Archive for September, 2011
Nokia N9 in extreme demand, “Pre-orders through the roof”.
Apparently, according to Nokia Conv-Suomi, the line for the N9 at the Helsinki Nokia store was stretching far out into the street. GSM Arena titled their reaction to this as “N9 pre-orders through the roof” Nok Conversations say that all the 64GB Nokia N9s are already reserved. It would be interesting to know exactly the [...]
Ovi Store no more – Rebranded to Nokia Store
I’m not sure if this is connected to Ovi Store maintenance the other day but if you check out Ovi store, branding shift has started there and it is now called, “Nokia Store”. This is all expected and part of Nokia’s rebranding shift to turn back all Ovi branded products to the much stronger, “Nokia” [...]
GSM Arena’s Nokia 500 (p)Review
The Nokia 500 was one of Four new Symbian phones whose names and subsequent details were leaked heavily before announcement. Out of the four, the Nokia 500 was announced first and quietly on Nokia Conversations, being part of the “old” Symbian Anna brigade. Note, although it was not mentioned initially in the availability for Belle, [...]
3DHappyFrog for Harmattan (Qt3D/Qml+Bullet physics engine) – Like a 3D Angry Birds
Think of Angry Birds. Now think of that in 3D. Change the bird to a frog. And he’s happy. Now put it on your MeeGo-Harmattan Qt phone and you have a game demoed below called, “3D HappyFrog”. It’s a Qt3D/QML Bullet Physics engine game. You have your catapult and your building block structures that can [...]
Nokia 900 Windows Phone “on RDA’s offices in Finland”
This story was first reported by WMPowerUser that says a Nokia 900 Windows Phone was “discovered” in Finland. The story is a touch fishy. It’s based on finding a bluetooth name saying “Nokia 900 Windows phone”. But the bluetooth name is so easy to name – I could easily call it iPhone 6. However, the [...]
Making of the N9 start up screen
One of the subtle but nice things appearing on the N9 is that new start up screen – that kind of pulse and ripple as opposed to the classic Nokia hands. It looks very swish and modern, upkeeping with the new age N9. Mark at TheNokiaBlog found an article by the creators of the N9′s [...]
Nokia E7 For $378.28 at Amazon.com
Reader Poosana-N900 tipped in that the Nokia E7 is available on Amazon for a super cheap $378.28. That’s around £239 were it UK prices and UK didn’t get the magical UK tax. This is sold by Amazon themselves (i.e. not third party seller). Amazon.com The N8 is similarly priced on Amazon.com. Both I think would [...]
Windows Phone Mango apps showed off in style
There have been a ton of promo videos showing off Mango but this one caught our eyes and in our opinion shows off Windows Phone in a much better way in terms of the message Microsoft and eventually Nokia are trying to tell people. The message “put people first” is a great message. Overall a [...]
New WP7 Apollo Concept
Hey folks, it has been a long time since I posted something. I was kind of busy- enjoying summer holiday, then moving to Denmark to start my college education… Today I would like to show you my new ideas for Windows Phone 7. I have been using this amazing operating system since May (Mango since [...]
Symbian Anna live in 4 more countries now; USA, Australia, Canada in next couple of weeks
Yvonne from Nokia emailed us this morning to tell us that the Symbian Anna update is live in four more countries, as well as additional variants for existing countries. There is a note to say USA (As well as Canada and Australia) WILL get Anna in the next couple of weeks. I have received emails [...]
Nokia Sea Ray Silicone Cases spotted in Nokia’s N9 video (and some random ‘white’ phones)
CJ Posted a video asking whether the N9′s he spotted are those special White and possibly even green ones. I think those are just additional cases. There were some other things that caught my eye in the video 1) Sea Ray Silicone Cases. Note the position of the N9′s LED which is above the camera [...]
N9 via FNAC Portugal by October 19?
Portugal is one of the original countries for N9 availability and we’ve had several tips in about FNAC Portugal which has the N9 listed for availability on October 19. FNAC has stores in France, Belgium, Brazil, Italy, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Morocco, Taiwan, and of course, Portugal. I did a quick search in other FNAC [...]
Possible N9 giveaway
I saw this the other day, but had forgotten about it, until Plan9 posted it as a comment in my last post. Over at the Finnish N9 page, they had a countdown timer. Now that it has finally ended, we can see what they revealed. I don’t speak Finnish so I used good old Google [...]
Symbian Belle V111.10.1009 appears on Navifirm for Nokia 701
blackidea tipped that Belle was seen on Navifirm for the Nokia 701. Navifirm is a tool for obtaining Nokia firmware – and appearance there sometimes indicates these will soon appear to Ovi Suite. Found by the eagle-eyes at Daily Mobile forums, they noticed that version 111.10.1009 for Nokia 701 RM-774 was available. BTW, the latest [...]
Nokia N9 for RM 1799/2088 for 16/64GB (370/430GBP) in Malaysia?
Hey folks. I still have no internet courtesy of BT and Virgin Media, both of whom blame each other for our internet not working. I’m still with temperamental mobile data. Just wanted to update on something I’ve missed in the tips (cheers for link Azharudin). Apparently, Malaysian pricing for the Nokia N9 will be: “RM 1799 for 16GB and RM [...]
Rumour or not: N9 64GB to come only in Black
Many readers have tipped in along the months since the N9 was announced, that the 64GB variant would only be arriving in Black. Here in Australia, Vodafone updated their handset page to include the N9, with the option of being notified when it is released. This is no new news. However, the screenshot I took [...]
Nokia Windows Phone WILL SHIP IN Q4!!
I saw several emails (and then blog posts) about Nokia first WP not coming until 2012. I think we covered that story already before that it was to explain YES it will come out and be available in a select few countries at the end of 2011, and to the rest of the world in [...]
Nokia 700 now shipping with Belle
As promised by Nokia and mentioned by Ninja’s rumours, Nokia 700 Symbian Belle phone is now shipping according to Nokia’s twitter account. Here’s a couple of places that had some pre-orders last week. http://mynokiablog.com/2011/09/09/nokia-700-listed-at-mobilefun-uk-for-279-95/ http://mynokiablog.com/2011/09/10/nokia-700-available-pre-order-at-play-for-259-99-coming-october-21/ Source: Nokia Twitter (RT’d my MichaelxHell)
Qt Car Mode from Nokia – for Belle devices (new and upgraded) as well as MeeGo-Harmattan (N9)
Back in May 2010 (and possibly even earlier), we got a glimpse of the Qt Car integration goodness (called Terminal Mode then). You’ll remember this is much better optimized, not only for touch but for car navigation. – bigger buttons, being fonts, so you divert less time looking at the screen and more time [...]
Symbian still top Smartphone OS by market share in Europe
GSM Arena reported on some stats from comScore that showed Symbian was still number 1 in Europe by share of users. However, by Europe, this included only UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. Android has seen a growth of 16%, taking second place from iOS whilst Symbian sees a decline of 16%, and looks to soon [...]
Nokia touch and type moon cakes!
I love Nokia shaped cakes. It’s the ultimate geek tribute! Like you know how I’m always reminiscing and praising the Nokia N900? Newer readers may not know we made a Nokia N900 cake (In full, CHD inducing chocolate calorie overload goodness) MicGadgets have found a really tasty looking moon-cake (I love moon-cakes) in the style [...]
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