Archive for August, 2011
Nokia 800 May Not Be Sea-Ray (Nokia XXX)
Sorry if this is now old news, this post was held back due to the influx of traffic caused by the Symbian Belle Launch. We brought you a post last week, regarding a Windows Phone Developer, Elbert Perez, who featured an image of downloads for his game. This image showed the game was downloaded to [...]
Video: Rewind! Symbian Belle Trio Hong Kong launch Keynote
In case you missed it, or even if you didn’t but the stream quality was too bad, here’s the keynote again. This is presented by Colin Giles, EVP of Sales at Nokia. This is what you saw if you watched the stream live. Oh hey, I missed the part about the Nokia 600 having an internal [...]
Definitive Specification Sheet Nokia 600, Nokia 700 and Nokia 701 (comparison)
Taspas commented that there is a spec sheet at the Nokia developer page for the new Nokia 600, 700 and 701. This goes into much more detail than the official specs listed. You can check it out here. http://www.developer.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications/Comparison.xhtml?dev=600,700,701 We’ve also included it as an image (above). Note it’s big, about 12.6MP (2.2MB). .
Videos: Hands on new Nokia Symbian Belle Nokia 700 and Nokia 701 – looking smooth and fast
Wow, check out that screen. It looks like it’s printed on. Demo in French as it’s from NokiaFrance 00:40 Finally we see the return of rotating screen animation. And it’s FAST. No stupid 1-2 second delay that caused Nokia to remove the animation from S60 5th. Now the C7 like 701. This demo also [...]
Symbian Belle Trending Topic on Twitter Wordwide
Just like when Anna update was released, the new Symbian Belle is now trending on twitter World Wide Here’s today’s posts on the new Belle handsets so far: http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/24/officially-announced-nokia-600-nokia-700-nokia-701-symbian-belle-phones/ http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/24/nokia-n8-e7-c7-e6-c6-01-x7-to-get-symbian-belle-from-fourth-quarter-2011-onwards/ http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/24/videos-galore-nokia-600-700-701-nfc-and-belle-belletrio/ I’m sure the event attendees will grace us with plenty of live hands on demoes soon which we will put together in a post.
Videos Galore: Nokia 600, 700, 701, NFC and Belle #BelleTrio
Whilst we’re compiling the main discussion pieces of today’s Symbian Announcements in this post, in case you didn’t want to sift through all that, here’s a look at a bunch of new Nokia videos showing off the new Nokia 600, 700, 701, and Symbian Belle as well as a demo of NFC in action (with [...]
Nokia N8, E7, C7, E6, C6-01, X7 to get Symbian Belle from Fourth Quarter (2011?) onwards
OK new devices aside, what about current customers with Nokia Symbian^3 devices, namely N8 but also C7, E7, C6-01, E6 and X7? Yes, N8 and earlier Symbian^3 WILL all get Symbian Belle update. As you folks tried out with the leak, bugs aside, it runs smoothly on current hardware. There is some concern over ‘fourth [...]
Officially Announced: Nokia 600, Nokia 700, Nokia 701 Symbian Belle phones
It’s official! The Nokia 600, Nokia 700 and the Nokia 701 are all officially announced new Symbian handsets, coming with the latest ever Symbian Belle update. Specification comparison: http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/24/definitive-specification-sheet-nokia-600-nokia-700-and-nokia-701/ We will update this post with more info as we get it. Nokia 700 – smallest touch screen monoblock in the world. Alst most environmentally friendly. [...]
Symbian Belle Event in 90 minutes time (12:00, BST) What are you expecting?
For a couple of weeks we’ve been suspecting that there’ll be some Symbian Belle announcements (by way of Belle introduction and new handsets aka Belle Trio). That was recently confirmed by a countdown on Nokia’s page, which reader huanji noticed to have Belle Teaser in the URL. The event will take place in [...]
Nokia N9 at Carphone Warehouse’s Mobiles.co.uk store
A Carphone Warehouse (UK, and Europe’s’s largest Mobile phone retailer) owned online retailer, mobiles.co.uk, has a coming soon page for the Nokia N9. They offer pay and go, sim free as well as subsidized phones on contract. http://www.mobiles.co.uk/nokia-n9.html I hope there’s some possibility for getting this on a contract for folks interested in getting their [...]
30,000 apps on Windows Phone Market Place? (and App Rant)
TechCrunch reported yesterday that the Windows Phone market place has reached the 30,000 App milestone. WMPU and TechCrunch later pointed out though that they may be slightly off that mark, but not that far. Versus other stores? That’s 20,000 apps shy of Ovi Store, however, this is 30k apps that is just Windows Phone, whilst [...]
Videos: MeeGo Harmattan Nokia N9/N950 Games – I Must Run, Draw Slasher and Doodle Fit
Let’s take a look at some game demoes by meetmeego, demoed for us by none other than zehjotkah from meetmeego.org/ The first is I Must Run, a simple but highly addictive game that is available on Ovi Store for Symbian^3 handsets. For me, the higher resolution 480×854 looks much more pleasant than [...]
Nokia USA site gets fresh new look (and a glance at Nokia sites through the decade)
You may have noticed yesterday that Nokia USA got a nip&tuck, with a facelift similar to the Nokia Ireland site. http://www.nokiausa.com/ Here’s Nokia IE site. Not sure when Nokia Ireland made the switch but it was a while before Nokia USA yesterday. It’s simplified, it looks cleaner Here’s the ‘old’ look, as seen on [...]
Nokia C3-01 Gold Edition. 18 carat gold S40 touch and type with 1GHz processor.
The last thing you’d associate with the Nokia C3-01 is luxury. Well, no more. Nokia has dipped it in 18 carat gold. No kidding. Well, plated anyway. Why? I don’t know. Maybe they had some gold left over from the Oro project. This is supposedly for Eastern European and Middle Eastern markets. One thing it [...]
Nokia Nearby, hyper-local search beta from Nokia Beta Labs (For S40/S60)
Another Nokia App from Beta Labs folks. It’s for both S40 and S60 but mainly for S40 devices. This is called Nokia Nearby, where without Ovi Maps or GPS, you can search for things nearby. Introducing Nokia Nearby, an innovative ‘Hyper-Local Search’ application where you can look for information about local places & listings within your vicinity. [...]
Updated: Nokia Drop from Nokia Beta Labs now with FireFox 6 support.
For FF6 fans and users of the Nokia Drop application, you will be pleased to hear that the latest version of Nokia Drop now supports FireFox 6. Nokia Drop is a simple and easy way to push content to your device. With it you can: Change your phone’s wallpaper Send image to your phone (Note: images are [...]
Video: Symbian Belle like homescreen for S60 5th Edition
Yasu found this video from dailymobile showing Symbian Belle like homescreen for Symbian S60 5th Edition. There’s also a video demo here. It’s not very clear but it does look quite ok in places. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NXvL1cq4N8 Here’s a link to the thread. http://forum.dailymobile.se/index.php?topic=52810.0 You know you can get all sorts of homescreen UI styles for S60 5th [...]
Huuge Nokia X7 next to life sized Optimus Prime!
Well would you look at this. First, there’s a freaking life sized Optimus Prime there. Then, there’s a gigantic Nokia X7 next to it. The X7 has been associated with the latest transformers movie quite a lot, X7 transformer launch, starring in transformers, X7 transformers advert. Sina Microblog Via micgadge Cheers mrprince for the tip [...]
fMobi now available for Symbian 60 5th Edition (Symbian^1)
@jkosonen just tweeted that the super popular fMobi facebook app is now availabe for Symbian^1 (S60 5th Edition devices) Also, the memo version got an update. Check it out http://jiikoo.com/2011/08/22/fmobi-released-for-symbian1-maemo-version-updated/
Videos: Official Continuous Autofocus Video demoes on Nokia N8
Note, by official, we mean official feature from the update, not that these are demoes from Nokia. This morning, some N8 Symbian Anna owners got the official camera update for the N8, bringing most importantly continuous autofocus and 30FPS video. With the latter, video panning and particular, video with motion should look much smoother (though [...]
Countdown at Nokia’s facebook page – try something new in 48 hours – Trio of new Symbian handsets? (Update – yes it’s Belle!)
Remember the rumours about the Trio of new Symbian handsets to be announced in Hong Kong this week? Well the Nokia facebook fanpage has a countdown for 48 hours time (August 24) when we might just see some new handsets. https://www.facebook.com/nokia?sk=app_222130677837526&%3Bsf2032527=1 Awaiting should be the Nokia 600, 700 and 701, suspected to be the [...]
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