Archive for November 28th, 2011

Live Stream tonight – DEADMAU5 and 4D projection at Millbank Tower, London

Live Stream tonight – DEADMAU5 and 4D projection at Millbank Tower, London

| November 28, 2011 | 22 Replies

  Tonight, 9PM if you’re about in London near the 120M Millbank Tower, Deadmau5 will be performing in cooperation with Nokia to celebrate the launch of the Nokia Lumia 800. World renowned producer, Deadmau5 and the world’s leading 4D projection artists will be putting on a unique show.   The live stream is available at [...]

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Nokia N9 ‘simple’ hack to enable twitter twitpic from Gallery

Nokia N9 ‘simple’ hack to enable twitter twitpic from Gallery

| November 28, 2011 | 6 Replies

Apparently out of the box this is not possible but Siraj assures us it’s simple enough to do. They look daunting but I managed similar things on N900 before and trust me, I’m a complete nOOb at these things. Just follow the instructions extremely closely and don’t be daunted by things that look like this: [...]

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Nokia N9 PR1.2 Update Screenshots: Camera UI updated, face recognition in gallery and more

Nokia N9 PR1.2 Update Screenshots: Camera UI updated, face recognition in gallery and more

| November 28, 2011 | 85 Replies

PR1.1 just got released (some may still be waiting) this is apparently already PR1.2 and you can check out the screenshots (From N950) over at http://www.phonesfera.com/threads/5589-N950-Pr1.2 Ah, the N9 UI, undeniably beautiful. I really love what Nokia’s doing with squircles everywhere. Anyway, here’s what the changes demoed: In the handling of applications Added a button [...]

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Video: N9 update with Arabic language support?

Video: N9 update with Arabic language support?

| November 28, 2011 | 17 Replies

I’m not quite sure what the situation is regarding Arabic language support on the Nokia N9 but we just got tipped this video that got uploaded yesterday showing Arabic on the Nokia N9 (I think uptodateksa2 showed us an Arabic keyboard app from Nokia Store before). Comment below from Mark: N9 doesn’t currently support Arabic, [...]

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Videos: Voice commands on Nokia Lumia 800 (and vs Siri)

Videos: Voice commands on Nokia Lumia 800 (and vs Siri)

| November 28, 2011 | 34 Replies

As you know, one of the many new features in Windows Phone Mango is more voice control. It’s not supposed to be a big selling piece like iPhone 4S’s Siri, the service on Windows Phone for voice is just there and it works well. You may have been used to voice calling on Symbian, you [...]

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Lumiappaday #12: Flashlight 7 on the Nokia Lumia 800

Lumiappaday #12: Flashlight 7 on the Nokia Lumia 800

| November 28, 2011 | 10 Replies

    Here’s a version of an app I’ve been using for such a long time ever since owning a smartphone with LED lights. I love having a torch anywhere. You never know when you’ll need one, and when you do, it’s really handy that it’s on a phone. This app is called Flashlight 7 [...]

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Video: Android ICS pre-pre-alpha. Nokia n900

Video: Android ICS pre-pre-alpha. Nokia n900

| November 28, 2011 | 27 Replies

  You might remember the name drunkdebugger  when thinking of the amazing Nokia N900. That’s because they showed us Froyo, GingerBread and now IceCreamSandwich on the Nokia N900 before other Android devices. There’s not much to it, the touch does seem to work It does say, “pre-pre-alpha”. Remember this is 2009 hardware, ARM Cortex A8 at [...]

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How to: Speed up Nokia N9 transitions.

How to: Speed up Nokia N9 transitions.

| November 28, 2011 | 11 Replies

  F2thaK at talk.maemo.org has put together a how to on speeding up transitions for the N9. I’ve not had a problem with how the transitions themselves, I think they’re extremely well times to direct the user as to what is happening on the screen. As recent anecdotal example, our smartphone nOOb, Steve commented on smoothness [...]

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