Archive for June, 2011
Nokia UK & USA online store gone forever!
As you might already know, Nokia have been shutting down their online stores, and it looks like the UK and USA stores are the latests to be shut down following in the footsteps of the French, Finnish and Spanish stores to name a few. If you try to go to the store, you are just [...]
Video: Gravity Guy demoed on Nokia N8, available at Ovi Store
Here’s a cool game that Camb078 (from blog-n8.fr) has found at Ovi Store. It’s called Gravity guy. As you can see in his video demo, it’s a typical left/right run type game avoiding obstacles. The different angle this plays is the switching of gravity (or switching it off) whereby allowing you to run on the ceiling [...]
Video: New, new, new! Opera Mobile 11.1 and Opera Mini 6.1
Opera has updated their Mobile Browsers with the new Opera Mini 6.1 and Opera Mobile 11.1. http://www.operamini.com/mobile/new/ One field does it all You can now type both web addresses and search queries in your browser’s address field. Or, if you prefer, you can still use the search field with your favorite search engines. Auto-suggest saves [...]
Video: 17 Minutes with the Nokia N950 (Preview of the MeeGo-Harmattan Developer Device)
He’s a hands on with the ‘other’ MeeGo-Harmattan device, the QWERTY keyboard, 12mp sporting Nokia N950. It’s just for developers folks so it’s not something we’ll be seeing any time soon (or at all) unless ‘you know someone who knows someone’. It is somewhat of great frustration for the Maemo fans who have long been [...]
Nokia X7 in Transformers 3? (Is N9/N950 there too?)
A few of our readers and twitter have been saying that the Nokia X7 (and possibly N9/N950?) are in the new Movie, Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. Nokia has had great love for Transformers, ever since appearing in the first movie with their own transforming phone, the Nokia N93i (successor to the N93, N90 [...]
Synchronica to Acquire Nokia’s Operator Branded Messaging Business
AllThingsDigital reports that Nokia’s messaging unit that provides email, instant messaging and other software for carriers would be acquired by Synchronica, the deal expected to close in Q3. 10 operator contracts would be taken over, including deals with Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint, as well as the Canadian networks, Rogers and Telus. Synchronica are going [...]
Windows Phone 7 Apollo (Fan Concept)
Jay: A couple of weeks Ago, Jozef was working on a Windows Phone concept for Apollo. Did you hear that there’d be a separate update gain before Apollo called Tango? Here’s Jozef’s concept for Apollo. This time I’m not going break any Metro Rule. I realized that following rules in my real life makes [...]
Video: PhoneArena and Nokia N9 hands on
Now it’s the turn of the folks from PhoneArena to check out the Nokia N9 (launched only last week, seems like I’ve been waiting forever already :p *want one now*). According to the N9, this was recorded on Tuesday. They’re really shy about showing facebook off. Love the use of subtle animation and motion to [...]
Nokia X7 has the brightest AMOLED tested by GSM Arena
Yesterday, GSM Arena published their Nokia X7 review. http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_x7_00-review-613.php They give the X7 a fair go in their review. On the screen part, something came of quite a surprise on the screen review. The front of the Nokia X7 is dominated by an amazing 4″ nHD AMOLED screen The screen on the X7 is also [...]
Nokia Play Updated – now with Xbox support – available at Nokia Beta Labs
Nokia Play has been updated! The new version of Nokia Play To includes Xbox support and many other small improvements here and there. http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-play-to New in this release (29-Jun-11): Server support for Xbox (see More info -tab… Known issues) Video progress bar buffering indication Improved WLAN transmission throughput (may help making video streaming smooth) LG Blu-ray [...]
Nokia C5-00 5MP, revamped C5.
With all the news about the N9 and leaked Belle prototype units the news about an improved C5-00 has passed us by a bit. Nokia didn’t really make a whole load of fuss about it either since it was quitly launched through their press channel. However the way this new and improved C5 came into [...]
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Wowsers! Official Nokia N9 Sample photos [Preproduction N9] #MeeGo
Yesterday we saw the first batch of Nokia N9 sample photos from engadget. Whilst Engadget were extremely pleased with N9 camera saying Nokia’s onto a winner, the overcast subject and possibly greasy lens (as N8 also looked bad to me) didn’t do it justice. General tip – clean the smudge off the camera before taking photos. [...]
N9 only MeeGo device THIS Year. Echoes of the N9 and the “Nokia stamp” coming up in future Nokia Windows products? Swipe?
Ingrid Lunden (@ingridlunden) who writes on Moconews.net had some time with the Nokia N9. N9 reactions You can check out her very positive reaction here: http://moconews.net/article/419-a-first-look-at-the-nokia-n9-this-is-not-a-dead-end/ Ingrid is also an iPhone user, one of many who are enjoying the prospect of Nokia’s MeeGo-Harmattan N9 (http://mynokiablog.com/2011/06/27/nokia-n9-a-hit-with-apple-fans/) Flash on N9 Ingrid asked twitterfolks if we [...]
The design of the MeeGo-Harmattan UI: A closer look
Just like we did with the original MeeGo handset UI deep dive back in June in last year, we’re back again with an up close and personal look at the user interface and usage paradigm running on the lovely N9. For the curious among us, Nokia have provided an extensive consumer facing page to demo [...]
Video: Nokia N9 reactions from Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and The Philippines
Nokia has uploaded a video of reactions to their Nokia N9 from some prominent bloggers from Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Abe Olandres (www.yugatech.com), Hiep Tran (www.tinhte.vn), Faisal Alsaif (he’s demoed the E7 and N8 for us a lot last year on YouTube), and Mark Macanas (www.techpinas.com). I could have represented Philippines too and [...]
What is your ringtone? Questions on your ringtone habits.
The discussion over at a recent post on custom ringtones led me to want to ask you folks about your ringtone habits. What ringtone are you using? Do you use custom ringtones or just the default ones? Where do you get your custom ringtones from? (i.e.. do you download it from a service? Do you [...]
Software Updates to Symbian S60 3.2 and 5.0 – Anna Browser and new Ovi Maps!
Nokia Conversations have posted up that they’ll be releasing updates to several Symbian 3.2 and 5.0 handsets. These are the Symbian phones before Symbian^3 (of which remember, Anna update for August for current customers) http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/06/29/updates-to-symbian-3-2-and-5-0/ What will we be getting? Anna Browser Well, first and foremost, amazingly, we’re getting the new Symbian Anna web [...]
Custom Ringtones in Windows Phone 7.1 Mango – Convoluted Mess or Creative approach to ‘new’ features?
Nokia’s always had custom ringtones I’ve been using customizable ringtones since my 3310 allowed editable monophonic ringtones. Then we had a slew of polyphonic ringtones, finally the freedom of mp3 ringtones and even video ringtones – with any supported music/video file being usable as a ringtone. It’s just one of the slew of features that [...]
Making apps for Nokia’s Next Billion – S40 – prize total worth up to €1,000,000 – win trip to Nokia World 2011
Nokia has a new initiative/competition called “Create 4 millions” (though banner says Series 40 millions) S40 counts for over a third of Nokia’s 6 million daily downloads. Over 2 million – just with S40. There are two parts to this, a little bit like what we saw last year with the N8 make [...]
UAProfiles of Nokia 500, 600, 700 and 701 (Fate, Cindy, Zeta and Helen) #Belle #Anna
OK lets take another look at the Nokia 500, 600, 700 and 701 that we saw yesterday in one form or another. BTW, here’s what Zeta looks like (700) And Nokia 600 (Cindy) There were doubts that such handsets existed. Two have appeared in front of the camera with two left to show. Further confirmation [...]
Nokia N9 browser HTML5 tests – score outperforming iPad 2, SGSII and some desktop browsers? p.s. NO flash.
MeeGo’s browser has a lot to live up to. Maemo 5′s MicroB was hands down the best browser of its time (and still wipes the floor with some, especially Symbian’s – yes including Anna). Nok Conv notes that Nokia were trying to create a mainstream browser that “doesn’t annoy”, working the way a user would [...]
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