Archive for May, 2011
Futuristic Nokia caught in Real Steel movie trailer. Has MeeGo like screen – Nokia N9?
Wowsers! In a trailer for an up coming Action Sci-Fi, Real Steel, starring Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Kate from Lost (Evangeline Lilly), a futuristic looking Nokia phone makes an appearance. Real Steel is a (supposed 80 million dollar budget) movie about…boxing robots. Yeah you heard. This isn’t the first time Nokia’s put some of their [...]
Finnish retailer puts E6 for 379EUR and X7 for 405EUR, delivery June 10/17th.
A Finnish e-retailer lists both the Nokia X7 and E6. Note the difference in price from Nokia directly (which is almost always the case with Nokia pre-order). Instead of as much as 489 Euros for the X7, it’s 405 EUR. Likewise, instead of 429 EUR for the E6, it’s 379. Nokia E6 Nokia X7 Something [...]
Video: Ovi Maps 3D Advert. The world isn’t flat! (love it)
Here’s a cool video about some new Ovi Maps features and of course, Ovi Maps 3D. I love Ovi Maps 3D. Did I tell you I love Ovi Maps 3D? http://mynokiablog.com/2011/04/19/ovi-maps-3d-a-whole-lotta-wow/ Thank goodness Nokia are showing it off some more. The world needs awareness about the amazingness of Ovi Maps, especially the new 3D cities. [...]
Nokia RM-680/Nokia N950/N9 passes FCC -Looks like the QWERTY N9 leaked from last year
Just minutes after publishing that MeeGo N950 tweet from ArguellesPictures (4g n950 smartphone coming this summer), we have more xciting news that the RM-680/Nokia N9 has recently been approved by FCC. https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout=500&calledFromFrame=N&application_id=339630&fcc_id=%27LJPRM-680%27 Now if we look at engadget’s teardown of a leaked N950 last year What does it look like? It’s not 100% perfect, [...]
RUMOURS: MeeGo/Harmattan Nokia N950 4G Smartphone, releasing this summer!
N950 tipped us that, well, the Nokia N950 might be released this summer. A film company ArguellesPictures/@Arguelles_ tweeted that they had began filming for the new “Nokia N950″. This week #Arguelles began filming #Nokia spot in @ArguellesPics. For the new ‘Nokia N950′ touch screen 4G smartphone releasing this summer. Not sure how come [...]
Rename Nokia Wellness Diary App! Got some suggestions?
Just recently we saw the Nokia BH-806 renamed to Nokia J. Short, memorable and it describes the aesthetics of the bluetooth headset. We like! Here’s a little rant we wrote about 2 years ago on the importance of product names. OK, so onto topic. Have you tried Nokia’s Wellness Diary App? Beta version available at [...]
Analyst misinterpreted, believes Windows Phone will not beat Android by 2015, BUT by 2013, mainly because of Nokia.
Gartner and IDC believed Windows Phone would catch on, beating iOS but still falling second to Android. Last week, we heard how analyst Stela Bokun, Senior Analyst at Pyramid Research, predicted that Windows Phone could beat Android by 2015. Pyramid research felt that we misinterpreted their prediction. Actually, their forecast indicated with Windows Phone beating [...]
Nokia’s Athens May 17th event is just for “local launch of E6 and X7″.
Earlier today wes? found a tweet from @cmahr who works at Nokia, saying that the May 17th Nokia event is just a local thing to launch X7, E6 and Symbian Anna. Nokia’s Comms Director, Mark Squires says “There’s a load of speculation regarding a Nokia event on 17th May in Athens. It’s the local launch [...]
MyDreamNokia #28: Nokia N8-01 with 16MP, 4″ CBD qHD, Dual Core 1.2GHz
My Dream Nokia #28 comes from BlackIdea and he presents to us the Nokia N8-01. The specifications are quite realistic, something we would expect from the N8′s successor, especially given the rumours. This one seems to be using Symbian^3 with PR3.0/Belle 4″ CBD SuperAMOLED with Dragontrail Glass 16M Colours QHD Resolution Symbian^3 with Qt [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks acquires contract for maintenance of Shanghai Unicom networks.
As the title suggest, Nokia-Siemens Networks seems to be making some headway into acquiring network build-out/maintenance contracts across the world. Not only are they significantly involved in the LTE build out being performed by LightSquared but they’ve just announced their involvement in maintaining the second-largest mobile operator in China. Hopefully they’ll become profitable in the [...]
Qt app LinkedIn for Nokia Available at Ovi Store
Fahoum and S.A. have tipped us that LinkedIn for Nokia (made in Qt) is now available at Ovi Store. http://store.ovi.com/content/121603 Fahoum says, “it is amazingly fast and responsive”.
Microsoft Close to Buying Skype? Deep integration into Windows, Windows Phone, XBox and Kinect?
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft are looking to buy the internet calling company, Skype for a reported sum of over 7 Billion Dollars (initially expected around 8.5 Billion). This would make it the biggest acquisition after advertising company aQuantivefor 6 Billion in 2007 (though would have paled in comparison had they bought Yahoo! in 2008 [...]
Microsoft buys Skype, what does it mean for your upcoming Nokia WP7 device
Wow!! whomever it was that stated you couldn’t bully your way into relevance with enough money was clearly wrong. Kara Swisher from AllThingsD has confirmed that Microsoft is on the brink of completing what would be nigh-on the most significant coup in recent history (Just above RIM’s ascquisition of TAT). It seems that tomorrow is [...]
Nokia Event: Athens, May 17th; Microsoft WP7.5/Mango Preview, May 24th
A couple of dates I thought you might want to put down your diary. The first one (seen above) shows that Nokia maybe holding supposed event maybe in Athens on May 17th. But at 8PM? That makes it 6PM GMT which isn’t all that bad if you consider this is usually the time that we [...]
Qt 5.0 in the pipeline- Symbian not mentioned anywhere
Lars Knoll over at Qt labs has just put up a post discussing the upcoming developments surrounding Qt. Seems that there’s a new, massive version of Qt on the way! While the technical information will probably be lost on many of us anyway, the most important takeaway is that there will be no legacy support [...]
RUMOURS: Turn by Turn Voice Navigation for Windows Phone 7.5/Mango and more!
The Windows Phone blogs (ah yes there are some) are bubbling with the news of MORE Windows Phone 7.5/Mango features coming other than what was already made official. As Mango ripens, more capabilities might be added. These were revealled in an hour-long podcast from WPDevpodcast, featuring Director of Developer Experience, Microsoft’s Brandon Watson. http://wpdevpodcast.com/2011/05/08/episode-015-winning-with-watson/ Let’s [...]
Nokia losing smartphone homeground to Apple, potentially even more
Following up on our recent IDC related articles, here is another one. One that is somewhat troubling to read for Nokia fans. Nokia lost it’s number one position as smartphone vendor in Europe, traditionally one of the strongest markets for Nokia. What do the figures say then? Let’s start with some history and the numbers [...]
Free Form Widgets – another photoshop fail? Or sneak peek into PR3.0/Belle?
As a follow up to the Symbian Free Form Widgets (that we thought were going to be a part of Symbian^3′s PR3.0/Belle/UI overhaul update. From the tiny little images, we now have them in full size. http://www.nokia-smartphone.de/n8/ Apart from the clock working, the “widgets” are really just link placements. I don’t know why they would [...]
WP7: Poor sales?
There has been a lot of talk about what OS shipped what amount of units and how well or how bad that particular OS did. Symbian was clearly visible in every chart and so was its declining market share. But where was Windows Phone? Is it such a failure that it doesn’t even register on [...]
Video: Qt QTML and the stunning Flowd Music Social Network, demoed on Nokia C7
I distinctly remember someone tweeting me this app was great and it was on Ovi Store but I can’t for the life of me find it on my mentions list. Anyway just saw @bharadc23 twitpic some screenshots and it reminded me to post about this app. At least I think it was this app [...]
Qt TwimGo and Qt Kasvopus free at Ovi Store
The Qt version of TwimGo and Kasvopus are now available free at Ovi Store. Both these applications are the work of Qt Guru, Tommi Laukkanen, who’s going from strength to strength with his Qt projects. Nelisquare being the latest. Kasvopus is a Qt facebook client. Not feature packed but I prefer it over Nokia Social. [...]
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