Archive for June, 2011
Video: MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan SDK – UX Simulator (Scratchbox)
Amanda Lam has a demo of MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan SDK – UX Simulator (Scratchbox) which she explains below: The MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan SDK Beta contains a simulator that simulates the UX as used in both Nokia N9 and Nokia N950 and is intended to be used by Linux app developers to test [...]
Video: Nokia N9 hands on for the weekend – compilation number 4 :D
These are possibly the last few Nokia N9 hands on from the launch event. It’s getting hard to weed out stolen hands on videos and possibly duplicates. We’ve seen soo many N9 hands on. How many times has the N9 lagged for you? Negligible by my counts. (not knowing how to use n9 doesn’t [...]
Openness of the Nokia N9? Rooting? Just activate in settings…
How do you install things from non-store sources? Complicated rooting? What about Settings>Applications>Installation>Allow installation from non-store. DONE. Now just click to install a repository, you don’t need to do anything more. Rooting the phone. Sounds a bit scary. Not to fear, this is in something called ‘Developer mode’ which is just as easy to [...]
Nokia N9 prices 660/749 USD for 16/64GB
According to Colin Giles, Nokia’s Executive VP of Sales, the Nokia N9 16GB will retail for 660USD whilst the 64GB will go for 749USD. The price jump from 16 to 64GB is actually not that remarkable, not even 100USD difference (which would be 200USD if it was a green fruit product). Note that these prices [...]
‘Nokia N9′ – with Android?
The same source that showed us Windows Phone on the N9 (with new touch buttons) has another image, this time of Android. Now possibly ringing bells of FAKE or possibly like the N900 just running every darned OS out there (why? Engadget suggests possibly when Nokia was deciding which way to go, Windows Phone or [...]
Video: Nokia N9′s AMOLED CBD VS Samsung’s Super AMOLED
Here’s a comparison of the Nokia N9′s brand new FWVGA AMOLED CBD display versus Samsung’s Super AMOLED. Can you really tell from the video? What do possibly the most reliable sources on the net think about the Nokia N9′s screen? The N9 screen is bordering on perfection He notes Nokia’s history with displays, and that [...]
Nokia Store/Ovi Store topping 6 million daily downloads (>2Billion/Year rate)
The Ovi Store (soon to be Nokia Store) is moving from strength to strength as it’s now officially hitting 6 million downloads a day (I think Elop might have mentioned it reached this a month ago in one of his keynotes). That’s over 2 Billion downloads yearly. Develop.nokia posted yesterday the official good news. http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Blogs/blog/nokia-developer-news/2011/06/23/nokia-s-ovi-store-tops-6-million-daily-downloads [...]
Video: The Phones Show’s Nokia X7 Review from @stevelitchfield
We haven’t showcased The Phones Show in a loooong while. Steve Litchfield, one of the strongest proponents of Symbian (of course, being from All About Symbian) reviews the Nokia X7 in his YouTube show. Being a Symbian fan doesn’t stop Steve from pointing out it’s shortcomings. Though he likes the screen and the new Symbian [...]
Videos: Nokia N9 Hands on – Batch 3
Another day, another video compilation of Nokia N9 hands on. Previous set: http://mynokiablog.com/2011/06/23/video-bunch-of-nokia-hands-on-wave-2/ http://mynokiablog.com/2011/06/21/video-collection-every-single-nokia-n9-show-floor-hands-on/ This time, they’re all by one person. I noticed these on his channel, MichaelxHell, Michael Hell again from the N9 Austria Meet up. Have you seen his gallery yet? Facebook Facebook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY8OVc_cGdU Angry Birds Browser and adding bookmarks to apps Homescreen [...]
Video: CNN App for Nokia in Action
Nokia has uploaded another demo of the popular and very smart, slick looking CNN app demoed on the Nokia E7. If you haven’t already, download it for free. http://store.ovi.com/content/121610
Nokia’s Windows Phone has no Windows Phone buttons? All touch? Or Fake?
Today we saw Nokia’s first Windows Phone. At first I thought it was just a fake. Possibly an old N9 with windows screenshots (it wouldn’t be the first time we were sent some fakes passed off as real, eh, Belle?) http://mynokiablog.com/2011/06/23/stephen-elop-introduces-nokia-windows-phone-looks-like-nokia-n9-or-possibly-is-just-that/ And then I got tipped a video file that confirmed it was true (which [...]
How to get your Free Nokia N950 Dev Kit
So we’ve seen the MeeGo Nokia N950 developer handset presentation as well as those lovely press shots. We know it’s FREE but its developers only and not for sale, so how do you get your hands on one? IF you’re SERIOUSLY interested about building apps for the Nokia N9 then carry on reading. [...]
Nokia N9 wins special place in GSM Arena’s geeky hearts (and a look at N9 camera UI)
GSM Arena are possibly one of the most objective places on the net with regards to phones. They’ve just published a four-page article on Nokia’s new N9. What do they think of it? http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n9-review-610.php They’ve got some hands on time with the Nokia N9 Harmattan-MeeGo phone and love it. Although demo was short, “it [...]
Video: The FIRST Nokia Windows Phone – The Nokia N9 you loved but with Mango and not MeeGo
OK we saw a post of some supposed Nokia Windows Phone as found by another blog. I thought it was a fake until I was given a 21 minute presentation starring this little beauty. Engadgetalready has a post of it. We did not want to be the ones to upload and reveal the video but [...]
Video: Nokia N950 Free of Charge for Developers (to make apps!) Qt for S40 driving this massive ecosystem.
This was probably already known that Nokia would be giving these Nokia N950 free of charge (hence why they have no warranty) but this again is confirmation in video. You might want to see the Nokia N950 DevKit press images seen yesterday. N9 is noted as the flagship Qt device. Noted again is the [...]
Win one of 20 Nokia N9, 50 Play 360 or 30 BH-905i (if you live in Finland I guess)
A very popular Finnish website (update: one of the three big networks in Finland says N8 Owner) http://saunalahti.fi is giving away 20 Nokia N9s as part of their prize draw or something like that. Also 50 Play 360 NFC bluetooth speakers and 30 Stereo Bluetooth wonder-headphones aka BH-905i http://saunalahti.fi/n9/ I’m guessing this is for Finnish [...]
Nokia N9 the last MeeGo device?
Finnish newspaper http://www.talouselama.fi/ is reporting that Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop has ruled out the possibility of coming back and producing another MeeGo phone, regardless if it is a success or not. “But even on that phone sales would be a success, Nokia has no intention of coming back Meego smartphone operating system, says CEO Stephen [...]
Stephen Elop Introduces Nokia Windows Phone? (Looks like Nokia N9 or possibly is just that)
UPDATE: HOLY MOOSE I thought this was a joke. No it’s real. Update 2: told you it was real. http://mynokiablog.com/2011/06/23/video-the-first-nokia-windows-phone-the-nokia-n9-you-loved-but-with-mango-and-not-meego/ When the Nokia N9 was launched, some fans of Windows Phone (yes, there are some) wished that the N9 had Windows Phone inside. Well, what you see is supposedly that, the blog technet.hu/ saying it [...]
What’s in an ecosystem?
Now a lot of people took offense to my post about MeeGo, with quite a few saying that I was a Microsoft shill, Windows Phone fanboy, hated open source, a goon, know nothing about Open Source and quite a few other things that by and large demonstrated that they completely missed the point. Let me [...]
The Nokia-Microsoft partnership and carrier involvement
If there’s one thing that Nokia has always played a big role in, it’s promoting the practice of buying unsubsidized devices and paying lower (sometimes much lower) monthly prices to your mobile carrier. In the United States (where I’m based) this practice is practically non-existent not just because it’s not a widely publicised avenue of [...]
Video: Nokia N9 NFC file transfer demo (and NFC Speaker Demo)
As you know the Nokia N9 sports NFC – Near Field Communication. This was demoed at the presentation with the Play 360 NFC speakers. GSM Arena has another N9 NFC demo showing NFC File Transfer Demo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOD0099UCj8 gsmarena07 Play 360 hands on <<Official Demo and interview with speaker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=765n6pq7hC4 joeteh Cheers @chilko
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