]
Symbian is still ahead of Android says Gartner, 37.6% vs 22.7% in 2010
Gartner have released a report that shows Nokia is still ahead of Android. This as you will know WILL NOT be reported by the major US blogs because it’s PRO Nokia. I stand corrected. It’s on Engadget. But still,the general report around the internet will be that Android is the number 1 mobile OS world [...]
Microsoft and Nokia in talks about a partnership
Day 203948 in the continued tragic Saga that involves Nokia, this time Bloomberg and the Wall street Journal are both reporting that Nokia are in talks with Microsoft concerning a software deal, I would imagine Windows Phone 7 powered Nokia devices *excuse me while I quickly go to the toilet and throw up on the [...]
Qt Quick NewsFlow Google Reader Updated to 1.2, demoed on Nokia N8
Increasingly famous Qt developer, Tommi Laukkanen is hard at work with Qt and has updated his Google Reader App, NewsFlow. He’s demoed it on a Nokia N8 but it would also work for N900 (Maemo) and upcoming MeeGo devices. I don’t know if there was already an option in the first version, but you’ll see [...]
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