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Archive for October 24th, 2011

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Welcome ‘All About Windows Phone’

Welcome ‘All About Windows Phone’

| October 24, 2011 | 44 Replies

Advertisements   It is a sign of the times. What you might consider the Godfathers of the once epicly huge Symbian community, Rafe Blandford, Steve Litchfield and team of All About Symbian have opened the doors to their new venture – “All About Windows Phone”. It’s not the first time there has been a spin […]

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Video: How it’s made – the Nokia N9 (“The most beautiful phone ever made”)

Video: How it’s made – the Nokia N9 (“The most beautiful phone ever made”)

| October 24, 2011 | 23 Replies

Have you ever watched those “How it’s made” programmes, showing you common objects and the process behind making them? Well, check out this video from Nokia showing things like the drilling and hollowing of the polycarbonate unibody shell and how the different components are put together. You don’t get the characteristic narration of the ‘how […]

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Symbian Anna officially available in USA (N8/E7/C6-01)

Symbian Anna officially available in USA (N8/E7/C6-01)

| October 24, 2011 | 116 Replies

Larry emailed us this morning to share the news that Anna was available in the US (Finally, yay!). That’s a photo he sent us above. I wasn’t sure if that was official (or a non US N8 getting update ‘early’). Yvonne from Nokia (who has been updating us on the Anna availabilities) has just emailed […]

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Nokia going Metro: New Conversations website

Nokia going Metro: New Conversations website

| October 24, 2011 | 93 Replies

A few days ago we ran a story about Nokia’s Conversations website being down because of upcoming changes. Those changes have been made and the site is now back up and running in time for Nokia World 2011 on the 26th. One thing immediately becomes clear within seconds of viewing the site; it looks a […]

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Offline Maps and Public Transport directions in Nokia Maps for iOS and Android.

Offline Maps and Public Transport directions in Nokia Maps for iOS and Android.

| October 24, 2011 | 34 Replies

Vaibhav from TheHandheldBlog reports that Nokia Maps for iOS and Android now supports offline maps as well as public transport directions. He says it has progressed from the limited experience we saw some months ago. Check it out at: m.maps.nokia.com  There’s also POI info. That’s pretty cool given this is a browser based Nokia maps […]

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Nokia N9 selling like hot cakes at Expansys (+ N9 available at Nokia Hungary

Nokia N9 selling like hot cakes at Expansys (+ N9 available at Nokia Hungary

| October 24, 2011 | 55 Replies

Despite the price, the Nokia N9 captures 3 of the top 4 spots on Expansys’ top selling smartphones list. http://www.expansys-usa.com/top20/?f=1765 Whilst we’re here, Nokia’s online shop for Nokia Hungary has the Nokia N9 officially on sale. http://shop.nokia.hu/443/nokia-n9-16gb/   Cheers yoyo and LVPVS for the tip!

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Qt Developer Day begins! (24th – 26th October)

Qt Developer Day begins! (24th – 26th October)

| October 24, 2011 | 17 Replies

We’ve mentioned Qt Developer day event in Munich several times now, but what with Nokia World and the hubbub around that, the 24th and the 8th Annual Qt developer conference has already sneaked up on us. What’s to get from Qt Dev days? Meet and learn from the developers who make Qt and our Qt […]

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SlashGear’s Nokia N9 Review (+video) – double punch of compelling software and beautiful hardware.

SlashGear’s Nokia N9 Review (+video) – double punch of compelling software and beautiful hardware.

| October 24, 2011 | 65 Replies

SlashGear’s Chris Davies has published his Nokia N9 review. http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-n9-review-23190157/ It’s a whopper of a read. Here’s the highlights of the text review. There’s a video too!  Chris notes Nokia’s usual excellence in hardware in previous devices, just lacking in software, often wishing it had Android. Now on N9. Hardware, “Nokia has certainly excelled itself […]

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WP Market Place on 35k, Over half of Android devices sold now under MS licence

WP Market Place on 35k, Over half of Android devices sold now under MS licence

| October 24, 2011 | 22 Replies

WMPoweruser reports that the Windows Phone Market Place has reached the 35,000 mark. The last milestone of 30k was reached about 7 weeks ago and WMPU notes a slowdown was due to the run up to the Mango update (more stringent approval, mango app requirements). Now they say it’s back on track to get 1k/week. […]

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