Archive for April, 2011
Nokia N8 to replace TV cameras, filming SM Snowboarding Championships
You may have seen Nokia doing some Snowboarding related activities as part of the Push Burton campaign. N8 with several sensors detects the snowboarders stats as they make their descent. This may not be entirely related but it is Nokia N8 and Snowboarding. But it takes advantage of the N8 directly – it uses its [...]
Molome : The Qt Instagram for Symbian arrives
Without much fanfare or any publicity, this Instagram ( the cool iOS app that adds effects and filters to a photo on the fly and shares it on social networks ) look-alike for Symbian devices has been launched in the Ovi Store. It’s a free application and it’s called Molome. Like stop motion videos ? [...]
Video: Nokia India Nokia E7 TV ad, “Success is what you make it”.
Here’s a TV commercial from Nokia India. Again it’s part of the “Success is what you make it” campaign. E7=”Success”. And E7/Success is what you make it. Your E7 doesn’t need a desk. You as a successful person, does not need a desk. Success goes big. E7 with HDMI out on the big screen. (That [...]
Update: Symbian April 12 Event – to Announce “Summer Update” for Symbian^3?
Yesterday, there as a bit of hubbub and much conversation about what Nokia could be announcing on April 12 in relation to what’s supposedly going to be “New” with Symbian. New Software? New Hardware? Both? A lot of Symbian fans, current and past shared their frustrations and hope. 6 days to go, what could it [...]
Mail by Yahoo! Ovi Mail now powered by Yahoo!
Suresh has notified us that Ovi Mail is now powered by Yahoo! I don’t know when this came about as I don’t use Ovi Mail. A reader named “Anonymous User” emailed us about the change too, stating he was annoyed that he was unable to access his mail while the migration is taking place. Congratulations [...]
Video : Tree Maker demoed on the Nokia N8
As always, the game-seeker Camb078 from blog-n8.fr has found a cool Qt-based game on the Ovi store called TreeMaker. This cute game is a physics based puzzle that has various levels and chapters, like for ex : Angry Birds. Basically you(some kind of a black bird) should sling across platforms and make(?) trees or get(grow) [...]
12-year-old Ovi Store developer: Fahma Waluya Romansyah
Have you heard of Fahma Waluya Romansyah? At just 12 years old, this little kid is the youngest Ovi Publisher to date, getting much media attention and awards/recognition for his applications: ENRICH, a mobile app for kids to easily translate the Indonesian language into English and learn the vocabulary, and MANTAP, a mathematics game app [...]
Symbian Event, April 12
Rumours of an April 12 Nokia New Handset announcement may be coming true as a Symbian Event has apparently been planned for April 12. That or a launch of the new long awaited firmware update :S We shall wait to Discover What’s New with Symbian Smartphones. What do you think Nokia’s come up with? Something [...]
Poll: Nokia taking votes on New colour for Nokia N8.
A poll is being conducted at Nokia Conversations to possibly decide on the 6th special edition colour. We’ve got Black (ha, Nokia acknowledges it’s black and not “dark grey”/Silver/Blue/Orange/Green (the latter three if you’re lucky enough for your country’s carriers/networks to have it). What should the 6th be? Let’s imagine that there was going to [...]
Nokia Beta Labs gets a facelift – plus Nokia Drop!
Nokia Beta Labs has just gone through what must be the 2nd UI overhaul in the past year or so and I must say, these guys have really been on the ball lately. In addition to the initial wow factor, there also seems to be a growing degree of consistency between Nokia’s websites with Nokia [...]
Video: Rafinha Bastos and the Nokia C3 from Nokia Brasil.
Hey, any Brazilian readers here? Here’s Rafinha Bastos, (Wikipedia says is a Brazilian comedian, journalist and television personality) on a Nokia Advert. Why? Portuguese Translator says: Rafinha Bastos, voted the world’s most influential Twitterers by The New York Times, Nokia uses the C3 (QWERTY) to be connected to Twitter and all social networks. And Another
Reader Feedback: Would you like a forum?
We here at MyNokiaBlog are always trying to improve the experience of our readers. As such eliciting feedback from you all is an important and intrinsic part of the process. As the title suggests we want to know, how would you like a MyNokiaBlog Forum? It’s an idea that we’ve toyed around with for [...]
Videos: Nokia E7 flashmob in Lebanon (and collection of Nokia Flashmob videos)
Flashmobs. Spontaneous events (mostly dancing, but not limited to that) occurring in public places, consisting of many participants (your mob). You’ve seen one (or a few), you kinda feel you’ve seen them all. That’s not stopping who ever set this up for the Nokia E7. I guess not EVERYONE has seen a flashmob. I still [...]
Video: Symbian Apps on Android with Qt! Symbian SmartPhone/Android Tablet. (and Maemo/MeeGo)
The power of Qt as a leveller – develop/port apps on Qt and have them on all Qt enabled devices. Be they running on Maemo, MeeGo, Symbian or Android (Also on any other device that can run Qt). Furthermore, the folks at cutehacks shows how the same app runs not only on different operating systems, [...]
N8 Mini Software Update: Ovi Maps 3.6 (367)
Antonio informs us that Ovi Maps has received an optional Software Update. Ovi Maps updated Get the latest from OVI Suite or OTA updates (I’m updating mine OTA right now posting from my N8) It’s 9910kb and says: Connect with your world and your friends. This new version of Ovi Maps has even faster world [...]
UAProfiles for Nokia 601T,602T and 702T leaked
One of our commenters, Jii, has managed to dig up the UAProfile pages for the upcoming 601T,602T and 702T destined for China. All 3 devices appear to pack TD-SCDMA radios as well as 3 megapixels cameras in addition to the regular Symbian fare. The 601T and 602T appear to have 640 * 360 pixel displays and [...]
Video: An hour with Nokia CEO, and Q&A with Stephen Elop.
I’m just heading out at the moment so I thought I’d send you to two Stephen Elop related stories. We’ll update this later perhaps. The content is quite similar to that 23 minute video Elop Q&A… First is a Q&A with Nokia CEO Elop. Via FinancialPost (after his talk at McMaster University – where [...]
Nokia Qt Developer on XNA Windows Phone – Windows Phone Apps appearing at Forum Nokia
WMPoweruser asked a Qt Developer on Forum Nokia about their experience developing for the Windows Phone Platform. Without having studied C Sharp or Windows Phone, XNA study or any help from the internet, Tero Paananen was very ballsy, jumping in at the deepend and have a go at making an App on Windows Phone. There [...]
Nokia planning on 12 Smartphones for 2011 (40 new handset total)
Hindustantimes via Mark Guim from The NokiaBlog Reports that Nokia will be releasing 12 More smartphones in 2011. It was rumoured mid-March that there would be 20 new Symbian handsets alone but that possibly did not account for regional variants e.g. C5-03/C5-04(Nuron 2) and C7-00 and C7-00_01 (Astound). Other than handsets already seen in 2010, [...]
Rumours: Nokia N8-01 may have 960×540 qHD display? VGA Nokia 702T, and nHD Nokia 601T/602T.
We received this screenshot above from Janimatik. I’m not exactly sure where it’s from and so whether to take any notice. Since it’s an image, I can’t pass this through a translator to have a guess what’s being discussed (anybody here understand what’s mentioned up top?) What’s interesting here are two things. Listed [...]
Nokia Astound survives getting run over- by a 4 tonne van.
So what happens when you have a bunch of bored guys, a van and one of Nokia’s Symbian^3 smartphones. Run it over of course! The Astound was placed on a concrete surface and run over TWICE as the video below shows. What was left was a fully functional and rather unblemished device for all intents [...]
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