Archive for May, 2011
MeeGo Conference 2011 begins today. Tune in to the live streams!
RaV reminds us that today is indeed the beginning of MeeGo Conference. May 23-25th. What new devices are you guys expecting to see (if any)? :p Agenda for this event are noted below, local San Francisco Time (-8H GMT). You can attend live streams for the following: 2011-05-23 10:00 Keynote: Jim Zemlin, The Future of [...]
Windows Phone “Mango” preview event on Tuesday – A summary
I know this will be met with the usual, cursory derision, trolling and vehement denial of any good that could possibly come from this event and Nokia’s involvement but for the first time in 2 weeks I actually feel like blogging and I won’t have your negative feedback taking that from me!! Anywho, Microsoft is [...]
First Windows Phone Nokias to have Qualcomm chipsets
Nokia was confirmed to be using ST-Ericsson chips in future Windows Phone handset. But before that, it was much thought that Qualcomm would also be a significant player for Nokia Windows Phones. Even ST-Microelectronics chief noted that it would be one of two providing power under the hood for Nokia WP. A Nokia spokesperson told [...]
Hurrah! Ovi Store has App Updates – Update all your apps within Ovi Store!
Nokia has defied the Rapture and has delivered APP UPDATES FOR OVI STORE! YEAH! We’ve been wanting this for such a long time – one place to update my apps. No bumbling around redownloading each app to get the new updates. As you can see, Ovi store can update your apps within the store! The [...]
Ovi Store Summer Gift Of Games available in more countries!
Last week, we noted that Nokia were generously giving away 20 premium games from Ovi Store absolutely free: You can check it out either as a channel or as an app. http://store.ovi.com/content/122166 http://store.ovi.com/channel/1930 Angry Birds Rio Fruit Ninja (Great game) Worms HD Angry Birds Seasons GT Racing: Motor Academy James Cameron’s Avatar HD Hero of [...]
Keyboardless Nokia N9 ST-Ericsson Dual Core for Masses announced in a few weeks, keyboard version N9 for developers
We’ve mentioned before that a guy called zehjotkah knows suspiciously a lot about the MeeGo devices. On his blog, he talks about the two upcoming devices ‘confirming’ the rumours about these two handsets. http://meetmeego.org/2011/05/21/alles-uber-nokias-zwei-meego-gerate 1) The N900 successor with keyboard that we have seen is NOT for mass market. This is for the developers. This [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II vs LG Optimus 2X vs Nokia N8 vs Apple iPhone 4. N8 STILL the best camera phone. PERIOD.
Phone Arena have done some video comparisons between the Imaging King Nokia N8 and contenders iPhone 4, Galaxy S II and Optimus 2X http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Samsung-Galaxy-S-II-vs-LG-Optimus-2X-vs-Nokia-N8-vs-Apple-iPhone-4-Camera-comparison_id2744 They’ve done some Photo and Video Samples aspiring to the greats that are GSM Arena (though not really quite there yet, but good to see people following in GSM Arena’s [...]
What phone recorded this video? Nokia N9?
Marrat noticed something in the reflection from the N900′s screen in the Qt Quick 3D video. Pause the video at 0:49 and see what the N900′s screen is reflecting… Recognize the shape? What phone is recording that video above? It’s got N8 like tapering edges alright. The LED is on, and you can see two [...]
(Tablet?) MeeGo Touch UI. More Screenshots – MeeGo looking Great! 1366×768
This morning we looked at some MeeGo screenshots seen in the N9 teaser. Jim found the UI component guidelines for MeeGo 1.2 released yesterday. Inside were some lovely screenshots which are included in this post about the new MeeGo UI. It looks great! But before I go onto that, the aspect ratio kinda bugged [...]
Nokia Windows Phone coming 2011 says Russian Retailer; ST Ericsson U8500 on board.
Forbes (via Engadget) are reporting that Nokia Windows Phones are coming withST-Ericsson U8500. If that rings a bell, that’s because we’ve been eyeing it up for a while. They’ve demoed this running MeeGo and Symbian before, most recently it caused some fuss after the MeeGo tablet turned out to be the reference design board. If [...]
Video: Qt Quick 3D Released
Jim sends us a tip that Qt Quick 3D has been released. http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/05/20/qt-quick-3d-downloads-available/ What can you do with Qt Quick 3D right now? Create a QML application that features 3D content Load models made in 3D studio max or Blender into your app Add stock shapes such as cylinders and cubes Insert inline shader code [...]
MeeGo 1.2 released
Yesterday MeeGo 1.2 was released. Thanks to everyone who tipped this in for us https://meego.com/community/blogs/imad/2011/meego-1.2-release This release provides a solid baseline for device vendors and developers to start creating software for various device categories on Intel Atom* and ARMv7 architectures. The MeeGo 1.2 Core OS provides a complete set of enabling technologies for mobile computing. [...]
Nokia Open Innovation Research
Nokia awarded University of Houston and several other universities to develop a novel gesture interface based, mixed reality social interaction game on mobile. It consists of two interactive components: a physical world component and a virtual world component. This award comes with $30,000 research cash plus donation of 15 Nokia N900s. UH also joins a [...]
Gallery: Nokia N9 MeeGo UI Screenshots?
In the N9 video we saw little glimpses of the UI in action. A dominant part was the way gestures, particularly side swipe was implemented as part of the navigation of the user interface. We can very briefly see some other things in the video. Below is the contacts screen. Look at the squircle/Anna-Belle [...]
Rumours: Some info on Symbian Belle
Image above via Tarik I think. I got an email yesterday from someone who preffered names not mentioned . They seem to provide some details on Symbian Belle. A lot of the bits we know about and “confirm” what we know and others are new: Symbian Belle in 5 months. October. In time for Nokia [...]
See New, Hear New, Feel New – Nseries – Our Next Sense – Gesture UI (+iPhone 4 in 2009 Nokia vid?)
Whilst I was looking at the Nokia N9 / N950 teaser, I thought it would be interesting to look at all the parts of the ad where the device wasn’t shown. As mentioned by a few people in comments, it does hark back a little bit to classic Nseries days. There’s even the classic mantra [...]
Nokia Conversations talks about the leaked N9/N950, innovations, sixth sense and Jessie’s girl.
Marcel and Jim tips a very intriguing post from Nokia Conversations that addresses the recently leaked N9 promo video (which today they subsequently pulled from YouTube). There’s always plenty of rumours flying around about Nokia. Just a couple of days ago, a whole fresh crop appeared on a number of websites regarding a new [...]
Video: CEO Stephen Elop introduces “Invent With Nokia, create the future”
Stephen Elop presents a new initiative for Nokia called: Invent With Nokia At Nokia, we connect people, wherever they are. More than 1.3 billion people connect to one another with a Nokia, from our most affordable voice-optimized mobile phones to advanced smartphones sold in virtually every market in the world. We have some very smart [...]
RUMOURS: Nokia N9 to have 1280×720 4″ 720p HD Screen, 367PPI>Retina
(Click for 1080p.png file) The folks over at talk.maemo.org are clambering over every single piece of information they can derive about the N9 and that recent spot/teaser video has given them even more material. JFH found a post arguing that the display might be 1280×720. This has been rumoured ever since we found out about [...]
Nokia Pulls Nokia N9 teaser vid from YouTube
The Nokia N9 teaser vid has been PULLED from YouTube by request of Nokia. However PocketNow obtained the video, it seems to have appeared much too soon for Nokia’s liking! (Unless this is a really clever tease and to pull was intentional, BUT I’m not giving Nokia that much credit). Well that at least shows [...]
Nokia’s Entry to Windows Phone won’t scare HTC away, but to their benefit
Nokia’s close ties with Microsoft through Windows Phone was thought by some to be a bad move that might scare away other manufacturers, such as Samsung and HTC, who are all having a lot of success with Android. However, head of HTC Europe, Florian Seiche said: “It will not change our commitment to Microsoft. [...]
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