Archive for March, 2011
Video: Windows Phone 7- Connect with your world
A nice ad showing off Windows Phone 7 in its beauty if you dig its UI. What I love about the video is the fluidity of the interface its so nice and fresh and unique too to be honest I have seen it twice and the more I see it the more I want it [...]
Video: 23 minutes with Elop: Nearly going Android, Nokia now moving at fastest speed, on par with any other.
Elop talks about content changing to suit the new unique mediums. Not just old content from one medium stacked on the new medium On “dropping” Symbian and going MS: Symbian is the world’s most successful operating system platform. We have huge reach with that platform….HOWEVER…from analysis we could move faster, reach more customers, generate more [...]
Nokia C7 coming to Canada with PR2.0? & More Symbian handsets for USA.
Reader, “deep space bar” commented that the Nokia C7 is coming to Canada with WINDMOBILE exclusively with PR2.0. Yeah, I misread that also as Windows Mobile. Mobile Syrup also confirms that Wind Mobile is getting the Nokia C7 but does not mention PR2.0. It would make sense as T-Mobile is picking up the Nokia C7 [...]
Video Panel: Tablet Gaming Killing Consoles? Nokia to create new form factor – tablet is not the last thing to innovate
Below is a two part 24 minute panel with Nokia EVP Tero Ojanperä and Rovio’s CEO Peter Vesterbacka. First things first – I want that Angry Birds hoodie! Like yesterday! I like these coloured hoodies that make the face of the character. I have a blue cookie monster hoodie :p. Secondly, what’s up with the [...]
Nokia Tablet design looks like a big Nokia N8.
Over the last couple of days, Andre has been talking Nokia tablets and lack thereof. http://mynokiablog.com/2011/03/15/the-case-for-a-tablet/ http://mynokiablog.com/2011/03/14/nokias-tablet-strategy-or-lack-thereof/ In that 140k word report, it’s acknowledged that there is no tablet in Nokia’s portfolio and that these tablets are gaining momentum. Nokia Tablet designs have surfaced. Watching my Nokia Twitter Stream going crazy, it seems that some [...]
10 Reasons why Nokia & Mirosoft partnership will not fail – a reader’s perspective.
On Sunday, you may have seen the Nokia 2010 Report – a 140,000 word document which included amongst many other things, a multitude of risks in the Nokia Microsoft partnership. Basically, all the ways that Nokia&MS partnership could fail. There’s a really good discussion going on with a good mix of folk who agree and [...]
Nokia E7 firmware updated to v14.002
Rafe Blandford from All About Symbian reports that the Nokia E7 has received a firmware update to v14.002. To clarify any confusion (as it seems NOT all S^3 handsets will be receiving identically named firmware), Rafe says: The E7′s version 14.002 firmware is also known as PR 1.1. However this is not the same as [...]
Clarifying the Qt and Digia headlines – Qt facts and fiction.
Last week, Nokia sold its Qt LICENSING AND SERVICES business to Digia. Based on some title around the web alone, which is pretty much what most places ran with, it seemed as a follow up to the Windows Phone Goodbye-Symbian-MeeGo plan, Nokia were giving up on Qt. The Qt Blog have made a [...]
The case for a tablet
A lot of people responded rather negatively to my last post questioning whether Nokia had a tablet strategy and decrying the entire idea of the tablet market as little more than a gimmick – Too large to be a phone and marginally more functional but smaller than an even a netbook and significantly less productive. [...]
Zune or Comes with Music – Music services for Nokia’s upcoming devices.
We all know the story of Nokia Comes with Music. You buy a participating device with a somewhat higher cost than the norm and Nokia gives you unlimited access and downloads to their DRM laced music catalog. Of course, the presence of DRM was somewhat necessary due to the unlimited nature of the service and [...]
Video: Qt Nokia Diexie 诺基亚叠写 from Nokia Beta Labs for Symbian^3 and S60 5th Edition
Nokia addresses Chinese character input again with a new app called Nokia Diexie. Instead of having to write one character at a time, you can now write complete sentences. You can try it out on your Symbian^3 or S60 5th Edition devices. No Stylus needed, your finger is your pen. http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-diexie Nokia Diexie (诺基亚叠写) is [...]
Video: WP7 NoDo updates – Copy paste demo on Windows Phone 7
Copy And Paste – Symbian users didn’t feel this was really a feature to shout about until Apple made it the next big thing in an iOS update. To be fair, although Symbian has had this for much longer, iOS did make it easier to perform. They polished it for Joe Average. Now you’d think [...]
Video: iPad inspired Flipboard page flip with Qt QML
Tommi Laukanen strikes again with yet another awesome step forward with QT QML projects. Inspired by Flipboard for iPad (which he says would be the one app to make him get one) he’s sought about to mimic Flipboard’s page turn effect with QML script. Flipboard for iPad looks great huh? I wonder what other aspects [...]
Video: 9 minutes of PR2.0 on Nokia C7 (RM675 flashed with RM691 firmware)
Here’s a 9 minute video of PR2.0 on the Nokia C7. A few folks out there started downloading PR2.0 for C7 after it appeared on Navifirm (though for the T-Mobile US variant so was quite risky). Changelog available here. Gra92 from Daily Mobile (cheers to Adnan for tip) to show it in action: Draggable homescreen [...]
Unbranded Nokia X7 Spotted in Lahore, Pakistan.
A guy in Pakistan says he came across a Nokia X7 by surprise! Since AT&T dropped the X7, Alex68 had said that Nokia were working to make the X7 for the rest of the world. Dragg3r says some very interesting things: Guys what i spotted today! The nokia X7… My Eyes were like WOW! The [...]
Rumours: 20 Symbian handsets due in 2011 – Windows Phone not coming for 12 months?
According to a site called DNA India, Nokia’s first Windows Phone handset isn’t coming until 12 months from now. We’ve speculated in this post about when Nokia could release their Windows Phone where based on Nokia’s Jo Harlow and Elop himself, it seemed to suggest a 2011 release at the very least. The Mango update [...]
Video : Nokia Shoot and tag from Nokia Beta Labs
Behold, another application is up for trial on the Nokia Beta Labs. It’s called Nokia shoot and tag. The first thing came to my mind when reading the name was : ” is it a facebook integrated photo app that tags friends while taking a photo on-the-fly ? ” No, it is not a wild web 2.0 [...]
Nokia’s tablet strategy – Or lack thereof
In August last year, Nokia’s Nicklas Savander sat down with the fine folks at Engadget to discuss a number of issue regarding Nokia’s future and their upcoming products. One of the more pointed questions asked was whether Nokia had any plans to enter the tablet space in the near future. The choice quotes from his [...]
Nokia Ideas Project site goes live.
Remember back when the Symbian Foundation was responsible for the development of the Symbian platform before development went back under Nokia’s complete control? Well before all of that went down there was this nifty little site maintained by the foundation that allowed regular old users and innovators to contribute their ideas to the platform in [...]
Nokia’s 140,000 word 2010 report: Risks of the Nokia-Microsoft partnership, Elop’s Contract + more
Ins and outs of Nokia: MS-Nok partnership aims, risks and other Nokia activities. There’s a document available – Nokia’s Annual Report for 2010 which documents the complete ins and outs of the company. It’s over 140,000 words long, spanning over 270 pages. Tomi Ahonen has warmed us to lengthy Nokia related pieces but this is [...]
Video: Angry Birds 3D spectacular
Like Jay told eariler, Nokia and Rovio had planned something BIG at the SXSW, Austin. That BIG is revealed now in a spectacular fashion through this video. No, there is no Avatar-style 3D involved here.Instead they have projected onto a 150 ft building using pseudo-3D effects that makes the video look very awesome, indeed. And [...]
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