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Archive for February, 2011

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Video: Nokia C7 and NFC demo from Qt Studios

Video: Nokia C7 and NFC demo from Qt Studios

| February 16, 2011 | 25 Replies

Advertisements 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 […]

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Nokia Alphabet of Back-up Plans

Nokia Alphabet of Back-up Plans

| February 16, 2011 | 6 Replies

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 […]

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Nokia CTO Rich Green Talks MeeGo, Symbian, Qt, Windows Phone and a new “disruptive platform”.

Nokia CTO Rich Green Talks MeeGo, Symbian, Qt, Windows Phone and a new “disruptive platform”.

| February 16, 2011 | 38 Replies

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 […]

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Video: Ovi Store to live on Windows Phone Marketplace

Video: Ovi Store to live on Windows Phone Marketplace

| February 16, 2011 | 22 Replies

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 […]

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Video: Elop to know about WP launch dates in next couple of months. Ackowledges burning platform memo, and talks Plan B.

Video: Elop to know about WP launch dates in next couple of months. Ackowledges burning platform memo, and talks Plan B.

| February 15, 2011 | 50 Replies

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, […]

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Nokia’s Windows Phone – Coming Which half of 2011? What Specifications do you want in your Nokia Windows Phone?

Nokia’s Windows Phone – Coming Which half of 2011? What Specifications do you want in your Nokia Windows Phone?

| February 15, 2011 | 93 Replies

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 […]

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Video: Indoor Positioning with Nokia N8, NAVTEQ indoor Navigation

Video: Indoor Positioning with Nokia N8, NAVTEQ indoor Navigation

| February 15, 2011 | 18 Replies

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. […]

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Video: NAVTEQ and Microsoft processing of highest quality 3D model of the world.

Video: NAVTEQ and Microsoft processing of highest quality 3D model of the world.

| February 15, 2011 | 6 Replies

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 […]

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Tomi Ahonen’s 11,000 word assessment on the Nokia-MS partnership: When Things Get Even Worse Than You Thought

Tomi Ahonen’s 11,000 word assessment on the Nokia-MS partnership: When Things Get Even Worse Than You Thought

| February 15, 2011 | 86 Replies

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 – […]

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